skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I work for Mozilla, though far from where decisions about telemetry would be made.)

Usage times and intensity are of high value when trying to improve market share. People who barely use the browser are at high risk of stopping use altogether. (For example, they might use multiple browsers, but most of their activity occurs on another and if they figure out multiple profiles or something, they'll leave altogether.) You can't do an A/B test to see what improves usage intensity if you don't measure usage intensity. Also, it's far from PII. And making it opt-in would make the stats useless; people who explicitly choose to allow telemetry are going to have vastly different usage patterns than the bulk of people who do not so choose.

Extensions are very important for crash reports. Far less than they used to be; many crashes could only happen when an extension did something specific. Extensions are now sandboxed enough that this isn't nearly as common, but if a crash signature has a high correlation with a particular extension, it can easily turn a non-actionable bug into something actionable.

Extensions for general telemetry are iffier. The info is fairly high value for things like understanding how people are using the browser and what features are popular or missing. But rare extensions also provide a lot of fingerprinting info. It's important to keep those metrics away from PII, and recorded independently so they can't be correlated.

Country of origin is pretty clearly useful. Mozilla has to allocate resources across countries, including marketing resources, but I would think it's really product management where it matters most. Users gain a lot of benefit from the browser adapting to different markets. (Screenshots have a wildly different importance in countries with Asian writing systems; Europe and especially Germany take privacy much more seriously.)

> Next thing you know they might try to increase engagement time like they're some sort of social network. "Unlock the new exclusive colorway by logging in 30 days in a row." seems like something that could be implemented, seeing how they're time limited already.

Heh. I do not want to predict what our marketing people will or won't do. I have mixed feelings about quite a few things. I'm not happy about ads appearing anywhere in the interface. But I'm also not happy about being dependent on Google ad money.
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Web 3 has been defined as all kinds of nonsense for the last 15 years. The first time I heard this was the semantic web and almost immediately business tried to redefine that term to some conglomeration of social media and advertising. Crypto isn't even decentralized, its distributed, which is the source of the sham.

Web X.whatever is not about content. Its not even about technology. That is why term has failed to stick each and every time. Business people looking to drum up VC need something like this because a simple catch phrase is easier to sell than a concept they have no hope of understanding or explaining.

Do you remember what Web2.0 was? Yes, this was a real concept, and yes it did succeed and proliferate. In short, Web2.0 was use of asynchronous HTTP requests from pages. At that time the technology was just XMLHttpRequest (XHR), but it wasn't about the technology. It was about what you did with it. If you cannot remember back to writing code for the front end web back to 2005-2007 when this first became a thing I don't expect this to make any sense to you because you have no context.

Back then the web was a series of HTML forms and/or static pages. That's it. Content could not change and information could not be submitted without loading a new page. XHR radically changed the experience and how users interfaced with data and how data providers interfaced with users. That change to the business experience was Web2.0. Back then it was a massive improvement, but then you also didn't have the world's largest frameworks to make it so slow and unoriginal.

If people want the Web3.0 moniker to stick to something then apply to something that radically changes how the user perceives the web. Crypto is not and will never be that thing. If VCs lack so much empathy they are bound for losses by shams and cons.

One example of what a Web3.0 could be is a streaming experience where pages load in less than 0.5 seconds (with full state management) and transmit/receive updates in near real time such that you only need a delay spinner for the extreme edge cases.
You may be surprised that some people play board games assuming some kind of "fair play" or "play with fun in mind" rule is implicit. They may get very pissed off if you "ruin" a game by taking every single advantage you can according to the rules.

[EDIT] Risk and Catan also have what are sometimes regarded as straight-up design flaws that can cause "zombie players" who stick around for most/all of the game but, very early on, no longer have any chance of winning. In both cases pretty much the only entertaining thing left to do is to be a prick to other players and try to play "kingmaker" by causing the second-place player to overtake the first-place one. Often, in Catan, if you're that badly screwed you don't really even have a way to do that much. This leaves the zombie player having a pretty bad time just about no matter what, and can leave other players upset if the zombie player stopped playing to win and started playing just to mess with other players. Risk, especially played in the (really, really not great, as much as I liked it when I was 10 years old) world-conquest mode, also has a problem with very long games and early player elimination, in addition to sometimes generating hopelessly-screwed-but-not-technically-out-yet players.
To me the greatness of using something like neovim/vim is that you don't have to use the mouse. This I don't know what's good for...
Hello, in this article we will be looking at the filter() method, which is a javascript method frequently used by frontend developers in daily business life.
Enron was followed by regulation reworking the system to prevent it from happening again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act

There's little indication the crypto ecosystem is inclined to do the same. See, for example, Tether's continued core role despite years of lying about audits and getting caught cooking the books for their attestations.
I'm currently experiencing this with a 3 month old startup (I'm the CTO)
Two years into a marriage with a 6 month old kid,

My experience:

- It's hard, if your playing a video game it would be in `very hard` mode

- Talk to your wife beforehand, she was okay with the opportunity

- Had a LOT of savings

- Have a co-founder (highly recommend it)

- We've raised preseed money (co-founder handled all of that)

- I hired an ex-coworker that I worked with previously (that's why you raise money)

- I'm remote so I get to spend more time with my baby (if I'm not productive during that day I try to code long nights and usually feed the baby during the night so my wife rests)

Overall it's been super hard but gratifying :)

PS: I also try to exercise for an hour a day to keep me sane
There are many examples, for example in the state of Pennsylvania, all parties must consent. While it is a felony to record and then playback without consent (you are correct in this case), it is a punishable misdemeanor to violate privacy (broadcasting is not required) with a fine of up to $5000 in the first violation and 2 years of prison and/or up to a $5000 fine after the first violation.
> He was tasked with implementing versions of simple, relaxing JS games like Tetris which would be used by Twitter's moderation staff when they felt they had accumulated too much stress and needed a break.

Oh my god, this is incredible. Thank you for this story.
Thank you for pointing this out. Your observations make it seem more credible.
To be fair, DAI is mostly backed by USDC.
Regardless of what equipment you do or don't travel with, I would recommend backing up up anything important to storage that won't be carried on your person. Even if flying goes smoothly, equipment could still be lost / stolen / damaged at other stages of the trip.
Night store heaters were very popular in New Zealand a long time ago and you still see them occasionally in older houses.

Because of their length they were usually installed in corridors, so they warmed corridors rather than bedrooms or living rooms.

I am not sure why stopped being popular but maybe it was the rise of heat pumps which are ubiquitous in most of the country now.
>Maximizing profits often requires minimizing the welfare of others - for example through exploitative labor practices.

This is completely untrue. Let's say you choose the rather extreme example of corporate executive who outsources jobs to Asia for purely selfish motivations. They are still undeniably injecting wealth to a poorer economy that otherwise would not have happened , and this wealth allows people purchase goods that dramatically increase their livelihoods like antibiotics, electricity, or cleaner burning stoves.

Even if you want to approach this from a "capitalism bad" angle, this still doesn't make sense. It's not like EA is a primary motivation of people wanting to work lucrative jobs. On the internet, you can see endless number of comments about wanting to work a FAANG job, and none of them have anything to do with EA.
None of this, though reasonably stated, is good reason why crypto should underpin what comes next. And 7 years goes by fast. I've been in the web business professionally for almost 25 years and I can promise you that the fundamentals of the platform are not going to be upended by the fantasies of crypto dreamers by 2030. Hopefully we'll see more decentralization, or at least decentralized solutions more effectively competing with the centralized systems, but we're absolutely not going to see HTML, CSS, and JS apps and sites served over HTTPS replaced by this Web3 nonsense. My prediction is that the web of 2030 will look pretty much like it does today with a bit more capability and a somewhat different set of dominant players. My wish is that some of those dominant players are building experiences that are more user empowering, with better privacy and even anonymity characteristics.
Matt will get the Nobel for it.
They could have invested outside of Germany, but maybe that wasn't legal.

Of course, lots of money found its way to Switzerland anyway over the decades, and those bankers were very close-mouthed.
My experience is that I sort of ran out of energy for the true start-up experience once the children arrived. My priorities also shifted: I wanted to spend time with my family not wrestle some alligator that had small chances of success. The upside though is that I didn’t take investor money and I’ve ended up with a small bootstrapped business that actually serves my objectives quite well.
Here [1] is a story that shows a possible scenario of what might happen if your boss fears your side/open source project and believes it directly competes with his company's main mission. Fortunately, the story ends in favor of the engineer.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
Which is unacceptable for an engineer who must participate in architecture meetings.
I don’t think anyone believes equality of opportunity has been achieved. Only that it is a value worth striving for as opposed to equality of outcome.
> Well, I've been perfectly happy with the "ancient" power management of my computers. It took a decade or two until suspend/resume actually _worked_ most of the time, and now all of that has been swapped out wholesale by a set of states that are at least an order of magnitude more complicated.

This. I want suspend/deep sleep. I don't mind slow wake; and I definitely don't want bluetooth, wifi, etc running while it's supposed to be idle. 90% of the issues with Windows on Laptops waking and causing them to overheat in backpacks is because of this bullshit half-sleep/smart-sleep they've started adding and forcing users to live with.

At least let me, as an informed person, choose to allow my laptop to suspend still.
A few paths for you in my mind:

1. Bootstrap a side hustle

IMO starting a side hustle that becomes profitable enough to quit your day job is the best strategy here.

There are very few SaaS ideas that will produce $B returns in <10 years. They're all highly competitive with well-funded competitors.

However, there are easily thousands of SaaS ideas that will produce $10k/mo (with 90% margins) in the next 1-2 years. Take pretty much any existing SaaS product (eg. Segment, Zapier, Intercom, Jira, etc) and build a simpler version with nicer design for lower pricing, and you can get paying customers.

Once you're making $10k/mo (or even less) and growing you can probably quit your job and then that frees up a ton of time to invest in the existing business or a new business.

2. Buy someone's side hustle

Check our Microacquire. Tons of people are buying and selling SaaS companies on there.

If you have some money saved up, and some risk tolerance, you could consider buying a very small SaaS business (eg. $1k-2k/mo revenue) and growing it from there.

Even if this isn't an option for you, it's probably a good idea to check out Microacquire anyway to get inspiration for ideas for SaaS companies for #1.

3. Raise a pre-seed round

Try to find a VC firm who is willing to give you some money to spend time starting a company. This will be easier if you have a) a good background, b) a good co-founder, c) a good idea/big market and ideally an MVP.

That's kind of what the pre-seed round is all about. It gives VCs exposure to get into your company early at a great price, and it gives you a way to work on your idea while still making a salary.

4. Apply to be an entrepreneur in residence

A lot of VC firms have EIR positions where you basically get paid a salary while you're trying to decide what startup you want to start. The idea is that when you start a company you'll raise your first round from that VC firm.
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My thoughts exactly. Apparently making a blog post explains it better than comments on pro-EA posts so kudos to you
You can, but on the assumption that your spouse also works (and earns enough to can handle the mortgage payment on her own and provide for the family on her income alone until you raise your first round).

It's not sustainable indefinitely, and with the current funding environment you may not be able to raise money. Even after raising money the startup life will be all-consuming so spending extended time with wife and children is going to be next to impossible.
dont leave the job/get an easier job. Ive been in jobs where yoi basically work 4h a week. Especially in very inefficient north european companies. nothing ever gets done.
Are you unfamiliar with the oil and gas industry? Many of those jobs pay pretty well, and much of the work is out in rural areas.

As for starting your own business, why not? There's plenty of demand for welding services right now.
I'm sorry to remind you of a bad time. I would like to point out that "2016 Ugliest Shirts" is a pretty different concept from "Person who wore the ugliest shirt this week" with a picture of you in a ratty beloved tee. It sounds like those were year end remarks, which means instead of judging an act they were judging your long term taste. Also it implies the most memorable thing about you was your shirt choice. And lastly, you weren't anticipating it, so you found out everyone was secretly judging you on something.

If, during orientation you were told a trophy gets given out every week for it, and some people wear really ugly shirts each Friday to try to win it, it would have felt very different.

But yeah, year end humorous awards like that probably belong confined to episodes of The Office.
I have a few of these. It's a good companion for fruit trees as it attracts ladybugs and other aphid-eaters. Also why are we discussing this here.
There's a lot of free tools that will do this too on all platforms. Xodo is my go to on Windows/Android/iOS. On Linux evince and okular are both pretty good.
> Twitter can't turn off servers and sell off data centers without impacting the product.

A friend of mine tried to tell me that Elon had some type of new computing technology that would let them turn off most of their servers because they could fit all of the tweets in less space.

He blocked me after I told him he had confused Elon Musk with gzip.
> AMA!

Eager to try it but encountering the build error here - https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit/issues/11

Do you have a reference build log / environment you can share? Last known good commit sha and/or output from "rustup show"?
Sharepoint is what you settle for when you can't convince your company to spring for Confluence.
Love your comment. However, remember that those ideas and practices for success were born in a demand market, and we’ve tipped into a market that is short on the supply chain side. The role of an entrepreneur is to gauge probabilities and be where it’s most needed in 3 years.
Was instagram selling advertising to giant brands yet when they were bought? Sales staff balloon because they are really good at selling themselves to hiring staff and also because any brand that pulls in more than $10M in revenue expects to be treated like the only king of the world in pretty much every interaction and literally requires handlers, and the number of handlers required scales with the size of the brand.
right, politics is one thing that really drives the market, because (usually) you can't predict it. If you could, it would already be reflected in the prices.
Another point against the intersection of EA and HN: it seems to agitate souls very much. I guess every age has its religion... and moral justification for its deeds.
Truly great use of technology and creativity here. Pole Dancing
He probably uses protonmail
how in the world do you draw such a conclusion from an otherwise interesting and advancing piece of technology. every tech has drawbacks, we can't hold back as a species just because there are drawbacks. we need to build around them.
Can you negotiate down to a 4 or 3 day a week job and cover your expenses? Giving yourself one or two while workdays to make progress until you know it can work or not?
The "disabled" metric is a joke. A lot of NEETs aren't really disabled and are gaming the system with fake diagnoses and are outright lying.

There's a whole class of these guys who have basically retired on the state dime and use MGTOW tropes like blaming women, the work force, home ownership, etc to justify their laziness.

I used to be sympathetic but when you meet these guys, they're basically a "big rock candy mountain" hobos and have a myriad of personal problems they refuse to fix since the state freebies make it possible to live this way.
Interesting, thanks for the correction. Apologies for not RTFM’ng first.
I find the current use of the word "terrorist" to be very strange. It seems to be little more than special pleading; The western powers apply it liberally to their enemies, essentially to label them as evil, while not applying it to allied actors. For instance, the ongoing conflict in Yemen is causing massive harm to civilian populations, but the Saudian Arabian state has not been designated as "Terrorist". I am completely in favour of the establishment of tribunal to prosecute war crimes, but these should be based upon the well-defined and recognised principles of international law, not arbitrary labels like "Terrorist".
Interesting. We should compare this to "chemo brain" and "anesthesia brain" also.
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In France, some middle/high school classes actually teach you how to use a word processor. Some of them also include group presentations with slides

So computers are pretty much a necessity yes.
"This time we learned from the mistakes of the past."

"... the boy began to delight in his daring flight, and abandoning his guide, drawn by desire for the heavens, soared higher. His nearness to the devouring sun softened the fragrant wax that held the wings: and the wax melted: he flailed with bare arms, but losing his oar-like wings, could not ride the air. Even as his mouth was crying his father’s name, it vanished into the dark blue sea ..." - Ovid
Well, you can actually just script that. Dropbox is fun, until you want previous versions.

At the place I worked for 22 years ago, we had an SMB fileshare for designers/front-end devs (html templates + templating lang), which would simply commit everything to CVS at night.
If using the lowest friction or default path in a tool leads to bad outcomes, that's a problem with the tool. Not the user.
That’s the one. An intelligent and enthusiastic group of players can extend it indefinitely. It’s all lawyering and deal making, even more than Diplomacy, it can continue for hours and hours, and you dare not leave the room for a second, lest all your carefully worked out dealmaking be washed away in an instant.
Especially when you consider that because of natal citizenship, you could have come over with a young wife, had a kid, and then been laid off - and your kid is a US citizen!
I guess I am the target market. I don't mind using the mouse when I'm not in the "flow" of editing. Even browsing code, scroll wheels are pretty expressive, and clicking to jump to definition is fine. Ok not typing, so I don't need to keep my hand on the home row.

But the actual editing doesn't use the mouse.
The MIT license requires attribution (in the form of the copyright notice and the license file) for the MIT licensed code.

But it doesn't require that other code in the project be released under the MIT license (or even released at all), which is what copyleft would do.

It's pretty close to releasing it to the public domain, and the point of that is that it's actually really hard to release something to the public domain worldwide. Just saying something like "I release this code to the public domain" doesn't have the same effect in every country.
Oh snap!
Been more and more annoyed lately about just this. Thank you for sharing!
Even "simple" things become complex when they need to scale to billions of users around the world, handle a high rate of traffic, deal professionally and legally with all the different jurisdictions they operate in and all the advertisers they serve, etc.
> I live in a suburb in my 20s, I spend most of my time on screens, single, living alone, very occasionally get together with friends. But because I have a software job, I guess I am part of the "successful" class?

I would say "I have a software job" is the healthiest quality you listed with the other things ranging from a little negative to neutral. By all means pursue your own interests, but we all know people choose things that aren't good for them all the time so simply professing a preference doesn't undermine concern.
I'd really hope most HN users who are unfamiliar with common internet slang (NEET) or economic measures (GINI) would be smart enough to use their preferred search engine to fill in the blanks.