skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if putting this content into a list would have helped, the main impression is that leadership wrote a brochure to entice investors but then published it under the title "State of Mozilla".

This looks like its only fluffy aspirational stuff rather than the clear presentation of its current status the title implies.
The original article doesn't seem to be making a distinction between regular users and extended confirmed users. It seems to call them all editors.
At the risk of you refusing to answer yet another direct question to soapbox about irrelevant anecdata: why do you think your major matters?
It's also about how one behaves in interviews.

Good first impressions reduce the number of questions and give the other person a sense that you'd be enjoyable to work with. No one wants to work with a "genius" that has poor communication or social skills.
Property taxes are what drive (poor) people out of their homes, or prevent them from moving into nice neighborhoods.
Most people would like the privacy, but not the responsibility and concomitant work.
They're anti insurrection? What a novel political idea
I think this is very smart. Instead of a big ML ops stack, do your model stuff where your data is.

For us, the fact it supports Postgres and SQLite out of the box is awesome. It means we can run a model on the server to generate embeddings, sync these to a local SQLite and then run local inference on the same data structure.
Sounds a lot like parents' money no?
JiaYou doesn't translate well. When I was learning Chinese, sometimes it sounds sarcastic when translated directly.

Like you are joking about how you are going to die from being too busy 忙死 and the speaker responds "add oil". Their actual intent is to say "I believe you can succeed"
Not just "are the changes binding" but also "are the changes relevant". The changes might be binding for future services, but previous services were provided under the old terms; so you can make an argument that any arbitration clause in the new terms doesn't apply to services rendered before the new terms took effect.
As said it is the thing that you cannot see that is more frightening. How about the 6502 in terminator.
Yes, likely at different levels. For example, if I log into my myheritage account, I have 27000 DNA matches which I can download a .csv of, which includes the matching parts. I can also access the trees of those users that share theirs. This really does not include personal data, _except_ the information about where our DNA is identical or half-identical. Which has potentially far-reaching implications, but the personal data should not really be available here, unless people has opted in to sharing it.

Since its a site about sharing data, its not weird that its easy to extract data from it. It is sort of the purpose.
That seems like it's mostly caused by QE policies/zero interest loans (which is already just giving money to rich people). No one's going to take out a loan at 5% interest to avoid 20% capital gains on 10% growth (i.e. a 2% tax).

For your unicorn growth billionaire, like someone else suggested, you could require realization at the time you value the asset to put it up for collateral.
> Because it's a pain in the ass. People don't want the fediverse, they want an app.

It seems that I enjoy the pain with many other people on r/selfhosted. I will call that pleasure I feel, The Pleasure of Pain.

I think that was what the web was about since the beginning and lasted for a good couple of years before targeted ads and "data became the new oil".

Edit: I replied before the GP edited the comment.
Not great!

I've been luckier than most in that I had a decent year, but the writing is on the wall for 2024 and I have never seen such a hostile job search environment.

There are barely any leadership roles available in the UK and it feels they're all looking for something very specific. All the layoffs are not helping as people with FAANG-style experience are seen as known quantities.

I'm keeping myself busy but I'm very worried about the future
Talent is told to be about 33 kg (or something between 20-40 kg). So indeed a talent of gold will be over $1 million today.
Do note that Pop OS does not support secure boot, which might be difficult to disable on some machines. If that is a deal-breaker I'd recommend either Ubuntu (if you're ok with a MacOS like UI) or Kubuntu (if you want something more like Windows).
Yes, I gathered they meant extended confirmed users because I can read context clues
Look at the guy's open-source contributions https://github.com/lattner
I am not too concerned about it.
You don't need an accountant for that - you can read the financial statement (this one is pretty simple).

From about $593mil revenue in their income statement (page 4), $510mil is derived from _Royalties_.

Later, on page 13, they explain what _Royalties_ consists of, and I quote:

> Royalties - Mozilla provides the Firefox web browser, which is a free and open-source web browser initially developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Corporation. Mozilla incorporates search engines of its customers as a default status or an optional status available in the Firefox web browser. Mozilla generally receives royalties at a certain percentage of revenues earned by its customers through their search engines incorporated in the Firefox web browser.

Now, I leave it to your judgement if you think that a company that derives 86% of its revenue from the above is dependent on Google ;-)
> I took this to mean those with special rights (...)

I know that wikipedia supports granting special rights to some editors. I have those. That's why I'm stating that an editor does not have special rights, because everyone is an editor.

And by the way, in general Wikipedia's "special rights" granted to non-administrator user accounts aren't that special. They unlock some UI features like bulk editing to fight vandalism, move pages, mark edits as minor, etc. See for yourself, and compare the difference between the permissions granted to Administrator accounts, everyone in the world (all users, registered accounts), and other groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#T...

Claiming that an editor posted a toxic comment has the same weight as claiming that a random passerby shouted at you in the street.
"You're [not your idea] stupid."

"Why can't you do what I asked, Stupid?!"

"WHERE HAVE ALL OUR USERS GONE?!?"

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My main wikihandle is two decades old. It still shocks me when a fewyearsaccount un-edits my contributions (I know how this rodeo works, folks). Even more shocking is when ChatGPT cites one of my trivial contributions (e.g. transistor density updates when M2Pro chipset was released).
It would help if their mobile browser were actually good. But ever since their rebuild a few years back, one still can only use a very limited number of addons, and there are still some bizarre GUI behaviours that should be easy to fix. Perhaps giving people a reason to install FF Mobile by offering the superior product should be their focus instead of their myriad of doomed side projects.
Yes.

https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
No you don't have to fsync. Think of it like RAM. You don't fsync RAM.
That was the turning point for Mozilla, after that it started to become involved in activism, including social justice and identity politics.
AI will only make this worse. Even my son, 12, assumes I’ll be out of a job soon because of what he heard on YouTube.
If that’s what it takes to get a wildcard certificate, then yes.
You are right, the site is corporate gibberish.

It links to one important thing, the 2022 financial statement, https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202.... According to a summary I read elsewhere it's actually good news: Almost the same total income while lowering the percentage that comes from google (a bit) and raising the percentage and total amount that comes from their own projects. Lots of money in the bank.

Still paying way too much to management, but I didn't expect any improvement there anyway - is there even one success story out there about moving a project like this back to a real not-for-profit/reasonable governance, without bloated CEO etc salaries?
>That’s not going to happen with Bitcoin.

??? That has been possible for years: https://github.com/greenaddress/abcore
Ctrl+F for "Firefox" returns one result, a "Download Firefox" link. What is Mozilla if not Firefox? (rhetorical question)
I visited a few months ago, and it was a very nice city! I normally spend time in Athens or on the islands, so I decided it was time to see the big city. Walking through the city was a great experience. Tons of historic spots to encounter, and I had the best bougatsa I have ever had. The drive from Thessaloniki to Delphi and then to Athens was also a fun trip.

Πολύ ωραία.
I closed my eyes on the ceo story and the politics and continued using it as "the only alternative" to Chrome until I got a pop up on my phone basically suggesting who I should vote for in some American election. I've never even been in that country.
> I have never had mobile FF crash on me

A few months ago they released a version of Nightly that would crash for most users on startup every time. It was up on the Play store for several days.

That would normally be a buyer-beware situation as with any dev build, but Mozilla had purposely locked several important features - such as about:config configuration and loading any extension - behind the Nightly version, forcing users into that kind of experience.
Yes, I gave up on Firefox many years ago and use Chromium now. This is because of the identity politics and feminist "code of conduct" speech code being pushed by the organization. I know Google is no better, but I still did it to make a statement to Mozilla. Enough people doing that might get them to stop this nonsense.
Pretty impressive to fit USB onto such a necessarily low-cost product at the time.
This is the most technical info to drop so far, and good one watch for all those claiming mojo is all hype. :)
Sure, smash the tax code. After you give everyone a chance to vote on the replacement. It's only fair, no?

Before you go out breaking windows, you damn well be sure that you have something to replace them with.
Way too many women with perfect professional portraits. Feels contrived and orchestrated. Where are the toiling C++ engineers on the page?
> It's one of those (rare?) cases where good regulation, and a free market collide

Free markets can’t exist without regulation. Otherwise, literal warlords take over, and if not that, monopolies and oligopolies and anticompetitive behaviour and externalities
Amazing, would be nice to have a compiled setup script that can be easily adapted. Kudos!
(I went to a talk by Oppenheim author a couple weeks ago on this topic.) The idea is that gravity, as a force, only operates classically. More precisely: there is a classical state describing the curvature of space time, and then a quantum state describing the configuration of particles on that spacetime. But then, that quantum state needs to affect the classical state again (mass bends space), which would usually lead to the classical half becoming quantum and entangled with the other half.

You can keep the classical half (the shape of spacetime) classical, if the effect of the quantum part is partially stochastic. There's a minimum amount of random noise you need for it to be mathematically consistent. So, you set up an experiment where a particle is acting on another via gravity. There's a quantity of noise you should expect to see in the gravitational force.

"Inertial Mass=Gravitational Mass" now only holds on average. The gravitational mass will effectively have a Brownian noise term added in.
ArXiv is kinda reputation-based. That is to submit something you need to be endorsed, either done automatically, based on institution, or asking established authors. After being endorsed to a subject area, you can submit freely to it, keeping in mind:

>Submissions to arXiv are subject to a moderation process that classifies material as topical to the subject area and checks for scholarly value. Material is not peer-reviewed by arXiv - the contents of arXiv submissions are wholly the responsibility of the submitter and are presented “as is” without any warranty or guarantee.
Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators
How does this compare to something like daily.dev?
National Instruments to Apple Mac: Buh-Bye
I went through it at the beginning of the year. In the end, a cold inbound from a recruiter for a leadership position that I wasn’t right for led to her referring me to another recruiter with something that was perfect. The point? Work every angle and treat looking for a job as your full time job.

You only have to find one gig, so don’t get sucked into self-pity endlessly focusing on everyone who’s having trouble, when it happens, have something constructive to divert you.

If you’re going for remote work, expect that the whole process will take longer and the same rules won’t apply. The candidate pool is vast and you need to stand out. You need to apply early, when the position is posted.

Realize your resume is likely being parsed by software before it’s even screened by HR. If you can get your resume directly to a hiring manager, do that. Otherwise consider feeding your resume through various parsers to see how it looks to algorithms. Cover letters that are written to the exact specs of the job as posted can’t hurt.
Try asking a markov chain to think step by step
Controlled Testing in Production
I'd personally tax loans on securities and from a HELOC or similar as income.

I don't think it's practical to tax unrealized gains nor do I think that taking stock options should incur a tax until they are sold or borrowed against.
I am on record saying that I think Mozilla's management does not care about Firefox and are milking it to position Mozilla as some kind of big "Internet freedom" player.

I also use Firefox, and I plan to keep using it while waiting for the current managers to get replaced by someone who actually understands that you need a strong browser to even have a place at the table.
By that reasoning almost every Linux distro is also non-free as it uses a default repository for packages.
Sure-- where you're driving is usually more interesting than the highway that will take you there, but this isn't an off-the-cuff editorial-- it's presenting a quantitative analysis. Trying to study the qualitative impact without data like this means merely assuming the fundamental size and shape of the problem, which at best reduces it's utility. At worse it points you in the completely wrong direction.
Almost half of the federal budget goes towards social security, Medicare, and healthcare. Unless you want old people to die in the streets again, “very little” might not be accurate.

https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function

To the larger point, the tax code needs to be simplified but your real problem is with Congress – we haven’t had a balanced budget since the Clinton administration and that’s because of what they’ve authorized spending on and, in the case of Republicans, defunding the IRS so there’s a substantial deficit between the actual taxes collected and what’s due (especially at the top end where you need experts to show that some rich person is hiding income). Blowing up the tax code won’t solve any of those problems.
A16Z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That Could Be Categorized as CSAM
One can use cargo without using crates.io, though due to network effects it'd be a pain to do
I will seriously consider Firefox again when the deplorable Chrome maintainers will kill ad blocking.
Who uses a pen and paper in the real world?
"Toxic" would not be the thing I'd start with. I'd start with "being told no for the first time", which might or not have an overlap with toxicity. But I think it's much more likely that someone will start making edits, only get uninterested comments or bot engagements, keep editing, then at some point someone reverts the edits - tells them no, and so they stop.

Potentially this scenario even catches situations like:

1. User registers

2. User adds a bunch of promotional edits to multiple pages

3. At some point someone discovers this, reverts something, tells them to go away

4. User was "caught" so abandons the account and re-registers

If #3 is classified as toxic, this paper would find the same results I think.
remote US only?
If the Supreme Court decides for the complainants they would axe a republican tax law.
If I roll over a personal loan repeatedly of any amount, should I be taxed? This seems a matter for the lenders' appetite for risk, and nothing to do with the government.
I am not sure, only guessing. But why would they ask for permission in the firs place?

> They already did something with my biological samples

I can only guess you were tested for something in the hospital. Samples are sent to the lab (separate department) to be tested. If additional tests need to be perform they can use the blood they already received. The samples are kept for ready availability if additional tests are requested by doctor. Doctors dont care how its done, they dont have time to inform lab patient x is out home.

After some time they need to be destroyed - due to expiry date on it. Before destroying the lab contacted you and asked for dna permission.

> And also - could eg. police use it?

I don't know that. But you might want to check how medical data is protected in your jurisdiction.
A new prompt is not a paper, but you can prompt it for a paper.
Observation of temporal reflection and broadband frequency translation
Show HN: Tool for typing special characters hassle-free
E.g. a mortgage should be taxed?
Is that really news, or "counter-intuitive" ?

I have lived in several countries and always observed that, irrespective of the political views, people try to flee poor areas when they can, and try to have their kids put in good schools when they can.

This is particularly funny in the case of left-wing politicians paying extras bucks to have their kids in elitists white schools with strong discipline, while advocating "diversity" for the other kids when they are interviewed on TV at night.
This is great advice for ICs but I've never really understood how to leverage networking in management – most of time the person I know in a company is already doing my job!
So when I take a home equity line of credit on my house, I should have to pay capital gains tax every time I draw money?
TechEmpower has a few different classes of benchmark. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Off the top of my head:

- json serialization

- fetching random objects from an actual mysql/psql database

- cached queries

- performing mutations / data updates

writing "hello world" as a response is naturally going to do 75k per second
> Sure, but do you really think that's the intent of the article, or are we arguing semantics?

It's not semantics. Accusing Wikipedia editors of doing something in an attempt at portraying Wikipedia in a negative light has the same meaning as blaming wikipedia for accepting changes from everyone in the world who stumbles upon a page.

By definition, an editor is anyone who edits anything at all on Wikipedia. In wikipedia, you don't even need to be logged in to edit articles or leave comments.
I'm running Firefox + uBlock on Android. Works fine. The blocked domains are all Google (unsurprisingly).
The author explicitly mentions this is how the game is implemented in the first 1/3 of the article
>> LLM research is currently in its infancy

Everything that went in to creating GPT4 is AI/science or whatever. Probing GPT4 and trying to understand and characterize it is also a very worthy thing to do - else how can it be improved upon? But if making GPT is science, I'd say this stuff is more akin to psychology ;-)
>Sure, but do you really think that's the intent of the article, or are we arguing semantics?

I think the article is using "editor" in a broad way meaning all users with accounts. I think we are arguing semantics in a way the article isn't. From the article:

>A user’s talk page is a place where other editors can communicate with the user either on more personal topics or to extend their discussion from an article talk page.
I’ve seen several articles now about an increase in private and home schooling after the pandemic. I don’t recall the numbers quoted, but my local district’s budget shows a significant drop in enrollment in a lot of its schools in 2021, which it has not yet recovered from… I wanna say it’s over 30% at some elementaries, even though the city population has grown, and school boundaries have remained similar.

Taking out a significant chunk of the better-off kids (who tend to score higher in the first place) seems like it’d contribute to a drop in average scores.
"Articles" on arXiv are not peer-reviewed, they just check whether it looks like it belongs to one of the categories they hosts:

"Registered users may submit articles to be announced by arXiv. There are no fees or costs for article submission. Submissions to arXiv are subject to a moderation process that classifies material as topical to the subject area and checks for scholarly value. Material is not peer-reviewed by arXiv - the contents of arXiv submissions are wholly the responsibility of the submitter and are presented “as is” without any warranty or guarantee." [0]

They are commonly known as pre-prints, in a similar fashion to IACR ePrint [1] for cryptography.

[0]: https://info.arxiv.org/about/index.html

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/
> At that time labour was cheap

I was curious about this, but also a bit lazy, and the easiest figures to find were for the US. A carpenter in 1921 in Boston MA (which is upper-end of the range given, but not outlandish) earned $1/hour or $40/week. According to this[1], that's $17/hour or $680 a week. That's just over half of what they get paid now, at ~$30/hour.

As to:

> At that time labour was cheap

For the random example I picked, in the US, labour was about 50% the cost it is now.

0: https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/union-scale-wages-hours-...

1: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

2: https://www.indeed.com/career/carpenter/salaries/Boston--MA
They should stay out of politics completely. This incident is a matter for law enforcement to deal with, not Mozilla. Mozilla is a tech firm, it's purpose is to develop a Web browser, period. It should not be involved in social policies.

I personally abhor Donald Trump, by the way. But I still think deplatforming and censorship are wrong.
tfw you see a snarky comment on a discussion thread about toxic comments
Academia needs to get over itself, can't wait to see how amazing this tech is going to get when the next generation who decide never to bother with those stuffy and navel gazing institutions becomes the driving force behind it.

Looking forward to "I made this cool thing, here's the code/library you can use" rather than the papers/gatekeeping/ego stroking/"muh PhD".

Think if Google had built an AI team around the former rather than the latter, they wouldn't have risked the future of their entire company and squandered their decade head start.
The special rights include reverting edits, which is pretty powerful when the person in question can insult you, but revert whatever you reply.

And I already edited the original comment, explaining that I misunderstood.
I can't help but think of these guys: https://americaexplained.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/asterix...
Firefox on the brink?
Absurd that anyone would be ok with this kind of treatment from their OS vendor.
Facebook Kills PGP-Encrypted Emails
Where did you source the $7bn value from?

I have trouble reconciling this with the information present on the financial statement.

They have net assets of $1.2bn, and revenue for the year was $593mn minus $425mn for expenses.