skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they could cut costs now and start saving. 400m a year is such a fucking massive amount of money. You can hire thousands of engineers with that.

But like 10% of that goes to execs every year or something insane like that.
>they need to answer the question, why should Firefox exist? If there is no compelling reason, well, there you go. If there is, double down on that make that reason shine.

Unfortunately, that reason (browser engine diversity)is compelling to people who understand the situation, but not general consumers - and it's impossible to make general consumers care, unless maybe Firefox went for an edgy "rebel against the man" vibe.
Bumble, Tinder and OkCupid certainly still have web clients. Never tried any of these on mobile web though.
My XPS13 with pre-installed Ubuntu sleeps fine without any battery-running-down issue. Is this a Windows issue?
Thanks for trying this out!

In JavaScript, you can create a PCEImage object (source for that object is here[0]) with an image string and then use the drawInCanvas method.

For now, I haven’t written a PCEImage implementation in any other language though.

[0] https://memalign.github.io/m/pceimage/PCEImage.js
Well that's the point isn't it. I don't have to care about the second system's grammar, as long as it accepts at least valid JSON, since that's all I ever intend on emitting.

Meanwhile, anyone who would like to check whether e.g. a `// comment \n` statement will be accepted by my parser is invited to check the grammar, which will make all such questions perfectly clear.
> So today the median income has massively less buying power compared to 1975 while chained dollars still outgrew the inflation.

Wait, I don't follow. What I linked was real median income, i.e. it's already adjusted for inflation. So median income in fact has >58% more purchasing power than 1975.

This is nominal personal income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N

It grew by a factor 6.7x, whilst prices (using your inflation link) grew by a factor 5.23, since 1975. That translates to a purchasing power improvement of 28%. Different from the 58% figure above (which may use different inflation benchmarks), but obviously an improvement of purchasing power nonetheless.

If you compare that to slightly fewer working hours (5-6% reduction) and slightly more leisure (a few extra holidays), longer life expectancy (72->79) and longer retirements (5 -> 10y average), I'd say an improving purchasing power despite this is definitely a success story!
My biggest bugbear with these tools is poor git support. If someone dragged and dropped their way through the UI, I want to be able to reliably commit that to a branch and recover to it using standard git workflows.

Most don't do this, or do it in such a brain-dead way that I am forced to use a branching model that is all wrong (eg a branch for each environment)
Compare that to the ethical implications of megacorporations expecting private individuals to work for free or peanuts.

A rational individual should look at bug bounties and exploit brokers and use the highest bidder.

I'm a security professional, and I think brokers are a net positive to the industry. The more that market makers expose the real price/cost of security flaws, the more investment will be made in defensive measures.
I have been in several post production facilities that are not connected to the internet on any production machine. Locally networked to storage and what not, but no internet access at all. These are the types of places that work on feature films and television content that the studios are concerned with leaked footage. I have been involved in getting MPAA certified in multiple facilities.

Obvioulsy YouTube creators don't give a shit about security of their content to the level of MPAA facilities, so it will definitely skew to higher non-secure internet connected creators than secured non-connected. But it is not 0%
Because some people don't feel safe in the software industry to make comments under a username tied to their public identity when it comes to Covid (or other polarizing stuff).

I've been on this website for about a decade, but this account I use now is only 10 months old.
Ah interesting, I assumed they were just a newer version of the wheel nut markers. The actual explanation makes more sense.
They take money from depositors to originate the loan. But I'm not talking about the money multiplier effect of fractional reserve banking. I'm talking about when the US Treasury needs to quickly sell several trillion dollars worth of bonds to fund things like stimulus checks, covid tests, etc..., and the Fed buys most of it (in order to keep interest rates from skyrocketing) they are doing so by creating new money. The fed doesn't have $4 trillion in cash deposits to loan out to the treasury, especially while they are cutting reserve requirements.

They do not take that money from someone else. They do not sell a product to get revenue. They mark up the accounts at the Fed and spend trillions of dollars that didn't previously exist on government bonds. The Treasury takes that money and spends it on govt programs.

Again, where do you think the Fed gets new cash to buy bonds with?
https://luisartola.com/solving-the-framework-laptop-battery-...
I am a Canadian living in America, and my non-Canadian co-workers have been driving up for ski vacations all through the omicron surge.

Nobody's barred from going anywhere. Go get your shots.
According to the article, "Researcher Williams said roughly one-fifth of the current megadrought can be attributed to human-caused climate change."
Browser based apps are almost always inferior to a native program.
#1 reason: Google has been spending millions of dollars on ads. 2010 many subway, buses, and TVs had ads about how fast Chrome was. Advertising works! Early adopters switched, followed by mainstream users.

Additional Key Strategies:

Google focused on developer experience with its tools.

Google shipped a good enough extension system.

Google invested in matching or beating a few key features but kept Chrome a leaner project overall. Worse is better and 80/20 rule.

Ecosystem evolution:

Google successfully got every major browser vendor to move to their rendering engine, except for Firefox. Gecko has always been harder to embed.

Slowly over time, some web devs stopped testing their work on Firefox since they were using Chrome and most browsers "just worked" like Chrome. Every week I hit a site that I have to use in Chrome because of a bug I'm seeing in Firefox.

Mozilla went all-in on trying to disrupt itself with a mobile phone operating system, which didn't work out.

Mozilla dabbles in many strategies (Privacy, Games, Advertising, WebXR), but none have been successful in growing active daily users.

Some people say Mozilla should focus on executing Firefox, but I think Mozilla is smart for trying to re-invent itself because the browser is a commodity, and if Google wants to own that on-ramp to the internet, it will.

Netscape and Firefox 1.0 were massive products. Mozilla needs a 3rd act to return to a significant marketshare.
> Something has fundamentally changed to allow this level of dehumanization towards the "others".

Nothing has changed in the level of dehumanization. It's clearly a very human failing that has played out in history time and again. The only reason it feels more prevalent, is because we've turned it inward toward what used to be a more cohesive group. So we can ask why we're breaking apart, but there's no mystery about why we dehumanize the "others" -- we always have.
Would be great to see arduboy games on playdate!

I have come to see the playdate as being a spiritual successor to the Arduboy and have been happy with how popular it has been so far.
And yet they haven't. The past two decades haven't been indicative of runaway warming with feedback loops, but just a paltry 0.1C/decade trend.

If what you say is true, you should be able to pull up a model published in 2002 or 2012 and analyze its predictions from the observations.

That's science. A model is only as good as its performance against reality, and the truth is, 98+% of the models in the IPCC analysis from one and two decades ago overshot in their predictions.
Idea: HN Invaders. Replace the alien ships with floating idiotic HN comments. Each time you hit one, its flag count goes up, and then after a couple it dies and disappears (except if you toggle the game's showdead mode).
I bought a new Dell a couple of years ago and just after getting it I was sitting beside my wife on the couch. Her macbook had 2 out of 3 wifi bars while my dell had trouble connecting at all. Thankfully they accepted the return and issued a refund without much hassle. I got a Lenovo ThinkPad (T-Series) and it's been rock solid.
How big is your wallet?
> Alternatively, if everyone who is publishing free on Apple is using an alternate payment system, and Apple doesn't collect anything from those apps, would it be reasonable for Apple to have some sort of "Developer pays $10 for every 10k push messages from a free app?" and "Developer pays $0.25/month for each app on the App Store"?

I think this has been a missing piece of the conversation for the most part. Apple needs to pay for servers, upkeep, development, etc. and deserve to make (some) profit. Why is the conversation about whether Apple can charge 30% or 0% or somewhere in between per transaction rather than based on actual usages and costs associated with operating the platform?

AWS offers similar features and technologies but we don't see them charging based on your product's revenue. Why should Apple?

Price setting is obviously a problem though if Apple continues to be the only company allowed to provide a service like "App Review" or "10k push notifications".
Publishing the already publicly available data isn't doxxing yet.

This is necessary information the public needs to see to start estimating how much of that money is coming from foreign donors so we can question why and deal with it accordingly.
VMware Finds Linux Malware on the Rise
Pragmatically, I would think that getting a whistleblower disclosure to stick would be more difficult with companies carrying a significant lobbying presence.
This had been answered well by others, so I'll pose an even better question: "why do we need Firefox?"

To answer my own question: without at least one competing browser, all web standards are effectively controlled by Google. It'll be AMP from here on out.
A 2015 Dell XPS 13 9343 is still running fine today. I replaced the battery twice, DIY-sourced on AliExpress. Stellar machine for the price (< 1000€ at the time)
I get the same thing and I reset my config to defaults.
Well I‘ve read that math many times and I don‘t understand the intention here.

Of course the number is very low - Spotify did not allow subscriptions through apps for a long time (do they now?)

Even if they have to pay 15% now (I don‘t know) that‘s still 15% of their margin (!). Apple is able to make much better offers because they don‘t have to pay that fee.

The 0.15% is math meant to distract, just ask Spotify.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2019-03-13/consumers-and-innova...
By "wavy", do you mean something like this? https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Jh7t.jpg

AFAIK it's to do with how compositing was done in windows. Every app drew to the same surface. If it couldn't redraw because it was frozen or whatever, then you'd see the remnants of what was previously drawn, hence the pattern.
Chrome’s Profiles are the #1 reason I use it over Firefox. If Firefox had as complete of an implementation as Chrome then I would consider switching, but until then Firefox is a non-starter for me.

I use all 3 of these profiles all day every day for work:

* one personal profile logged into personal Google

* one work profile managed by the company, logged into company Google

* one development profile with all the debugging extensions installed, like React and Redux tools (they require access to all pages all the time)
RMS has even published an essay talking about how the term “open source” is a poor choice because it has an obvious common sense definition that means “you can see the source.”
There's another reason not to like smartphones i saw here a while back. They are surprisingly difficult to use on a fundamental level. A touchscreen is much clunkier then a cursor and mouse. The small screen makes it hard to browse the web and the tiny touch areas means that it's very easy to press the wrong button by mistake. And of course, a smooth, glass screen gives no tactile feedback. The actual device is just a smooth slab of glass and metal and is quite clunky. These are fundamental things that smartphones are very bad at.
That's...not the case (and never has been) for me. You only restart it when you get an update (in which case that wouldn't be very often)? Or you did something whacky in about:config? Or maybe a bad extension. Dunno, not normal
Is BlockFi a scam though? Fraud is not what they are getting fined for, and it sounds like they can continue to operate if they meet these reporting requirements, and that the company intends to do that.
Here is SEC commissioner Hester Peirce's dissenting opinion:

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-blockfi-20220214

Essentially she says that while they did misrepresent the over collateralization, a 100m fine is too much since they did fulfill their end of the loans.

Additionally, she says that the categorization this stuff as securities is not effective. US consumers want interest on their crypto-assets now, but with companies having to jump through complicated SEC hoops this type of product will not be available in the near future (or maybe never available); not because of "customer protection" issues but because of sec over-regulation issues.
'never too late to stop making things worse' is good advice in many areas!
For those of you still on the fence or just learning about this, here's a rundown of the fine people in charge of this travesty of a "protest":

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/who-is-who-a-guide-to-the-majo...

PAT KING: Pat King is a far-right protester who has said in videos posted to social media that there may be future plans to target politicians' homes and that "the only way that this is going to be solved is with bullets." He has called for the arrest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly.

King has gained attention online for a video posted to Twitter in which he decries the "depopulation" of white people, as well as another video posted in 2019 in which he makes racist remarks about Jewish, Muslim, and Chinese people.
Just get vaccinated. It takes, like, 5 minutes.
You think they don't have enough cash to save FF, when they get $400m a year from Google?
> I worry that many of the people who made good money from those investments will now believe that they have some superior understanding that lets them consistently beat the market.

lmao god this feels so much like the mindset of so many tech people in general. They were right about one thing so naturally they're of course right about this next thing...
Nope, you can think their opinion is wrong, but again, opinions themselves can't be wrong/right/valid/invalid as they are not factual in any sense of the word.

Opinions are not facts and facts are not opinions. But it truly does get hard to distinguish.

Lets take an examples.

> The world is flat.

That isn't an opinion, that is a "factual statement" that is wrong. No matter how they want to phrase it or look at it, there is evidence that the earth indeed is not flat.

> A UFO crashed at Roswell.

This is claiming a fact, but we can't know for sure because we don't have reliable evidence either way.

> Green is better than blue.

This is an opinion, because it's based on personal preference.

A good way to try and distinguish is "can this claim be verified." Opinions cannot be verified, as they are based on personal experience / feelings / thoughts. Facts can have measurable data that will support / deny them.
You are answering the question "how can Mozilla make more money", but that wasn't what was asked. Mozilla as a whole is profitable already, and revenues have been growing close to 100% year over year. As a company they are in great health.

Except that's not what users care about when picking a browser. Google has too much money, tech, marketing and too big an existing user and device base to make any kind of direct competition feasible. Giving Mozilla a few hundred million dollars extra isn't going to make a difference.
He's exaggerating a bit bit his point still stands. After an update there's at least one extra tab about the update, and sometimes more like the recent-ish stupid color scheme feature.
> California also has the "jaywalking" law that clearly prioritizes automobiles over pedestrians.

As an avid jaywalker, in what situation do you think you should be legally prioritized over a car on the road? If the car can stop in time sure but otherwise you're the one causing a problem.
Russian Teens Handed Prison Sentences for Plotting to Blow Up Minecraft Building
Should also have some way to filter via country/ location.
Well, back in the day the Spanish ñ was written with just "nn". Medieval times, yes, but we already use ch (and in church) and "ll" (close to y in yes), so in the end would
be another digraph.

And the accented letters in Spanish just denote a stress mark when the spelling is not following the rules.

Cortes is "CORtes", it means "courts".

Cortés is "corTES", it means "courteous".

Then, in ASCII, it could be represented as Cort'e's or cort|e|s or any other small symbol.

The diaeresis over ü would be a bigger task, but not impossible.
> The problem is so bad that I believe it should be considered a national state of emergency, and international embarrassment.

Mate, pick a number ...

---

- Highest incarceration rate in the world.

- Highest percentage of obese people.

- Highest divorce rate.

- Highest rate of illegal drug selling.

- Most car thefts per year.

- Highest amount of rapes per year.

- Highest amount of reported murders.

- More police officers than anywhere else.

- Spends more on healthcare than any other place in the world, which is completely bonkers considering what's offered.

- More people taking drugs, for whatever reason, than anywhere else.

- Student loan debt.

- The vast majority of all pornography comes from the US.

- Bad literacy rate.

- A military budget exceeding many countries combined.

- Over 90% of all media owned by a handful of people.

- A military-industrial complex paying politicians to invent lies for war.

- 50% of private and public schools teach Abstinence instead of actual sex education.

---

... and get in line.

(not sure all of those are still accurate, but sadly it's most likely)
Bus Factor 1 (2020)
Peaceful? I think news of armed militants amongst the protesters will soon be commonplace, like today's arrests of this heavily armed cadre:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coutts-protest-blocka...
I was preparing to just manually rip shows and privately host my own RSS feed of the audio, but now I’ll be looking into this first. Thank you for exploring this problem in depth!
Mostly Waze as it uses real trip times for its estimates and so can find “hidden shortcuts” through side streets. Though the rise of traffic avoidance in GPS likely contributed.

But that’s the point of traffic calming, they make trips take longer in real time so the route becomes less attractive as traffic avoidance, while not being a huge issue for “normal” local traffic.
I left Firefox for political sentiments that most of you do not share, judging from past conversations here. There are enough people like me that those events likely continue to put downward pressure on their market share. But not all that much in the big scheme of things. The larger effect of those politics was a change in leadership. Firefox used to be led by a passionate, opinionated technologist with a clear and consistent vision. His replacement, while more politically palatable, seems to have a weaker grasp of the market and the technology. The direction of the browser's market share reflects that. CEOs are non-fungible.

The primary "author" of Firefox changed, and that had a similar effect to the change in author of the final season of Game of Thrones.
The CBC is not 'the majority of media'.

Some subset of Canadian media is required to publish some % of Canadian-produced content, but that does not make it funded by the government.

I don't know where this misinformation comes from, but I have some suspicions.
I'll have to wait for those to get flagship specs before considering it.

Though honestly I'd probably prefer an android/ios device able to run a different operating system on the external display in all cases.
What do you get out of a rooted phone nowadays? I don't think I've rooted an Android phone in 8 or 10 years.
Typically disabled on school machines around this time, annoyingly enough.
Not necessarily, one example of an alternative payment method which allows users to cancel subscriptions is PayPal.

While there are probably some companies that would like to make subscriptions difficult to cancel, I don't believe this is true of dating apps.
The same way but slowly. Although technical debt in embedded software or industrial automation sounds like an explosive mix:-) Words you dont want to hear in the same phrase: "Life Critical" and "Technical Debt";-)
Cutting organizational expenses might be good for unrelated reasons, but I don't see how that increases the market share of Firefox, and I can think of a few ways it could decrease their market share.
You can try to frame it like it is all you want, but drying clothes is not using “unnecessarily energy wasteful product for some light convenience”. This isn’t just one person using a dryer to dry their socks, this is the total cost of drying clothes, and that isn’t something that doesn’t massively improves everyone’s life. If you’re going to spend that amount of energy the base requirement of usefulness of the outcome in my opinion very well could be that all of our clothes are dried.
Asymmetric? Ok, it take somebody else's time, too. Reaching out is no work for people with no real work.
You could plausibly run the coils in reverse to pull it back to the beginning, but you'd need to make sure the next round isn't in the way.
> I refuse to believe actual people will go out of their way to defend/promote/etc their $favorite_brand. Only on reddit/hn.

I will. It takes such an amount of effort these days to find a product that's both: a) privacy respecting, b) of sufficiently high technical quality, c) decently priced, and d) meeting all or most of my use cases, that when I find one, I will promote it to people similar to me until I'm blue in the face. Because it might save them literal years of searching, depending on the product.

Finding a product worth recommending is an exception. Some people will promote them just based on that, without expecting any compensation.
Thanks for replying. I will test it out and let you know. I would also encourage to really "disrupt" (Yes I used the word here) pricing for support tools. Per agent/user pricing (zendesk/freshdesk/helpscout etc) really adds up for a startup/smaller teams and I would encourage you to consider flat rate pricing with limits of different types.
Obviously it takes some suspension of disbelief to take anything in that document seriously, but it suggests that the Senate and Governor General (both unelected) make up the new "Government of Canada", with no mention of the House (elected). It's pretty clear that the intention of the "offer" is to remove the duly elected government from the picture in the mistaken belief that the Senate and GG are of higher authority to the House.

As far as the petition for an early election goes, I agree I can't find it in the MoU. Perhaps it was reading between the lines and combining statements made outside the MoU with what was found within.