skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been easier to convince someone in ‘99 that Trident on Itanium would be dominant.
Its not that the work doesn’t need to be done its the compensation for the work not being adequate and the lack of safeguards in place. Doing a hazardous job is one thing but they need to provide appropriate care for those workers as well as compensation equitable for the hazards daily and in aggregate.
> These days, you would need an official fan-restoration / fan-edit to see the Star Wars from 1977

You could try Harmy's despecialized edition.

I'm not going to mention where you can get it, but there is a Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy's_Despecialized_Edition
Not what you are looking for but if you got a bookmark you can edit it and set a keyword (videos).

Bonus if it's a searchable site and you often search bookmark the search url, replace the get parameter with %s and you can search using the keyword
Good catch.

> appearing to the naked eye as a single point of light, Polaris is a triple star system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris
I didn't mean to suggest that Roblox shouldn't be allowed to sell their product. I only meant that ending the sell of in-game creations would be a good way to stop the kind of scams the article discusses.

Plus, skimming a percentage of kids' virtual lemonade stands is a pretty scummy way for a company to make money.
Is Mozilla still on Evelyn? That's within artillery range of the Google campus.
They just have to wait for Google to return to office.

I can't think of any other solution.
This is probably unhelpful but you should consider just being a consultant for hire. I think your abilities will speak for themselves and your reputation will speak much louder than your lack of official training. I doubt you'd even need to disclose your criminal history for most clients.

Also you may find it better to network with hiring managers vs filling out online job applications. The HR screening is going to bury you many times where a human could help you side step it.
> Firefox is very usable

Are you intentionally underselling it or is this what I can expect of Firefox? Because it's not a super awe-inspiring endorsement.
No. It is immoral for a healthy, COVID recovered man to get a vaccine best used in the third world.

To travel, and get around my moral qualms, I signed up for a vaccine trial. I was refused or got the placebo.
I mean, I wouldn't expect the general public to have "true tech literacy" to the point of knowing the difference between IP classes. That seems above and beyond "literacy" to me. Hell, I wouldn't even expect the general public to know what an IP address is; their exposure to them is both so minimal and so shallow that it doesn't make sense to learn the intricacies of.

For instance, I consider myself to be fairly techy. I run multiple VLANs on the class A space on my home network, so I have decent exposure to IP addresses. And I routinely struggle with CIDR notation to the point where I basically have to use a converter each time because I can't remember which bits correspond to which ranges.

If I have this much trouble, I wouldn't expect the general public to even know what any of what I said is.
The U.S.A., and previously Great Britain, has always had an enormous political and economic influence on Canada, for better or for worse. Today we are being noticed in the U.S.A. because we're struggling. Having worked and traveled internationally for many years it is my opinion that at most times we, as a sovereign nation, rarely even occur to American minds. Such is life, and I'm okay with it.
If that's the case then you're screwed either way because Trudeau's racism is thoroughly documented. :) But thankfully (much to the chagrin of the media and others) these protests have centered narrowly around the bodily autonomy issue rather than unsavory race views, and the likelihood of the protests transforming into racial protests is small. Further still, the establishment could completely take the wind out of the alleged protest leaders' sails by acquiescing (no need to organize under these guys if the need to organize goes away altogether).
> It only needs a trigger, like the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.

It’s really not the same at all. Even supposing the rest of what you said was true…all Russia needs to do is just: not invade a sovereign country.

They don’t have to prove a negative. They just have to not use their military to invade.

This isn’t an unfalsifiable causus belli like Iraqs WMDs.
Maybe it was not such a great idea to elect a TV show to your government, Ukraine?

this is copied from an older comment

The Ukrainian government has a... fascinating origin story.

Ever hear people say "oh politicians are just actors reading lines"?

Well, the President of Ukraine is an actual actual actor and comedian. His last acting job was the lead in a series that ran from 2015 to 2019, when he was elected president. The role? An ordinary guy rants online about government corruption, goes viral, and is elected President of Ukraine.

That is not a mistake. The actual President of Ukraine was elected months after staring in a series as the unlikely President of Ukraine! https://imdb.com/name/nm3305952

Before his role as president, he and his comedy troupe, Kvartal 95, joked about the Maidan massacre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33lY5LUPNbE&t=599s

To win the election, Zelensky had to beat Yulia Tymoshenko. At the last minute, a third candidate entered the race, incidentally also called Y. Tymoshenko. So there where now 2 Y Tymoshenkos on the ballot, causing confusion. And a comedian won the race for president. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko#2019_presiden...

After being elected, Zelensky said

"Don't worry. We will not have nepotism. "

During the first year of Zelensky's presidency, more than 30 people who previously worked for, or with Kvartal 95 or its subsidiaries, received government positions.

Some highlights from the current roster..

Serhiy Trofimov - First Deputy Head of the Administration (Head of the Office) of the President of Ukraine , formerly - Executive Producer of the Quarter 95 Studio;

Yuriy Kostyuk - Deputy Head of the Administration (Head of the Office) of the President of Ukraine , screenwriter and author of the Studio "Quarter 95", creative producer of the series "Servant of the People"

Serhiy Shefir - First Aide to President Zelensky, formerly Screenwriter, Producer and Director of Kvartal 95 Studio;

It gets better....

Iryna Pobedonostseva - Director General of the Directorate for Information Policy of the Office of the President of Ukraine [30] , formerly (according to media reports) - Director of Development of the Studio "Quarter 95";

And my favourite...

Ivan Bakanov - Head of the Security Service of Ukraine , formerly a lawyer and head of the Studio "Quarter 95";

https://uk-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%...

So, the government of Ukraine is made up of actors, screenwriters, and producers, who's work resembled a post-modern Ukrainian Monty Python. It is like John Cleese started the Monty Python party, got elected, and is now pushing for nuclear war.
The point is, like PHP and FORTRAN it got millions of people programming who otherwise wouldn't have -- precisely because of its loosey-goosey philosophy (and lack of default strictness). And because it could be used to do some seriously powerful stuff, and get it out the door much more quickly than in the C/C++ world (arguably its only real competitor at the time).

Of course over time, these same people learned to program better, and its looseness and general wackiness grew into a liability.

But the important point here is: language design decisions (just like product decisions) aren't so much intrinsically right or wrong; but right or wrong at certain times.

In its heyday, Perl was, for many people, definitely the right way to go.
Apple Pay != Apple in-app purchases

Regardless, Apple could still mandate use of their own payment system alongside optional 3rd-party systems, and let all options compete on their merits - ease of cancellation being one of them.
market to multiple verticals.

schools, local/regional/state governments, non-profits - types of orgs that have some long-term interest in privacy.
They are quite similar, PlantUML has support for more types of diagrams than mermaid (such as network diagram), but IMO PlantUML is "messier" to write, I find Mermaid more elegant in writing diagrams.
This is on top of the recently announced 10 of the BWRX-300 SMRs also planned in Poland:
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Collaboration-for-Po...
A 1,500-Year-Old Riddle Solved: Yes, It Was a Terra-Cotta Porta-Potty
This is so true. As a PM, it's very arbitrary to set OKRs, when you don't even have the KPIs in place to evaluate what is meaningful.

On top of that when you have a vision, roadmap, backlog what are you going to say other than, "yessir, I'll do more better" and will definitely help out more on the distractions or "quick-wins" as you like to refer to them.

In a matter of weeks l, it's clear who is moving the needle and think peer review would show this more than management alignment to OKRs.
It turns out the type in the print edition is small enough to trouble my ageing eyes, but I'm more than happy to have bought a copy to support such a labor of love!
Namedtuple – Python-style Named Tuples in C++20
Yep. 3 generations of dell for me, every time a different problem. I miss my samsung ativ book.

Next one will be a framework laptop.
The case was doomed before it was filed because the pretense and premise is a bit absurd. Air Travel is not a right on its own and the federal government is freely able to place limits on who is allowed onto an airplane already, for a lot of arbitrary reasons (Canadians or otherwise). Setting that aside, provinces also have a say in how that works and could easily also force isolation on returning travelers and invoke the notwithstanding clause to enforce it. Either way, by the time it is argued we will hopefully be past COVID restrictions.

It will also be interesting to see the moment of Peckford's lawyers arguing the intent of the constitution and the crown having to argue against it, given Peckford was there at its drafting. However, it would be foolish to believe the man to be automatically correct and infallible on this point in the court's eyes.

However, I do believe the discussion is worth having because if nothing else it will force the Canadian government to rethink its policies that were clearly developed on the fly without due consideration. Right now, with the benefit of hindsight, 14-day enforced quarantines and 3-5-day enforced stays at government designated hotels don't seem to have done much of anything other than throw the hospitality industry a bone. Personally, I would have preferred to see more aggressive testing done at points of entry, with quarantine notices essentially handed out to individuals who need it. Unfortunately successive governments undermined Canadian biotech industries and left the country without the needed capacity.

There need to be better policies and plans in place for the next time this happens and it is important to have the discussion of just how much you're able to dictate to a given individual.
The fact that our best performing models for the risk-neutral price of equities are unbiased random walks tell me that yes, in aggregate, Wall Street is really good at being correct.
Bit of a straw man - nobody said anything about pushing for perfection at home, just "we can do better than this".

Also - "right there for the taking" gets to the heart of my objection as it is nowhere near true. Space is vast and delta-v is expensive - even if we get past the problem of deadly radiation outside the ionosphere, we are incredibly far from being able to make space travel anything other than an enormous sink for money and resources.
I stand corrected, I had "Practical Extraction and Report Language"
wired into my brain when I fist used in version 1.*.

Disliked is horrible syntactic and semantic complexity then as I do now.

However, that didn't stop people from doing great things with it.

Now, I have to find a bug in someone's Perl program
> I think so-called ASCII-art is more in the spirit of Markdown.

If you're simply doing a less on a file, then sure. But if you want to do a 'render' on the Markdown and convert it to another format (HTML, PDF) then having a mechanism that can translate ASCII to something graphical could be useful.

In some ways this is what the DOT language does in Graphviz:

* https://graphviz.org/gallery/

> The spirit behind the kind of thing in the OP, on the other hand, is that one should get nicely formatted HTML from Markdown for the purpose of online consumption. Which is a very different goal.

I'm not sure if there's a way to have both ASCII art and it be renderable to graphics. Closest that I could find:

* https://github.com/martinthomson/aasvg
It's a few paragraphs down, but VMware has its own Linux security software for sale. This is little more than a commercial disguised as an article.
> It should really be called RENDERME.

Hah—yes!
I feel like Firefox on Android should be more popular than it is. Chrome is default, but it doesn't offer an Ad Blocker. Firefox with uBlock origin is a far superior experience. Although there are other 3rd party chromium-based browsers that are just as good.

I suspect that it's poor market share is due the very poor performance of the older fennec implementation.
Micromanagement is a behavior related to the obsession with being in control. I don’t think the article will change how they manage their teams. Not even sure if micromanagers identify it as an issue.

A better title might be: how to improve your developers' performance.
Interesting, on iOS Safari you can just close the page.
I agree. R Markdown has R code execution as part of it's Markdown flavor and it distinguishes code block vs code execution as ```R vs ```{R}
Literally the way to "manage" developers is to enable them to do good work, and then get the hell out of their way. The git logs, uptime, and slack messages are all the records you need for evals.
> Let's naively assume that you actually can pick stocks. At $10Bn - you need to pick more stocks - otherwise you would drive up the price too much in buying that much of the stock

This refrain is common enough, but I don't think it really bears out in the math. Elon just sold $16B worth of stock and the price barely budged. If you've got enough alpha to work with every beta seller out there will hop off and it's well, well before the peak.

> There were plenty of tech losers. You still had to pick the winners.

Yes because I applied basic reasoning. People were still investing in AOL and Yahoo when I picked Google. Seriously. AOL and Yahoo. It was bananas. Every person I knew that had any amount of tech savviness was on Google. The search results were clearly superior. "Invest in products that are better" should be a meme on WSB or something.

What I didn't mention above was that in the mid 2000s I also made money off of oil because I was following China's modernization and politics in the middle east. People back then pushed me on just how much oil would go up and when I said I thought it could triple they looked at me sideways. But it nearly tripled then I sold. I tried to get into lithium through SQM, because I thought electric cars and widespread computing were going to strain supplies, but they didn't. That's when I learned the lesson that over time commodities go down.

> If you actually followed this advice, you'd probably be worse off than investing in the s&p - even if you did pick good stocks.

Not really? Buying in at the very lowest part of 2009 gives a lot of range to play with. This bullrun is much, much longer than most, but over time I think it's easier to dodge the correction than to call the top. The reason for this is that to call the top is to predict when human irrationality reverses. Something I'm not great at doing. What I'm good at is first principles. And at some point I don't care how much blood there is in the streets. That fucking share of Apple is undervalued enough to where I would sell priceless art to buy it.
I feel like I understand the situation but I'm doubtful that browser engine diversity is compelling. It seems like duplicate effort. As long as Chromium accepts pull requests, what's the problem with browser monoculture?

(In case it's not clear, I'm asking in earnest. I'm not trolling.)

- - - -

edit: Okay, pull requests alone are not enough, but the objections y'all are raising seem like they could all be answered by forking, no? If Google upsets their users then a different browser has a chance to gain users:

- Ad-blocking

- Better extension API

- Maintaining backwards compatibility

- No Manifest V3

- Better vision of the web than Google

In other words, effort expended on duplicate functionality for it's own sake is wasted. Why not let Google do the heavy lifting and then improve on their work, rather than trying to compete head-to-head on the whole enchilada (of a complete browser engine)?
If someone wrote an op-ed saying they thought newspapers should be abolished, including some amount of explanation for why, sent it to the NYT, and the NYT published it, would you think that's slam-dunk proof that the author of the op ed is lying?
- Fight against Apple in court on the iOS browser monopoly.

- get Web extensions (real ones, like uBlock) into Firefox for iOS.

- start a campaign around Web browsing speed (using numbers with Privacy Protection and/or uBlock0 enabled). That’s the last competitive advantage FF has, and it needs to use it to gain marketshare.

- Keep investing in Open Web initiatives (such as ActivityPub). Mozilla, like it or not, is one of the last bastions of the open web, and they need to keep investing in it (with research such as Persona).
Get the EU to adopt firefox or a firefox fork as official project to counter balance Chrome/Blink.
I’m one of the creators of Django and I’d personally never write a class-based view.

It requires too much knowledge on part of the developer and is generally an abstraction for the sake of abstraction.

Simple functions are much clearer!
I have always liked it, from Turbo Pascal, through to Object Pascal, Delphi 7 and Berlin. Delphi is still very good, but it is expensive, and I can't stand the current owner. Literally the only time I ever paid 1000 pounds for a compiler that I am no longer allowed to reinstall because I don't subscribe to annual updates.
Billionaire plans three more flights with SpaceX culminating in Starship mission
Probably, Mozilla could try this financing model, to save FF.
Ah thanks, that flew over my pre-coffee head. :)
> But if we're launching loads of people into space, what does the carbon footprint of that look like?

Pretty small. A 747 holds about 200 tons of fuel. A Starship holds something like 1,200. One Starship flight is roughly equivalent to six long 747 flights (as a rough estimate). Even with an absurd thousand Starship flights a day, commercial air travel far exceeds it.
Where I live, (the netherlands) you can pretty much walk into a electronics store and buy a phone. Then walk into a supermarket and buy a simcard.
> there are many additional steps that can be done to ensure anonymous use of said burner phone.

It depends on who you want to be anonymous from. A spouse? Ad tech companies? Local cops? The FBI/Homeland Security? The various intelligence agencies of the world?
K8s-themed podcasts with Industry Experts
The obvious thing to do was continue to invest in Servo. If they could have produced a parallel layout engine, which could provide app like animations without fiddling on desktop and Android, and then make that easy to embed, they could have made real inroads into blink/webkit.
Absolutely love this! Looking forward to using it.
Manage them with listicles! Everyone loves those. They solve every problem. Have a problem that seems complex and want to make sure you give a nod to everyone who matters but really just make a bunch of words and no cohesive strategy?

Listicle it!
If it's all theater, then it's worth pointing out the A/C/M times of files are easy to fake. A competent intruder can feather filesystem times and modify logs to point investigators toward the wrong conclusion.
Thus window's security theater did nothing.
The subtitle of the question was "What would you do if you were in charge of Mozilla? How would you save Firefox?"

My answer is an attempt at addressing these two questions. My goal wasn't to make Mozilla more profitable, but to ensure that it's focused on what should be its core mission, rather than the mire of sideshows that they engage in at the moment.

Also, I don't care how Mozilla the amorphous blob of a corporation is doing. I care about how Mozilla the vehicle for the survival, promotion and development of Firefox is doing, and that one seems to be on the brink of death if nothing is done to change the current course.
If you read the abstract of the linked paper, you'd see they assert that the annotated pointers can be safely erased, thus making them ordinary pointers again.
Talking in absolutes makes for contradictions indeed.

The thing in some areas computers today are much better than they used to be but that doesn't mean everything is better. There are cases where computers are worse.

And yes, there were people years ago who were saying similar things, that doesn't mean they were always wrong, it can also mean they were noticing things that others didn't notice or cared about. See, for example, Wirth's plea for lean software in 1995 - software certainly hasn't gone better on that regard since then.
I agree it's a meme stock now, but it wasn't always a meme stock. There was a time where it was severely undervalued and that's when I bought. I did not hold it all the way to the top. I sold it way before then.
>there is no violence, and no obvious danger

While there is no outright violence, there is torture to local residents, there was attempted arson, there is continued intimidation and harassment of those wearing masks, there is intimidation of visible minorities, there are attacks on businesses....

Is that enough to convince you that the situation is out of hand and than stricter action is needed?

The protestors haven't complied with not honking.

Please, please be careful with how you frame this. There was severe inaction and dangerous incompetence displayed by Ottawa police but please don't spin this as the federal government overstepping.

Edit - within seconds of posting, this is downvoted. Truly a shameful display by the folks here.
>Mozilla needs a replacement funding plan because Google can essentially turn the lights off at any point by simply refusing to pay them for search at next contract renewal.

And then Bing/Yandex/Baidu buys the rights, and all that changes is the amount they get. It'd drop if Google publicly vowed they won't bid on it anymore, but there's also the possibility that someone like Yahoo pays more than Google like what happened in 2015.

It's not like Google is arbitrarily deciding how much money to give Mozilla, they are buying something at the lowest price they can.
> Not all unvaccinated people end up in a hospital though. So aren't we discriminating against them?

We absolutely are, and I applaud the effort.

If they were fighting against rabies or measles or tetanus vaccinations, I'd say "Good on you! Do your part to clean out the shallow end of the gene pool."

But once their stupidity endangers others, we as civilized people step in and stop them.

When unvaccinated COVID patients flood the hospitals, it means that other people with serious or life threatening medical situations can't get the quality treatment they need. At this point, the antivax stupidity crosses over into danger-to-society.

So yeah, block them until they no longer pose a threat.