skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Australian App Store right now:

- TikTok (#11)

- Instagram (#12)

- Facebook (#18)

- Threads (#25)

- X (#123)

So based on available data it clearly isn't where it used to be in terms of popularity. And based on poor Twitter Blue subscription numbers [1] and the fact advertising revenue has halved [2] the company isn't financially doing so well either.

[1] https://github.com/travisbrown/blue

[2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/twitters-ad-revenue-has-s...
So this isn't just for Mozilla staff and company profiles? They're going to run fediverse accounts for everyone with a Firefox account?

Hmm
If it is a black hole then won’t the nearest planets get sucked into it?
I as "a proper programmer" also include cost analysis, which was the main argument given by my parent poster.
> IVG would render the biological clock irrelevant, by enabling women of any age to have genetically related children. That raises questions about whether there should be age limits for IVG baby-making.

Yeah, certainly can't let women breed at any age like men do.
Sorta! It's no longer a Mozilla Corporation product, although it's still owned by the Mozilla Foundation (it spun off as MZLA). But that being said, yes, I agree!

(Thunderbird isn't great, though, and there's no iPhone version. I'd much rather be able to, for example, use Superhuman or Spark or something. Right now, I give Google all my data, and don't even use the GMail interface.)

Source: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/
Did you miss the "Best approach would be not to do it at all"?

The first sentence is basically only a variation of "don't write it in an email if you wouldn't want to read it in the news".

If the article was about a body being discovered in a murderers backyard and I had written "ideally don't bury bodies in your backyard" you would have questioned how sick and twisted I am that I didn't write "don't kill people"? The prior is inherent to the statement.
Maybe people don’t need to search so much?
This is pretty much what Airtable went through last year, and phased out general file hosting.

It'd be nice if either Discord or Airtable let you give an S3 or R2 bucket URL and you can just pay for hosting yourself, without the file expirations. Doing that makes it a headache for everyone.

I like how Notion handles linked images- they keep the original URL around but also duplicates the file into their own S3; if you serve a website using Notion as a CMS, you can still access the original link — so I've been uploading to my bucket and serving my own hosted files to our Notion docs and Notion-powered sites.

Too bad Discord or Airtable never went down those routes.
Yes, it's called the navigation paradox, and it mostly came about with the advent of GPS. It's the reason we now have what's called "strategic lateral offset procedure," or SLOP, whereby aircraft on heavily trafficked oceanic routes fly zero, one, or two miles off the centerline, randomly chosen.
It might make sense given pi2040’s PIO capabilities. Additionally, the RPi5’s io chip, RP1, might have some similar tricks inside.

The Raspberry Pi Pico has a fascinating peripheral known as the “Programmable Input/Output” (PIO). This device allows us to write very simple assembly programs to emulate a number of different peripherals and communication protocols.

https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/projects/raspberry-pi-pico-...

RP1 is our I/O controller for Raspberry Pi 5, designed by the same team at Raspberry Pi that delivered the RP2040 microcontroller, and implemented, like RP2040, on TSMC’s mature 40LP process.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
Not really. If someone is using vector<type> or unordered_map it's unlikely its anything else and if you are using an IDE, you can check easily. You are basically implying that anything short of full names are a problem which is just not true.
This is biased reading at its worst. I was simply stating what the authors concluded based on their analysis of 10-20 studies (not just one). This is what they say in the abstract: "The results show that exercise does not reduce all-cause mortality and incident CVD in older adults or in people with chronic conditions, based on RCTs comprising ∼50,000 participants."

One study with 500 people doesn't prove a point.

Of the top of my head I know at least one other study where mid-life lifestyle intervention didn't reduce mortality (it slightly increased it in a statistically non-significant manner). 21 yrs follow up. ~3000 people.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.0...
how is it any better when 2 opposite planes choose same 2950ft?
Most people from What migrated over to what is now called REDacted. Unfortunately your window for account renewal is long passed, but the large majority of What is on there at this point, so worth going through the interview if you wanna get back into it
But WHY? I don't understand what benefit metering your payment provider has.
This isn't super-practical for a commercial application which requires 70 identical machines.

Not only are they expensive and relatively large, machines that have had previous owners often have mystery issues which make them great for home tinkering projects, less so for something that can get you in trouble if it breaks down.

There's a reason companies buy new parts instead of employing teams to scour Craigslist for deals.
We still use the Closure compiler on one of our projects that originated about 10 years ago. It’s difficult (but not impossible) to debug with, but there’s no compelling reason to replace it yet. The code base has been completely rewritten over time with modern JS and amazingly the compiler works just fine.
What a difficult to parse email!
He’s right on that though. I lived through desert storm and the invasion of Iraq. The US targeted our civilian infrastructures in the first two weeks of the war. Virtually we had no electricity for nearly 5 years until the “food for oil” was agreed in 95. I have worked on the Haditha documentary for Nick Broomfield, you can watch it to witness the brutality of the US. Russia is bad, but when compared to the US, pretty much a saint.
Use Strict YAML, the regular version leads to madness.

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
Rail Rat has a data-first presentation of this data that I like quite a lot:
https://railrat.net/
The corporation part is kind of a legal hack, though. It's a corporation owned by a foundation and it answers only to that foundation. It has no inherent profit motive, no shareholders. Basically, this happened because search was an accident. By incorporating Google search as the default, Mozilla suddenly found a revenue source it did not expect. It created the corporation in order to better handle the influx of money without losing the nonprofit status.

So, while it has a lot of money, it's really at its heart a foundation, not a corporation.
I have a 13 Pro Max as well and I've had no issues with it. The battery is certainly not as good as it used to be... I'd say its about about 80%. Only issue though, not even thinking about upgrading.

Edit: Battery efficiency says it's at 87%... feels about 80 though /shrug.
Have you? I routed my first board a year or two ago and found pretty quickly that autorouters suck even at simple tasks. The only way to get usable results is to simplify with smaller autoroute jobs and better placement, at which point you could easily do it by hand anyway.
instinctual -> biologically determined

views -> interpretive framework/evaluation system
Both. If you need to say something that can’t be printed, discuss it in person.
Ok, and went and read some more and now I feel like the submission title was right all along. Jerry is asking for users to be given worse search results when they type into the omnibox - ie. give them a link to Google web search even if you found what they want locally. It’s only the assumption that “search results” means “web search results” that leads to any confusion. So the title could be improved by adding the word “omnibox” in there.
There's already plans for a new line that will have a station in Georgetown.
That's too bad. While I said that our online archive is "permanent," digital preservation can be fragile, as we all know. Additional archival in physical form would increase the chance that the knowledge you and other thesis writers are creating will remain for future generations.
> So, yeah, as a fellow older HNer, it's hard to see these kinds of re-defining ideals we once ascribed to. But it's happening, and that reality is the one we have to live in.

I'm trying (honestly) to understand your position here. Are you saying you used to think "color blindness" (in the MLK sense) was a good idea -- but you no longer do?

If so: what changed?
Nope. We can't even make asteroid mining happen, and that

* Is also shiny and has movies

* It's cheaper by a good number of orders of magnitude

* It has massive commercial value (bringing home piles of gold. Well, platinum metals)

* It has actual military implications, which is the main motivator for any government progrem

* It gets to call the military research "planetary defense", and there are more cool movies about that.

No government is getting its act together on that. A distant black hole is right out.
then you should check out SongTradr's other recent acquisition, 7digital.com... not only do they have flac, but many have 16 and 24bit available.
> This couldn’t possibly end with large suits

How is their current system using monopoly power to boost another monopoly worse than supporting an underdog in the search market?
The gist I got from this poster is there is a lot going on in their kitchen at one time. They may have simplified the post to make a point? But they implied they are not just focusing on the onion during that time, but doing a whole lot of other prep and cooling work all at the same time.
Autorouting is the most difficult when you are a beginner, because you don't know how to define the constraints and don't know what results are acceptable. I'd even argue that routing is the easy part of PCB design. Figuring out the circuit is hardest, specifying design rules is confusing, determining the component placement is tough, and on the easy end, drawing the schematic and routing the PCB are roughly on par. Routing is the part at the end where you can relax and enjoy yourself while you untangle the ratsnest.
I’ve done it, and found myself back in the middle of wars vim vs emacs and arch vs all and slack vs all, I agree it was the same on IRC, but as someone who has lived through it while in middle schoo, I have no desire to go through it again ^^
It can work and there are some organizations run that way.

But just because something is a charity with a Board of Directors doesn't mean it can't be looted in various ways. It's happened before and will happen again.
And once again the money hungry sociopaths are going to ruin a perfect platform that does exactly what it's supposed to and not an iota more on chase of that elusive "infinite" growth, something that only children below the age of 5 and apparently people with MBAs believe to be something actually attainable.
I prefer the middle ground taken by Go and others—have a standard formatter that is part of the language that everyone agrees to use, but don't make that syntactically relevant. That way you get readable code without individual coders ever having to manually fiddle with indentation levels, which is a source of endless problems when copy/pasting.
Why does it need to "succeed"? It's first and foremost a place where Mozilla's brands and contributors can publicly post stuff on infrastructure they themselves manage. Interoperability with other fediverse instances/clients and hosting accounts for randos is just icing.
They got really good at Maps after starting out pretty poorly.
Sometimes that because the operator got hosed in a contract with a network provider. I used to see that a lot in full service hotels.
He counters me with "why would I pay $100k-$200k/yr for a software engineer when Brazil/India will do it for less". What do I say to that? Like... he has a point from an ecomonic standpoint, right?

I tell him "you get what you pay for" and "Microsoft/Google pay some engineers $2m" and he jus says "that's dumb"
I mean, that’s clearly not true. But either way it’s funny, I think the doomsayers were so over the top at the start (“Twitter is going to die tonight!”) that absolutely any level of activity is held up as a great success.

Prioritising the replies of people who pay money for it was a body blow. Compensating those users for the engagement they generate is the death knell. You used to be able to find a ton of interesting conversation on Twitter, now the replies are filled with trolly garbage trying to prompt hate clicks. It’s just a bad way to spend time.
> Now that lots of opinionated people have left Twitter

what twitter are you using today where the opinionated people have left
This is great - and refreshingly real!!
You would be surprised. University of Michigan Publishing, one of the largest and wealthiest of the publics only has a staff of ~30, some of whom are shared with other departments. The university's annual contribution is well under $2 million. The entire University Library, the second largest research library in the U.S. after Harvard, has an annual budget of $64m (0.58% of the entire budget).

I think historically the larger presses were expected to be close to revenue neutral. They do well enough to limp along, but don't get the resources really needed to build new infra. As a cost center without significant tuition or grant funding, the library has little pull when provosts form their priorities.
I didn’t say the same, I said mostly the same.

Cultures consist of a consensus. When the consensus shifts, the culture shifts. Politics operates within an agreed framework at any given time.

At the time of the founding of the USA some people had misgivings about slave owning, but even some of them still owned slaves. 100 years later there was a civil war over it. Today in the US slavery is almost universally maligned and only exists as a covert criminal activity.

Was there a diversity of opinion at the time of the revolutionary war, and is there now? Sure. Was there a consensus then and now? I don’t see how you can argue otherwise.
Every time this happens at the companies I’ve worked at, it’s been because the business didn’t think the need was worth prioritizing over the other business needs. I’ve never been in an environment where IT got to make the decisions about what gets prioritized.

If the business doesn’t think something should be prioritized, but a marketer decides that they really want to have it, I’m not sure it’s a great idea to go around what the business has prioritized. Most of the cost in software comes from maintenance of legacy systems. I hope this new no-code solution is something a department has decided to maintain indefinitely! I my experience, after the marketing person quits, the no-code solution gets chucked across the fence to IT, the no-code provider stops supporting their tool, and IT is forced to build a new one as an emergency a few years later because “the business has been using it for years.”

In a healthy org, if something is truly good for the business and will create global gains across the company, it should hop to the top of the priority list. Admittedly, I’m still hunting for this theoretical healthy org, though.
Not seeing any Chinese in your feed is pretty indicative of a bubble around you, given it's ~16% of the world population.
Early-stage Brand Sprint in 30 days
We’ve been building brands and digital products for companies for over 10 years. We get a lot of inquires from early-stage startups but don’t necessarily have the budget to go through the entire process we go through with enterprises and established companies. We put together what we’re calling a 30 Day Brand Sprint that included a brand, brand guidelines, website, and a custom pitch desk template all for the cost of $14,500. We believe this is a great value to help startups punch above their weight and standout in crowded markets.
Is this unethical though? Maybe it’s just not clear to me. I feel like we collectively view it negatively, but that’s also built on the premise that we search users consume a free utility that Google provides to us and is now some ethical requirement for them to maintain. They have no ethical obligation to do that.

It’s also pretty common for public companies to try to shift volume to higher revenue or margin products when they’re pacing short of consensus.

That said, you can always override a bonus plan and pay even when they fall short of their sales plan. It seemed like that was the entire catalyst of this conversation, wanting the ads team to hit their bonus.

If y’all think this is unethical, you should hear the conversations I was privy to about how hospitals execs were considering halting patient admissions during the pandemic because nursing labor got expensive and breaking even was deemed unacceptable. The government upped reimbursements and same hospital execs made massive windfall bonuses
Investors like to see a company buying up tangentially related businesses, it's good for business!

Investors like to see a company divest themselves of non-core-competency sections of its portfolio, it's good for business!

Investors are sheep.
> Not really. If someone is using vector<type> or unordered_map it's unlikely its anything else

There are far less distinctive names than those in namespace std. Have you seen remove(), erase(), move(), search(), apply(), hash, format(), etc.?

Not to mention std::operator overloads like == and < that you suddenly drag into overload resolution needlessly, which can bring their own fun into the mix.

> if you are using an IDE, you can check easily

Lots of people don't. And even those who do, don't immediately have the symbol available to go to its definition. It's quite normal to have to wait O(minutes) for semantic analysis to become ready.

> You are basically implying that anything short of full names are a problem which is just not true.

No, very much not so. If you use it on something that's unlikely to collide (like std::cerr), `using std::foo;` is generally fine outside of headers. `using namespace std;` is the one that's problematic.
You are being chronically poisoned by snake venom peptides produced by lab-modified E Coli/yeast that have taken hold in the body. This is what "long covid" is.

You can megadose Vitmain C or find a service offering EDTA chelation therapy (or Vit C IV). This restores the condition of the blood, the body removing the peptide-producing organisms on its own. If they have taken hold in the gut, other modalities will likely be necessary. You may also experience temporary relief by using nicotine patches (this occupies nicotinic acetylcholine receptors targeted by the peptides).

If think the idea of _in vivo envenomation_ being "long covid" is absurd, then I DARE you get a simple toxicological test done on your blood, testing for venom.
I'd love them to fund an Android variant or replacement for Android services. Mobile is the other main platform apart from web.
You might think that, until you see the insane rig that's used to capture these scans: https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-codec-avatars-iphone-scan/

Each scan captures dozens of terabytes of data and lasts for hours, at least for the current high resolution avatars
As of September 5, it's Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic and Wegovny.
While one is called Mozilla Foundation and one is called Mozilla Corporation, they are both corporations. You can see the Mozilla Foundation's articles of incorporation: "The name of the corporation is Mozilla Foundation"

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-arti...
Threads is #25 on the App Store and based on Zuck's interview yesterday he is happy with DAU/MAUs and looking to back it for years to come. So clearly it hasn't failed.

And interestingly it may end up saving Mastodon since when it rolls out ActivityPub support it will mean 100+ million extra users being able to seamlessly interoperate.
This wouldn't work well in my engineering classes unfortunately. Sure you might follow along better, but then you'd have no example problems to study and would be screwed when it came time to study for the test.
MacBook battery draining 2x faster with Brave running
A similar thing happens in the name of public interest on a regular basis.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tears-rage-hs2-killing...

The immature, probably ill-raised boy who perpetrated this 1-tree act at Hadrian's Wall - a boy not even old enough to understand what "heritage" truly is - becomes the symbol of hatred around the world, and the full-grown man upon whose orders dozens and hundreds are killed with as-near-equally-thin-justification as to not matter, gets to be (then) Prime Minister, lauded high class high-table sitter of the world, paid 5-figures to talk for an hour, for the rest of his life.

The rage we should expend upon the latter, but which we are societally programmed to simply accept as compromise, instead gets emotionally expended upon stupid little 1-hit-wonders like this young kid at Hadrian's - as a symbol of all that's wrong with the world, and in lieu of actually expending our deep displeasure with those who make such acts systemic, everyday business.

We have it backwards.
That’s…actually hilarious advise that I think probably has quite a bit of merit to it.
You can get SSL certs for ip addresses.
> Now that lots of opinionated people have left Twitter

lol?

But seriously, the platform now incentivises people posting bad opinions and starting arguments because it compensates Twitter Blue users based on “engagement”. Reactionary trolling is the inevitable consequence.
They did, back in 2012ish. It was called FirefoxOS, and it wasn't well recieved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS
Ah ha I thought that and instantly dismissed it as "that's just convexity" but that's obviously false. You're right. Good one.
F-Droid apps do not require Google Play services (that's part of its raison d'être) and will work fine on Graphene OS. Aurora Store, on the other hand, depends on the app in question. If it's a paid app that requires Google Pay, then it won't be compatible.
The big instances don't care about the blocklist fascists. Mastodon.art consumes far more air than their users and those of their allies should receive.

That being said, there are truly horrible servers that get almost universally banned. Many have borderline-illegal content and the rest have toxic content and users. The large servers have maintained a block policy resembling old Twitter. Unless we want a festering swamp of toxicity, that seems like a fair compromise. Anyone desperate for Gab can join Gab.
If someone is willing to scam people on Airbnb, I'm pretty sure they're willing to break a software license.
PCIe does fix the main complaint most people have with Raspberry Pis: the lack of reliable storage. While USB is perfectly fine for spinning rust, it's not quite ideal for SSDs, and we all have an SD card failure story or two.

It's interesting that the PCIe lane can be driven at PCIe 3.0 speeds. That goes a long way to helping to make up for the fact that it's just one lane. Having used various PCIe cards on a RockPro64, it's nice to see more options.

I'm a little surprised that UEFI isn't available at launch, but here's to hoping that won't take too long.

Good stuff, and I'm happy to see the progress. I just wish the company hadn't gone off the deep end.
It’s probably close to 20B nowadays, no?
> Surely people have higher expectations for the environment their avatar is going to be in than a literal box?

Yes - they do, but you don't have to get fancy with the environment for 2 static avatars locked in place. What are the odds that rendering a room was dropped because it is allegedly GPU-intensive vs it being a feature that is not fully-baked for a public debut yet?