skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making a browser as your primary product is just not profitable without monetizing your userbase in some form or fashion and it takes a shit ton of work to keep it modern and secure.

Then why can I not purchase Mozilla merch? They shutdown or abandoned some of their most interesting services (MDN and Send, for example), but kept developing unneeded products : (1) VPN, which is just a layer over Mullvad that makes it worse and (2) Lockwise which is much better replaced with almost any alternative password manager (like KeePassXC and the browser add-on if you really need it).

Of course, they weren't wrong for at least trying, but then why not make it part of a pool of products that only premium users can access? For example, make it so that only Premium users can upload to Send. But no, all we get is just a sh*t VPN.

Mozilla doesn't want your money, and they're going to die for it.
If you look at the 3 sequences I gave you, can you guess following elements of the sequence?

We can create sequences, but guessing underlying patterns is a lot more difficult.

Humans will have very hard time if you go beyond around 10 operators in a pattern used to generate a sequence.

My guess is that their model will be better at it than me or you.
Honestly, that sounds like heaven.
Sure, if you want to get specifically technical about it. The overall gist of what the OP was talking about is still true. At most, you could say they’re slightly exaggerating, and should reword to “It’s not at all unusual for new college grads to make $250k a year.”
I think Stack Overflow used to sell this as a service. Don't know if anyone used it.
> (it should probably be renamed "Refactorio")

great observation :)
Anecdotal evidence so take this as you will.

I have alcoholism in my family. When my Dad finally went into a 30 day in-patient treatment, I was still a sophomore in college. I was very much like you. An athlete (played D3 soccer), so I was working out, and in great shape, but wouldn't touch alcohol during the week - when I first got to college, my drinking was all done on the weekends. Then when I was of legal drinking age (US 21 years) then it started to creep into Thursday, then eventually I was drinking Wed-Sat, drying out Sunday and then cramming all my homework and studying into three days just to get ready for the weekend again.

One of the things they do is a screening. You fill out a long survey - How do you drink, when you drink? When do you drink? How often are you drinking, etc. I fill it out based on my current activity.

Counselor sits me down, and starts telling me that I'm not an alcoholic YET, but I'm clearly heading that way. I do abuse alcohol on a regular basis and these are the behaviors they look for and she basically told me if I continue doing what I doing? I will be there in a few years. I was 22 or 23 at the time. I kind of shrugged it off. Dad continued in and out of rehab while I continued doing what I was doing.

Then the wheels fell off for my Dad. Like really bad. Disappeared for a week, Mom couldn't find him, started getting worried. Found him in a shady hotel on the edge of town. He was trying to drink himself to death. We got there, got him into the psych ward and they forcibly detoxified him. He was basically under medical house arrest until he sobered up and vowed this was indeed the end.

I finally had a front row seat to see what my future was. My mom pulled me aside that Christmas in the midst of our entire extended family at my parents house celebrating. She grabs my arm and pulls me into a room, looks me dead in the eyes and says, "If you want to put someone you love through what your father just put our family through these last two years? Then keep drinking, keep partying and doing whatever you're doing." and then just walked away from me.

That was pretty much it. I decided a few weeks later to put a cap on it, I had a good run, but gambling with my future like that? No thanks. Been sober 14 years. Sure I have a beer here and there, but its only one (I'm a total lightweight now, so its no fun) and then that's it. And I never judge the people I'm around if they want to drink.

I would tell you what the nurse told me. It sounds like you do abuse alcohol, and you're heading down that road. Is your future predetermined? I don't think so, but it took a litany of close calls and the one major episode with my Dad to make me realize what was happening and change course before it was too late.
> We’ve been looking to apply privacy preserving advertising technology to the attribution problem, so that advertisers can get answers to important questions without harming privacy.

You're probably going to find that any "solution" to the problem involves violating their consent. People don't want their movements tracked and sold to the highest bidder - regardless of how many different ways you slice it up.

If you give users a real choice in the matter without obscuring it or providing UI friction the users will choose not to have their data tracked and sold.
Yes, eagerness would use additional space in the case of a Python enumerate() style solution. This would be acceptable in my view and aligned with the general JS design. But an alternative is the map-indexed style solution (aka the current Array.map with a different name).
speaking as someone who bought this:

* for me it's not a status symbol. I work at home. No-one but me uses or sees my desk. My desk is filled with clutter so you wouldn't notice it even if you did. I doubt my wife has noticed its existence. I don't run around telling people about it unless they specifically mention seeing/wanting something similar.

* it's specifically _not_ for carrying around. it's for sitting on your desk. "easier to carry around" is not a feature for _this_.

* I don't have space on my desk for a notebook standing up. I don't want to use up that much visual real estate. I would hate to have it on my water bottle or anything like that because i use that constantly and that would be damn annoying.

* yes, the bubble symbols are nothing special. but they had to print _something_ there to address the idea of checking of the task and their choice seems perfectly valid to me. I don't think anyone believes they're some revolutionary idea.

* yes, although you didn't say it, i could use standard 3x5 note cards with it. I may do so. It wouldn't really make a difference.

suggesting that folks who buy this are "mak[ing] themselves feel better for having such an elegant productivity system" is unnecessarily derogatory and dismissive.

I seriously doubt that anyone who buys this actually believes it is a "productivity system". It's just a wooden note card stand with some cards that match its aesthetic. I don't think anyone believes they're more functional than a deck of blank 3"x5" cards from the corner store.

I like things that look nice. This looks nice to me. I am also more likely to use something that looks visually appealing to me than something that looks janky. So, i _could_ spend money on a cheap-ass solution, or 3d print some plastic equivalent, but i wouldn't use it long and the result would be wasted money and goods. I've been using this for months and like it very much.

your whole tone is dismissing this as if everyone who bought it is a dupe, too stupid to realize it's something more than it actually is. That's like suggesting that everyone who buys a Rolex with diamonds (or whatever) all over it somehow thinks it tells better time, or will get them to their meetings better, than a cheap quartz watch. I don't think that's reasonable at all.

Liking "nice" things (for whatever your definition of "nice" is) doesn't mean you loose IQ points when you indulge that affinity. Buying nice things you enjoy is not a bad thing. Choosing to surround yourself with items that make you smile is not a bad thing. We shouldn't try to make people feel bad for buying things they like. (ignoring the minimalism / consumerism debates)
> It is so frustrating to try and have a constructive conversation about real missteps that Mozilla is making when people view anything less than a complete condemnation of the company like it's holding them on a pedestal.

Check the title. It is absolutely on topic. Mozilla is doing this to themselves, each and every one of those is an unforced error. If your mission really is a free and open as well as privacy respecting web you don't invite the largest privacy violator on the planet to the table to have a say. Just like you don't invite serial killers and druglords to your panel on how to combat crime.
It just runs all the time on my laptop. Every day at 9 it checks a sqlite3 database to see if there are tasks for the day. That's running in a thread.

The main process has a little interface with a menu that lets you input a task, view tasks, search for tasks by text string, etc. (I did do some work on it; it wasn't just a 10-minute project! But what the heck, I've needed something that would solve me problem for decades and nothing I found in the marketplace worked (for me)!)

I'm thinking of making a web interface and allowing other people to use it.
Glad we have you as a customer. UWB is coming - I imagine there will be compatibility and chipset issues in the short run, in particular on Android, but over the long run it will be a game changer. I'm a couple degrees removed from this part of the business so sorry about the vague answer.

One thing to note - UWB is very short range now. Even now AirTags and Tile are primarily BLE. Upcoming chips and standards updates will be dramatically increasing range. I think that is when the magic happens.
Nothing can replace gas 100%. Hyper-nuclearized France always produced (and now produces) between 7% and 12% of their gridpower thanks to fossil fuel (gas/petrol/coal). This is not about 100% but about obtaining a baseload.

"we could do more if we invest more in wind turbines" is not obvious when it comes to continuity of production.

Selling anything (even only 25% of your production) can be a financially wonderful operation if done when many customers need it.

Turning off production is only necessary if you cannot store more of it.
the biggest I can think of is for companies that outsource to Ukraine. Other than that I dont really see this conflict affecting software industry in the USA. Maybe cyberattacks incidents increase.
Is Observability the New Monitoring?
I often wonder with USA whether TLA's have a bounty on certain tech, like implement a tracker we can piggyback on and we'll provide a $X00M bonus, implement an email parsing service, implement a street-facing webcam system, implement a household based microphone array with remote access, etc..

They'd be state level equivalents to a parent slipping a tracker in a kids bag, or reading their messages, or whatever.
For those who can afford it, it’s somewhat common. I did this for our son. Just another insurance policy to give your kid every chance
> I don't understand why I'm supposed to believe that Facebook would ever have beneficial insight to add to a privacy standard

Well, the headline says "privacy preserving attribution for advertising". I'm guessing Facebook provides expertise in what kind of attribution advertisers want.
Exactly. Pain is a real problem.

Billions of people live with a constant background of city noise. These folks on the island have a new noise, to be sure. And some resent it, that's clear. And they may even get themselves worked up over it.

But billions don't do those things and live a good life. Because noise is something our minds are exquisitely adapted to filtering. Unlike pain or hunger, our brains ignore sounds all the time, all day long, everywhere we go.

So I think, again, that the 'windmills make sound' argument is specious.
> Bigger story here

It's not a bigger story.

THE story - in fact, the REVELATION - here is that Mozilla thinks it's OK to cooperate with Facebook on PRIVACY work. You can't make this shit up. Not even on hard drugs.
Thank you! I'll check it out.

I wasn't actually asking for anything low-code, I'm fine with coding, just hoping I can mostly stick with a C/C++ style approach without having to dig too deep into understanding the memory and registers and other things on a hardware level.

I've done some reading of materials on the hardware before (NES and GB mostly), and it's interesting, I just don't have the mental bandwidth at the moment to turn that casual understanding into usable code.

Maybe eventually I can get to that point, but for now if I can get by with mostly my game logic and some function calls to various wrappers for the hardware functionality, the better.
Unless you were working for an intelligence agency, if your organization was sold TSCM against laser-based surveillance, then the organization was taken for a ride by the security contractor; you weren't also sold birds of prey to protect against UAS too, were you? (Yeah, that's a thing too [1]).

It's a bit like being sold flood protection insurance if your data warehouse is in the desert. In other words, it just doesn't happen realistically, and there are a million and one other much more practical technical surveillance counter measures to spend a likely very-limited security budget on.

[1] https://guardfromabove.com/
I find it easier to get work on a short notice. But that requires a stable economic situation. Personally I don't mind going without work for a month or two, I even like it. May be stressful for the first contract though.
Yeah; I'd go further and say that monetizing user data and non-consensual tracking should be illegal, full stop.

Yes, that would destroy a few incumbents' business models. No, it wouldn't be the end of Google's ad business.

According to multiple press releases I've seen, blocking tracking makes ads and marketing about 30% less effective. As a society, that'd mean some combination of increasing ad impressions by 30% and reducing total ad spend (since currently marginal ad campaigns will become unprofitable).

That sounds completely acceptable to me, especially if it frees up smart people to work on stuff that actually benefits society in some way.
And a physics class will have you prove facts about momentum using calculus. A chemistry class may use basic elements of group theory, and it won’t be a “pour this chemical into that beaker” kinda course.

They’re not math degrees, and neither is CS. The emphasis isn’t math in a CS program at any reputable university; the emphasis is computer science.
A large portion of Firefox development activity is hidden away in private documents on Google Docs. They are not concerned.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5410
This won't be possible in all homes, batteries are a security risk so for sure you need safe conditions and space to install similar on how you need to pass inspections for gas. The only way I could see it working is introducing an increasing electricity tarigf. First 50Kw are cheap, next are 25% more expensive, next 50% etc (this are random number I don't stand behind them)
> Nobody is arguing that Starship is sufficient, just that it is necessary.

No, it's the yet-to-be-invented tech that is necessary. Your unstated prior is that this non-existent tech will in turn require heavy-lift capacity, and there is no evidence for that. Maybe we can bootstrap space manufacturing off 2 Arianne 5 launches, or 50 starship launches, nobody knows because it's all make-believe atm.

What Starship is good for, is frequent supply runs to a dependant Mars base, with today's technology - but that's nor what people are saying because that's not sexy.
Even if that was something to care about, the entire economy works that way. I don't feel that it is a role of the state to whitelist what money can go into what economy, and even though it has assumed that role in the fiat system it is not successful.

So just go where the action is. Don't scam people yourself while you are at it.
I still recall the shutting down of the Deck network, probably the only ad network that I can name that refuses to track users invasively.

From https://web.archive.org/web/20190403051038/http://decknetwor...,

> In 2014, display advertisers started concentrating on large, walled, social networks. The indie “blogosphere” was disappearing. Mobile impressions, which produce significantly fewer clicks and engagements, began to really dominate the market. Invasive user tracking (which we refused to do) and all that came with that became pervasive, and once again The Deck was back to being a pretty good business. By 2015, it was an OK business and, by the second half of 2016, the network was beginning to struggle again.

The question is more of, in 2022 can we still do online advertising without personalization and tracking, in a way that's profitable?
Congrats on your launch!

How is Anja Health different from other established US providers such as Cord Blood Registry, Via-Cord, or Cryo-Cell?

Also, if our family already has a sample frozen at one of these other facilities, and assuming there's a compelling reason to switch, do you have a tissue sample transfer mechanism/protocol?

>>If you didn’t, what prevented you from doing so?

Didn't for our first child because we weren't aware (education/awareness issue), but we did it for the second child. It feels like a tail risk hedge, and literally YOLO-type analysis is what motivates us to continue paying for the sample to stay frozen.
This and another highly upvoted site submitted yesterday were flagged by MWB. Giving it the benefit of doubt could be that user submitted content for the game may be the culprit but I am just guessing. Worst case there could be an active campaign to infect people in the tech industry just prior to a military engagement. I will assume and prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
You are correct. I'm leveraging the fact that I do check SMS messages religiously, but that is not true for everyone.
Impeachment IS the process of brining charges against a sitting President. The House acts a very rough equivalent to a grand jury. The Senate trial is the court-room with Senators as jurors. The Senate chose not to convict, but charges were absolutely brought.

DOJ regulations pretty much prohibit bringing criminal charges against a sitting President.

Whether or not people think the impeachment process is a political sham is a different question/problem. Recently, it largely has been - both with Clinton and with Trump, for very different reasons. Even more so now with GOP members threatening to immediately impeach Biden (for what, I can't quite figure out) should they win back Congress.
The way I understood that was - she was going to write a piece about this subject. Asked for permission. What's implicit is that this experiment would have to last until she was done writing the piece.

Not just "let's find airtags today" and then "boohoo I've been tracking you without permission". Wouldn't make sense. He was not surprised when his phone notified him that a tag was tracking him after a day in Manhattan.
Look at how we are fairing with 30 years of no inflation, fueled by collusive bank consolidation, creating “too big to fail” institutions and unlimited capital.

How much of our economy is dominated by direct government spending, explicit or implicit support?

IMO, the longer this status quo continues, the worse the outcome will be.
> Mozilla would have zero issues getting 10 million users who would pay $100/year for it

Call me a pessimist but I doubt this. Most people don't mind ads, and when you couple that with the vast number of free browser alternatives, I doubt so many people would pay (and even if they got some, I'd expect churn to be high too).
What's your view on how this proposal compares to Apple's PCM? Why is Apple building a similar way for 3rd parties to reliably track users if this is overall harmful for users?

> What Facebook would be happy with is as much data as they're allowed to have.

Indeed. However, platform owners like Apple and Google are currently in a privileged position, where they make rules for others to follow but are free to collect any and all data they want.

> While we believe that Apple’s move to eliminate IDFA was done in the spirit of advancing consumer privacy, it may ultimately provide Apple with an advertising platform that is competitively advantaged vs. peers who don’t have access to Apple’s richer APIs
> In the US, it's very unusual to buy a SIM card outside of

In your circles.

There are entire industries which rely on 'burners', wisely or not, for various logistics tasks involved in deriving tax free income from controlled substances.

Buying a SIM card with cash is as easy as wanting to and doing some searching, or just driving around and looking for dollar stores: the phone provider you want is in the same parking lot.
When I was at Tel Aviv University, at the time #7 in the world in cited Mathematics works, a TA once told me they were told the method for supporting students is nicknamed "foam": Foam rises to the top. In other words, if they can't figure it out, there's no incentive in helping them, because they're not going to become PhD researchers, not going to create citeable papers, and not going to get the University a budget increase.

This meant the university was comfortable with a low grade average, because school in Israel is subsidized - they're not competing for students, and the proportion of people with a BA/BSc in Israel is among the highest in the world. The only thing that mattered is more research, which means more grants, which means more staff, which indirectly means more professors to throw at teaching.

In all my time at TAU, I only encountered one Maths professor who wasn't faculty, so it seems the system was working.
So just to be clear, you're repudiating your statement that when people can't afford to attend college, that's not for lack of intelligence on their part?
Adding noise helps, but an attacker can trade bitrate for noise immunity.

Probably the only way of keeping data secure would be to heavily insulate (noise, thermal, RF, power, etc) the room so that any signal would take weeks to pass through the insulation, and then rotate your key material more often than that. Opening the door would have to dump power to the room before the door can be opened so an attacker couldn't leak data out when people entered/left.
>But this is a technical document about browser features, I'm a little frustrated that this is being coordinated over a proprietary SaaS service instead of over Git[0] with markdown or something.

Then maybe the public SaaS services should be of a better quality so that Mozilla employees want to use them.

>I think a lot more than that, I'm frustrated that the document is being made publicly available on that platform. When someone links to a web standard on Github, often it's because the standard is seeing active participation. For something that is being linked to a public view, I would have loved to see at least a PDF export or something.

There is a PDF export for google docs which is available to all users. File > Download > PDF.
UK Grid to Drain Electric Car Batteries During High Demand
Hosting Reddit is not free, maintaining reddit is not free, moderators time is not free
The VPN is garbage, but they did end up killing Lockwise.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...
I wish the company/organization behind my favorite and only browser didn't continue to be so tone-deaf. Their reputation in my mind had already been soured, in spite of them having the best browser for my use.

Now they make a ludicrous decision to involve Meta in what they think are privacy discussions? I cannot be swayed into seeing Meta's involvement as anything other than a detriment
Very simple example - I'm in EU, and I like and post a comment on a photo of Rihana. How do you do that on the backend, without transferring data or keeping all the data in EU?

Even if you keep data for individual profile in corresponding country, any interaction with a content outside of EU is impossible without data transfer.
> Eg. Most recently this surfaced outside of the literary community around Sam and Frodo's relationship in LOTR and whether or not they were gay.

This seems to me like a perfectly legitimate question.