skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very bad news Indeed! Upvote for the PSA word of caution. I had a neighbor years ago who used just a few pieces of one as garnish on a soup. Made him horribly horribly sick; he survived without medical treatment, but attributes that mostly to the very tiny amounts he ingested.
were there any hoops you had to run to get that to work? afaict that's not possible ootb without adding a flag to the command line. I'll admit that I haven't really tried it since many years ago.

for 90% of the users out there that we need to convince to use firefox: having a command line switch is about the same as not having the feature at all... chrome has a menu item that brings up a brand new window in that profile.

I want firefox to succeed and it's my daily driver.
Yeah they failed massively at that. There were a few hundred trucks out of around 300,000, and they got denounced by their own unions. Basically the only thing they will do is inconvenience the government who doesn't want to look bad by removing them forcefully.
> (Not that I know that any one of those stats did go up, but I don't know that they didn't either.)

In 2020, the US had a spike in deaths by:

* heart disease

* unintentional injuries

* Alzheimer's disease

* diabetes

Roughly 1/3 of the excess deaths that year were not caused by covid: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234#24...

I don't know if we have 2021's numbers yet, but it looks like a lot of people are expecting deaths by cancer to spike in 2021 or 2022.
> There is actually a valid reason to make it hard for doctors to move from one country to another. Training doctors is time consuming and expensive. There is a moral aspect to luring doctors trained in poor countries to rich countries.

There might be a reason for the home countries to not want their trained doctors to leave considering the money spent training them. Some of them do have agreements for the trained doctors to work for a few years in return for the subsidy. That's for the home country and the student to decide.

However the main economic argument here is there's no reason the US should force them through residency again to practice, instead of just directly allowing them to practice after some vetting (USMLE whatever) and reap the benefits of fulfilling pent up demand, lowering healthcare costs and improved access.

I have point out here that "We shouldn't steal talent from poor countries" as a moral argument is a common trope amongst those pushing for immigration restrictions to limit competition to themselves. People are considered free and aren't owned by their countries. Its an understandable argument but I wouldn't pass it on as beneficial to the US or the people (it's not).
Its called "Profile Switcher for Firefox": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
I couldn't figure out if that was the whole article or just the beginning. The bottom had a bar saying "this post is for subscribers"..

I'll agree it seems poorly crafted. No mention of Gen-X music, which IMHO was pretty damm good. I have a slightly chipped tooth because of all the thrashing about..
BlockFi and apps offering 7-8% interest on stablecoins aren't themselves likely to be ponzi schemes. If these "USDT isn't backed by anything" predictions come to pass, then they are part of a ponzi scheme. FWIW I think it is very unlikely that this prediction is true.
They were in contact with both sides of the conflicts...only one side made their plans clear and also applied for permits. I'm not saying it was the right call, but one side was violent toward police and the other was not...not a huge surprise that the police would choose to work with them.
Yes! I’ve not yet seen a surviving mature American chestnut, but there’s (what I’m pretty sure is) a C. pumila specimen in a churchyard not far from where I live. Fairly cute tree; it produces nuts but I have not tried them.
I've already told you and you have hand waved it off as not a solution: I think we need to fix our very, very serious and longstanding housing supply issues.

If it were feasible for someone to rent a room for not much money and live decently without a car in a walkable neighborhood such that working part-time with decent wages or full-time minimum wage allowed a person their independence, then people with impairments wouldn't be prisoners of dysfunctional and stressed families who are often doing all the wrong things because their scared to death and don't know how to fix anything.

We've built a world in which only a small number of people can possibly keep up the rat race. We've torn down more than a million SROs which used to be normal housing and we now think of that as only housing for homeless people, not housing for young, single adults or childless couples or seniors or students.

(SRO stands for single room occupancy. Copy-paste isn't working for me at the moment, so I can't provide a link.)

In the US, it's nigh impossible to live without a car. It's nigh impossible to find someplace really cheap in a walkable neighborhood that's suitable for a household of one to three people.

Parents who know their child can't function well enough to work all the damn time and afford an expensive home and expensive car etc know this is a nightmare from which the entire family has no escape route.

The escape route for everyone is to make affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods the norm again so ordinary people who can function some of the time but can't run full throttle all of the time can protect their own agency, establish their independence and not be driven crazy by other people freaking out about the burden of caring for them forever with no hope of a solution.

I can work part-time. I can't work a regular job.

I currently live someplace cheap in a walkable setting. I've grown healthier and more functional because of it.

I would like to replicate that and make it more the norm in this country, like it once was.

That's a thing that works but it's a thing you aren't going to find plausible if your focus is on how to deal with people after everything has gone wrong and it looks unfixable. It's fixable. It's also very much preventable in many cases.

We just refuse to work on that. We are too busy screaming about how the sky is falling.
> If Mozilla is just Firefox then why to they need a CEO at all? Why does a web browser need an executive team? It doesn't make any sense to me. Linux doesn't have a CEO. Python doesn't have a CEO. Postgres doesn't have a CEO.

It doesn't matter what the top position is called: CEO, the Grand Warlock of Yendor, or Benevolent Dictator For Life. CEO ≈ whoever is in charge and entrusted with enough authority that they can elevate or kill whatever they are managing, and that was probably the intended meaning.

> Or how about they donate Firefox to Apache?

Apache has a reputation as the graveyard of open source software. If Firefox gets donated to them, it's curtains. Maybe if they went elsewhere it could work.

Or, they could create a Totally-Not-Mozilla Foundation and bring trustworthy old-timers with the right vision on board. Then they could either do a hostile takeover aka LibreOffice, or coax the original Mozilla Foundation into handing over the brand peacefully.
The amount of people in HN who think they can do a better job at being the CEO of every company; or being the president of any country; or being better than whoever is trying to something, astounds me.

Dudes, if saving Firefox was so easy that could be described in a single comment like that, it would have been saved already.

There are more people at Mozilla than the CEO, she is not responsible for all decisions. She is a quite nice person to be honest, has always been very kind to me while I was volunteering and later while I was working there. She is more into the Mozilla mission than many here.

Also, people need to understand that Firefox is not the reason for Mozilla existence, Firefox is one of the tools that Mozilla has (and depends on) to fullfil its mission. People need to wake up and realise that Firefox is the last remaining independent browser, and that fighting against Microsoft, Google, and Apple is damn hard.

There is a huge intersection between people who are often saying they know how to fix Mozilla and those using non-Firefox browsers. If people here who cares about Mozilla would volunteer, and also use the browser, Mozilla would be in a much better shape.

People who keep saying things like "cut their salaries", "cancel all projects", have absolutely no idea how all this works, or even how Mozilla works. I understand you're all frustrated, but you're going at it from the wrong direction. You need to remember that it was side projects that made Firefox. At that time the workhorse of Mozilla was the Mozilla Suite. It was also non-Firefox projects that brought up Rust and many other cool technologies.

Want to fix Mozilla? Take an active part in it.
but it increases the vapor pressure of water everywhere.
I would think it be trivial to make an extension that respects the current tab container when opening a new tab. Hell if it's not there I'll make one.
We are literally discussing a company being found by the SEC to have sold an investment asset without appropriate disclosure and that asset being closed to American investors. This is not the example to make your case with.
Yes, it sucks. This is why we can't have nice things. Because a million different programmers always choose some random incompatible interpretation and then we're all stuck with it.

Another similar example, all of VSCode's configuration files are called filename.json but they aren't actually json (any spec compliant json parser would barf on them).

They could just have easily named them filename.jsonc (or whatever they actually are) but they didn't so we're stuck with all these .json files that json parsers won't actually parse and special hacks to validate them differently based on like if they're in a .vscode folder or if their name is some specific filename.

Unfortunately there's no way to wrangle millions of programmers so we're stuck with whatever bad decisions become popular.

IF that's not clear above, for example, trailing commas and comments are not allowed in JSON but they are in JSONC. You'd like your editor to highlight errors. Typically this is done by filename extension. .json = comments show as errors, .jsonc = comments OK. But VSCode named it's .jsonc files as .json so every editor that wants to be able to show if there are errors in your file now needs some random heuristic to decide how to interpret the file..... all because of a bad decision by 1 or 2 programmers that ended up being popular and now their too entrenched to fix it.

The same thing is true here. ``` is supposed to mark a codeblock as in show the text as is, whitespace as is, line breaks as is. If you want to write a tutorial on how to use mermaid in markdown you'd want ``` to show the mermaid source. Use some other tag for rendering. But now where stuck with an exception and more will be added.

And before you go say "there's no official spec", so what!? It's called being consistent and interpreting the contents of a ``` block is inconsistent.
In general, yeah, you're capped at everything you invested basically ceasing to exist. Unless you bought on margin. Then, you can end up owing money, even if the asset is worthless.

Not crypto related, but one of the things that made the financial collapse of 2008 so much worse were the number of institutions that were over leveraged at the time and couldn't make the margin calls when assets started tanking. The fund I worked for at the time was leveraged as high as 40:1 at one point around that period. We exited the crisis leveraged closer to 10:1.

The problem with firms being overleveraged is when the margin call comes, it starts a snowball effect. To make the margin call, you have to liquidate assets, most likely at a loss, which further drives asset prices in the market down, increasing margin requirements in a vicious feedback loop. It's not uncommon for a firm hit with a big margin call like this to end up having to sell everything for pennies on the dollar.

I won't name names, but I worked a few high profile blowups during my tenure in finance, one of which was the very high profile bankruptcy of one of the banks that was allowed to fail in the US another was a boutique hedge fund that doubled down on a bad energy bet. Neither was pretty. But, in both cases, the root cause was the same: failure to properly understand the risk of the investments they were making either in part or in whole. Data quality in the risk system at the large bank was especially atrocious, BTW.
Recently had an open neutral event that took out or hampered a handful of electronics in my home. Surge protectors largely did their job, and I learned quite a bit about protection and repair in the process. Luckily I was able to find a replacement power/fuse box for my on demand water heater pretty cheaply, but also fixing it would have been doable (including a temporary workaround).

I also recently (finally) refurbished a vintage fender amp (new plate resistors, new electrolytic capacitors, updated power wiring to be safer and have a standby switch, fixed a factory error with swapping a filter resistor position from the schematic (not sure how much of an impact this had as I haven’t done the full circuit analysis). It’s sounding great now, and I’m ecstatic! Being able to fix things is really gratifying.

I’ve long been interested in the premise of “lifetime reviews” like if I graphed satisfaction/happiness with a particular product vs the duration of ownership. Some things start out high, and rapidly fall off, others start middle and gradually glow as you learn to appreciate their choices or robustness. New fridge is great, but then the ice maker makes a puddle in the container and it goes rapidly down hill. So along with the other suggestions for ongoing updates, something like this where I could periodically track various (or a single) metric over the life of an object would be helpful. Aggregating by brand and years of purchase could help see the reliability trend for given appliances/similar.

Incorporating more repair details similar to ifixit seems helpful.

I’m not sure I see the business model, so maybe it’s open source or Patreon-sequence, or you’ve thought of something I haven’t. Best of luck!
Love these sort of things.

It’s been on HN a few time before but Townscaper by @OskaSta on twitter is also brilliant. He’s worth following as he documents the development of the projects he’s working on, currently a new island generator. Really interesting intersection of algorithms and art. Often shares other peoples work to thats super interesting, I have a feeling he may have retweeted something about this city generator but not sure if it’s the same one.

https://mobile.twitter.com/OskSta

https://www.townscapergame.com/

Edit:

Yes, it is the one Oskar has retweeted, this is the creator: https://mobile.twitter.com/watawatabou
If they fix their memory leak bugs on OSX or at least proactively id what in OSX is broken, I’ll consider it.

But after 4 months of crashing my mac every couple of hours, I’m done.
A nice variation on the “LA speed check story”[1].
Perhaps we can call this one “Shanwick Altitude Check.”

[1]: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-tells-...
For me at least, I switched away when they started shoving their political views in my face. I get enough of that from all other aspects of life, I don't think my browser should be telling me how to think.
Firefox is losing market share because there is so little to differentiate it from its competitors.

In its heyday, Firefox grew popular as the browser that saved us from the manifestly inferior Internet Explorer.

Nowadays, Chrome, Edge & Safari are nowhere near as bad by comparison, meaning users have far less reason to switch from defaults. And I’m counting Chrome as a default just because it is pushed so hard.

What to do then? Find a point of differentiation that gets people excited.

Here’s an idea: a radical return to the idea of the browser being a user agent. That is, fully on the user’s side.

Ads blocked by default. AI to warn of potential native advertising. Auto-flagging of dark patterns. Auto-flagging of any form of deceptive practice. A database of sites known to engage in shady tactics. Reader mode that works everywhere.

Firefox: your personal internet bodyguard.

Sadly I don’t think it can happen until the organization is weaned off Ad money, and it can’t do that until it tackles the complexity of the web which demands so many developers. Which probably means making a stand against further scope expansion of HTML/CSS/JS.
The three body problem in real life?
To spread this message, don’t upvote? Hmmm somehow that does not feel right. However. I like that Eli can be that heretic in a way a Tyler Cowen isn’t..
You know what, this might actually be the guy. Good tip. It's a bummer to pay for a Windows license I don't want, but the fee for that is less than the markup I'd pay to some scalper just to get the card.
Microsoft Defender will soon block Windows password theft
Home computers where pretty dinky and broadband slow at the time of Toy Story 2. I wonder how they'd get 90% of the movie transferred home and saved to disk/tape?
You want to be absolutely pedantic about torture "meaning specific things", and where "commonly-accepted definitions" happen, conveniently, to mean what's more convenient to you.

Dictionaries, on the other hand, define torture as "inflicting pain and suffering on".

The UN Conventions on Torture in no way specify that imprisonment, formal or otherwise, is a required component for something to be defined as torture.

So my opinion is that your vision of torture in this instance is far more narrow, because it fits your worldview more.
Yes, there is but I don't know if it works for macOS since it works for me in Windows.

Set the profile you prefer to open for links as a default profile and make sure to tick the option to automatically use the default profile without opening the profile manager. Then for the second profile, you need to use the shortcuts for that with the argument like this

firefox.exe -P "<profile_name>"

And make sure you leave it as capitalized P, I believe that is the argument. Then apply the setting and click the shortcut. It should be opening links to the default profile that you set in the profile manager.
I would like it if Firefox had a built-in website editor.
> How is it unfounded? The carbon and ewaste problems are well documented.

Without a benchmark this means nothing. Just because a new technology contributes to ewaste we should just ignore it and bury it? No use in trying to fix it right? Just kill the technology because it contributes to ewaste. That doesn't make any sense. Not to mention the majority of the uproar around Crypto being a danger to the environment is completely overblown https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/20/bitcoin-mining-environmental...

> Over a decade after Bitcoin's launch few use cases have emerged and none of them have proven durable

Durable in what sense? I can take some Bitcoin right now and purchase almost anything I want. Seems like that money use case is pretty durable to me.

> The ICO craze came and went. DeFi is still muddling along with ever more convoluted cryptoshadows of regulated fiat finance. NFTs are all the rage but currently about as intellectually stimulating as baseball cards. Hacks and scams abound far beyond any other industry.

You're just conflating scams with crypto as a technology. If you can't find merit in cryptocurrency while at the same time thinking NFTs are mostly a scam you lack imagination.

I'll be the first one to admit I think the following are all mostly scams, useless, or only serve to create bag holders:

- NFTs

- DAOs

- ICOs (not really a thing anymore)

That doesn't deter me one bit from thinking that Bitcoin, ETH, and a handful of layer 1s are genuinely useful in creating technology to digitize money and decentralize finance. How long is it going to take? Idk. 10 years seems like not enough time. Idk why people are complaining about the lack of use cases. Something as ground breaking as disrupting the banking system is going to be a multi-decade long endeavour. Scams will come and go. That seems like a natural progression.
I'll wear reflectors while walking as soon as drivers wear helmets while driving.
I'm 100% onboard with Chromium being the universal de facto standard for the web as long as it's open.

Really, all I want from a browser is Chromium, full features without disabled APIs, with a few extras like Sync, P2P stuff, and codecs, fully open.

Right now, I think anyone with name recognition and marketing ability could probably develop a winning browser for 50k or so. Just... take chromium, add sync, and an ad blocker for high bandwidth video ads. Done. You have made the world's best browser, the rest is business stuff.
I agree that the generational attacks are pretty pointless. But, I think articles like this do identify a real social phenomenon: For some large percentage of people in developed countries (maybe even a majority), at some point in the past 30 years the slope of the "progress" curve turned definitively downward.

This is true on an income basis (real wages for most people are stagnant or even declining), but it's also true on a quality of life basis (metrics the author mentions include sex and the deleterious effects of the attention economy).

The downward turn probably started sometime around the year 2000, according to indicators I've seen. That does mean that people identified as "Generation X" are a sort of pivot generation between the optimism and growth of the past and today's stagnation. In that sense, the article is talking about something real.
You can't carry your laptop in a pocket. And laptops are also "a luxury you've become inseparable from", doesn't make them any less essential.

You'll need a stronger argument to claim that something that almost everyone uses despite significant cost isn't essential.
If I understand what you're reporting correctly, then that's something your OS "included a couple of years back".

If you install Firefox from Mozilla's site, it won't have these update problems. What's happening is that your package manager is swapping Firefox's bits out from under it while it's running. Firefox's built-in update system doesn't do that.

Which is not to say that I think you shouldn't be using a packaged version of Firefox. Personally I'm running Nightly so I don't have the option anyway. Generally speaking, I vastly prefer sticking to my package manager's stuff.

I just wish the package managers would fix their Firefox updates. (I don't know what the right fix would be, and I imagine it could be hard.)
> having colleagues with good senses of humour and lively minds, (particularly the delightfully twisted silly jokes/banter people come up with after spending hours on weird abstract problems that are incomprehensible to most people

How do you find coworkers like these? Haha.
> not physically hurting anyone

It's a good thing 140dB horns for 18 hours a day for weeks comes with zero risk of physical harm to people's hearing, apparently.
There was an excellent article about who these truckers are here: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-the-truckers-want?r=6p... They're not exactly the group of people one might expect.

I miss the days when progressives were on the side of the working man and woman, and long-haul truckers were considered folk heroes.