skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Mozilla and Firefox are cherished by a lot of people who would like to see them thrive.

But I think if given a choice, most of those people would prioritize the survival of a viable competitive web browser. The name of the product and the sponsor of the product are less important.

So a related question might be, "What would it take for a Firefox fork to succeed?"

If you think the CEO of Mozilla is a cancer, a fork solves that issue. Obviously, there are a lot more concerns than just the CEO. So, what else would a viable fork need?

In the end, Mozilla could implement any measures that would work for the fork, and probably do so easier. So answer the question for the fork, and you've answered the question for Mozilla.
Do we understand why it's losing users? The first thing I'd do as CEO would be to find out.
That was fascinating. Thank you.
The fact that there's water for people doesn't mean the drought doesn't affect the state. Drought causes large amounts of dead trees (of which California is covered in) these dead trees catch fire and burn cities down. Water isn't just a consumable for humans
Becoming a market maker, liquidity pools, yield farming, flash loans (short term borrowing of lots of money)
I either wipe Windows completely or, more often, will reduce the Windows partition(s) down to about 50 gig.

The rest of the 5 terabytes is allocated to Linux Mint.

I then remove all extraneous crap (Microsoft 'starters', various garbage apps, 'news' apps, etc) from the Windows system, leaving just Windows itself and the laptop manufacturer's system utilities on there. I only use Windows when absolutely necessary, mainly for things like HP scanning software for my MFP, or a dash-cam app; so probably about 10 hours a year.
> over commit

No. No no no no.

This sets you up to under-deliver and lose people’s trust.

This means you won’t have enough slack if you need to ask for help and wait for someone to help you.
> I don't see how "boring" is an issue here. If the whole thing has a goal of functionality, why do I care if it's boring?

Exactly. Or actually, to go even further: On the contrary, "boring" may well be an issue, but in the sense that that's what we want. When you write code -- or prose, marketing copy, poetry, whatever -- what you want to concentrate on is the content of your text, not the esthetic of the letterforms. "Boring" is the opposite of "captures your attention", and if I want to focus my attention on the meaning of groups of letters, "boring" -- not grabbing my attention -- is exactly what I want the shapes of the letters themselves to be.

And yes, I want them all to be the same width, so I can line up repetitive bits of code (or poetry?) below each other and match -- catch -- the non-repetitive bits at a glance. (Sorry, we can't all write in bone-DRY functional languages; SQL is pretty damn verbose and often, yes, repetitive.) IMO that's part of the content I want to focus on.
You're right, but neither can we wait for legislation to be passed. So attack this problem from multiple fronts. And even after legislation is passed that doesn't solve the second problem of centralization.
That's because there hasn't been a Safari for Windows in over a decade :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)
Well, in this case why won't they just sell it? I mean, if they don't need it now, they most likely won't need it in 5 years time...
That's a good point. It was only when reading about namespace packages in PEP 420 that I realized they were no longer required. Honestly, I think adding them now is just a matter of folks not knowing they're no longer required.
You made a claim that it was unnecessary to have any security features on a non-network computer.

I have not made any claims about security features on a network computer.
Ah, cool. I think of a file storage service more like a bank safe deposit box: you have rules, and there are laws, someone breaks them and you find out (or the cops do) that's on them. No-one expects you to carefully search every box (indeed, they'd likely be upset if you did) and you're not responsible if something illegal is put in there that you couldn't reasonably have known about (like, if someone tells you they're gonna put illegal shit in there, then you would have a responsibility to, at least, deny them service, but you're not expected to crack open the box after they leave and poke around for rule and law violations).
Hard to beat Mikrotik
I recently switched to try out ddg (again). Local search is terrible. Other searches have at least been ok. Nothing so far seems worlds better, but there does seem to be a bit less spam in the results.
Yes, they make a few billion between them in an ultra-competitive, expensive to compete in environment. My wording wasn't the best, but what I meant is that HFT firms only compete with other HFT firms. They're basically all battling to offer the cheapest service possible to other market participants, and can offer even better prices to retail due to the non-toxicity of the flow.

Virtu has a market cap of what, 6bn? Citadel was valued at 22bn from the recent funding round. Those are the biggest players in the space, and it's becoming increasingly monopolised. Meanwhile JP Morgan has a market cap of 450bn, BlackRock a market cap of 110bn, and BlueCrest manages 40bn of its own money. Considering how much attention it gets, HFT is pretty innocuous. The notororiety is basically because they pay 23 year olds 400k/year and it sounds scary to outsiders.
My thoughts on this are that every time I see a news piece about Firefox it's about "social justice", some code of conduct controversy, or something else utterly unimportant to web browser selection.

Being "Open Source" does nothing for me when Firefox engages in the same crap as other closed source browsers, like Pocket. Mozilla also allowed social issues to take precedence over retaining good engineers. Whether you like it or not, even assholes have a basic right to exist and the more recent culture of shun and cancel has had negative consequences for society as a whole. Maybe they were assholes, but I don't give a shit how nice the developers who made my web browser are.

I suppose the problem with Mozilla is the CEO/people who make decisions about Firefox, replace them and maybe Firefox could be revived. But I have extraordinary doubts that Firefox is salvageable at this point. Mozilla's priorities have strayed so far from mine that I cannot see them becoming something I care about any time soon. I suspect it is similar for others.

There is not one issue with Firefox, the people in charge are not competent. It's mistake after mistake after mistake. These mistakes are a direct result of prioritizing diversity over talent.
Routers are operating on the IP layer of the network stack, they don't have anything to do with application level protocols.
Honestly your post looks like a fraudulent/troll post as you have only posted once. Professing to be a very concerned covid citizen and then saying how peaceful this protest is.

It has significant impacts so far: Shutdown the largest trade border, cache of guns found in Coutts protest, local downtown core of Ottawa closed, $800,000 per day to the police services to manage it, harassment of people on the street, white nationalist flags and other imagery, attempted arson for an apartment building.

Also it isn't some friendly truckers who are just fed up - this is an organized protest by two fringe politicians from Alberta who planned to use the wedge issue to get traction for their party. Most truckers (90%) are vaccinated and working currently - this is a vocal minority raised combined with a non-truckers right wing nationalists jumping on the protest train.
I've been so frustrated they refused to sell me the seeds with blight resistance. They wont sell it because it's immune to roundup.
We had ssh but you’re right it was screen not tmux
FF definitely offers more privacy for the average person when compared to Chrome. I'm not sure what you're talking about. That normal people don't care? Well that's why I said the conversation about "products" was fine for the average person but not here on HN where we're experts and there's more nuance.
How to set up Firebase Authentication in React
If someone implements containers and VPN-in-containers in another browser, I'd switch. But it's so core to how I do my work, I'm unable to move until a better option exists. Profiles in Chrome doesn't do the job.
I read your link and there is not a single word about people who recovered. So what exactly is it meant to refute?
Semantics archive or the best place for building causal language understanding
Bankruptcy proceedings start complicated with individuals and go straight up from there, so you're definitely right to point out that there are no guarantees.

But the point is that the USDT people are already some combination of accused/investigated-for/sanctioned-for misrepresenting the amount and quality of the collateral, seem to have very little to lose by doubling down and to many (most?) people look like a worse credit risk than CoinBase.
Brownie Points
Regulators Probe Block Trading at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Other Wall St Firms
I don't think anyone's mentioned using the wood for furniture and flooring. There's a market for it:

https://www.chestnutfloors.com/
If you or your friend is selling any, let me know (feel free to PM, see my profile).
https://archive.fo/2SIfN
I've only been to Japan once, but immigration for me (a white male Brit) was no different to Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore etc, just a smile and a stamp.

Israel is the only real place I've had more than a "purpose of visit" (although getting in is still far easier than getting out).

I went to the states last week to see some colleagues for the first time since 2019 - had to really bit me tongue not to say "Christmas Parties" instead of "Business Meetings", got prodded for a little more info from JFK immigration (a "Law Enforcement professional" from the "Washington DC area" also checked my profile on linked in after I applied for my ESTA)
One way this manifests is when people stoke fake intergenerational conflicts trying to distract you from real class conflicts. Like when you see a piece about millennials in the workplace, whoever wrote it (Forbes, WSJ, the Economist, etc.) is encouraging workers to point fingers at each other and not at the suits keeping their pay low, etc.
dating app Founder here.

adding to sprite’s comment, they still allow new dating apps that match their guidelines.
there's also https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/gr/ in the docs which is basically "all the kinds of plots you can make" (see the other comment for Makie gallary)
It's specifically about Jersey, a sentiment older than the song and one that also pops up in Hamilton.
NB for people outside Ontario: this is very likely a made-up untrue story. If parent commenter provides some details substantiating this unusual circumstance, I apologize in advance.

What school district? This is nothing like what I've seen in the Toronto schools which tend to be more cautious due to population density here.

I'm willing to believe this isn't a made up story, but am interested in details as this is very different from what I've heard or seen in Ontario.

Also why can't your child see their friend's faces outside of school? This is all quite confusing.
>How does one "jump" into Pascal?

It's not pascal that I was talking about into, it was the job market. I haven't been a full time programmer in decades. I've written quite a few things since then, but not full time.

As for Pascal, I learned it back around 1985, when Turbo Pascal first came out. I followed through version 7, then into Delphi for Windows. It was at Delphi 5 that I took a non-programming job.

I also tried out Borland's C++, but all the non-editable boilerplate, case sensitivity, and non-counted strings really seemed like antipatterns to productivity.

A few years ago, I had used python for some small projects, and so I figured I'd try it out for a GUI project that came up. I figured in the 2 decades since I had used Delphi, things had surely gotten way better.

What a disappointment. There were no open source 2-way GUI builders that offered IDE support for python. I wasted a year trying to support the project building a shim between wxBuilder and python 2.x. It worked, but was so brittle that I ultimately gave up on it.

I was able to rewrite it all in Lazarus in less that two weeks of part time effort.

I still think it's one of the best programming languages available, despite its failure to overtake C/C#/C++ in the market, which I blame mostly on Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero management.
Isn't this exactly the point GP was making? That managers conflate the team's wins with their own 'succeeding'? It's not the manager that wins the championship, it's the team that is comprised of the manager also. Why is this so hard to grasp for managers? Is it the power? Is it the disconnect from the actual work?

As someone involved in both the technical and business side, but heavily biased towards tech, it's amusing to me just how cliché the management parties after a 'big win' on a 'visible' project are. It's almost unbearable to be around save for the brilliant food.
You can't turn off IP-based geolocation. To play the devil's advocate, they might just be using this to revoke stolen sessions when the same session makes requests from different locations.
Support in large numbers and largest against are not necessarily contradictions. There can be a majority against something and still have a large minority for something. For example, if 1 in 4 support something, that 250k Ottawa residents.
Bonus: next time he starts setting up an invasion, he gets to say, "Nah, I just enjoy moving tanks and troops around for no reason, like last time."

It's not so much him playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, but that we're playing chess and he's playing Calvinball. The rest of us would really rather do something orderly, but since he's making up his own rules he wins and everyone else loses, no matter what -- and no matter what it costs.
I always assumed the h stood for (more) human-readable, like commands such as df -h.
Looks very handy. Thanks for these tools!
Sounds perfect. Any up and coming CEO wannabe could take the Mozilla job to prove they've got the chops. Then, after turning things around, they could ride off into the sunset at any of those other corps. Everybody wins.
Yes, I bought one last year and it has been fine, no problems at all.
Why is this argument so easy to make for politicians that get corrupted by power, but not for managers that might suffer from the exact same human weakness?
Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?
Disclaimer: Not myself, but a good friend of mine is suffering from rapid vision degradation and will be fully blind within a few months. I want to do what I can to help them prepare. Anything from software and tool suggestions to general workflow and tips would all be very much appreciated, thanks!
>You're also assuming that support for mandates would be the only motive:

Not my assumption. The premise of the comment I replied to was that they were ideologically opposed
You forgot the part that comes after:

> By 2020, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.

Yikes, makes me also consider just switching off it again
More details in a MS blog:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2022/02/14/the-next-chapter...
I missed that. The website lets you compare it to IBM Plex and Fira Code as well. Same width, but a little bit more contrast. Compares very favorably if you want wide.

My takeaway is that monospaced fonts are basically a solved problem thanks to Iosevka. It does everything. And you can mix and match individual glyphs to your exact preferences!
Canada expanding anti-money laundering laws to crowdfunding and crypto
That says a lot if that's what a violent protest looks like in Canada when the "peaceful" ones in the US involve millions of dollars in property damage and numerous injuries or deaths.
The link you posted, and swatting in general, involves a whole lot more than merely an anonymous tip to establish probable cause. Two totally different things.
I agree with this sentiment -- Firefox should be a web browser first and foremost and not a social justice blog
Here is my upvote.
Although your post is "rough", the truth is quite often as such.
Thanks for putting it out there.
You forgot to replace database with blockchain.
I'd be curious about seeing statistics that are white (including Jewish) and also students that benefited from legacy. In fact, if we do a (race && legacy_flag), where do you think it would be favored? I am guessing it would lean very heavily towards white.
Stay away from Vulf Mono then!
You can make it illegal and actually a crime. The democratic way to make it one is either make that point democratically elected leaders in a civilized manner or vote against them next election and organize into parties/block to influence policy.

Terrorizing and hold regular people hostage with noise pollution, blockade and disrupt their lives is what revolutionary/terrorist organization would do.

If protestors behave like terrorists and insurgents then sooner or later they will be treated like one.
There is a web version made by someone else here: https://taylors-version.com/
Different distributions pick different defaults for `Monospace`. If you are using KDE on ubuntu, `Monospace` might be pointing to `Ubuntu Mono`. On other linux distros if they are sticking to KDE defaults, then Monospace will point to Hack [1]

[1] https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
Nice! My two-minute thought on your idea, I refactored your code somewhat:

;;; test.el --- -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

Don't know if it's useful in practice, but if we had multiline comments, we
could add invisible property on those markers to auto-hide them. Interlaced with
Emacs Lisp code, it gives a "feel" of literate programming.

(defun cursed-elisp-block-comment (beg end)
(interactive "r")
(save-excursion
(let ((start (format "#@%d " (+ (- end beg) 2))))
(goto-char end)
(insert "\037")
(put-text-property end (1+ end) 'invisible t)
(goto-char beg)
;; account for space and terminator
(insert start)
(put-text-property beg (+ beg (length start)) 'invisible t))))

(defun make-visible (beg end)
(interactive "r")
(remove-text-properties beg end '(invisible t)))

This file is a little demo of the concept, but to actually be useful, there
should probably be some routine to automatically mark text paragraphs with
invisible markers, since it is a bit labourous to do it by hand for each
paragraph. Surprisingly, indentation engine didn't complain at all, while
font-lock of course does not know I am in a comment.

(message "hello multiline comments")

(provide 'test)
;;; test.el ends here

Above file evaled as emacs-lisp buffer:

https://postimg.cc/SnfNNfyh
Yet they still managed to find 1.6M people globally to work for them.
Ask HN: Readme and Getting Started Improvements
I'm playing around with a pet project of mine that is a static site generator written in Ruby. While the project itself is not important, what I'm curious about is what people need and look for when reading a README of a software project?

https://github.com/pusewicz/statique

I would love to hear your opinions and feedback in regards to the current state of the README.
"- Get a CEO/upper management that are in it for the passion, not the money"

That has to be the first on the list, because that is the prerequisite for everything else.

Unfortunately there is no mechanism to achieve this within Mozilla. The people that need to go won't; they've got their trophy titles and they've feathered their nest as they want it. Thus Mozilla and Firefox with it are doomed.

Solving that would take a fork, just like it did with Netscape. It would also require an endowment of capital to fund a core of developers for years just to catch up with blink/webkit/etc. At this point the best plan might be to adopt the latter.

Thing is the market is producing this without Mozilla. Brave and others are delivering real alternatives to Chrome, Safari and Edge.

So at this point what is the value proposition of saving Firefox? That's a rhetorical question; I get it. I just don't know if it's enough to attract the developers and funding to do it. It's conceivable; one could imagine a leader with the passion to inspire people and attract the funding and developers.

Maybe that person exists. If so they won't be doing it under Mozilla.
That was the layoff where they got rid of all the rust people?

Its going to sound harsh, but they are loosing market share to browsers that didn't have to invent a new language to write a browser in.

So, getting rid of those people was probably a positive impact for firefox since they were mostly just yak shaving instead of actually improving the end product. The users don't care if you wrote it in C++ or fortran as long as it performs well, doesn't eat all their ram, or create giant backdoors.

Letting "the lets rewrite our core product in $COOL_TECH_OF_MONTH" people run a product is a sure sign of something that will fail if its not already. Lets invent our own computer language to do it is even worse.
OTOH, the Brazilian Ambassador in Ukraine says the situation there is "quiet and normal". [0]

He says there's no reason for alarm or for making plans of fleeing the country.

[0] https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2022/02/13/embaixador-bra...
Evernote is pretty much ruined for me because of this. From a lovely, snappy native app to an electron monstrosity that's slow and barely usable.

Lucky for them their only competitor is Notion, another slow js app.
> this is an organized protest by two fringe politicians from Alberta who planned to use the wedge issue to get traction for their party.

Source? Evidence?

(I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong - I don't follow Alberta politics. I'm just saying, I've never heard anything of this, so throw me some breadcrumbs here...)
>> citizens living in these cities are in support in large numbers,

what are you possibly basing this on?

>> But these are only my personal observations and conclusions

Oh, opinion. So you complain that the media coverage is "vastly negative" because... you feel it is.
FCP: Free short-lived Kubernetes for learning
Today, quite a few companies are selling Kubernetes as a service. Large organizations that depend on IT for their lives usually spare no expense in renting or buying servers and services. However, students and those just interested in this topic can spend a lot of money just to try to learn elementary operations with kubernetes, since this is a rather resource-intensive service.

An idea came up - why not use an idle server resource and allow users to create short-lived, but free clusters. For example, the lifetime of a cluster may be enough to practice and study a couple of lessons. When you're ready to move on to the next lessons, you lease the cluster again. If there are those who want to help in renting additional servers, then the limit and capacity can be increased. What do you think?
Same author as this one[1] on Itch.io too, I think?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17925666
People should listen to Dr Robert Epstein [1] and never use a google product again.
Google are an advertising company and master manipulators. They have unprecedented control over people very thoughts and opinions. They should be avoided at all costs by any thinking person.

Of course, none of this helps Firefox. If anything, it suggests that they are pretty much fucked.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/4q0cNkAHQQMBTu4NmeNW7E
If it wasn't clear I think we agree very much.