skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing though, most of these new features are mitigations of annoyances (popups, crazy formatting, too much js, lack of privacy). It's odd how devs are spending time to fight against something rather than the opposite.
Why not both? Are the two concepts somehow incompatible?

A REPL is a (very) powerful tool for testing, probing, inspecting (etc) code; but it is only one tool. It should be a part of your IDE (if you go for such things), not replace it.
And this is the issue as I see it. Apple have made a device they know will be used a certain way, a general purpose computing device, but they are the only ones who can decide what software is allowed on it. I believe this should be illegal, either you've made a purpose-specific device and can impose a lot of restrictions on usage, or you've made a general purpose computing device, and once you've done that I believe there needs to be laws that say an owner of such a device must be allowed to personally decide what software runs on it. That means:

- Ability to unlock bootloader if I want to

- Ability to load software on the device unrestricted

Computers always worked like this, so we never had to regulate it, but now that corporations have discovered the loophole we really need to impose regulations. If we don't then markets like the App Store will never be fair.
We're guilty of this, despite caring about the product and the users. It's hard to focus on maintenance and deep iteration when there's more critical (and cool) functionality to chase. Not to mention that iterative UX improvements have the same problem as negative results in academia - it's hard to get people excited about it.
In olden times, (the days of CP/M and MS-DOS) you could put an AM radio next to your computer, and listen to the noise and have a fair clue which program was running.

Updating this technique with neural networks is an interesting party trick, but I certainly wouldn't expect it to detect something that doesn't eat CPU time for lunch.
We started having issue s this morning and lost a bit of time to get this to work, and then noticed people were contacting our support to get it fixed. So we thought we could write a public tutorial.
Without the early retirement part.
Tailscale still takes some rather drastic measures to make itself work magically which have occasionally broken other things.

For instance, I can't connect to a work VPN (vpnc) properly while tailscaled is running because Tailscale hijacked my resolver entirely. It does that even on resolved.
mac pro, couldn't establish any connections.
You could start off targeting developers, who mainly use web browsers to read documentation, HN, bug trackers, code repositories, and other plain documents.

Something for regular people would be many more years of work.
Or some other search engine would become their revenue stream, like when Yahoo was the default search. Without Google bidding their revenue would likely drop, but it wouldn't disappear.
Kugelmugel
Thanks for this! We're definitely working it into our system. It's always good to have multiple paths when possible, so a menu that connects to search and backwards might be quite useful to introduce users to features, but tie in muscle memory once they are used to it.
Once again, thank you to jbaiter - his HTTP3 solution worked for me.

The fault occurred mid-session, whilst streaming a live broadcast, and I lost the connection.

Plenty of people using the opportunity to criticise Mozilla, but if it's a third-party srvice problem, you can't blame them.
That part seems to be related to the telemetry issue, which, surprise has been re-enabled during one of the updates.
It just stopped working this morning after 3 hours of no problems. Both developer edition and the normal version, same problem with an older version. Chrome and Safari worked fine.

Someone really fucked up. There must be millions of non techies completely lost right now.
mac pro couldn't establish any connections!
> My impression is that they lost the original spirit. Mozilla lacked a BDFL that would embody that spirit.

Since we are sharing our impressions, mine is that the Mozilla Foundation's current CEO doesn't believe in Firefox. Instead, I think, they are leveraging Firefox' popularity to try and position the Mozilla Foundation as a defender of internet freedom, at which point they won't need Firefox anymore.

What happens to Firefox once they achieve that? No idea. The cynic in me believes they will keep doing whatever Chrome is doing until the project is virtually dead, but I honestly hope I'm wrong.
> Given current demographic trends within the United States, major cities are guaranteed to see population growth beyond what current American public infrastructure can sustain.

Not speaking for parent but the typical response would be "but then people should stop moving there", to which I reply that any utopia can sound good if you disregard people's incentives, desires and needs. Let me try: communism is in fact great, it's just that every time the people at the top end up corrupt for unrelated reasons.
An annual Berlin travel card is about 720€, I believe it's about the same in Paris. An annual Vienna travel card is 365€. At least in Berlin car ownership correlates very strongly with household income. The majority of poor households don't have access to a car, whereas rich households have multiple cars.
Sadly, i can't share much there. NDAed Sony sensor with NDAed Infinion FPGA. Manufacturing was interesting because I didn't get export permissions for sending the FPGAs to China for pcb assembly. Eurocircuits got the job done but was kinda slow to work with.
Some of our inspiration definitely comes from CAD, NX CAD and Fusion. IMO the work they've put into making a mountain of functionality useful and intuitive to a new user has paid off.
But walking is so slow! If only there was a machine that could amplify the output of your noodley appendages enabling you to perhaps "ride" the machine and go faster while using the same amount of effort and no additional fuel.
You have the same problem on most VPS providers too.
There's no one right way to test your code
Disable telemetry while you're at it: "Firefox Data Collection and Use" in settings. It seems to have re-enabled itself on some silent update. Sneaky bastards.
Which UK cities?
A London year travel pass costs £2,568, so public transport is hardly cheaper either, plus it’s a whole lot less convenient. Unless you enjoy spending all of your time in an urban group think bubble with the only option is to use public transport to travel to more of the same.
It seems there's no need anymore, autoupdate fixes the issue since approx 09:25 UTC
I have used both Pikchr and several of the Mediawiki extensions for diagrams (the most recently-maintained of which is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flex_Diagrams )

Here is my earliest Pikchr effort: https://lumosql.org/src/not-forking (click to see source.)

Pikchr diagrams are crisp and precise with zero configuration. Mermaid diagrams are difficult to make render as nicely as the screenshots show (https://mermaid-js.github.io ) and easier to confuse with ambiguous syntax.

With the addition of 5 lines Lua, Pandoc now handles Pikchr in Markdown documents: https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/zZSspnHHsg0/m/m...
In banks the technical people are, in my experience, always second class citizens. They are expected to shut up and do what the business people tell them to do. They are not really responsible for anything or making decisions and are paid accordingly. The best paid technical people in banks are not people who are working on some cutting edge technology developing new stuff, but people who happen to be the only ones who know how to maintain some piece of god awful critical legacy infrastructure. This is also the reason why the banking technology develops so slowly and why the infrastructure in banks suck so much.
> Look at any graph of resignations or quits

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acqu...

That looks like an increase to me? There was a dip for the first couple of months but the ongoing event has caused a more-than-substitution level of quits.
Devil's advocate here but they were perhaps advocating against metrics at a time when Mozilla has a lot of pressure to do right and might need those metrics to perform.
librewolf sounds good to me
That's a good point at the end, and where we'd like to be. Unfortunately dev time is always a finite resource, especially for an early-stage product. You need to pick one over the other - at least a little.
You're probably_right. This meshes with most of their actions and a lot of comments by Mozilla employees on HN in past threads about Mozilla/FF.
Alfred (on macOS) makes this even easier and browser-agnostic:
https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/web-search/
It's super important. And that's why it is also important that they focus on the browser instead of on all of their hobby horses.
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> Not sure why you can't see the difference.

Microsoft engaged in illegal anti-competitive practices. As well as how Apple has engaged in illegal anti-competitive practices, as according to the decision of Judge Gonzalez Rogers.
Funnily enough, if you replace parking lots with homes, businesses, entertainment, education, and commercial buildings, you are likely to get

- More and better public transport

- Disabled people can go where they need to more easily

- Streets will be less dangerous

- You have more shops nearby

Excessive parking lots are the cause of almost all of the problems you mention. Keeping parking lots around won't fix the problems caused by parking lots.

(The exceptions are vacations and transporting equipment. You probably need a car for that. Depending on how often you go on vacation or transport equipment, you may or may not need your own personal car sitting idle 98 % of the year. But if you do, great, you're in the small minority we should build parking lots for. We don't need very many parking lots for you.)
You don't hear your neighbors in modern buildings. But of course we won't replace all buildings in the next twenty years.
Old and fearful demographic. There is also merit to the statement that much testing => much "suffering".
I like buttons too. Quite a fair bit. But when you get to too many buttons, they become icons.

Add that to the fact that all user tests we've done have fared better with search and more verbose interfaces, and I wonder if we are both of us far from the target user profile.
>Manually reverted, and launching my older version (92!) demanded I either create a new profile or quit.

use --allow-downgrade switch
It crashed often, it was slow - but still faster and far more usable than the horror of IE6. As we're headed for a web that's built for Google (...Chrome), challenging the status quo may be far harder.
I had too but it mysteriously re-enabled on all FF instances on various laptops and desktops here. I wonder when that happened.
While your point stands - it's worth pointing out that this bug was NOT caused by an update [1], but seems to have been a long-standing bug in the HTTP3 stack that was triggered due to some external site (including apparently Mozilla's telemetry provider) that changed their stack.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908
V94 didn't work either
You can't move it, but you do get paid. So it's worth something.
Wouldn't you do the same? Unambiguous proof that it was leaked from a lab would be ruinous to the country. Everybody would demand damage compensation. There is absolutely no upside in admitting the truth if it was so. A nation doesn't get any points for doing the "moral" thing.

That's why it is important that this is NOT about establishing historical truth with evidence. If it was human-made, we would realistically never find evidence.

The only thing that counts here is whether it is a plausible scenario or not. I do think there is evidence that this is a plausible scenario, which means that we should act to prevent something like this from happening in the future. Completely regardless whether there was a actual lab leak in the past or not.
Oh weird you're right, I don't think I've ever interacted with that extra address/search bar. I wonder what they were thinking, that seems redundant and a bit silly
Thanks for all the feedback! I've added a section at the end addressing as many as I can.
The UK is determined to not increase pay and benefits for its nationalized healthcare workforce either. It's not a silver bullet, it rather relies on having an informed populace encouraging the government to make intelligent choices.
That smells like the Shutdown Hang Terminator triggering a crash report.
What would be the rough numbers required to support firefox development in terms of #devs and $?

What would be the model to get started? Can we start by funding a fork (similar to iceweasel) with the eventual goal of hard forking once the needed resources are available?

I like you would be more than happy to pay $10/month. I pay $20/month for a bike! (relatively cheap in Denmark where taking my good bike to the shop costs me ~$500 every time I fall off). The problem is that there isn't a box on the internet for my CC.
> I don't know why people use DOH anyway.

To make it slightly less visible what websites do you visit.

To bypass DNS-based censoring some ISPs deploy as some governments require them.
Basically DACH region.
Regarding GtkD, you may find this blog interesting: https://gtkdcoding.com/
As soon as you start talking about raising prices artificially (they are already dependent on real costs, but real costs are heavily influenced by supply and demand too) to discourage a certain lifestyle, you are essentially talking of making it "exclusive to the rich".

What you are talking about is not about cars though, it's about changing the entire lifestyle of humanity. If only the rich can have their private gardens, then we'd need a lot more gardens (parks) in urban areas, perhaps some of them with private spaces for when you need some solitude. You are also going to discourage a new trend: work from home (though it's not so new for some of us, I've been WFH since 2006).

All of your premises about subsidizing cars are false, in my opinion. Unless you move all people close to where they work, we need public infrastructure that's harder to maintain (as I said, buses destroy roads more than cars do) than what we already have for cars. And while we might need less of it, we'd still need more than what we need for buses and trucks today since more people and needs would move to use them, so it's not so certain we'd be spending less on maintaining and building it.

You keep talking about energy optimization. Most optimal for energy use is hardly most optimal for human well-being. Shared apartments would definitely be most optimal: you only need a private sleeping room, and only if you are a family. Otherwise, why would you mind having a bunk bed in a bedroom that has 6 of them? This would optimize building, heating and cooling costs. Sharing kitchens or even cooking meals centrally (say, for an apartment block) and distributing to tenants would be even more optimal. I hope you don't want your own kitchen when it's more optimal to have someone cook a large quantity at once.

It's easy to see where that is going, and that's not the future I want to live in. It's been a theme of not just one dystopic book or story or movie.

While people frequently bring up an argument that humans are already taking up too much space on this planet, they fail to remember that it's not because of our settlements. It's mostly because of agriculture. Human settlements are a tiny fraction of the land we use for agriculture, and sprawling settlements are not the biggest issue (sure, they are an issue locally where humans might be pushing other species out, but not so much on a global scale).

So, while you proclaim how getting rid of cars will solve a bunch of problems (CO2 included, even though cars contribute 6% of CO2 emissions annually[1]), I don't see it. And I don't buy the subsidy argument either (fuel throughout Europe is taxed at at least twice the price: compare prices in EU vs US): it's an attempt to attribute entirety of the cost for infrastructure to cars when we'd need some of that infrastructure anyway.

[1] As per https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#energy-electr..., all road transport contributes 11.9%, of which 60% is passenger transport which includes other forms of road transport like buses
"Greed is good" is fewer words.
I think nobody mentioned Ackee https://ackee.electerious.com/

It is cookieless and that makes it really interesting
But a lot of app classes can't. Browsers being the obvious one, but generally anything that requires optimised code, heavy computation, multi-threadedness, or access to certain sensors. Anything that fits any of those requirements has to be a real app and must then adhere to Apples rules.
You have no leverage. Your bluff was called. Your threats weren't backed up. You chose your hill and died on it, so to speak.

It may be harsh of me to say but IMO you should leave ASAP. Walk. Line up some work for your people, if they are with you still. You lost and it is unlikely your situation will improve at the leadership level.

Also, stop framing it as them being right/wrong vs. you being sane/crazy. That is a false dichotomy and largely irrelevant to the mechanics at play.
> I want Mozilla to defend the open web and create an open source browser. That’s it.

The 'open web' died when Chrome overtook Firefox and are still paying for more than >85% of all their revenues just to be on life support in return for ruining the 'open web'.

> If they don't turn this around then I hope others will step up and reclaim the web!

The web has been reclaimed by Google from Microsoft - exchanging from one behemoth to another. Firefox is always behind Chrome's features and many web developers still continue to place banners on users to 'Switch to Chrome'. So it is already over before it has started.

> it's also a cry to let people explicitly support browser-only development via donations, subscriptions and show our support.

One more thing, even if one was to support via 'donations', they are not funding Firefox, it is funding something totally irrelevant in Mozilla and Google is once again keeping them on life support.

What a magnificent disaster.
Pick companies that have IG Metal deals, for example.

Quite a well known names do it.
If I drive to a remote place in a car, I will need a car to get back. But if I go to a remote place by walking, on a bicycle or public transport, I don't need a car to get back.

Ever tried imagining building a life that isn't centred around using a car?
What's considered a starter home? In England (well, the south-east of England), lots of people get started in a 1 or 2-bed flat (~60m²), maybe move up to a small terraced or semi-detached when they have kids.
Not gonna tell you anything. You obviously have you mind made up and I do not really care. I have car and use it for my benefit. That's all that matters to me.
I thought the idea was that if you didn't spend months studying, you'd only have a tiny chance, regardless of how skilled you were. And that the months of studying is what's then required on top to get that offer from at least one of the big five you apply for.

That I commonly see complaints about how other people "without" skill were getting job offers just because they put in the months studying, seems to indicate that it's actually quite a generous chance.
> I don't think Mozilla's income is a problem. They are making money. The problem is ...

... from whom they get the money. Its primarily Google who keeps Firefox alive to prevent lawsuits against their market dominance due to missing alternatives.

A clear indication that they are in that area a de-facto a monopoly.
> 4. Driving a car for 1 hour reduces your life expectancy by 20 minutes.

Surely driving a car for 60 minutes ought to reduce your life expectancy by something like 59 minutes, at least -- much like anything you do for 60 minutes.

I'm not just trying to be funny, there's a point here: you'll say "yeah, but it's 20 minutes more than otherwise" and I'll ask "so what is this otherwise?"

Obviously, if you compare to riding an ultralight airplane for 60 minutes, I think the car is going to be better – especially in bad weather. So what's the comparison for this number?

If you're just comparing demographics, I'm forced to point out that correlation is not, in general, direct causation. We might just be observing something else that happens to affect both car usage and life expectancy.

(To be clear, I'm doing this to find the steel man of your argument. I dislike car-centric infrastructure as much as anyone, but I wouldn't want to use weak arguments.)
I was directly replying to a specific comment. My comment is not really about the article.
FF does that as well with my local dev sites. It does suggest "did you mean to go to ...", which then works.
> What happened to us, as a society, that creates the expectation that a thing should be monetized?

If someone does good work then they should be rewarded.

In my experience, when I find a game I love I would like a way to pass some money back to the creator.
I've said a lot of stuff like "für zwei Jahren" in my time :)
https://twitter.com/gabrielesvelto/status/147409707425380352...
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The current theory is that some CDN/LoadBalancer updated its HTTP3 implementation and is now triggering a bug in the HTTP3 stack of Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c21

It just happens that the usage data collection uses that CDN thus triggering the bug. But you can also encounter it by just visiting any other website served by that CDN.
Technical people are responsible for building and maintaining all the systems that handle the stuff that the business want done. And I also told business people what they should be doing. Seeing banks as a non-tech industry is a mistake in my opinion, and many banks do seem to agree that they should be a tech company. Many are active in tech communities, organise tech related events, and really seem to care about tech. And yet, tech salaries seem to be lagging.
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None of the core lieutenants would be doing that work if their interests wasn't aligned with Linus'.

The culture around kernel development is strong, at the risk of scaring away newcomers. But a tight knit community also means it probably wouldn't change much even without Linus.
Pocket lacks some important features I want it to have so I decided negative when considering a paid subscription. Nevertheless I still like it and am glad it exists. It (pocket-based home page) also is my secondary major source of news about the world and curious facts (HN being the primary).
Of course improving infrastructure to support better public transport would be a good thing. But I also think urbanization in itself is a big part of the problem. Most of the hate on cars comes from people living in big cities (my own observation).
6 years, got a raise once, when almost whole crew quit..
Yeah - if a company does leetcode and cannot justify it, I'm out. One justification would be that the job actually requires understanding/writing a lot of algorithmic and very performance sensitive code, but that's not the case for the vast majority of jobs.

And I do the same for all other parts of an interview too. If I were asked to knit a scarf during the interview process, my reaction would be similar.
To be honest, maybe we shall teach in school people to analyse the media and not take everything as true.
But taken into account that school is the first step in disinformation, i may be dreaming.
Several non techie friends already contacted me about a broken FF. There will be millions of people with this problem, indeed.