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> In the late 1990's it was clear and readily apparent to everyone that the Internet was a massively important step forward. We agreed on that. It wasn't a controversial or widely disputed viewpoint. The market still imploded because of the sheer amount of rampant speculation, so to think something worse won't happen to a multi-trillion dollar market based on a technology many people think only has value for running Ponzi schemes seems to be pretty irrational.

In the 1990s it wasn't clear to everyone that the internet was a massively important step forward. You were younger and probably part of the technically-savvy, forward-looking generation that could clearly see the internet being massively important in future. However, *many* people in the older demographic lacked this insight and didn't fully embrace the internet until the mid to late 2000's. I think we'll see the same thing play out with crypto. Writing everything off in the sector as being ponzi is especially flippant.
Care to elaborate what you would have expected instead?
Challenges of producing cultivated meat at scale
"Commoditize your complement"

I had hosting issues in many of my companies and consulting projects, running from "WTF is this AWS bill $10k???" to "WTF did our 10gbit/s download just kick Heroku offline?"

But people can only appreciate the things I build for them if they are hosted well. So I took the obvious next step and purchased a small struggling hosting company. We then introduced nicer tooling that imitates the AWS and Heroku APIs if possible, to make using their servers as easy as possible for me. And now I can offer managed hosting to all of my consulting clients. For them, it's slightly cheaper prices and (in contrast with AWS and Heroku) they can just call me when things don't work. And for me, it's reliable high-margin revenue.
Ask HN: How do you expect the world to change if Russia invades Ukraine?
What do believe the impact and change will be to nations and people across the world?
I think you are using dichotomies inappropriately to invoke the standard biases that have trapped the Mozilla community.

Something that competes with electron is not electron. Non-native includes RLBox which is now going to secure Firefox according to Mozilla. Mozilla is on record regretting thunderbird's poor Integration with the Firefox stack as a trial for thunderbird devs and a tax slowing Firefox engineering.

This holding pattern has gone on and on because no one wants to establish the correct API layer to maintain as an inherent tax for Firefox engineering that enables all F/OSS to reuse the NS* stack correctly with good documentation.

In the long term this means chromium has an ecosystem and Mozilla's stable ecosystem consists of just one browser. However flawed chromium is, it has no competition for most developers and competition with WebKit for a handful.
> Thunderbird should remain native.

Er, you do realise that Thunderbird isn't exactly native, either, what with it being based on XUL (or whatever's still left of that these days) and Gecko?
> a lot of people discover it the hard way and most still haven't

Some of it may be "morality" component, for lack of a better word. Some people want the world to be one where people and ideas advance on merit rather than via popularity or "knowing the right people", and act upon that hope subconsciously or as a justification for avoiding unfamiliar risk.

I'd wager it's also a bit more common among software developers.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/9795 and the various things linked from it (prs, commits, etc) are the best way to get the context.
> Why would google be incentivized to collect less data of their users that can be monetized and profile them if no laws compelled them?

Google has a natural incentive to do the same thing even if Apple never existed. This is about third parties being able to collect your location data, which diminishes the value of that data to Google.
> 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)

And people wonder why non-profits and NGOs don’t attract the best talent. This entitled mindset is the why.

That people who want to do good work should earn less. Perfect! Let them pay for their vacation with goodwill and air.

This is especially rich coming from the HN crowd. Everybody wants a revolutionary but in the neighbour’s house.
It is not like agriculture and farming was impossible without excessive production of corn.
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Maybe you havent worked for a company which changes your priorities and then doesnt want to pay the performance bonus because the original (written down) goal was not met?
If you went 5 years back, I don’t think you would have predicted that sp500 will be yielding 87%. At that point in time, SoftBank would have looked pretty reasonable. So there is a survivorship bias when people compare with sp500.

Now, let’s look at next 5 years. Would you be willing to bet that sp500 continues its streak? Would all macro-economic coincidences and government actions continue in same manner for next 5 years?
I'm using Firefox fulltime, both on my work and my personal machine. The two things I'd love to see are:
- Fix the ever-growing memory usage on Linux
- Make it the best platform for using Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)

Despite PWAs not being a mainstream thing now, there are still a lot of them. Particularly on Linux, a PWA can be the best option for software that doesn't have a native client - e.g. Outlook 365. PWAs have a lot of untapped potential, mainly due to mobile software authors not being familiar with the approach.

With Firefox standing for the open, net-neutral web, it makes sense to me that they would also stand for web-based, cross-platfrom, appstore-neutral apps.
Not quite - "heerlijk" used to mean "lordly", so "heerlijk voedsel" means "food eaten by lords". This also explains the gravestone reference (de Heer == the Lord).
By more productive, I mean something that is not a net negative contribution/actively harmful to our planet. If all farmers can do is convert subsidies into CO2 emissions for stuff that isn't technically needed, then we're better off with them not doing that. It's that simple.

This amount of corn is simply not needed and it never was. It only exists because of the subsidies. So, maybe grow stuff that is not contributing to destroying our planet and is actually worth something without a lot of subsidies. Organic farming seems pretty lucrative lately. Iowa has plenty of that happening already. There are plenty of things farmers can do that are actually needed that are much less harmful.
TIL that he's the CEO of Brave Software.
Mozilla is shutting down its VR web browser, Firefox Reality
The technical description just doesn’t make sense

> The data showed the internet signal had previously taken two steps before going offshore - but was now taking five.

> Information held by the Herald shows Gen-I studied data showing the amount of time it took information on the internet connection to reach the Xbox server. It went from 30 milliseconds to 180 milliseconds - a huge increase for online gamers.

There’s just no realistic way that bouncing the connection around New Zealand would introduce a ~100ms delay. It sounds like he just started getting bad routes to the gameserver, which is par for the course for Oceania, but unlikely to result from LI.
Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good
You don't have to be so defensive. Clearly there are issues with things like what happened here. It's like interacting with the website of your bank by sending assembler programs to transfer money. People won't be able to understand what it's doing.
I am. Want to hang out?
Exactly. It turns out the internet has not changed some fundamentals of human existence.

Even online, you are either at the mercy of the legal system that can project force onto your body or you push yourself outside the law and are at the mercy of people exploiting you and the fact that you cannot seek recourse in the law.

Outside the law, might makes right (inside the law, might also makes right, but one can hope it is at least a right that some large group of people have reached loose consensus on).
On my Android 12 phone, there is a switch to turn off the Precise Location, but every single app refuses to run with it disabled. Canon PRINT app, for example (WTF!).
The ID system is a lot more fraught in the US - most folks don't have a national ID, and the national insurance (social security) number is just printed on a bit of cardboard. The processes to obtain photo ID vary from state to state within the US, and may be extremely difficult in some cases (lost birth records, born to undocumented immigrant parents, etc).

It's also a hot-button political issue in any number of directions (i.e. requiring photo IDs to vote, or allowing trans folks to change their name/gender on government-issued IDs).
It reminds me of the first great decipherment, that of hieroglyphic Egyptian. Young's quantitative approach gave a few insights that proved useful later on, but that approach was ultimately limited and wasn't leading anywhere. It wasn't until Champollion brought Coptic to the table that it was unlocked.
It's a good font for those that think that the world and computer technology peaked in 1971. I don't share that opinion.
not paid advertisements or endorsements as Elon says.
> when we design a human system around uncommon cases, we do need to consider the ramifications on the majority

This is how I feel every time some new service asks me which pronouns I prefer. I'm happy that some people get to choose the pronouns they feel represent them (or avoid the pronouns they feel disservice them), but it seems like it is both pushing an agenda and adding additional friction to the process. Just leave the option setCustomerPronoun() available without making it a necessary step.

I've chosen a contentious example, but there are dozens of others. Just for another example, if I was born in 1977 (above age of consent), what does the forum software care my exact date of birth and err when I don't want to provide it?
It performs significantly worse than Chrome for me on both desktop Linux and Android (although Chrome mobile not supporting extensions means I use Firefox anyway).

On privacy, I tentatively agree (but Mozilla's actions with Pocket etc. casts doubt), but Firefox is significantly behind Chrome when it comes to safety. Firefox's sandbox is substantially weaker (e.g. it's basically worthless on linux, because you can reach the X server from inside the "sandbox").
Which is why the desktop market has tons of garbage anti-virus and PC cleaning software, trying to fix the cowboy land it turned into.
Side note / shout out to Azul for being just great. Their technical support (even while just evaluating Zing) has been excellent and their free Zulu offering is a breeze to install (Debian here).
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I think it's fine to hold Firefox to higher moral standards than its competitors, but what I don't like is the general negative vibe in which people criticize it (or Mozilla) for not being perfect. There is always a constructive manner in which we can suggest stuff and I sometimes feel that the criticisms are too derisive and maybe even toxic. We may need to reach a collective agreement that some things, like browsers, should not be tied down to business models, but rather to make them a public tool or utility. Sure, people working to improve it and maintain it should get properly compensated for it, but eventually we will reach a point where no more 'growth' can be squeezed out of a product, and that's when privacy-invasive measures start to creep in (as we've seen with Chrome). So, my argument to save Firefox is to stop trying to make money with it, and perhaps lobby governments around the world to mandate its usage or to add dedicated government IT workers to contribute patches and maintain localization and internationalization (not just for Firefox, but for other FLOSS stuff). It's not a crazy idea, since a lot of countries have rather efficient socialized postal services...
Which is why crypto cannot work for the general public. It pretends otherwise in spite of overwhelming evidence.
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> Do you understand how public health works?

Is the science settled on whether 90% vs 100% has an impact on the health of society given omicron?

> Meanwhile, anti-vaccine people are single-handedly working to revive diseases that were almost eradicated

Conflating traditional anti vaxers with the new COVID anti vaxers is dishonest, they actually usually come from different parts of the political spectrum.
Science cannot provide definitions, like of what consititutes life.
Inb4 notebooks tambien

It's okay to waste ideas.
I thought I was the only one doing this :P It definitely helps at smaller sizes, narrow fonts like MonoLisa simply become too faint to read easily otherwise
I just looked through the app list of my iPhone’s location privacy settings and every app has either “never”, “while using”, or “when shared”.

I never opt in to always sharing my location with apps that I’m not actively using and iOS makes that easy for me.
Most people also don't buy a smartphone every three years, they use them until they either die, or get stolen.
Chinese money has been heavily funding the Democrats too. Not much you can do
I don’t think the Indus Valley seals are a script at all. They might be more like corporate logos.

Try deciphering the english language from a bunch of billboards and pop/cans. Even if you figure out the alphabet there aren’t enough words to construct a single sentence.

All the AI in the universe won’t help when the problem is lack of real data.
Might be a weird question, but what sort of consultancy opportunities do you get? I have worked for a long time in a design and development agency and I (think) I saw very little opportunity or demand for consultancy.

To the point where I legitimately don't know who or in what situation all these businesses are that are spending so much money on 'consultancy'. When do these businesses seek consultants and what for? I know that might be a far reaching question, so any examples would be appreciated.
I also think creators of this font likely have not performed any market testing or studied price-revenue curves. I might take a bet that $5 flat price would produce higher revenues. Another option for them is to bundle many such fonts by forming group with other creators together. That has higher chance of selling a professional fonts as package to IDE makers and big tech.
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Slartibartfast:
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.

Arthur Dent:
And are you?

Slartibartfast:
Ah, no. Well, that's where it all falls down, of course.
Assume You're Going to Lose
Another site for comparing fonts is the excellent https://devfonts.gafi.dev/. This also doesn't have MonoLisa, though.
I kept that issue of Wired. Later I heard somewhere that this issue was the single most expensive magazine issue in history.

The article is dated December 1996.

I have yet to look through the previous HN submissions, does anyone know if there is an online scan of the original? The photography and art direction are magnificent, and what's an epic travelogue without photos?
You can zoom in! And edit! This is really cool.
Is this basically a use case where they don't want to create separate Windows users for some reason, but still would want their own private space in the browser?
It is absolutely awful by default; IntelliJ apps are slow to the point of being unusable out of the box. The good news is that it is easily fixed (at least for my use case). I have tinkered a bit and running them on JDK16 or later, with JATOC has been a life-saver for me the past year, and reduced my paying subscription to an act of charity.

"Develop with pleasure" is well and truly dead until they make the out-of-box experience FAST.
The author of that post also has written in the main post: https://julialang.org/blog/2022/02/10years/#jakob_nissen_a_h...
Can I sue you if your advice proves to be wrong and do you have insurance for such a liability?
It's really common for educated non-native speakers to spell better than native speakers. Because non-natives learn the language already with a written support, so they have worse pronunciation but better spelling compared to people who learn the language exclusively orally as kids.

My partner is a native speaker and I'm not, yet he often asks me how to spell.
> It is objectively easier for your brain to parse a single arrow symbol than it is to parse => in a monospace font. For the latter, you are scanning two symbols and only after seeing them both can your brain put them together into a semantic meaning.

Brain is really good in parallel processing of letters/symbols as units. I very much doubt that it's "objectively better". See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/word-rec... for overview of the research in this area.

For me the problem with ligatures is not so much of recognizing them but reproducing. I know that for arrow ligature I have to have = and >, but there may be ligatures that I might not be sure of how they're formed. Also, when reading the same code in different environment where the same font is not available I get different visual output where not only is the base shape of the letters different but code units as well. For example three lined equals ligature that some fonts produce. I really hate it.
Symbian did it first, there was an Apache version with mod_python available from Nokia themselves.
Nice docs. Needs status page and perhaps some sort of accessible changelogs/content in panel that shows that it's more 'alive' without visiting GitHub.

Some confusion how additional roles are created (didn't dive into API, just exploring the panel) - guess this is tenancy?
Goggle map is perfectly usable via a browser.
> What you're asking for is an uncommon edgecase that's not what people want in 99% of circumstances

It's how it worked before this change, and how it works for every other language in Markdown. This is taking away functionality with no reasonable replacement and creating a special-case gotcha in the Markdown syntax (the same syntax could produce highlighted code or a rendered image depending on the language and what features any particular Markdown implementation supports), and it's not clear why this is necessary when something like ```!mermaid would work just as well to trigger rendering. It's unforced bad language design.

> Use a tool like pygments to generate the highlighted HTML

This requires hardcoding colors into the generated HTML, so the highlighting won't match the color theme of the context that the document is embedded in, breaking e.g. dark mode.
> Yet another reminder to install as few apps as possible.

No, this is a reminder to not use proprietary software, which doesn't respect users' freedom.
> Switching to more productive crops wouldn't end subsidies. In face, we'd - at first - need more just to make sure folks have the proper equipment. If you currently grow corn and soybeans* then your equipment will be specialized for them, generally.

So what you’re saying is that the market doesn’t work?
Fair point, it does irk me though when people just assume any charitable giving is some clever tax dodge that equates to a zero cost action on the part of the donor.
It's not good enough in our experience, EventSource can still think it's connected when the server can no longer push data onto it. The periodic heartbeat to verify messages can still be sent on the connection is the only reliable way we've found to detect & autoretry failed connections.
I work for an enterprise-y and this is good advice. Feature-wise a decent audit log and single sign-on are table stakes. If you don't have those we keep looking, but those shouldn't impact your SME customer focus at all and are things that can be upcharged for (particularly the latter). Core value features available via API is also super important because we absolutely aren't going to be logging into your UI. Again something that can trigger differentiated pricing.

SOC2 is one of those non-functional requirements that can open up markets for you but you're going to pay for in time and energy. If enterprise-y is on your horizon I suggest at least understanding it so you don't make decisions that are counterproductive. But wait until you start to hear the music before you get up to dance with that one...it can be a pain.
Spotify changes its mixer volume too, at least on Linux
Or, better, Openstreetmap.
I have no issue with his personality - I have no idea who you're responding to with that point because it isn't me.

I very much doubt they could divert an asteroid right now - and if asteroid defense is the actual reason behind space innovation then why isn't anybody explicitly working on it? Because it's not profitable, and NASA's budget is pretty miniscule. Presumably if they thought it was a significant risk they'd be diverting what resources they have to asteroid defense.

My only issue with SpaceX is that Elon makes the argument that a Mars colony is somehow a counter to x-risk. It isn't, because any colony would be dependent on earth for survival for a long time and if we're worried about asteroids we should probably be defending earth instead of ditching 8 billion people and surviving with 1000 people on an inhospitable rock.
To force a division among the population is the real evil. We should demand better investments in the health sector, better salary to all workers involved on that (Doctors, nurses, teachers, policeman, etc), a covid treatment protocol that works and that's peer reviewed and supported by the scientists and eventually not the best for the pharma industry. We need transparency from Politicians in every single decision that affects the population.
Rust and servo were how they were innovating, and where a lot of the competitive features came from. By firing them, Mozilla made clear that they do not care about these things. The CEO is quite clearly a parasite hell-bent on extracting as much value as she can before bailing for the next victim.
The whole point of this taxation change is to account for ongoing electrification. The government are concerned about lost tax revenue from fuel duties and need a new mechanism to fund public roads through taxation by those who use it the most.

It's not just about pollutants.
> They can also be syntactic sugar obscuring a construct that would be much more readable if it were written as some nested loops and if statements.

For sure. I once wrote a list comprehension that was nearly 200 characters wide. I thought "eh...this is extremely unreadable" and rewrote it into several lines. I figured a rewrite into a few lines of code was the better choice than adding a comment, especially if I decided I needed to change it at some point. There was a performance drop, but it was only about a second, and only when the program was starting up.

Every language feature beyond basic binary operators can be abused, but the answer isn't to remove (or refuse to implement) them, but to smack engineers and tell them a firm "NO!" when they abuse them.

I have yet to see decorators being abused (Not denying it's happened, but I just haven't seen it myself yet), but I've seen someone abuse operator overloading. Someone had decided to write their own TCP socket class, and decided that "sock += 'some data'" was a great way to send data over the socket. The scapy library kind of abuses overloading the / operator in order to build network packets with multiple layers, but I think it works in that case because anything else might actually be harder to read.