skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data was saved because a mother was working from home with her baby, and was keeping a backup of the files there.
Lots of free doughnuts.
Valisure study on Benzene levels in popular Sunscreen Products [pdf]
I hate to sound like a nostalgic fart, but remember when content creation meant making never seen before flash games and animations, or long video content instead of 5 seconds jokes and girls dancing half nakedly?
Thanks! I'd forgotten about that one.
Got charged £15 “technology fee” by cab hailing app because it uses algorithms
Unreal! How did I never find this before?

Your ToC needs a second (sub) level though! I'll sit there and craft the markup for it if you want.
You got me. The tech is useless, it’s actually a giant fraud perpetrated by public traded corporations to steal our precious fluids. The miners are actually watt vampires. Numbers don’t actually exist, it was a trick invented by the ancients. Blockchains just convert pudding into breakfast. Enjoy meat juice day!
Page 12 has the list of sunscreens that have over 2 ppm Benzene.
The fact yall are still working at improving it ten years later, with substantial progress, gives me hope for its longer term adoption in the future.
They should do what Microsoft did with Edge and periodically fork Chromium.

Chromium is a better browser and it's open source (BSD, GPL etc). They should take advantage of the license. The argument for browser diversity doesn't make sense to me when chromium is open source and hard forks are always possible.
>A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.
For some reason the media failed to show the images in their stories, but the two arsonists on camera (not a group) had purple hair. With all the talk of white supremacist instigators at BLM riots, I wouldn't be surprised if this were a case of the opposite, anti-trucker instigators trying to give the protestors a bad name, and purple hair is more likely associated with the left...which ironically has taken a pro government stance on this issue.

In any case afaik no actual tie to the protests has been reported.
I agree with your topline goal, but I am surprised by the way you think about it. Most of what you recommend has no obvious connection to firefox-the-program.

Like...

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

> - Fire all inessential staff that don't want to work on Firefox.

> - 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).

> - Make sure that all donations from now on are redirected to things that support Firefox development and nothing else, period.

All of these are good suggestions if the problem is that Firefox is running out of money or has too few resources. But that's not my impression at all!

Google's strategy with Chrome demonstrates how valuable it is to develop other compelling services that use cutting-edge standards supported by your browser. Google does it in a way where they freeze out other compatible browsers, but Mozilla does not have to. I would say that the number one thing that Mozilla can do to support the web is to make web standards meaningful again - and the best way to do that is to develop things aside from web browsers to demonstrate the value of those standards.

> We as a community, cannot afford to let Firefox languish until the only browsers in the world are Chromium derivatives.

I don't think Mozilla having non-Firefox projects harms Firefox. I think there is every reason to believe that a healthy Mozilla has Firefox at the center, with many other ongoing projects.
> We never hear about broken and worn-out products.

I disagree. When I read reviews (mostly on Amazon) I click on the 1 stars and read those first. Those will mostly all be about how crappy the products are.
Canada bans a lot of weapons for looking "scary" -- nunchuks and butterfly knives for example (both of which are rather notoriously more dangerous to the person wielding them than anybody else). Americans who come to Canada are frequently surprised by the different laws up here. Yes, an attack with a machete renders it illegal in both countries. A concealed machete is illegal in Canada, regardless of intent or use. I'm not so sure about the US (especially with the variance among state laws)
That's because you're looking at this with your "professional" hat on. If your look at this with your "philanthropist" hat on, the optics are suddenly very different.
Kudos for duckduckgo.com! Looks like they have it right.

Quick comment:

I don't really blame the search engines for listing a result with bad data because sites change so often. Whose to say that the data wasn't right at one point and a recent update introduced erroneous data after it was already indexed.

It seems to me like "caveat emptor" applies here and no matter where a site falls on search rankings the reader / consumer should perform some due diligence.
Her logic assumes that another company would actually pay her that much. Given how disastrous her tenure has been to Firefox's user base, I'm skeptical that another company would even want her as CEO, let alone pay her this much.
> Google gives me great free services

2005 called, they want their Google-enthusiasm back.
For sure, corporate America is all about background checks so maybe being an independent contractor or consultant is the way forward?
... but does it offer a different combination of 5 invaders every day? :-P
And if you're unlucky, you're going to get one of these every day for every one of your subscriptions. All it takes is someone who doesn't like you and who knows your email.
This is great, I have used mermaid for years and glad to see GitHub adding support.
Being pro-crypto is like being pro-internet or pro-money. It doesn't make sense to say that. If I use Bitcoin to buy something legally online is that a scam? Am I getting scammed? Is the other person getting scammed? I just don't understand why people ignore the fact that crypto is a utility. Sure, you can hate a company that scams users into thinking their crypto token has some intrinsic value and then rug pulls a month later. I'm unsure how that's an indictment of the crypto as a technology. That's like hating email because people use it to execute phishing scams.
Build Finance DAO successfully targeted by hostile governance takeover
Not at all to bikeshed your tool, which I'm sure works just fine, but this is the sort of application where GNU Recutils really shines.

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

I mention it because it doesn't get the attention that it deserves, as a format midway between relational data in database and plain-old-text.
How does commercial space flight build infrastructure to help us understand the universe?

I don't think space exploration is super important at this point in our civilisational development. I get the aesthetic appeal from scifi but lack of multiplanetary life isn't really a bottleneck for us right now. So it's not all that different from flexing with yachts. I like Elon's more environment oriented projects (solarcity and tesla) but broadly speaking he's a pretty insufferable tech bro billionaire.
It's not just their sources vs your sources, it's about the data those sources have, where/how they got it, and how much of it you can verify.

You have to evaluate the evidence and the sources to decide which is more credible. Some things you have to take on faith, but that doesn't make it a dice roll. When it matters you can apply some critical thinking skills, and at least be able to justify the position you've settled on.

In this case I don't care enough about this Andy guy to dig into it, but I was able to determine that I couldn't justify forming an opinion about his credibility using what Wikipedia was presenting to me. If I wanted to get into the woods, I'm sure I could end up with an informed opinion based on more than a gut feeling.
If you've done so well with bug bounties do you really need a job, can't you make a living doing that ? I'm personally very interested in the answer to that question because that's a route I'm considering pursuing myself, being for a variety of reasons, outside the window of traditional employability. But if with your skills you can't make a living at it then I certainly don't have a shot.
So theres an entry in here that says "Windows: used for 20 years, daily and everything is broken with it".

This is very much a 90s and aughts trope that's long been dead. I dont think I've had a BSOD in 6+ years now...
Be the "User Agent" in the truest sense of the word that is sorely missing in the browser landscape nowadays. For that, two things are necessary:

1) become absolutely trustworthy again
2) become the power user's choice again

To me, 1) means absolute control over updates and network connections. Become the antithesis to the patronizing "Ask me again later" school of thought which has become so sickeningly widespread over the last few years, and instead accept that "no means no", whether you disagree or not.

And I don't have to mention "partnerships" with entities like Cliqz or sneaky downloads of marketing extensions.

2) - Firefox tried to appeal to average users and failed, losing a lot of what made it appealing to the power users and evangelists in the process. Reversing that will be painful, because it means allowing people to shoot themselves in the foot, and accepting that some people will do that occasionally.

Making a useful power user browser means accepting that a lot of its value will be created by other people, and supporting that with a deep and comprehensive extension system, instead of clinging to Googles table scraps. Having a useful extension system also means the ability to install from any source I want, no Ifs and Buts.

All of these are risky. Useful tools often are. Give Firefox back its USP and a reason to exist, because "it's not Blink" on its own simply isn't good enough... even if maybe it should.
Shutting down roadways into and out of cities is a little bit more than just a disagreement. These people are criminals.
Thats Crazy!!!
Even the most blatant scams, literal pyramids called MLMs often have some useful product to muddy the waters. I mean you can after all but that toothpaste and shampoo from Amway and use it!
One problem app developers now have is that they can’t refund any purchases even if they agree that it is justified. They tell customers that only Apple can do that and customers tend to not believe them but that is how Apple set it up.
Can't edit my post, but for clarity. Im wrong on the line "Not really. With multiple animators working on files simultaneously, its kind of hard." see comments above.
As a fully vaccinated person who thinks that people who disagree with me should have rights, and who values freedom more than wealth, I'm proud that my name is on that list.
>this is not how January 6th was handled

January 6th police had real bullets and shot and killed a person. You could argue Jan 6th was handled more strictly than BLM.
Ask HN: What are the first things you do with a new laptop?
As title, I recently got a new laptop I'd like to keep exclusively for studying and personal stuff, while anything job-related is on a different machine.

What are some must-have applications you install immediately ?

Have you got some settings you absolutely need ?

Do you set it up to match your workflow or do you experiment something new given the chance to start from scratch ?

I'm on Linux, precisely Pop Os, if it matters.
"Pixar Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes", narrated by Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhp_20j0Ys

"Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production?", Quora answer by Oren Jacob: https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-d...
Gamestop bagholder I presume? How do you detect or prove naked shorting or wash trading?
Become a browser with privacy features, instead of a "privacy browser".

Enable battery status(Important for kiosks), web midi, web USB, web bluetooth, all of it. Just put it behind an option. Stop trying to keep useful web app functionality out of the web. I don't want to support that.

Start innovating and give us features nobody else has.

Integrate with Yggdrasil to trust 200: URLs on the tunnel as secure contexts(Or let people set a whole interface to be secure).

Bring back FlyWeb, immediately. When flyweb died was a key moment that made me lose all interest in FF.

Give us a way to package a website into a manually installable and redistributable "Box", that can be trusted as a secure context, with a manually selectable data folder, so it all just works like a traditional app. Like Web Bundles, but manually installed and treated as secure, with services that can run in the background all the time, etc.

Don't just lag behind or catch up to chrome, support everything they do, go past them and make web apps truly a replacement for desktop apps.

Stop trying to kill everything that can be used for tracking and let the user decide on a site by site or app by app basis.
The same reason cartoon characters have three fingers.
What do you mean doesn't work? Didn't it produce Apple to begin with? Where was the regulation on RIM in the late aughts?

> just like they did for VISA and Mastercard when they capped card transaction feed.

And in so doing they significantly increased the barrier to entry in the space, effectively cementing VISA and Mastercard into market dominance. This happens everywhere everything is regulated - incumbents shape the regulation so it's easy for them to comply with and difficult for new entrants, creating all sorts of disfunction.

Let me ask, what is the cost of doing nothing here exactly? Why are you so certain that that cost is higher than the cost of intervention?
On mobile, definitely. I realize that many people like to complain about the mobile version of Firefox, but it offers extensions when their competition does not.
Oh, I don't think I've ever read Computer Weekly. Reading through their whole timeline now :)
I thought by 2000 I'd be able to, for example, get paid to noodle with Mathematica on a laptop or VR deck on the beach.

I wound up living near the beach in Santa Cruz in 2000 and almost bought a Ricochet modem, but never quite got around to it. No one has ever paid me to just noodle with Mathematica, either.
That protests are 'outside of democratic methods' says quite a bit itself.
I see. So you are saying he’s not being coerced right now. Because Putin does not have immense leverage on him. Got it.
> Competing against them would likely result in those companies removing the advertising dollars and tanking the business.

Google paying Apple massive amounts of money to keep Google Search the default search engine on their devices doesn't seem to be affected by the fact that Pixel phones (or Android as a whole) and iPhones are competing. Though I gotta admit that it could be because Google doesn't have the overwhelming winner position in that market, as opposed to the web browser market.

However, I still find Google pulling the funding unlikely, given (afaik) the reason for Google "financially supporting" Mozilla is exactly because Google is afraid of being legally called out as a monopoly in the web browser market. The only point at which I can see Google pulling that funding is if Mozilla ends up on the same level as Chrome in terms of posing a danger to Google's dominance. At which point, Mozilla has already won and doesn't need Google that much to sustain itself, so I wouldn't pose it as a strong concern.
Me pointing out that this is not torture, that torture means specific things and that this doesn't meet the commonly-accepted definition of torture, followed by you glibly inserting the phrase "its fine" is a perfect microcosm of why online discussion is doomed.
Torture means you are in pain and you cannot stop it. Not by getting on the bus and riding across town, not by wearing earmuffs, it means that you, the person being tortured, cannot stop the torture.
This is clearly not the case when there is noise outside your house that you dislike. Words have meanings, let's please stick to using them.
Show HN: Qbix for Communities
Here's a pointer: once you have entered "warp" mode from the context menu, options in the "Menu" menu change and you can choose in which way you want to modify the map.
Yes, and software has more room at the higher end too. Our industry has built in golden handcuffs! I have already taken sabbaticals to do other things for a year three times, but always come back for the money.
Yeah, I guess I could go down that route, I've used the AWS Gx instances for projects before, but this dataset would justttt fit in memory for a 3080, which really simplified the rest of the code, and the speed of iteration, and, at the end of the day, quite frankly I just want one. I'll do more weird stuff if I don't have the meter of how much I'm paying to Jeff Bezos running in my head every time I run an experiment.
There's literally nothing I can do with my phone that I can't do with a laptop. Most people here work in tech and know what I'm talking about. You could carry a laptop and a flip phone and be fine. There's literally nothing essential about a smartphone. It's just a luxury you've become inseparable from.
Beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing. I am really fond of the shape of the leaves. Since this is HackerNews, I believe there is also an entrepreneurial angle for the reemergence of American Chestnuts for carbon offset markets and to produce food (roasted chestnuts are delicious!). If the GMO version of the American Chestnut is approved by the US government, it will be the first GMO tree.
Then make your window wider. Bam, problem solved.

"But then I can't see as many windows!" That brings us back to the GP's I need to see what I'm looking at, not what I'm not looking at". When you want to look at those other windows, bring them to the foreground and let them obscure this one.
Yeah, SpaceX is a long way in the lead, and much less like a vanity project compared to the others.
Make breaking news once again for user privacy!
Firefox once had problems with performance (and usability a bit) compared to chrome.
They fixed that, i think.
Oh, it just clicked for me that you are the Game' maintainer.

> How do you propose to measure that exactly?

I don't have a proposal, other than to avoid overselling. I like that the Game's website has the text "If the fastest programs are manually vectorized SIMD, does the host language matter? You might be more interested in less optimised programs." The "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages" paper though is overselling its rigor.
Or just in your mind you still have that bundle of memories which make you underestimate the time passed since last contact because you've been busy with life.
Thunderbird has always been their opportunity to demonstrate their stack is a general ecosystem, but it's headaches show that their stack isn't a good ecosystem for anything that isn't Firefox.

They shouldn't be trying to build thunderbird for its own sake, they should be demonstrating their equivalent for electron and feel pressured to make it no worse for users than the current Thunderbird, but attractive/stable enough for outside developers to choose over electron/etc.
They were looking at the web on full-screen laptops. Laptops that might be 13", 15", or who knows? And most designers were on full-screen desktops.
It's a big shame. They have so many little details right but really wooshed on overall quality it appears.
I don't know if it's a false equivalence, because I've read (and certainly written) a fair number of mermaid diagrams which are extremely hard to understand without seeing the rendered content.
Assuming that those tools also implement the same set of MD functionality (like Mermaid)
> Everywhere else...I don't believe cars should be allowed to drive as if they have the right of way. Sure, it's bogus to leap out from being hidden between parked cars, but that's a corner case akin to sticking a fork in a power outlet.

What style of street are you thinking of? Stop sign streets? Main streets with stoplights? Are just wanting to literally walk across any road without looking and force all traffic to stop?

Is walking down to the nearest stop sign/traffic light really that inconvenient?
> Residents of Ottawa are scared to leave their homes for simple tasks

Kind of like almost everyone in the US and Canada for a period of almost a year thanks to governmental policies?

Another way to look at things is these protests will indirectly help flatten the curve, especially if they go on for two more weeks.
The reason I used Firefox daily many years ago was because of the Firebug debugger. The more complicated pages became the more important it was to have an excellent debugger/browser combination. Chrome launched with a solid solution and has kept pushing but it isn't nearly as good as debuggers in other platforms. All the browsers are all pretty bad at debugging the lower level stuff like graphics. What is the GPU doing? Why was rendering this last frame slow? What is happening inside of this WASM blob? Is transferring information in and out of this worker the problem or was it the worker itself?

If Firefox had an amazing debugger I would use it every day. I focus on graphics so this is where my mind is at but there are plenty of things that would benefit everyone like a better memory profiler or maybe being better about explaining to users how to fix issues. Chrome's Lighthouse might focus on how google works but it will also provide solid tips for how to make most websites better. Sure it might be wrong if you really know your stuff but it is also a great place to learn if you don't think you know it all.
If you're building something with a microcontroller, turn it into a USB HID gamepad device with an analog axis or digital (button) presses and then it should work with any browser right now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad_API...
If you don't mind having a gaming PC (stupid RGB lights and fans) then Build Redux [1] is not price gouging. You can basically just think of the GPU markup as a builder fee. They are incredibly slow to ship but the lead time is something like a month which beats your 6 months. At this point, it would take bitcoin dropping below 10k for the market not to be silly.

[1] - https://buildredux.com/
Have you considered renting cloud GPUs by the minute? You can rent some pretty powerful GPUs from cloud providers (i.e. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus)
I have done forensic reconstruction of UNIX files. The directory node list is erased/lost, but the raw data remains on disk. This assumes the data has a sequential structure. The article didnt say whether this was the model data or the rendered data.
One quote from - I believe - Lawrow was how the US would react if Cuba or Venezuela were asking to be accepted into that anti-NATO Russia has apparently been building.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but I think it's a valid question to ask if the argument is purely about the freedom of countries to make their own decisions.
Well, if I'm being charitable, that's exactly the question mark here.

There are reports of intimidation and other bad behaviour, but there are also a whole bunch of other people just enjoying the party atmosphere. I think both narratives can be true. To be clear, some of the honking has been going on 18+ hours a day, which is bad, but there are suggestions of worse things under the surface. This happened a couple weeks ago, for instance:

https://globalnews.ca/news/8581568/ottawa-shepherds-of-good-...

My probably subjective impression is that wandering around this protest is a bit of a choose-your-own-adventure. There's friendly folks, but there are troublemakers around too, and unfortunately the troublemakers seem to be more senior in the planning process ...
Tell me what you're buying.
Earplugs just deaden sound, they don't eliminate it.
Yeah...everything is accessed from the MENU button

Refreshing the page does not generate a new map