skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medallion makes those returns and is capped at 10bn. The rest is more traditional fund management (and performance isn’t great).

Also from what I understand Medallion is HFT in one sense (fast trading with short hold times) but not to the point proper firms are where being fastest is necessary for edge.
> back then Firefox had an army of advocates installing Firefox on their family’s and friends computers.....

Yeah. I did that. Probably closing to a thousand, from pushing inside Enterprise to libraries and Uni Campus. And I watched first hand how they all slowly migrate themselves to Chrome. Because it was faster. I still have vivid memory of it happening.

>I don’t have the answers but suspect privacy and security may be the angle to take.

I did that too. Against Google. Heck That was before anyone on the internet even suspect Google was a privacy nightmare. Every single one believed their Do No Evil BS. ( Even Mozilla ). I was the contrarian then. And that didn't work either.

I was there in 2004 NY Times Ad. Or even pre Firefox era. Firefox was a better browser than IE6. And even then fighting against IE6 was hard. Very hard. The lesson I learned was that most people dont care much about ideology. ( As long as it doesn't hurt their interest ) They just want a browser that worked. And would only switch if it was better. I dont think Firefox is a bad browser in 2022, but I also dont think it is faster or better than Chrome either.

At the end of the day people can only do so much to help push Firefox. It ultimately falls back on Mozilla. It is Mozilla that needs to change or up the game. Unfortunately history dictate the only way to solve this problem is Mozilla think of it as a problem. Otherwise its current status at ~10% marketshare is enough to sustain its operation. Nothing bad enough is happening, no interest or incentive for changes. Inertia. Let's keep thing this way. The exec keeps getting paid.

So yes, it is counter intuitive. The only way to save Mozilla ( or change Mozilla's direction, I guess the word "save" is a hyperbole, at least from Mozilla's perspective. ) isn't trying to get more user to use it. It is actually to push people to abandon it.

Unless they are threatened, they wont compete.
Can you give more context for the "wise men in boats" idea?
Both of which are written in C++, with ongoing security efforts geared towards mitigation, instead of rewriting them.

Although they are experimenting with Rust, it doesn't seem they will ever adopt it.
A code test is fine, so long as failing it simply leads to discussion. Some people exceed and/or enjoy tests, some people (especially non-academic) may fail them or be too anxious to apply even though they are highly capable.

By all means have a code test but explain that it is just one part of an overall process and is not in itself a deciding factor. The conversation around it is far more valuable.
What I am taking from your above thread is that what you are describing is no longer possible - because competition is pushing salaries up.
I presume they mean that out in the real world, there are lots of edge cases where reversing a transaction is a better outcome than chest-thumping about "Code is Law".
So many answers missed the fundamental point.
It is open source.
That means Google, Microsoft and anyone else is able to contribute and with enough contributions from these sources, the basic philosophy will be influenced by these sources. If you do the work you should get kudos & reward....
-Containers were / are brilliant
-Containers with "some sponsor leakage" ( it's not called that but that is what it is) is shabby and so google.
-Default search engine is Google is obscene, regardless of how much sponsorship you get.
-Turning off telemetry should mean what it says. What it really means Firefox still stores it locally, just doesn't transmit it (for now?)-so Microsoft.
We don't want the toxic waste from Solar panel production nor the industrial waste or the noise pollution from windmills either.

At some point we'll have to chose the lesser evil, and most of the good rivers have already been dammed so more hydro isn't really the solution.

A combination of renewables, nuclear base power, reduced power needs, smart grid load management, and synth fuel production during peak production seems like the best bet for something that might actually work.
All of them written in C++.
I’d argue that Keycloak is also Auth as a Service. Even if you may be hosting that service yourself.

If you only have a single web application (yes, that still exists) you don't need any of this. Use your backend framework's "native" auth package and you're good to go.
That has been my experience as well; playing supportive interference, managing stakeholder expectations, and good communication and solidarity with your team makes for a much more productive environment than being a human version of a corporate whip.
In my experience this stuff is very cliquey - if you’re friends with the guy who is Chief Innovation Officer at some bank, or a heavy hitter at a government department, it’s easy to get yourself lucrative day rate consulting contracts, and much less easy if you don’t. Gotta know the right people and mix in upper middle class circles with people who have power over purse strings.
That is a reason why the world should want it to exist, but it isn't a reason why anyone individual would consider it better than Chrome.

Firefox used to at least directly target segments of the population with its more comprehensive developer platform, but they have slowly been tearing that out for many years and now Chrome is converging to the same place.

At best I would say "the reason for Firefox to exist is because we need it to exist" argues we would have to prop it up using some kind of government intervention--to deal with the "it is at least slightly worse for every given user"--but the problem is we need people to actually use it, not for it to merely continue to be developed, and "require some random percentage of people to draw lots and be forced to use Firefox" is probably a dystopia for other reasons.
That is a very beautiful graph, especially if you click on a node.
IMO the angle back then was the mission to free the web from a corporate stranglehold — “Take Back the Web”. I believed this mission was Mozilla's primary focus.

That mission is even more relevant now than it was 18 (!) years ago, and yet Firefox is trying to be just another pushy lifestyle brand. They're friendly like a used car salesman.

Firefox should show people (show, not “tell loudly”) that software can be a useful tool that isn't trying to trick them. A lot of people expect computers and phones to be hostile, because that's all they've ever known.

Spin up a virtual machine and compare Firefox's first-run experience with GNOME Web's first-run experience. Which feels more like a tool you're in control of?
Ask HN: How much time should be spent on an MVP project?
This is of course a relative question, but I'm curious about the comments.
Why place such value on fairness?

Shackling both runners to a post would be fair, but would it be a positive outcome?

Perhaps instead of focusing on winners and losers, we should focus on increasing the total distance ran? Starting the race from the beginning would be a waste of 60 yards.
I’d love to use Firefox again but every time I download it it seems like a bloated slow mess. Get it back to why we installed it back then.

Make it lighter and faster than Chrome and with more privacy. That’s all that matters.
> C++ specific: Use non-virtual methods

Are they suggesting that all/most of my methods should be virtual? That's just nuts. Next they will say that all of the members should be public, since it's easier to test that way.
When I open Chrome, I can open any profile straight away from the menu. On Mac, there’s just one Chrome icon.

When I open Firefox, I have to go to a page that looks like a developer debug mode, and then open a new profile in a new Firefox instance. I now have two Firefox icons in my dock. I normally work with three profiles, so now I have three Firefox icons in my dock all called Firefox. 66.6% of the time I press the wrong one.

The problem is that Firefox has to be at least as good as Chrome to succeed. Being _almost_ as good as Chrome means people will just use Chrome.
Yes we do want to trade that. The toxic carbon byproduct goes into the air and causes massive disruption to the lives of billions of people. The toxic fission byproduct is tiny and goes underground in the middle of the desert and disrupts zero people's lives.
I agree that it is no ideal, at least for my tastes, but I think what you are stating is an exaggeration. If you are using reference points like someone that knows little to nothing about technology, then just about anything different that what they are used is probably as readable as C++. For example, trying to read HTML would be the same to my grandma as trying to read C++.
Are you seriously comparing the byproducts of creating renewable energy to the byproducts of nuclear energy?

If you ask 100 people, 99 will tell you that they rather live next to a solar panel or a silicon extraction mine than next to a nuclear power plant or a uranium mine.
It doesn’t sync your entire experience. I have a completely different setup for each profile, and then I use Containers _within_ each profile. They’re not the same thing.
This is only true in retrospect. When IoT was hot, everyone was eating up that story. A lot of people are still eating up IoT story because of rise in 5G.

Also, competing in server market is very very hard. If they had exclusively focused only on server market for past 5 years, they probably might still have been just minor player because of massive Intel legacy that needs to be overcome but no one knows how.
This is also common in other languages. Indonesians use enak (tasty) for almost any positive quality. Even in English people refer to attractive members of the opposite sex as "tasty"

But "heer" in Dutch is either a (human) lord or God, so "heerlijk" means lordly or godly, and over time this became more general.

Much the same word exists in German, "herrlich", but it means "beautiful" or "splendid". Same idea though.
Remember the ABCs

A - Always

B - Be

C - Selling

That is, seize the opportunities of presenting your work and your company.
>when we design a human system around uncommon cases, we do need to consider the ramifications on the majority

Not a very popular viewpoint nowadays...
> Unfortunately the Hg people decided that the only stable interface would be the CLI

Citation needed for this.

Mercurial has the best VCS GUI I have ever seen, TortoiseHg. And there are quite a few web UIs supporting Mercurial, namely Kallithea and GitLab’s fork heptapod.net.
> It's impossible to say for sure but had not a lot of resources been taken from civil society for these projects, there is a chance that there'd be a demand to do it in a more effective and long-term way from the very beginning, and this is my point.

What would have been the economic imperative that would have jump started the development of rockets in the first place?

Like there has to be some sort of reason for people to develop rockets in the first place, otherwise they're not going to do it, even on a whim because it's so outrageously expensive and required the development of so many technologies to make it possible.
I don't think it's frowned upon to compile, many people want this capability as well. If you had a program that could be proven to use no dynamic dispatch it would probably be feasible to compile it as a static binary. But as long as you have a tiny bit of dynamic behavior, you need the Julia runtime so currently a binary will be very large, with lots of theoretically unnecessary libraries bundled into it. There are already efforts like GPUCompiler[1] that do fixed-type compilation, there will be more in this space in the future.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/GPUCompiler.jl
By knowing who your users are, where they live and be able to report them to their local authorities if they post bad content.

There would still be things to moderate, and people beating the validation system but the traffic of content to moderate would be much lower.
Ask HN: Orthopedic Seat Pad?
I'm considering to buy an orthopedic seat pad, but I have no experience with such a device. Does it really help minimizing the long term negative orthopedic effects of spending long hours sitting in front of a computer?
IIRC, accessibility hooks in Windows are very, very low level. Thus they bypass most security policies. Also IIRC, there’s been multiple “wontfix” “0-days” abusing those hooks and fixing them would basically brick Windows for people using accessibility tools.
you do know this "toxic fission product" is natural? so why would it bother you if we just put it back from where it came from originally? unless you think nuclear material comes out of thin air.
Crash of which market, stocks or housing? ;)

There’s always a reason not to do something. In this case, if you listen to the naysayers, the market has both already crashed (BTC’s only $43k?) and has yet to crash (BTCs inherent value is $0). If you listen to its proponents, btc’s gonna be worth $200k, just hodl until next year, so you'd be stupid not to get in on it.

The real question is what’s the opportunity cost of learning about the
smart contract ecosystem? If you’re a back end developer and you're going to learn frontend development or something else that’s going to open up new career paths in the next few months instead, then your next steps are worth a second thought. If you're just going to be drinking beer and playing video games then might as well try and learn about smart contracts.
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Nuclear is a terrible "backup" for renewables.

Renewables fluctuate. Nuclear is not great at scaling, and most reactors cannot be shut down without taking weeks and months for safe re-starting.

Nuclear is good for base load. And countries that have a lot of (really expensive) nuclear to cover their base load, have zero incentive to invest into renewables, since its output would just become surplus.

For broad adoption of renewables, we need to accompany it with (hopefully clean) solutions that can buffer and restore surplus energy efficiently and most importantly scale up and down really fast, to smooth out the fluctuations. Keeping a constant 50 Hz is becoming increasingly difficult with renewables.

In the past Austria used to store (nightly) surpulus energy from german nuclear reactors and (more recent also renewables) and getting paid to do so, to feed it into the own network and also selling abroad during daytime.
This was stopped because it was putting a lot of strain on the north-south bottlenecks in the German power network, aggravated by large wind farms in the north, that became capable of covering the whole German power use for short periods of time.
The problem with the word "new" is that it depends on which abstraction layer you look at.
for example, all programming languages are turing machines under the hood so you could say that learning a new programming language doesn't bring any novelty to you because it feels like the same end result.
also lisp did most of the cool things and now we are just reinventing the wheel with other languages
Wouldn't the CO2 from corn be drawn from the atmosphere in the first place? Sure, if you grow corn and let it die, parts of its CO2 content would be bound in the soil. But does that calculation make sense when we look at our fossil fuel consumption? Sure, every bit helps...
It would have to be 'toggling' I think as otherwise it is not possible to gain complete automation. Consider a light that has been switched (physically) off and then turns on via automation - the switch cannot be physically turned off, as it is already in that position.

This is why the conundrum exists and as such I would need to replace all switches with toggles, or distinct on/off buttons, so the family could easily manage.

However, they also need to work as non-smart/traditional lights if the network has failed, and I suspect this is a much harder problem to solve.
if your table should be a table and is correctly coded as a table pretty much every screen reader will make it usable, in this example

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/examples/table/tabl...

using voiceover you read the table it tells you the column names, probably in reading a table you would probably first read all the headers so you know what the table is dealing with - here these are first name, last name, company, address.

If you know what value in the table you are looking for you would go to that column, for example last name the second column, then navigate down with the voiceover key combination and the down arrow to get to the row you are interested in - row 2 James I'm looking for sara james so let's go to the first name column, then you could use voice over key combination and left arrow to go to the first name column and see it is Sara, then you read all the contents of that row to find out Sara James, Acme, Inc., 123 Broad St.

Obviously you need to remember the headers in this way of working, so if your tables are really complicated and have a lot of data in each column it might be nice to put a hidden screenreader only message in there that says Contents for First Name Column or something like that. But in this simple case I think it is reasonable to assume people will remember the column headers.

on edit: this is from a developer who is not blind however, so a blind user may have more efficient ways of working than me. Also note, many screen reader users are not completely blind or have some other disability, like dyslexia, which makes using a screen reader useful for them. A dyslexic user may be able to figure out the headers of the table, but if the individual cells have a lot of content the screen reader will be useful for them.
I still install firefox on family machines, specifically because it lets me install a working adblocker. The WWW is too hostile without it.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Iowa doesn't have a primary at all, but a caucus.

New Hampshire has the first primary. It's a state law.
A strong army won't trust what a demented president said especially when none of his people confirmed that. Maybe he confused the topic of the discussion - nothing new for Sleepy Joe!
The romantic view people have of peasant farms is ruining all discourse about agriculture. I blame the books people read to toddlers.

Peasant farms were labor intensive, disease ridden, high risk, low reward businesses that shortened lives and ruined families. But somehow for a lot of people this episode in the history of farming is seen as the optimal blueprint for sustainable farming. They ignore the fact that all "successful" examples of small scale circular farming are making their revenue from donations, venues and from "selling" the model. Not from produce.
> You can't honestly say that about Firefox nowadays

That's the big problem. Looking at this only from an average user perspective, it's absolutely right, and "oh yeah well that doesn't work as well as in Chrome because Google pushed an overly complicated unnecessary feature into the standards that requires a company the size of Google to actually maintain and develop it", will only get you blank stares.

I hope I'm wrong, but can't help feeling this war is lost. I can't see how you compete when the rules are being written out by your adversary.

For what it's worth though, Firefox for _me_ is better than the other options in every way; container tabs, easy privacy options, clean interface, etc. I love it.
That was the part of the strategy. Get even more press with the crash ;-)
Seems like foveated rendering and eye tracking can reduce bandwidth requirements. Not saying its not super hard.
Because constructing nuclear power plants and mining uranium don't have toxic carbon byproducts?

What are the toxic byproducts you are talking about specifically?

> The toxic fission byproduct is tiny and goes underground in the middle of the desert and disrupts zero people's lives.

Haha, if it were that easy. Nuclear waste can be radioactive up to 1 million years. Can you give me an example of a successful long-term nuclear storage facility that exists today?
All we're doing currently is storing nuclear waste in temporary storage and rolling over the need to deal with this problem to future generations.
Why can’t farmers just get real jobs? Work in a coal mine or something instead.
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> You will need to install Rust

Am I right in saying Rust can produce executables that can be run without any Rust runtime etc being on the target system? Why would you need to install Rust in cases like this?
More like 1584.
I’ll give the exact opposite of what you ask, just because we could easily have chosen not to do it.

Our business was initially built on analysing data from a commercial provider and selling those insights to customers. The provider required that both we and each of our customers paid a high license fee. It became pretty clear that the provider was moving towards lots of tools and value added features on top of their data that would directly compete with us. At that point we had the choice to either work hard to keep differentiating our stuff, or do the crazy thing and attack their moat by collecting our own data. I will admit I was somewhat doubtful that we could pull it off, it was insanely ambitious for a company that was four people at the time against an incumbent that had been around for more than a decade. Ultimately we worked with another small provider to create a data spec, acquired them and all their human collectors, and now we sell our tools on top of our own data, with its own unique selling points. We went from a fun hobby to a fairly prominent player in our industry. Our competitors have gone on to consolidate and do some exciting stuff too so I hope we were a bit of a kick up the bum there.

I think we could easily have chickened out or waited until we were bigger and the outcome would not have been nearly as positive. So I guess the lesson is sometimes that you have to picture the endgame right from the start, and pursue it as aggressively as possible, instead of with baby steps that might feel safer or more natural.
"It's the only way to be sure."
Why is everyone always complaining of what they _dont_ want, instead of saying what they want more of?
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

As a kid who could read Phoenician script (similar to ancient Hebrew), I tried to decipher the Ashmanezer tablet, which is written in a Semitic language and has many proper nouns. Despite that, there were different ways to interpret the inscription. Taught me just how amazing and difficult language is.

(In the Wikipedia page[1], there is one translation given as though it is empirical. It's not.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshmunazar_II
We want that - amounts of fission byproduct are so much smaller in comparison to what you get by burning coal.

Finland has one of the most advanced fission byproduct storages in the world and they are so freaking compact. Like, it's nothing like that green glowing substance they show in movies.

Oh, and they will make money on it fast forward few decades, that fission byproduct will be fuel for future generation stations.
Found this BS, in dire contradiction with my test: https://reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/search?filter_by=knowledge_b...
This is not a cryptographic problem.
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The headline is incorrect. My proposal is "How do you expect the world to change if Russia invades rest of Ukraine?"