skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're doing charts, you should probably superimpose a third: the average compensation of a CEO at a firm with a similar number of MAUs. Baker is probably underpaid, on average, for the size of Firefox's user base.

Does this mean that she's actually undercompensated? No. $3M/year is an obscene amount of money to pay anyone. But her public position is factually correct[1]: she could go somewhere else and make significantly more money, and it's up to the Mozilla board to determine whether that's a bluff or not.

[1]: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/paradise/money/
More I think about it, I feel Firefox should just be a project under the Apache Foundation, which runs tons of wonderful projects. Mozilla shouldn't / needn't exist.
I've seen an even more brutal approach at a friend - he shorted the thermostat and put a mechanical socket timer set to approximately 25% duty cycle - works good enough for a fridge, no one cares if it is 2 degrees off.
People say this a lot but there aren’t many examples of this actually happening in legal matters.

The bigger risk is losing the trademark inside of people’s minds—which would have to happen first anyways. Similar to Velcro, which still legally has the trademark but to the public it’s genericized.
That a big useless boat is a vastly bigger panty-dropper then a working fusion reactor says everything about our species, doesn't it?
Large yachts are functional. They’re mobile own territory for people operating on the level of nation states.

Booking out a hotel for hundreds of aides, attachés and visitors is very difficult outside the largest cities. Securing it can be impossible. Particularly on short notice. A yacht solves those problems.

(I’d still pick the reactor.)
ARC will be about the size of JET, and JET was built in four years, with most of that being just for the buildings. The test reactor, SPARC, will be about half that size.

Tokamak scaling is very well established. The output scales with the square of plasma volume, and the fourth power of magnetic field strength. Stronger magnetic fields also make the plasma more stable. JET already demonstrated a five-second plasma, which they only had to shut down because they have copper coils that would melt if operated longer than that.

Because of all this, many independent fusion researchers think SPARC will succeed in getting 10X gain in 2025. After that, the larger ARC should easily reach commercial levels.

Of all the commercial fusion companies, CFS is the most conservative one. Tokamak Energy is a close second, with a very similar approach. The other fusion startups are attempting approaches that have more physics risk, though many of them would have fewer engineering and economic difficulties if the physics does work out.
For myself, coming from a design bg, I think of programming (working on my programming) as a paint brush that lets me do more stuff / open up opportunities for both work and creativity.

Whether a project itself is a means to an end depends on how much and how deeply I care about the project.
How does that work if all these things already existed before the acquisition?

Clearly nobody cared about protecting the name before.

The whole reason Wordle is so popular is because all the stuff around it.
> Further up in the thread here, there's a comment that people will rabidly defend manufacturer's horrible decisions with false arguments.

That in itself is an incredibly ideological remark. "These arguments are false/invalid/insincere! There is no cost/manufacturing/reliability/usage benefit to completely sealing a toothrush, gaskets/o-rings/re-welding are just as good!"

Ya, I get it: you'll make us buy the toothbrushes that became outdated 10 years ago through some sort of top-down government regulation, and we will grudgingly like it because all of our arguments otherwise for preferring the newer things are invalid.
Show HN: Secure Time Capsule – Send a rich private message through time
Problem

Sending a private message through time to someone (your family, future self or posterity) when you have possibility to pass them a password.

Solution

This repo is a couple of scripts that simplifies the following steps:

- Compress and encrypt (AES-256) any files that we want to send through time

- Add the encrypted result to any public website as a plain text (base64) along with decryption instructions (without the key)

- Submit the page to Internet Archive to preserve the message
From Wikipedia:

> After leaving his position as head chef at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Boiardi opened a restaurant called Il Giardino d'Italia in 1924 at East 9th Street and Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The idea for Chef Boyardee came about when restaurant customers began asking Boiardi for his spaghetti sauce, which he began to distribute in milk bottles. Four years later, in 1928, Boiardi opened a factory and moved production to Milton, Pennsylvania, where he could grow his own tomatoes and mushrooms. He decided to name his product "Boy-Ar-Dee" to help Americans pronounce his name correctly. The first product to be sold was a "ready-to-heat spaghetti kit" in 1928. The kit included uncooked pasta, tomato sauce, and a container of pre-grated cheese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Boyardee
So I agree and disagree. I wouldn't call this person a close friend--it's someone I went to school with and spent time growing up with. She lives in another state. She's a friend as in someone who if I saw them I would talk to them and they wouldn't be a stranger or mere acquaintance. I have only a handful of close friends and I am not someone with hundreds of superficial friends, but I think there are some people who do make an enough of an effort to stay in contact and be nice towards enough people over time to have 1000+ friends--even if not super close any longer.
Is it not useful to consider the envelop of possibilities from a widespread outage like that?
yes carmen sandiego had a similar thing happen

ppl are still looking
Have you considered working in a coworking space?

If you find a nice place, rent a desk or a flex workspace, you can have the office social interactions while maintaining your freedom.

Maybe not meetings and arguing, but you can certainly have conversations. Likely you will also find people in similar situations as you are in.
I‘d love for that to be true like all of us, but isn't the first paragraph contradicting the title?

> Ukraine-Russia war: China denies Russian request for aid

> The spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington responded to media reports on Sunday that Moscow had asked Beijing for military equipment since launching its invasion of Ukraine by saying, "I've never heard of that."

???
Might be this one?

"Reductio ad absurdum"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Or "Logical Extreme"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_extreme
It's just wrong on so many points it's just difficult to argue it.

Russians didn't build castles: they did and they also had castle-like monasteries (even the Moscow stone Kremlin has been built during the Mongol yoke). Using Polish flags of the 16th century as an illustration is also at best misleading
https://youtu.be/f8ZqBLcIvw0

The black plague had almost no impact because the black plague was very limited in Russia.

All this stuff about aristocracy competing for the favor of the monarch just disregards that almost every Romanov monarch was a result of a coup by aristocracy

Russian church was independent till Aleksei Mikhailovich and we still have old-believers.

It completely disregards the fact that during Ivan the Terrible rule Siberia was conquered by an independent knyaz (it was basically a private entity).

Comparing Russia to China is based on economic developments of the last 30 years. 40 years ago Russia was a super-state while China was recovering from its Cultural revolution. We don't know what is going to happen in the next 30 years.

Nowadays Russia in some points is less centralised than even European union.
I don’t think you can carry a Hubble telescope with you
Right and that forceful siphoning of wealth was a result of mercantilist policies. Capitalism is simply taking the world as it existed and building on that. It didn’t create it though.

If the British Empire had actually been a true economically liberal capitalist system from the start it wouldn’t look anything like it does now. The USA would be part of the commonwealth because the mercantilist monopolistic constraint on the tea trade wouldn’t have happened, so no Boston Tea Party. India would have been hugely more developed and industrialised. The fact that it was prevented from doing so was a clearly mercantilist policy, restraining the free development of the domestic Indian economy along capitalist lines, sometimes by force. Adam Smith would have been appalled.

It was precisely the transition of the British Empire from a mercantilist to a liberal free trade capitalist economy that made the imperial system untenable and unnecessary.

I’m not in any way denying the head start imperialism gave us, but imperialism and capitalism are not the same thing, and were frequently at odds with each other. In fact the Whig and Tory political struggle of the time was in some ways one between pro capitalist (liberal) and pro imperial forces.
OK, we've put that phrase in the title above. Thanks!
I can't think of any sense in which the corporation that employees Baker is "not a real company." Are you saying that because they're a wholly owned subsidiary?
Something like this but preferrably in Russian: https://war.ukraine.ua/
Differential diagnosis Hub is the System distinguishing of a health condition
The problem is that no-code is not well-defined. It's used to label everything from Excel to Airtable to Zapier to Webflow to Bubble to Retool.

And within that umbrella, some of them are relevant to the HN crowd.

Your examples, like spreadsheets for supply chain planning or DAWs for music production, are indeed disconnected from what developers touch. Your Ableton projects don't concern them.

But other times, the tool very much impacts developers. For instance, I work on https://www.plasmic.app, which lets marketing teams build landing pages and other content on React websites. Here, the stakes are higher when it comes to page performance, design system consistency, component reuse, and so on. As such, developers heavily vet the tool, similar to picking a CMS, and virtually all of our customer adoption was driven by developers.

So relevancy to devs depends entirely on what specific tool/use case you're talking about.
At one point, pre 2011 I think, you didn’t need one for the crossword either.
But the funny thing is - TF has never been faster than Pytorch. Even when Pytorch just came out they were roughly the same in terms of speed.
In my experience, developers that reach for design patterns recently read a design patterns book and are desperate to apply them to problems, instead of trying to figure out the best solution to the problem. Design patterns (imo) should be used to get a feel for the design space that you can choose from, but it’s far from a total enumeration.
Explaining and communicating the strategic goals is the job of the CTO. They're adults, they can deal with being told "no". And changing priorities due to strategic shifts shouldn't be happening frequently.
"Loss of sovereignty" is just part of Polish right-wing anti-European propaganda. The rule of law crisis in Poland has been caused by its current ruling party entirely on its own, with no help from the EU. We're talking about people who, among other things, decided not to send the Constitutional Court's ruling they didn't like to printing and pretended that this means it doesn't apply, so take any claims about "sovereignty" from them with a huge grain of salt as this word is unlikely to mean to them what it means to most people.
unfortunately, any propose to educate or "responsibilize" voters in today climate can be seen as racist/bad, expecially if "progressives" turfs are at stake. Wrong?
We just need to move back to an earlier version before Google kept "pushing the web forward" out of everyone else's reach.
Yes there are ethnic ties between them. That doesn't mean they are identical, or that one should rule the other. Should Scotland rule Ireland (or vice versa) because they are both Gaelic peoples that were part of the British Empire?
The second most powerful man in Russia
Curious why you singled out that bit and not "Canada/Toronto love"?

Turning Red is the first Pixar film solo-directed by a Chinese-Canadian woman Domee Shi (who also made the Academy Award winning Bao short). The film was inspired by her childhood in Toronto, hence the many Canadian references, and is told from a culturally and gender specific lens. It's a 2nd generation immigrant story.

Remember, there are tons of Chinese people out there who have little or nothing to do with the authoritarian Chinese state. I should know. I'm one of them.

This knee-jerk bias against anything Chinese is xenophobic and racist.
You'd lose a lot too given that Domee Shi is the first solo woman director and first Asian led production at Disney.
To have built them, you first have to plan, fund, and then actually build them, all of which takes actual time.

Nobody announces billion-dollar physical construction projects for untested tech.
I should add to this that attacking the person instead of the argument is, sadly, something that is all too common today and possibly exacerbated by the Pavlovian reactions of the unthinking masses in social media. It is far easier to attack the person than to do the sometimes difficult work involved in truly evaluating what they might be proposing.

This is a particularly cruel and unfair fallacy as well. What it means is that if a person makes a mistake someone can put their finger on nothing that person says or does ever in their entire lives will be deemed worthy of evaluation. Everything they do or say from that point forward is false, invalid, wrong, not acceptable. Why? Because of who they are.

That is not a society of which anyone would want to be a part.

Anyone who has ever made a mistake or said something wrong in life should be able to understand just how wrong it is to look at the world in this manner. Not one human being on this planet can claim not having been wrong one or, more than likely, hundreds, if not thousands of times. This is why in Logic we are taught that arguments have be be evaluated for correctness and soundness (two different things) without any regard for the source.
Did a lot of racists play Wordle on the NYT page? Is there a stormfront thread about it or something? I haven't really seen any news of racists being outraged by this; likely because many of the removed words are not racially-charged terms.
I think the criticism of that rentier class is based on them not contributing much so taking to role of owner rather than executive in today’s terms.
I understand your intention is to launch "cold" Firefox instance that does not call home, update the "safe browsing" databases etc, so this will probably not be of any help, but you may try launching it with `--offline` command line argument and uncheck the (alt) "Menu > File > Work Offline" when you are ready to "reveal yourself". For testing it with throwaway profile you can do:

firefox --offline --no-remote --profile <path where throwaway profile folder can be created>

The `--offline` argument is quite strange for a several reasons:
1. it is quite undocumented, but works from what I've tried. It is not even exposed in `firefox --help | more`. It used to be mentioned at MDN page [1] but that is gone now.
2. From what I've tried now, offline mode lets you browse localhost, what seems super useful but I don't recall it have always been this way.
3. Also browsing properly cached pages seems to work super well; not sure it is due service workers finally caught up and works or proper HTTP headers are used nowadays. Interesting is that even the hard refresh of cached page gives you cached version in offline mode. (Again, I'm not sure it used to be this way in the past. I remember that nearly no webpage worked well in offline mode few years back.)

I have not run any network traffic audit so I cannot verify it really does not attempt to reach for something outside localhost.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20210530092017/https://developer.... (I have a super murky memory it might be me who added it there, but today I had to find SU answer mentioning it [2] to even try that)
[2] https://superuser.com/questions/1691419/how-to-start-firefox...

(Update) And one more thing: when using Profile Manager there is a nifty "Work offline" checkbox in there. Run

firefox --profilemanager

There is also checkbox "Use selected profile without asking" that when unchecked presumably adds

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

to the `<appdata>\Mozilla\Firefox\installs.ini`. I've found this handy to do if you occasionally mess with various Fx versions and want to be sure you will not unintentionally load "nightly" profile with "stable" executable.
Honestly, who cares?

Unlike other ads, it's not invading my privacy and it's not really in my way.

They're not tracking me or selling my data or doing anything creepy.

Firefox continues to be the ONLY major browser run by a non-profit, and the ONLY major browser not a shim over chromium. It's still a great product.

If this is what they have to do to keep the lights on, then cool, whatever. How many of y'all who use Firefox donate or buy their VPN anyways.
This piece is getting a lot of attention on western blob sphere because it's "China's Chernobyl" tier fantasy thinking analysis by one of the few pro-west voices in PRC analysis circles. Obviously the piece got censored right away. Like Ren Zhiqiang / Cai Xia, former got purged, latter had to escape to west and now works for lol Hudson Institute copypasting neolib positions. Important to note unlike west where blob expertise i.e. think tank / NGOs has much larger impact on actual policy than in PRC where there's parallel set of internal CCP expertise to draw from. Recent interviews from western China-hands who still have some connection with PRC counterparts (i.e. track 1.5/2/3 diplomacy) after two years of muted people-to-people contact due to covid travel have overwhelming concluded PRC decision makers are hardened their stance that US after Trump/Biden is systematically incapable of being light on PRC again. There's no hope for rapprochement. Hu's analysis that turns every dice roll wildly pro-west certainly won't reach politburo and if it did, his concluding line will certainly elicit a chuckle:

> As a result, China will surely win widespread international praise for maintaining world peace, which may help China prevent isolation but also find an opportunity to improve its relations with the United States and the West.

Believing PRC should (and can) improve relations with US is medically retarded at this point. Let alone "surely win international praise". And to do so freely without any concessions in return knowing full well a contained RU means PRC is next on the chopping block. If West want PRC's help, start by lifting tariffs, removing sanctions, selling EUV machines, stop arming TW. The fact that US has continued pressure on PRC over TW, EU still jerks about IndoPac, while having talks with sanctioned countries like VZ to release oil means there's no point adopting "mainstream" / west position that's actually not mainstream considering more than half world's population are sitting out (including most of ASEAN). Currently PRC has no interest picking sides, and if it had to, it would pick turning east Europe into a prolonged quagmire behind the scenes because EU foreign policy was shifting anti PRC pre UKR anyway. If UKR is the start of a "world [that] is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century", PRC would opt for changes that makes LIO weaker not stronger.
Oh if you only you would step back and investigate for a second what the story is about instead of jumping to such a knee-jerk conclusion....
Yes exactly, I don't have a large social circle. And don't have any 'real' costumers. So basically it is just 95% coding. Not sure if a larger social circle could fix it, at the cooperation, each day had a lot of social interactions. Maybe meeting some friends every day would do the trick, but far away from it. Right now I just try to travel as much as possible. That helps a bit.
The concept is old, but there's new engineering for a specific practical design.
I think it is for kitchens, and it is relatively new. My 25 year old refinished kitchen has the outlets, but not the separate circuits. No nespresso + toast.
i've been happy with Waterfox
The article made a good bit of sense until this point:

"It’s not okay to refer generally to ancient religions practiced through Africa as animism. In fact, Animism should be capitalized because it refers to a specific set of beliefs."

There's no evidence to the claim that animism is a specific set of beliefs. Animism is a category of beliefs with some common features. There are various, independently concieved animisms practiced around the world and even within the same tribe.

I wonder what the author thinks about capitalizing the words "paganism" and "mythology", since they refer to a certain beliefs held or once held.
LINQ is very hard to debug, especially depending on the provider. With anything remotely complicated it becomes write-once (like Perl :p)
I’ve always been driven by some innate urge to solve difficult problems. The job came as a fortunate artifact of that. I would be programming no matter what my job was.
Can someone explain why so many are infuriated by a single ad?
That's always been obvious to me. The Web & Net are built on RFCs: Requests for Comment. They aren't called PRD's (protocol requirement documents) or something along those lines. Kind of beautiful actually, that it wasn't as top down as I would have expected.
Once upon a time Joern worked with neo4j, which is a tool that I use very often at work for building attack graphs (via Bloodhound). Last time I sat down and really tried working with Joern, they had moved to some weird custom graph database which kind of killed my motivation to work with it. It seems to have made a lot of progress since then, so I'll try to find some time to get back into it, but I'm really curious if anyone on this thread has any insight to why they made that switch.

I have this grand vision of the entire global software supply chain being loaded into a massive distributed database as a CPG style graph, such that with any new software update, anyone can immediately determine any modifications in security properties. People could say that they want to use certain software stack, for a certain use case, in a certain environment, and craft a query that directly informs them of every possible attack path in the proposed system.

The great thing about systems like these is that as new bug classes are discovered, you can almost immediately identify every place where that bug class might have a security impact. It could be like a giant Wikipedia where security professionals (and enthusiasts) are contributing new bug classes, finding interesting attack paths, and adding new software components to the graph.

Obviously lots of hard problems to solve between here and there, but it could be fun :-)
S2 wouldn't be a bad choice, it lets you compute "coverings" of arbitrary regions as S2 cells, with variable resolution. Fixed size is trickier but is probably doable, especially if you're allowed to null out unused cells. Check out https://s2.sidewalklabs.com/regioncoverer/
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