skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find particularly interesting about the ARM acquisition is that it was always hard to see how it was going to continue to grow. The industry is littered with IP companies that get squished by their big customers (see also: Imagination Technologies). It's very difficult to keep a competitive advantage with IP because it'll always leak and people will always catch up, and since all your customers know that the marginal cost of your IP is 0, it's very difficult to extract marginal profit. So there's massive downward pressure on your margins, meanwhile, if your customer is using your IP at a massive scale, they'll either want to pay you a fixed cost for the IP or it becomes cheaper for them to either acquire you or poach all your engineers and replace you (which they naturally want to do anyway since they like owning the IP and having exclusive use). So the natural tendency in this market is for IP companies to pop up with a competitive advantage, grow by selling IP to larger businesses until they finally reach a scale where one of the bigger customers decide to eat their lunch. ARM is well past that point. The only real way to mitigate this is to vertically integrate and become your own biggest customer (like Nvidia) but even then you're going to face challenges (Large cloud providers moving to explore manufacturing their own chips, TPUs etc)

This just seems like many of Softbank's acquisitions where they went in to the deal with a really weird strategy for success and then 5 years later it turns out they aren't smarter than everyone else in the room. It's also not like ARM was some early stage start up at that point, they weren't taking some long bet knowing it had high risk.
I'm still around :)
Establish what "trust" is. The play-by rule-book.

My approach has mostly been to get out of the way of what I don't know and hold on whilst having blind trust.

Like riding a horse, hold on and give direction of the course with balance of freedom to run. Give more freedom and get more trust and enjoy the exhilaration, however hold the reins too tight and you will be fighting all the way.

Walk the tightrope so to speak. Know if you give too much freedom it will buck you off and run for the hills, however, if you can maintain the balance of direction and trust, good things will come.

One go I had was a communications service provider in the naughties that went from zero to 20 mill revenue in one year and it did alright in the end, but with hindsight, I can see so many better ways that almost everything could have been handled.

In my opinion, the main problem that most businesses experience is TRUST. (On every level)

Without it there is no business. Business by definition is about more that one person so trust is imperative.

Is trust equally mutual within your business? Can you quantify that trust? Can other staff in the business? And the customers? The board? The shareholders?

If it is there with all parties than the world will be you oyster!

If not, well that is just business. (But you should mitigate it to take care of your own future)

Wicked growth makes the green eyes shine... Greed comes through the cracks everywhere. Not sure what can be done about this. Company Constitution? Culture?

These are just ramblings of a semi-serial pseudo-successful entrepreneur. I apologise. I don't know any answers but I do know that 'trust' is one of the crucial key elements of a successful business. Trust between every party.

Find the balance of trust between ALL steak-holders and get it ALL in writing. +2cents.
Mitchell was CEO before John Lilly.
>the Mr Robot marketing stint

I remember how much I freaked out when I found that that extension was installed. I had not installed it myself, the title and the description were pretty weird, there were no hits on Google (yet), etc. I thought that I had been hacked and that my browser data, including passwords, had been exfiltrated somewhere else. And all in the name of advertising for a telly show! This broke my trust with Mozilla forever and I haven't used Firefox ever since.
Lots of sanctions, fear, anger, and more economic troubles everywhere. Increased food and fuel costs.

Refugees flood out of Ukraine into nearby countries. Humanitarian crisis and calls for international aid / assistance.

More COVID outbreaks due to refugees and bad living conditions.

Other eastern European nations will be interested in joining NATO or some kind of security pact so the same thing does not happen to them.
Hetzner in the Webhosting package
Interesting, can you expand on how this creates mental space for new ideas?
That's exactly what happened with Twitter. It was at a company named Odeo.

But yes, I think you can have two high quality employees make good software? I mean they're employees, you're going to give them marching orders to do something presumably.
GoAWK is a great tool. Added benefit of POSIX-compliance, it builds FAST, and is just generally much more reliable and enjoyable to work with.

I'll be honest, I'm still quick to reach for perl/python for most awk-able tasks, but, I'm often impressed with Awk and its ilk.
Sure, I guess my question is around why people would consider a line in a sea of space more legible than the same x-height font with less space below it.

I guess I could have an unusual take on this, but I find a lot of mono fonts seem to have massive inter-line spacing. So much so that their appearance is almost jarring to me. I find it disruptive to read. If I had issues with the legibility of a font then I'd increase its size, not the spacing between lines.

As mentioned earlier though, I guess I'm an odd-one-out here, I'm seeking to understand how/why my view here is unusual.
I think African leaders should quickly realize Facebook doesnt need to necessarily operate or be available in their country.

Protecting the local population from immoral companies is a priority/duty and some large companies need to be given ultimatums immediately.

Importing the sickness of the Western countries is not a requirement for Africa to continue rapid development.
Which the more so infers VPN not suspension driving...
> I’ve no idea what the author is suggesting as an alternative, not making notes?

It doesn't matter where or how you write down your notes. It's just so you get the security of having that somewhere and not needing to think about it any more.
JKM: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, the name of he author, featured in header and footer of...

...TFA: The Featured Article

a.k.a. (also known as) OP (original post(er))
I learned about it because I happened across a post from Peppermint OS leveraging it heavily to get lightweight 'apps'. Unless you were following specific posts about the feature, you would never have known about it. SSB had bugs for sure (and sot much dev attention was given), but it could have been a great alternative to Electron in a PWA landscape.
some of them get to live another day if their context is executable and searchable. Works well in https://acreom.com
Make it fast.

I still try Firefox every few years, and then go right back to Chrome because the FF renderer doesn't feel as fast as Chrome's. Goosing performance would go a hell of a way towards piquing my interest again.
There you go. What the rest of the comments in your reply don't tell you is that Mozilla's expenses outweigh their income for years, which means they are constantly losing money. [0]

Given that Google is their only source of income, (excluding one-time payments) it is indeed very unstable and they are ultimately at the mercy of Google, despite 14 years ago promising [1] to move away from being completely dependent on their income. At this point, Mozilla is on life support.

Privacy (which is their main selling point) to Mozilla is also a joke to them. If Google wasn't bad enough, why not work with Meta on 'ads' too? Not exactly 'privacy first' - they might as well drop that claim.

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600206/mozilla-report...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...
> There where ways to have all of this long before either normal Android or iOS had it.

Do you mean something like PDroid or XPrivacy? Yeah that was indeed pretty awesome, however these already used underlying APIs that were the precursor to permission management. If I recall correctly the first inofficial permission manager was in AOSP Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It was however not that useful compared to the alternatives and also hard to access if at all.

As a sidenote: PDroid is still my gold standard. It was annoying to install, but it worked really well.
Gmail users initially had to be invited by existing gmail users.

That in itself is marketing.
The redesign has one major advantage from their point of view (which I suspect was the reason behind it in the first place) - the individual posts on main screen now take up much more screen space. This allows to seamlessly insert fairly large ads masquaraded as posts, which wasn't possible with the old design.
I guess the point was that they are not interviewing enough people for there to be any risk. This was just a fluke.
The interesting takeaway here should be that if you want to take down somebody's reddit account, getting them to use your wifi access point while routing traffic through some of the cited vpns is enough.

And you would never be discovered... Just blame it on reddit!
Is this GPT-3 generated? This looks like affiliate links content farm designed specifically to nerdsnipe HN visitors: topic which are popular here:writing and organizing knowledge, plenty of affiliate links to most popular books frequently mentioned over here, some quotes sprinkled with truisms here and there, unknown author
By including a time cost to every link on a page that legitimate creators are willing to pay but cripples content farms.

A simple cryptographic signature that takes, say, 1 hour on commodity hardware to calculate. Good bye SEO spam.
Gmail didn't just offer 1GB, it also offered the ability to search through emails which I don't think any free service allowed you to at the time

In 2004 that was pretty amazing
It actually depends on if you are using ecclesiastical marketing mnemonics (soft c like in contemporary Italian marketing) or reconstructed classical marketing mnemonics (hard c).
I periodically delete reddit accounts and start new ones, mainly to preserve anonymity and prevent harassment. 1 in 3 accounts I start are shadowbanned from the start for no apparent reason at all. I’ve never used a VPN. Same IPs and devices each time with no attempts at obfuscation or any activity that would reasonably seem suspicious.
Who is "we" in this sentence, and why do you get to speak for "them"?
Haha, I had an addiction phase as well. It drives me crazy how the beginning is hard, then it gets very easy, and suddenly, you lose.
Actually this isn't always the case. Some people just make mistake of using few mbs of some high-quality PNGs on their landing pages which can be much worse than just mere JS framework bundle.

Also both Angular and React are not as heavy as one might expect, but 3rd-party components might bring tons of unnecessary deps.
There's more to it, but I've focussed on WordPress pages in the past.

Some things I'd start with:

- Minimize images (tinypng/tinyjpg)
- Deactivate/Remove what you don't need (Plugins (!!!), RPC, Emojis, stuff like that which is ON by default in WP -> will strip down the code)
- Strip down & combine scripts
- Reduce third-party dependencies, try making them first-party (fonts, analytics)
- Minify scripts and CSS
- Use caching on the client-side through htaccess rules

Normally those things are enough to get a 85+ score on Lighthouse, GTmetrix and alike.
Chrome is more of an operating system in a virtual machine in which a web browser is running.
> Lithium mining isn't great for the environment, but it's certainly much less of a problem than CO2 emissions.

Was it measured?
Hm, no, I don't think that's ad hominem.

I didn't say nuclear does generate CO2. I said it produces waste, and that I have a definition of renewable that does not include nuclear.

You first shifted the goalposts and said it is "green" (what is "green"?? who defines "green"?), citing sources.
I discredited the sources, since it these are just announcements, made by (political) institutions, where politicians lobby for a re-labeling of certain energy sources, because it suits their agenda.

None of this makes nuclear "renewable" in my book.

IMO the world renewable implies something in the line of "self-regenerating"/"grows naturally"/"replenishes" and producing toxic waste in my world-view is orthogonal to that meaning.

And don't try to explain that nuclear waste is non-toxic, I think my interest in discussing this really ends there.
Not sure what you are referring to, but when interviewing at e.g. Apple the whiteboard is not meant to suss out impostors, it’s to get a better understanding of the person’s thought processes, to separate the smart from the brilliant.
> It is trivial to decode English (or any other alphabetical language) gone through a substitution cypher.

As far as I know, it's only trivial if the substitution is symbol to symbol. If you mess with the letter frequencies, it becomes a lot harder. If you, say, use an orthography that's more in line with the phonology of language in its current form - or devise one that is as quirky, but in a different way. We are talking about a script with 700+ symbols, mathing it together with one that is written in 26 is nonsensical.

This is emphatically not a cryptographic problem. It would really suit ML'ers to learn to take of their shoes and listen a lot more than they speak when they walk into a new scientific discipline.

(BTW, I don't think many modern linguists would accept the term "alphabetic language"; a language is not defined by its writing system, and many written languages are routinely used with multiple writing systems)
That perspective makes it seem like US workers are paid too highly, which I do agree with. But the parent comments I'm replying to are speaking from a leadership perspective and seem just overjoyed to be exploiting workers for nearly nothing.

Edit: I reread my comment and I can see how I wasn't clear. I was actually replying to the parent of the comment I actually replied to, my mistake. I am glad the Thai wages increased, but GP was straight up flexing about paying people nearly nothing because they came from a poor country.
> The main problem is that they're not making money with their core product so they need to experiment and innovate to find ways to make money.

Firefox is owned by the Mozilla foundation, the corp is only there to help develop it since having developers work directly for the foundation is apparently complicated. Non-profit foundations don't need to find ways to make money with their core product and they should not try to - instead they can seek funding elsewhere, for example from donations and government grants.
If you hit the “Your choices” button on NPR you get a really nice text-only interface. That’s better than the NY Times for me.
You seem to imply central bankers are honest and CPI is accurate. This is absolutely not the case and you should update your views.

It used to be a 50% haircut every ~10 years, now its closer to a 50% haircut every ~5 years.
Not sure if you're being ironic. I have a hard time seeing how a highly polarised forum such as Twitter would benefit from being able to downvote.
> Mozilla's expenses outweigh their income for years

Are those expenses for developing the browser, or burning money on other things that nobody cares about?

For example have you seen their YouTube recently? Why are they spending money on making these bizarre rants about their competitors?

https://www.youtube.com/user/Mozilla/videos
https://old.reddit.com/

On Firefox, use Old Reddit Redirect: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
I'm extremely curious what you think her job is and what her job actually is. I don't know either one. But I must be waaaaaay of base if 2m+ is a reasonable salary for the workload and responsibility.

And if we want to get conspiratorial, If she thinks her main job is getting the most money out of the Google deal, then Google would be more than happy to pretend shes doing great in the negotiations and pay 5m extra.

The sooner Mozilla loses its dev culture and talent the more power Google has.
You mean that labour is cheap in China?

I've no idea whether it's representative, but I know a construction project where the labour costs were 12% of the final bill. That Hinkley Point project mentioned spends about $8m per day, how much does a construction worker cost per day in that area?
This claim is totally fiction.

RedHat has no magic Mozilla sauce, they simply ship Firefox ESR and upgrade it every year. You'll have the same breakage in the end, just yearly instead of monthly.
Linux tops Google's Project Zero charts for fastest bug fixes
> Do CloudFlare have a history of shutting things down?

They will readily shut down anything that might expose them to legal liability (i.e. CSAM, credit card fraud). Daily Stormer and the various xChan projects are vile, but mostly legal under US law, in contrast.
IME when the note is intended to be dropped off and picked up at a particular time it's useful (e.g. remember to pack insect repellent -> add to packing list -> wait 4 weeks -> check packing list).

I'm increasingly convinced of the value of checklists for small items - especially repeated tasks.

If it's a cool idea for, like, a new business or the start of essay without any predefined time to pick it up and work on it it ends up being kind of pointless and just creates a mess.

For those things, if it's a good idea it'll pop up in your head again, probably in a better form.

Note taking has to act like a pipeline to be useful.
A year before the founding of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony in (now) North Carolina, apparently.
Because, at the end of the day, the internet is one big social network, there are huge positive feedback loops that will drive minor differences into massive market share differences.

If one browser is 2% faster than the other, and the cost to choose one or the other is near zero, then expect huge switching.

... And that's before we factor in the far more dominant network effects, like "What comes pre-installed" and "which integrates with my accounts and syncs my aggregated data and preferences history onto a new machine transparently."
Vaccine mandates are a huge deal. You think they aren't a big deal because you ignore all the evidence and testimonies of people who have been injured by them.

"Most likely the blockades will be shut down and everyone else will be able to get on with life."

Except for all people who can't because they got unlucky in the vaccine lottery, like Maddie de Garay:

https://thecovidblog.com/2021/07/08/maddie-de-garay-ohio-13-...

Note: de Garay is a child. Zero benefit from Covid vaccines to her or anyone else. It's bad enough when parents submit their children for medical experimentation like that, but when governments force them to do so it's even worse.
But first filter out all the legion irrelevant 1-star reviews ("The courier left the box in the rain", "I couldn't return it because I waited too long to unpack it because it was a surprise present - SO MAD!!!!", etc).
Your comment and a comment below about "frequently reorganizing" notes is not an anti-pattern reminded me of this.

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Amusingly, also tying in with what someone above said about starting a compost heap, that quote has stuck with me after reading "Just Enough is Plenty" by Samuel Alexander [1] (an introduction to Henry Thoreau's economic ideas) whose first preface is entitled "Compost Capitalism".

[1] Available as a post-consumerist 'pay what you want basis' here - https://simplicitycollective.com/just-enough-is-plenty-thore...
No idea what my grandmanager told my manager, but my manager never gave me any trouble about 100% WFH.

I just said I want to WFH, and filed this preference with this HR tool thing that probably only influences how many portions of lunch they have to make every day.
What this is missing is "what is SPIR-V?" All the other languages and acronyms were introduced, but not that one.
It looks good, i'd say it's not biased!

Practical: no "actual" portfolio except 2 links/why do you want people to visit the site?

Not everyone likes going to LinkedIn to see more about you, since it automatically tracks the visitors.
Asking for a photo ID during or after an interview to ensure the interviewee was who they said they are doesn't seem pathological to me. I've had multiple interviews do so in the past with no issue.

And with sensitive or valuable data, a week is a long time to let an unqualified or unidentified person have access to your system.
It seems like you need comprehensive unit tests if your implementations are shallow and grant few guarantees. I like TDD-style example tests to create a fast feedback loop during initial development or refactoring though.
I could see a parser combinator working out for you.

https://hasura.io/blog/parser-combinators-walkthrough/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY

https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/zig-parser-combinators-and-wh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RUqGYuGfw

https://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/c-3-0-lambda-and...
I think that's the best opportunity Firefox has.

If they position themselves as THE privacy-first/ad-free browser they could get people back. It would truly be a better experience (specially the ad-free part) which is the only way to get the non-IT crowd interested.

Other features like memory, speed, etc are a commodity now, both browsers are good enough for non power users, but Chrome is stuck with ads because of Google. Firefox is free from this and can use it to disrupt the market.
Please don't tell me what I do and don't see when I just told you what I see and how I feel about it.
KaiPod Learning provides in-person learning pods for online learners and homeschoolers with academic support, enrichment activities, and socialization opportunities.
> Your account, if I'm not mistaken, is very much in the latter category.

You should be glad that someone cares enough to keep trying to administer medicine. The people who just went away when you made it clear that you were going to persistently treat them unfairly, they just consider you and other users unredeemable, lost, that trying to help you wasn't worth their time. It wouldn't be a good thing for you to actually win against the "serial trolls". Unenviable position, yours.
Yup, love doing this, one of the best feelings in the world.

Recommend actual fire.
Not mine. Mine told our team that we need to decide on the percentage, and file that in some HR tool. I'm going to work from home, for the foreseeable future, and if my dear employer ever overrides this, I guess I'll be looking for a new job ASAP.
>the 'official' north-korean (propaganda) subreddit,

I'd honestly always assumed /r/pyonyang was very clever anti-NK propaganda. The role it occupies as Reddit in-joke aligns with western agendas.

/r/nknews skews closer to actual North Korean propaganda, but I think (or maybe just hope) the general vibe there is the readership understands that ANYTHING you read online about North Korea is potentially propagandized in one way or the other.
I can't do anything with a local alias, neither on element web nor on element android. The UI shows it exists, but search doesn't return it, joining doesn't work.

With element android I can publish the original name to the local directory, but that fails on element web.

So it seems to be mostly a failure.