skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an AI chemistry project that appears to work on my test data, but I had to put it on the backburner because I simply can't (couldn't) find a 3070/80 anywhere! I stopped looking 6 months ago, does anybody know a reliable place where I can snag one?
Damning by faint praise shows how bad it is right now for FF. Back in the golden age of Firefox (arguably, before the versions started incrementing like Chrome), it was a pure pleasure to use, even if certain things like ActiveX refused to work. Now, if we "force ourselves" to use it, it's "maybe OK".
I have around a decade of experience.

- I love solving problems. It's like solving puzzles as your day job; it's great!

- I love getting exposed to various domains, when building software for it. There's also the added benefit that I usually have domain experts getting paid to explain stuff to me.

- I love building stuff that other people use. There's something very good for the soul when you see something you contributed to solving real world issues.

- I love the fact that I was involved in building systems that save lives.

- I don't really see myself doing anything else and being happy.

- Don't even get me started on building games / engines, basically being able to be your own mini-god.
> High salary and a golden parachute would be required to attract anyone good enough to succeed.

I'm not sure if the best way to get someone to save a dying product is a golden parachute which rewards them for running it straight into the ground. You have to make sure they're not risking everything to keep Firefox going, but ideally they'd have some skin in the game so they don't have an incentive to just loot whatever they can until it dies before sailing away from the burning wreak with even more money.
> Ask developers to propose work-life goals and objectives

I think I'd just hand my notice in. If that was ever asked of me.

The whole article feels way over the top and honestly suffocating. Most people I work with struggle through the usual set of goals/targets every year and hate every minute of it. People are complex and have a wide variety of skills, treating people like this isn't motivational and you'll find good people moving elsewhere.
CRM for friendships, is it really a friendship after that or a customer/lead/prospect?
Already done by multipke people at the level of seeing the carrier.
No data decoded as that needs much larger dishes.
People have also been able to receive the carrier of various space probes orbiting Mars.
I will never use a font like this wider? hieroglyphs?? LOL no
Add to that ER doctors needing police escorts to hospitals. Hospital staff told not to wear scrubs or anything that identifies them as hospital staff.
I know a few people who made repeated donations, so you can't necessarily assume each donation is an individual.
I'd save it by forking Firefox and trying to replace Mozilla as primary custodian. Mozilla cannot be saved and will not 'turn a new leaf'.
I'm a proud gen-X'er but that article made no sense to me. Felt like it was generated by a cheap AI plucking current buzzwords in today's news.
You are donating to Mozilla Foundation. This doesn't fund Firefox development, since it's under Mozilla Corporation umbrella.
Tiny bit? Try and migrate dozens of app accounts to a non-Apple email, as a non-technical user. Disregarding the sheer amount of work, such users won't even know how to send emails from the private addresses they signed up with, making it hard for app developers to identify them. It's always about control and lock-in with Apple.
You speak of Apple as if it were an individual or a small company run by a tight group of friends.

AAPL is not a courageous pioneer being oppressed by "The Man". AAPL is a trillion-dollar institution that by design exists only to pursue profit and enrich its shareholders, the overwhelming majority of whom can take exactly zero credit for the innovations from which they profited. It is "The Man".
My impression is people don't really want to pay their delivery drivers. They want to pay for the food and get free delivery.

We should focus on making takeout easier instead. Food delivery exacerbates the current trend of Haves and Have Nots where some get delivery and some do the delivering, so to speak.
On my Firefox/Fedora browser, the "tofu" glyph seems to have turned into... a goat? Cow? Is anyone else seeing this? Do I just have weird system fonts? How do I even research this? I guess it helps illustrate the article's point, anyway.
If that's what the market rate is, then let them go work somewhere else.

There are hundreds of thousands of individuals capable of doing these jobs making nowhere near as much - plenty of them would do it better.
Gitea has had this feature for a while, it's really excellent.
Then if those claims are bogus, it becomes a matter of your sources vs. their sources, and it ends up all being a matter of faith and perhaps gut feeling.
> People don't refuse help that they need and want. If large groups of people are consistently refusing the help then it is not the help they need.

This is a tautology. You are essentially defining the word "help" as whatever homeless people define help to be, yet you give some credence to the fact that homeless people might not actually know what is actually helpful for them. What is good for homeless people that are on drugs, that don't want to go to a homeless shelter, that don't want psychiatric help are very often bad for everyone else around them. So maybe we should stop making decisions that put the liberties of homeless people first.

In NYC where I live, two Asian women were killed by black, homeless men in this past month. I'm frankly not interested in making my language any more flowery for your taste with homeless people. I'm only interested in real policy solutions. Until you actually acknowledge the violence, the degeneration of our subway, streets, and city, then we're not going to be able to talk any further.
I went to Princeton and actually found the "COS" department was excellent at introductory programming. A lot of people took COS 126 (the introductory class—equivalent of AP Computer Science) with no programming background and did fine. There was also a COS 109 class that was way easier that _Brian Kernighan_ (of K&R) taught that was explicitly targeted at humanities majors. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall21/cos109/ . I think classes beyond COS 126 were _not_ like this and similar to what you describe re: meaningful hours outside of class, but if you are just exploring, 126 probably scratched your itch.

I had a very similar impression of non-COS STEM classes while I was at Princeton, however... both course descriptions and other students pretty strongly discouraged me from exploring STEM classes.
Not surprised. I work at a different FANG and we literally have the Scunthorpe problem.
Good grief. Yes, a disturbance can refer to noise or violence, but that doesn't imply that a noise is violence. This is the lowest quality argumentation I've seen on this site for a while.
Just about every man, woman, child, dog, or organization in the country receives government subsidies for one thing or another.

What percentage of their budget is 'massive', and what conditions do they have to meet to receive them? Is shilling for the whigs one of them? Who determines that they've shilled enough? Do you have a source? One that's not a tabloid op-ed?

I don't think your take on what 'media ran by the government' matches what media in countries where it is actually ran by the government looks like.
Perhaps. When OSI was still a going concern I was far too young to have paid attention. Glancing at the PDF for the X.224 spec[0] I see things like "The initiator may assign the transport connection to an existing network connection of which it is the owner or to a new network connection (see Note 1) which it creates for this purpose." In X.225[1] I see some references to re-using transport connections. (Egad, the ITU documentation is much less fun to read than RFCs.) It certainly looks like the layering in the OSI protocols is taken nearly to the absurd.

I do know Vint Cerf has stated using the IP address as the connection endpoint identifier in TCP and UDP was a mistake.[2]

[0] https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.22...

[1] https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.22...

[2] https://youtu.be/t9M0RPNr9qg?t=2229
The crisis management (in California referred to as 5150) is a revolving door that only 'helps' anyone by temporarily patching them up and letting them go back to whatever bad habits and environment got them there in the first place.

Better housing will help some. Better accessible care will help some. Better other things will help some.

But there is no fall through default option here being exercised if those options don't help those who aren't helped enough by those options they stop being a repeated danger to themselves or others. In theory it's possible to still get committed. It's almost impossible to actually get committed (as in persistently kept away from society in a controlled institution), and those places are so underfunded and terrible, the street might actually produce better outcomes for everyone.

'Crisis management' is about taking a crisis and not making it a crisis anymore.

But it's generally about a short term emergency intervention, not about long term control of a situation that is fundamentally unstable, unsound, and not 'resolvable' due to a persons own actions. There are people who cannot and will not do what is necessary to stay sane. There are not a lot of them. But they do exist.

We can reduce the overall size of the problem through housing reform. But it doesn't remove the need for some kind of not-a-humanitarian-disaster institutionalization in a non trivial number of cases
Been in it for about 9 years excluding some early non salary work.

I just love the freedom, even before COVID. You could ask an employer to let you work remote for a couple of weeks.I did this a few times.

I really like being alone, and just not being bothered. I put it this way at a bar yesterday, I don't need to socialize at work. I'm socializing right now.

Plus this is one of the only fields where you can still teach yourself everything you need to know in order to make an insane amount of money. You don't need a bunch of expensive tools.

At the same time, you should invest a minimal amount of money in yourself. I saw a post on Reddit once where someone ranted that their employer wouldn't let them work at home as they didn't have a personal computer. How are you typing things up like your resume ?

If you invest a relatively small amount of money in yourself, you going to have an amazing life. But if you sit around complaining and whining all day about how unfair the world is, your life is just going to be bad
I'd be greatly interested to hear what you think the proper approach and solution in that case is.
Why not both? Firefox was really heavily damaged by both internal and external factors/attacks.
Any article that pans a whole generation is pretty much worthless.

This feels like a proxy article about Joe Rogan trying to pretend it's not opinionated about Joe Rogan.
Oh come on. Don't try comparing modern Russia to Nazi Germany. The reason for the tension is simple and you just need to look at it from other side. If Russia made a coalition in South America that would be spanning into mexico, US would act the same way. I see the argument that Russia deserves to be looked down upon because it's a threat to nations around it, but the same can be said about the US. US is no stranger to invasions of nations in South America or even brutal economic domination of them. What Russia is doing is your standard and even rational geopolitics.
> You should do that math again.

No, I don't.

Even if it is one percent (which I highly doubt) and that one percent is committed enough then that's enough of a core to guarantee the success of the project. It doesn't need a team of 1000 to build a browser, much less to keep an existing one patched and rolling along.
"When I saw Telsa focussing on a single car for a year I knew they would be a winner."

And they still have terrible quality of assembly.

"Telsa, Apple, Shopify, Amazon, Google."

Isn't this really just 'invest in SV scaleups? What are the forecasts for Xiaomi, or s
Panasonic?
Are you saying that if _any one of those_ things isn't true that it's _not my responsibility_ for the bits on that machine? I am losing the thread here a bit and am not clear on what you are trying to say or how you're answering my question. Apologies.
From the article, sounds like their currently contracted satellite connections are having trouble due to lingering volcanic ash. Would Starlink fare any better against volcanic ash?
Where is the board in all of this?!
They topped that up with another $450M

https://agora.terra.money/t/capitalising-anchors-reserve-wit...
I have several non-memorization type things. Some personal "get better" things, like... "I tell stories badly. I should avoid them." where I rate it a "2" for a "yeah, I did ok this week" or "1" if I transgressed. I put that into a deck that has a maximum review time of a week. I have other decks with similar things that expire in no more than a month, or a quarter.

For the tech things, the prompts are things like:

"Do an exercism.io exercise in <language>" where language is one of the programming languages I'm studying or want to keep "fresh"

"Write the basic 'counter' in React. With class compoments" or "... with functional components".

Things of that nature. Stuff I can get done in a half hour or less.
Is it because Tylenol isn't an NSAID?
Seems fine to me. It's a demo.
> Get a CEO/upper management that are in it for the passion, not the money, and cut their salaries (bonuses tied directly to increase in Firefox market share).

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.

But all those projects have commercial support in some way because other companies rely on them and provide resources. It's unclear to me how Firefox achieves the same. Maybe that's a question a CEO can answer.

If you think you need a CEO then it makes perfect sense to me to pay them a competitive salary. For the same reason you should pay your devs a competitive salary. You can't just say "they should work for less". That's unfair and unrealistic. Either you need one and should pay for a good one, or you don't need one at all.

> Donate the major money drains that aren't Firefox to the Apache Foundation or another worthy custodian.

Or how about they donate Firefox to Apache?
What irritates me about this is it has to be sold as a "security" and a crypto bank account is completely out of the question.

If you're putting your money in your bank, and they're loaning it out, is that now a security?
No, this isn't the normal procedure. Kids aged under 12 only have to quarantine for 5 days unless they test positive and have no symptoms, this is to happen at home, not at school, and only if it was a very close contact.

It may have been an emergency where parents for some reason refuse to stay home with their kids and no alternative had been set up yet; but it absolutely is not the protocol.
It's not a reward for failure, it's an insurance policy.

Here's a CEO job offer: take on a nearly impossible task, for a salary that is far below the market rate. If you fail (and you probably will!) it might damage your career and make it harder for you to find another job. If you succeed, you will get prestige, but you still won't get a lot of money.

What kind of executive would accept an offer like that?

A golden parachute is the insurance policy: it says to the candidate, we know this is a nearly impossible task, and it might damage your career if you fail, so we will guarantee you some money if you fail in order to compensate you for taking on that risk.
I didn't mention severity or intention on purpose. Even the most just causes have a few self-righteous assholes willing to justify the means
It's an omission, but you can easily change anything in the graphics in any editor.
I've read them and found no issues. Thanks for your concern.
Formatting Ruby
Assuming she would be in line for a competitive role, which I highly doubt with the current track record.
Yeah, I was wanted to use the Git graph feature to create some nice diagrams. I expected the cli to work just like graphviz. Yet I was greeted by a stacktrace from Chromium since it did not work in WSL.

The whole idea of depending on a full blown Chromium for your cli tool just to convert that mermaid description into an SVG or PNG seems bad to me. It was my personal turning point where I stopped using JavaScript based tools in my toolbox.
No, she is on the take from Google to keep Firefox as a shield against monopoly claims, while reducing the actual competitive threat.
Oh, it's fine, because everyone can afford to go to a hotel for a few weeks, then, right?
For those of you who are trying to leave social media—this is an excellent way to keep in touch.

When you're on Twitter or Instagram, it's easy to see a picture or comment and message them about it. Or when you see someone's birthday on Facebook. When either you or your friends/family/acquaintances leave that social network, it's easy to lose track of one another.

I built something similar to this in Notion last year. It's a great way to keep contact with individuals—wherever they are—and not just a social profile.
I don't believe that for a second. Unless you just mean it in the sense of "90% of people that apply to a job aren't good at it". You can get many many qualified people for $250k.

Paying more doesn't get rid of the risk, so yes do the version that has risk but without the bonfire of cash.
> But the REPL lacks the ability to redefine structs on the go (which I can understand as it'd be tough to do, or simply not possible). But that, combined with the slow start up time makes life a bit harder than it should. Fortunately, one doesn't redefine its structs every day.

It is possible to redefine structs in Pluto.jl which is also a productivity booster overall due to its reactivity.

> For example, if you use the plots library, you'll have hard time finding a list of all possible plots (the documentation talks about lots of things, but strangely, not a list of possible charts).

The Makie.jl plotting library has really great docs nowadays: https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/examples/plotting_functi...
What about moving to the cloud? Something like CoLab?
I found that I always had way too many tabs open. My brain can only hold a handful of tabs in my memory. I switch tabs using the Open Editors section which can be accessed by pressing Control + Tab (on a mac)
one things I know is that there is inverse correlation between code I love to write and code that solves real business problems.
If you think that your manager could improve...if only he'd read the Evil Overlord list* and really give that some thought, then your "manager" is actually an Evil Overlord (or wanna-be), and you might want to look for a new job. Working for a real manager.

*http://www.worldconquer.org/evil_overlord.html
> What kind of games have you had issues with?

Mostly Windows games through Proton/Wine expecting to be able to take full control of the screen, and then having a panic attack when not allowed to.

As far as programs wanting to draw many floating windows, that's happened with Krita/Inkscape more than games, games just... didn't play nice. I'd get crashes when changing workspaces, when launching a game, so on. That was on i3 itself as well, I didn't switch to sway until after I stopped trying to enforce tiling on everything I do (just most things :P )
I've been doing WFH since before the pandemic, I grew into it well. No disappointments really.

It would be nice to take advantage of travel a bit more, but it seems less pragmatic. I love my desktop/lab, it's way too useful.

Everyone else going remote has been the [momentary] dream killer. I can't passively stay logged in at 8PM anymore looking for fires or smoke.

Everyone is always working and if I don't distance myself, it snowballs out of control. It's exhausting and negatively impacted me for a while until I learned some mitigation strategies.
As you point out, the UX is not all that polished yet, but it seems to be making reasonable progress. The protocol is convoluted, but what it's doing is also a lot more complex than IRC. For me it's more comparable to IRC than discord in the sense that discord is completely centralized and exhibits all the problems we see from other centralized social media.

I've been running a private homeserver for communication with some friends (for when we'd rather not have the data stored with discord) and while I do agree with most of your points, even my non-technical friends managed to get in relatively easily. It wasn't as simple as with discord, but certainly not too far from what people are used to these days.

A simpler protocol with better decentralization and polished client can probably be done but it's obviously a lot of work. My biggest concern with Matrix is the conflicting incentive created by having the company that does most of the development also be the one providing the most popular homeserver. They're effectively incentivized to centralize the network even more.
I've been following this too, and I seem to remember that at least some people at Fujitsu took the strong stance that their software was not, and could not be at fault in these cases. I believe their assertions were part of why these cases were able to get so far.

While the PO definitely takes a lot of the blame (arguably the majority), if people at Fujitsu were claiming perfection when they should know better, especially if that formed part of the prosecution case, then they too deserve to be thoroughly investigated.

There is plenty of blame to go around in this case. It's a shocking, and tragic misscarriage that has ruined thousands of lives. Unfortunately I will be shocked if those responsible see anything remotely close to the kind of strong justice and significant punishment they so clearly deserve. This will be one of those cases like that of Jean Charles de Menezes, where the collective spreads the blame thinly enough that somehow no one is held responsible. I hope I'm proved wrong.
Recent and related:

Why won’t anyone teach me math? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30302079 - Feb 2022 (670 comments)
Maybe reflash with OpenWRT if you are an iptables guy. I would not do it personally though.

https://openwrt.org/toh/start?dataflt%5BBrand*%7E%5D=MikroTi...
> What makes you think a reverse engineered driver set, with no official docs, on a custom and closed platform - is going to offer anything close to M1 MacOS experience ?

My hopeless optimism, and the fact I don't consider Apple "magic".
TIL it is possible to add arbitrary "headers" , like 'golang-hg' to commit objects in git.
I took the lazy route, but you provided all the details I ought to have. Thanks! I hope someone reads it and reports a tree this way.
It looks like a lovely font, a shame about the price.
They have, however, included it into their website and distributed it to my browser for free, without asking me first:
https://www.monolisa.dev/api/fonts/initial

According to the EULA the font is now mine under the term "by downloading the software accompanying this license".

Correct me if I'm wrong please. /s
$2.5 million per year is in the top 0.1% of income in the United States. No matter how you shake it, whether you want people with management experience, tech experience, browser experience, or some combination thereof, you will find a significantly large number who would be able to do the job, do it well, and make more than their current salary.
You don't want that kind of executive anyway. You want someone that identifies with the market and is seen as a safe hand to run FF into the long term future. That alone will do a good part of stopping the drain.