skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be cool if smartphones had a paradigm of user-controlled back-end server. All the push notification registration and compute-intensive or network-intensive operations could run on a home server that a phone is paired to. I already choose apps with an option for a self-hosted backend where possible, but its not the default. And I can't run my own Firebase Cloud Messaging server or my own APNs at all.
> [...] (bonuses tied directly to increase in Firefox market share).

This might be a perverse incentive depending on if your goal is to make Firefox a good browser or just a popular one.
I can recommend the Surface line. I think it's a huge difference when Microsoft is selling both the hardware and software, so you know they are fully compatible. But definitely buy "Microsoft Complete." I've swapped my Surface Pro 4 out twice no questions asked, both times for some screen artifacts which I think came from too much pressure on the screen, and the second time they gave me a Pro 5 which hasn't had the issue. Their keyboards are exactly the same dimensions as Macbook too.
> this isn't normal anywhere else in the world.

You might be disappointed [0].

And that's in a place where they have “Universal” socialized healthcare. I mean, a lot of the people on the streets are natives, so I guess they don’t really count as real citizens anyways.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdTlZbUb14
> In fact, "consumer welfare" is tantamount to repealing antitrust, and the growth of FAANG can be directly traced to this change in legal standard.
Literally every monopoly ever can be said to have a consumer welfare benefit.

Eh? Not at all. The entire point (in classical economic theory) is that a monopoly, compared to perfect competition, reduces consumer surplus and arrogates a part of that to itself as rent (thereby reducing total social surplus).
The engine is a method for apple to maintain control over the entire ecosystem. Is a web standard developing which could threaten native ios apps? By maintaining control of the engine they can prevent the standard from threatening them.

Users dont care about the engine until they cant use some web based thing because apple has decided so.
Ask HN: Looking for a solution to manage access to many SaaS?
We currently use 100+ different SaaS tools, and we have 70~ employees. What's a good software to provision access to user groups, remove them, etc. Is there a software that centralizes this?
I left Firefox about 8 months ago and I haven't looked back. On desktop, I was tired of these constant "company partnerships" and so I decided to give Vivaldi a shot. I haven't looked back (for a variety of reasons, including how customizeable the whole browser was).

On mobile, I switched to Brave and I grew to really like groups of tabs.
Highly unlikely they will integrate newer systems in more secure ways using a new, unfamiliar language. In fact, many of the new platforms are becoming more of a black box that developers are unable to fix or understand when they need to fix or even recognize critical faults.

Big bang rewrites are dangerous, gradual migration is a better plan for larger systems.
Exaggerating isn't particularly helpful, makes me thing the problems the OP has with the browser are more based on perception of "culture" or something rather than the actual product
It is a convention, but not entirely without reason. Breaking the convention leads to other problems.

You still need a metric shit ton of classes, so finding any one class gets harder. The chance of merge conflicts increases because of more lines per file.
For the past years FF updates seem to focus on the fact that: One-two new color themes are available: "Try these out, tune your browser! Look at the 1000th time we're shilling Pocket because people like bookmarks!" instead of appealing to the more important aspects of a browser like firefox which is chosen by "more tech literate people": precisely because it's not chrome; for usability, privacy, features not being removed in the name of "reshaping the web", customization, etc.

Also, let's hit a nerve here: Mozilla& Co, ideologically speaking, and by "following the money", are mostly the same hand dealt as Google.I speak for myself but i'm sure many other people also use FF only because there are legitimately no other options besides Chrome, except maybe some obscure ones like qutebrowser/browsh/lynx/etc which aren't really something you jump to for daily driving due to the pain of installation/usage.That or maybe one still has to close/migrate/transition the google/mozilla account for the bookmarks sync features, which is the only useful feature and reason why one should use these 2(/3 including edge I guess) browsers.

To answer your question(s), I would do nothing, because I won't save Firefox.If they save themselves that's fine, but with a fresh memory of the netscape days and the battle of the browsers for the "advertisement bucks", this is not the first rodeo of the company/project/browser, and the usability of the browser is, again, the only reason i'm using it.As a side note, they're way too political for my taste.
I expected some kind of SRE platform. An image of a shoe was not what I expected :P
Every big company has some use of .net in some capacity. To name a couple familiar ones - Google, Amazon etc
wow, i've been using django for like a year and a half, and this articulates a lot of the pains i've had. thank you for sharing!
The one nice thing Spotify has, at least with Rogan, is the video included in the podcast so you don’t have to switch over to YouTube. I wish Overcast had this!
If you're running X session though systemd, as LimitCORE=... line to that service's file.

As an extreme option you can always replace the binary with a shell script setting ulimit and exec-ing the original Xorg.
I made no claims about uniqueness so I don’t understand your first paragraph.

If debt affected salaries, you'd expect your claim to play out on all fields, which it does not.

This is very much wrong! All fields are not equal. No one should expect motivations, forces at a play in one field to necessarily apply to all fields.

Do you think highly intelligent, highly motivated people would take on hundreds of thousands dollars of student loan debt without an expectation of a high enough salary to service that debt while maintaining a good lifestyle? We are talking about people who could go into just about any field. To be able to attract the talent the salaries need to be high enough to service the debt. Without the debt the salary needed to attract that talent would go down.

My wife’s med school debt is $400,000. She needs the $300,000 salary she has to service this debt while living a good lifestyle. That high salary will last the rest of her life and not just for the few years it takes to pay off her debt. If she had no debt the she’d be able to live the same lifestyle making $225,000 per year.

Personally I think it’s naive to think that the debt level doesn’t come into play when determining the salary needed to attract the labor of highly intelligent, highly motivated people. You really think that in the alternate world where the U.S. had free med school and all else was the same that salaries would be the same?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24695058
Now you know why traditional payment processors are so expensive. You have to pay the fines + you need to pay for the armies of people to do the extra paperwork.
Just make it pump-action, it's experimental anyway.
Google’s Data-Hungry Ecosystem Is Threatening Your Privacy. Here’s How
It's not actually being a paywall - it's behind a login wall - but they don't ask for money (or a credit card) and seem to actually mean unlimited access.
Pretty soon all you'll be building is relationship between two bots. Then we can cut to the chase and be totally transactional. So serendipitous!
My opinion? Mozilla should take a big portion of it's funding and direct it towards the fight for browser choice -- and the biggest offender here is of course, Apple. There's already some tailwinds in their favor here (the Epic court case, general grumbling about the 30% take, etc), take the opportunity and ask openly that Apple support browser choice, and hammer them on it repeatedly.
What do they want? Do we know? Is there a document we can point to, that we know expresses the grievances of the protesters? Of a majority of protesters? Of their supporters?
Typically you'd use some sort of SSO provider to manage access. At my last few jobs, we've used Okta, which is a pretty popular choice, but it is far from the only one out there.
Everybody is moving to mobile and almost nobody uses Firefox on mobile. However, Firefox mobile does support extensions. Is that something that could emphasized? However, Firefox speed on mobile is much slower than Chrome. That should probably be improved upon.

For desktop there's not much of a distinguishing factor left. Chrome is good enough. I like Firefox for the privacy, but is that enough of a distinguishing factor for regular (less privacy conscious) folks?
I'd suggest that it's due to a lot of folks reading "The Overstory" by Richard Powers which talks a bit about the loss of the American Chestnut.
The broken hibernate is my biggest problem - back in college my laptop cooked itself one day because it woke up in my well-padded messenger bag and started installing updates. >_<
The media is often captured using a smartphone, but I don't think I would call unedited media "content". I reckon that the editing process is more likely to be done on a PC/Mac/Workstation than the phone itself.
The answer is that phones really need a user setting to enable a charge limit.

About 4 months after COVID hit and I started to WFH, the battery in my Pixel 3 started to swell because I had allowed it to basically live on the charger all day, constantly at 100% battery. Also, by that point, a 100% battery would only give me about 2 hours of screen time.

A few months ago, I got a Pixel 6 Pro, and I'm basically just charging it from a weak 500 mA USB port a couple hours each day, keeping the battery between 50-80%. I'd really like to set an 80% charge limit and just forget about it.
> And now that iOS Safari is adding push notification

Not there yet, and also a decade late.
In the rotating door that is regulators and the industries they regulate she’s going to end up at a crypto company.
The "you might even say 2006" links to Graydon (aka 'that dude')'s initial commits. There's no discrepancy here. The Rust Project, aka the whole apparatus around developing Rust, started at Mozilla in 2010. The language was a personal project for just Graydon before that. They're two related but distinct things, and you could argue "Rust" started at either of them, depending on in what sense you mean.

That Graydon started Rust on his own in 2006 is not disputed by anyone with knowledge of the facts, including the very post you linked.

You also in your original comment said Mozilla picked it before 2006, which is also impossible and simply incorrect.
Uber CEO says you'll eventually be able to pay with cryptocurrency
I wonder if it would help some to believe that they somehow beat the system to get in. Sort of like, "hey, I beat the system so I might as well enjoy it and make the most of it". If I applied to FAANG and got in, that's probably how I'd view it - DGAF and just go with it.
They offer nothing I cannot get elsewhere and thus I have no reason to switch.

When it first came out, Firefox was faster, lighter and offered way better function than the alternatives at the time. Since then, competition has been fierce in the browser market and they’ve done little to distinguish themselves in any major way from their competitive set.

Until they do something so vastly incomparable in the market, they gonna continue to falter.
I want to be done with Firefox so badly. I just don't want to go to Google.

There's this really obnoxious issue where search in the address bar has taken a complete dive recently.

For example, if I want to go to reddit.com/r/videos and it's a page I go to often, I can't just type "videos" because the suggestions that come up are links to threads I've visited recently. None of the suggestions are to reddit.com/r/videos which I visit far more often than a thread I've visited just once.

And it triple annoys me that this used to work just fine but then they recently changed it when they put in those stupid paid suggestions / ads.
> I keep beating the market

I keep "beating the market" too though I calculated my risk adjusted return and with that metric I wasn't.

So really I was doing better because I'd cranked up the risk, and fortunately we've been experiencing a bull market.

Hard to say whether I've really been making savvy choices or if it's just been a bull market trend that has been saving my ass.
Don't forget the 99%!

The best thing ruin collective disputes is to add more noise and discourse so that the original cause is lost in the shuffle and the majority just sit back and shrug. "I can get behind solving one problem at a time, but when they're shouting for 20, I can't be bothered to care."
They misrepresented how their assets were collateralized, creating a false impression of safety. That's fraud.
Years ago when I discovered undraw I thought so too. Now, after seeing hundreds of them on various websites, the site of them instantly sours my perception of the brand and cheapens the perceived quality. I understand why they are so over-used though. Illustration is hard!
What's the total number of donors / amount of donation? Apologies for not doing the research myself, I'm at work.
They're not getting that money for the ads. They're getting it to be a decoy for anti-trust investigators. Which is not hampered in the slightest by adding a default adblocker.
I guess the idea would be to only cut organizational expenses that aren't serving the purpose of increasing firefox market share.
If all that is left is chromium, then you can kiss what is left of web standards good bye. Google will set the standard, taking input from any other tech player big enough to have a seat at the table.

Its bad enough ISO certification boards and official positions of the W3C can be bought or corrupted. Let there be only one engine, controlled by Google? And even the pretense of a open and fair playing field goes away.

Open source and open protocols were not resistant enough to for profit corporations.

Now our standards are dwindling, open source projects and standards boards re completely co-opted, and the conversation on mailing lists and forums sounds like the never ending squabbling and finger wagging from your Fortune 500 HR department.

Foss and open standards have been captured by capital. And it shows in the culture.

Hell, it shows in the conversations around places like this.
> Winning against those requires

I think the point here isn’t winning, it’s surviving. They need to maintain enough market share to keep going, but they don’t need to be the dominant browser. The goal of avoiding a monoculture can be achieved with a smaller marketshare.
3 words: do not buy.
They likely re-lend on crypto platforms where thanks to incentives and high borrow demand you can relatively easily get 15+% yields

For example anchor protocol offers 20% APY on UST deposited in it, and has done consistently for 6+months. As long as the peg holds and the protocol is solvent it's "free" money
I see this mostly coming from US and UK based news outlets, and of course the White House. I have this nagging feeling the US really wants a proxy war in Ukraine for whatever reason. It only needs a trigger, like the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Whatever gets the ball rolling. I hope cooler heads will prevail.
It's not about perception. The browser's job is to display webpages and otherwise get out of the user's way - Firefox constantly fails at that, much more than a lot of paid, proprietary software even.
As a Canadian I absolutely count donations from foreigners in the US and Europe as foreign money and absolutely think that that should be illegal (though I have no clue as to what the current legal status of that is).
They pick the manager and understand their personalities and backgrounds fully. That is far from hands-off.
I think that's a bit too far - for example, Thunderbird is a great web client. I do think they should have found a way to hold onto the Servo team and make that engine more useable and better than the base chromium engine. If they had been able to keep the Rust foundation on board, it would have also made sense.

However, I do agree that their leadership has made terrible decisions and they've absolutely focused on the wrong products.
I think the OP's 2nd and 3rd paragraphs are good demonstrations of their ethics. A track record of "doing good" and having lots of others vouch for you is a good way to demonstrate ethics to someone who doesn't know you yet.
The relevant terms of art are SAML, SCIM, SSO.

There are several providers - Okta, AWS, and more.

Fair warning: expect to pay enterprise tax on all your SaaS plans for the pleasure of allowing you to do SSO!
I genuinely wonder how many of the people protesting actually know who this person is or what he believes (if the parent comment even accurately represents him--I really have no idea). Reminds me of how people would criticize BLM protests on the basis that some people in the BLM org had ties to communism--a very weak criticism considering how many better criticisms existed and how few of the protesters had related views. The parent comment seems like a similarly weak indictment of the protesters.
no, unfortunately it's nowhere close to sufficient.

Power management on various chips is a complicated subject, and most modern laptops do a LOT of things to try to draw out battery life as long as possible.

If you want just a brief idea - take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management

If it helps, you can think of thermal management and battery management as directly related (that heat is coming from somewhere, and it's the battery in the laptop - the more heat, the more energy being consumed [or wasted].)
Assuming a fixed number of platters, shouldn't (physically) sequential read and write speeds go up as capacities go up? The physical size is fixed, as is the rotation speed, so given the density increase, more data should be moving past the head for a given amount of time, right? Assuming also you don't hit the 6 gbit/sec limit of SATA III of course.
Here you go: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/....
I want a lucidchart or drawio style support for mermaid. There's plugins to let them render mermaid.md files but I haven't seen anything which just lets me draw arrows between shapes and label things. Someone please make this happen, I will be forever grateful.
> Bloomberg even accidentally announced that Russia had invaded Ukraine (before apologizing).

Well, they are not wrong here. They indeed did.
Yeah hsbc should have been fined more.
It's absolutely true and Americans like to do the evangelization of these strange beliefs about Europe.
There are good and bad parts about every system and thinking everything is perfect in Europe is about as dumb as Euros are socialists and its bad dogma.
Apple doesn't seem to take issue with getting children addicted to gambling as long as they get their 30% cut, I don't think we can rely on them as our moral touchstone in protecting us from evil businesses.
Don't forget that Ukraine was one of the main supporters of that "regime" till the end. They weren't even the first state to secede from the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...
Diffrax: Jax-based differential equations solvers
What two companies? Surely you don't mean Google, since you can install whatever you want on Android phones.
How has no one proposed a bitcoin machine using waste heat for a clothes dryer yet?
Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford, one of the men who helped draft our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, is suing the government, claiming that these travel restrictions on Canadian citizens are unconstitutional.

It's a pretty remarkable situation to have someone who wrote our constitution pointing out that the government is in error.
headscratch I used profiles with Ff for ages... what is the difference to Chrome's?
Recently switched to Linux and only installed Firefox. When you force yourself to use it, it's doable. I think only once in the last 6 months did a website not work (my dumb HOA website). Other than that, it's more than sufficient.

It crashes sometimes but if that's the price for not having coercive software controlling my life, so be it.
> It's politically very easy to bring out the big guns here for European politicians.

If this results in a more competitive environment where we're less stalked & screwed by big tech then why not? The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Everyone has the right to an attorney. ;)
Try writing the goals for the year at the end of the year instead. Significantly more accurate.
We take it for granted nowadays, but it used to be browsers ran single-threaded, so shenanigans in Javascript could take out the entire program.
The term "victim blaming" is overused as a piece of manipulative rhetoric 90% of the time, but in this case, I think it's completely accurate - as a consumer buying a product from a large company (as opposed to a shady man in a trenchcoat in an alley), you absolutely have the right to expect and demand that your purchase works as advertised, and the responsibility is on the seller to ensure that their marketing matches reality.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that false advertising is illegal in most countries, including the relevant one here (the US).
But touch screens are the predominantly used input device.
You can be vaccinated and be against the mandate.
Can you elaborate; rigged how?
There are several issues.

Firstly it is much much harder to keep a clean sheet, when you focus on privacy, than when you merely focus on introducing features and pushing your own agenda like the Chrome project does. Just one misstep and you can already lose lots of believers of the good cause. And missteps Mozilla had more than enough of during the recent years.

Secondly they time and time again incorporate things, that privacy minding people do not wish to have in their browser and make the defaults so that it is "on" by default. This erodes people's trust in Mozilla's vision and where the journey is going.

Another reason, which is a huuuuge fail in my opinion is, that I still!! cannot donate specifically for Firefox, for Thunderbird, for whatever, but only to Mozilla overall. I cannot donate with a cause, but only with trust, which has been slowly eroded. They will not get those donations they hope for and then in turn make stupid decisions, thinking that not so many people want, what they are making now, because they do not donate. Duh! I would immediately donate to projects like Thunderbird. You can pry Thunderbird from my cold dead hands! They should shut up and take my money.
Since last time this article was discussed RE: Starlink

> No ground station near by - https://starlink.sx/

> No lasers online - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1482424984962101249

Starlink is going to put in a ground station - https://au.pcmag.com/networking/92316/spacexs-starlink-worki...

How the cable might break, obviously the pretty small explosion wouldn't break a cable but it might have been the same probable cause of the tsunami, a landslide (which has a lot of energy) -

Insights into submarine geohazards from breaks in subsea telecommunication cables - https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.40.