skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can tell in observation, they don't parse English either.
I don't believe that you are correct on that position at all.

I do know women in tech that don't want to be a "woman in tech". Sounds like it would not make sense, but it does if you actually listen to them. This is not gatekeeping, the perspective is just different and it is incompatible with yours.

As well as not perpetuating discrimination is incompatible with your perspective.

To assume that people are drawn in by role models also discriminates for certain types of personality for that matter and it is enough for you to justify further discrimination. I don't think that is enough information based on evidence.

Not the conference is discriminating, you are.
Mozilla also just posted their State of Mozilla 2022 (this includes financial statements). From what I've read, it seems that expenses are up and revenue from search deals is down.

https://stateof.mozilla.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530382

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/05/mozilla-earned-close-to-60...

Firefox's market share has been on the decline since 2010.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2009...

Genuine question. What is justifying Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker's salary?

- 2022 - $6.9m/yr

- 2021 - $5.5m/yr

- 2020 - $2.6m/yr

- 2019 - $3.0m/yr

- 2018 - $2.4m/yr

- 2017 - $2.2m/yr

- 2016 - $1.0m/yr

- 2015 - $997k/yr
Firefox would need to win mobile. This is where action takes place.
Seeing how right wing is growing around Europe, when we are a couple of years away to "celebrate" 100 years from the start of WW II, it isn't that surprising.

Expect similar reverence of other dictators with enough centuries in between.
Have you used it? I've used it as my primary browser for both personal use and web development for years and it has not been janky, at all.
People wanted Miami at all costs but no mountains and no deserts is a bit dull.

There will be lots and lots of Everglades swamps though
Great insights Atai
Shall we play it again, Sam?
I don’t know where that comes from, Firefox has worked just fine for ages. The only place it sucks is on iOS.
Meta's strategy to leverage the open source community and prevent competitors from getting too far ahead is logical.
Fair point, there is a difference between types of work. My perspective is that the vast majority of it is not only undesirable by nature but also necessary. Even fulfilling jobs are still work and most people would rather just have more free time. As far as the miserable jobs, these exist because of the success of civilization in the sense that we can exchange labor and have access to everyone else's labor, which creates the higher standard of living for everyone involved. There is still the issue of inequality but the point is even in the most fair of systems, work still needs to be done.
Is this bad for Google too? I thought Chrome needs Firefox to be somewhat successful so competition exists and the browser space doesn’t become a monopoly. Does the rising popularity of Safari and Edge negate this?
Activist bullshit, and redirecting the dwindling funds to making sure their CEOs always have a minimum of 3 yachts on standby.
I'm of Rusyn descent from Eastern Slovakia and I have never heard of this.
Anyone caught doing this should be kicked out of the industry. Period. You're scaming those funding your "research", you are misleading readers, and are producing low quality content wasting everyone's time.
I know. That doesn't change that there is no basis for claiming that there is a "continuing free-fall" for firafox usage. I might fall further, under 2%. But free-fall is misrepresenting the usage data.
The most awesome random submission I ever received was a BrainFuck compiler written in BrainFuck, by hand. Short story: I wrote a bf compiler in Emacs Lisp many many years ago. As a small testcase, I included a BrainFuck compiler in BrainFuck, which was written by a guy who wrote a C-alike to BrainFuck compiler so that he could implement his BF compiler in BF. That was a strange piece of code, about 6 pages of plain BF. A few years later, suddenly, I have this mail in my INBOX: A norwegian guy sent me a BF compiler in BF, written by hand. He was unsatisfied by the existing BF compiler, as it was generated. His implementation was about 6 lines of BF code. And it was a magnitude faster. Hats off to that guy!
That's true, but if it is trying to exfiltrate data you will probably see more packets coming out than going in. If the concern is that the SSL cert they add allows them to decrypt your data, and you see it sending your requests anywhere it shouldn't, you'll get a window into what they are trying to do. It's not perfect, but it is possible to gain information in such a way.
I was just thinking about optane now that I'm dealing with AWS lambda cold starts.

It wold be a great use for that technology to decrease function startup time .
Like linux, most firefox users has tracking protection so data is not collected for them.
I am shocked to realize that Firefox is that close to 2%, I thought it was way above that level. Google monopoly is to be avoided at all costs.
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Firefox on Wayland for me has 0 problems.

Have you tried:

- running with terminal to see errors

- running with a new profile
"Step on the gas" is an idiomatic American English phrase.
> Lower-order ML constructs do not demonstrate emergent capabilities like step by step, stream of consciousness thinking, and so on.

As a matter of fact, I did a project on the normalization of the text, e.g., translate "crossing of 6 a. and 12 s." into "crossing of sixth avenue and 12-th street" with a simple LM (order 3) and beam search on the lattice paths, lattice formed with hypotheses' variants. I got two fold decrease of word error rate compared to simpler approach with just outputting the most probable WFST path. It was not "step by step stream of consciousness," but nevertheless very impressive feat, when system started to know more without much effort.

The large LM's do not just output "most probable" token, they output most probable sequence of tokens and it is done with the beam search.

As you can see, my experience tells me that beam search alone can noticeably, if not tremendously, improve quality of the output, even for very simple LMs.

And if I may, the higher-order construct here is a beam search, not the LMs-as-matrix-coefficients' themselves. Beam search is used in speech recognition for decades now, SR does not work properly without it. LM's, apparently, also do not work without it.
Mozilla has been a horrible steward for their project. They receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year and I have no idea where this money goes. It also doesn't help that their organization is full of purity testing and social activism nonsense that has nothing to do with making a good web browser. At this point I'm convinced that the reason that google is paying them so much is because they actually know that firefox is a failed project and keeping it alive as a zombie project actively protects them from anti-trust violations.
It's at 67 millions right now, that would put it on 8th place. There's still 11 hours to go, so it should go up a few more places.
If the hackers could "leak" this data to the public, it would be a tremendous genetic dataset for future generations of pirate researchers...
Generally I'm for self hosting everything that I can, I just can't help myself pointing out that currently the most popular thread on r/selfhosted is "I'd rather kill myself than host SMTP again (self.selfhosted)" :D
A lot of people around me are switching back to firefox as chrome is showing signs of cracks, especially with the Youtube/ad-blocking saga on chrome.

Also, I don't think the US govt guidelines are going to have a dramatic worldwide impact on firefox numbers, the US is no longer the major online player it once was.
Google finally beat my hands with a stick firmly enough to get me off Firefox.

It was youtube. Not the ads -- I pay for premium -- but the fact that on FF they added an artificial 5s page load delay on firefox plus a bug has lingered for months where it always loads the last video, so you have to load every video twice. 12s/video is too much delay.

Ah well, it was good while it lasted.
The one thing I miss from Chrome is the `thisisunsafe` feature to ignore whatever misconfiguration the webpage you're trying to access uses.

Recently, one of the dev servers that I tried to access misconfigured HSTS, which made it really difficult for Firefox to access the web UI. I fired up chromium, simply typed the magic word, and accessed it no problem.

Of course, ideally, there'd be no misconfigurations, but sometimes, I just need to access whatever dev server and I don't want to waste time on learning how to disable that particular security feature in Firefox temporarily.
As a non-specialist, I think a surprising statement is that in this particular field, there is an expectation that large, dense cities encourage socioeconomic mixing. That seems counter to everyday experience and policies that are sometimes enacted in cities to counter the trend, like bussing kids in poor neighborhoods into richer school districts. The term "ghetto" famously describes an urban trend to cut off poor enclaves, generally with some racial or ethnic component. I guess I felt like it was "common knowledge" that urbanization increased social stratification, whether in ancient times as agricultural societies developed, as I was taught in high school social studies, or in more modern cases where people leave the land to find opportunities, as in Latin America, for instance, where terms like favela are familiar even to English speakers to describe the cut-off, under-serviced and impoverished neighborhoods that have developed. Common knowledge being what it is, that isn't to say that anyone should believe that cities necessarily increase or decrease stratification without making measurements but stories of urban inequality seems to be so prevalent in popular culture that it seems strange that one would state that the opposite is a popular expectation but they have citations so I'm not questioning that the idea is out there, only that it is surprising that it is so prevalent that they need to open their article as though they are bucking a trend in the literature.
The limiting factor is usually, someone has to pay for the spying and the punishment. A lot (most?) of troublemakers just aren’t worth the trouble of spying or punishing.
Yeah, they can now pretend that Edge is a different independent browser
I’d be curious to hear more if you’d share. I’m not in your geography so am not competition…
First of all this headline is hilarious, secondly not everything has a webcam and thirdly, of course its from the UK.
I played your stupid game and literally none of what you said was accurate. Maybe it's because I live in a red state. Or maybe it's because you did not take measurements of your observations and fell victim to confirmation bias. Either way, waste of my time (and yours). Be better.
The point of LTS versions is that they don't force me to make changes. This sounds like a bug more than a feature.
> Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker's salary?

What a ridiculous question. Obvious the chief captain on the Titanic is not responsible for the Iceberg jumping at the boat.
Quote people that are constitutional lawyer that points out issues with the law. Passing a law that violates the constitution seems like an avenue that should be followed.

Also, every article has a bias to it. If the author on NPR led with how the tax was potentially illegal and frame it that the couple is being unjustly taxed, that would have a very different feel than this article. The NPR author could then bury quotes from the author of the law further down in the article. Order of delivery of facts and the title of the article clearly show the authors bias in a certain direction.

Here is an argument in favor of th couple.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-supreme-court-will-finally-...
I haven't used it super extensively with Wayland, but so far I've not experienced any crashes. To clarify, I've been using Firefox on Debian virtualized with QEMU on aarch64, and the compositor is Weston, so maybe there are quirks on other setups. Overall, it runs impressively.
Perhaps, I know nothing about this.. but it does sound like a spoiled/sheltered kid.

In a more grand sense, this feels like a good example of our absurdity/excess. I'm not sure this would have happened if "influencers" hadn't become what they are
Depending on if the format you use is self-describing or not, it’s possible “sending a plain array” and “sending a struct with 1 field that is an array” could have the same format on the wire.

If it is self describing, the overhead could be very very minimal.

So, why would you want to send a plain array without wrapping it in a struct?
In addition to: (1) Real world vs. Virtual (2) The Stress and Anxiety of the Pandemic, there's a (3) thing that I observed. Both my kid and my wife (who's going back to higher education) both experienced instructors who were very technically illiterate. Some instructors were very capable, but others were pretty unprepared and helpless when it came to making use of digital-only approaches. I think that's in line with your last statement, cpuguy83.
Ah, well, Nvidia still has a lot of problems with Wayland I hear, that might not be Firefox's (or Wayland's) error.
Until people find they can’t get to lunch without having to charge their phones.
very regretable and very predictable
$6.9m/yr in 2022
The US government's page it uses to track web browser usage uses an analytics engine made by a company that makes its own web browser? That sounds like a pretty big issue!
Meta set to discontinue cross-messaging between Instagram and Facebook
Excluding pre-existing conditions sort of does that.
It’s worth noting that the federal rule mentioned is very specifically referring to influencing dividend amounts and timing. That’s not really comparable to running a news organization.
The government should really have a requirement to support at least one fully open option. I don’t care about the secondary effects; I’m happy not to use sites by lazy devs who can’t support two JavaScript engines. But there aren’t many alternative providers for government services.
But then you have to pay for more server side compute! Think of the profit margins!
Pelmeni and gyoza is very similar albeit not the same food.
AFAIK, Peertube is only p2p when the normal streaming server is overloaded.
That's strange. I use Nvidia, on Wayland and have 0 issues with Firefox
So there were few orange photons, but rather a mixture of red and green which commonly occur?
Why is the US government even supporting specific browsers? It should support a standard like HTML 4 with no CSS or JS required. i.e. make the actual functionality on their sites simple to reduce the chance it doesn't work somewhere.

They're not Spotify. They're not trying to growth hack. They don't need to look pretty and have fancy animations and match some designer's dream down to the pixel. They can add CSS etc. to make things a bit nicer, but government sites should work with as simple of a browser as possible.

Highly regulated critical infrastructure like banks should be required to do this too.
They do a lot of PR campaigns and pay their execs well
The main issue is every startup and small business ties themselves to the gsuite apps and ultimately falls down the path of using and then requiring gsuite auth and often chrome as a whole for all work browsing. It is quintessentially the new IE. almost all my browsing during the day has to be chrome whether I like it or not and that has been true at my last 4 organizations. Three of which are multi billion dollar companies and two with tens of thousands of employees
Why is Snapshot Isolation not enough?
Absolutely, but assuming that magic the gathering without the rule about loops is turing complete, then it's possible to set up all programs in magic the gathering, not just nice ones. In particular there exists a program where it is impossible to tell whether it is in an infinite loop or not without solving the halting problem.

The rule cited is worded to only apply to loops that go on indefinitely (machines that don't halt), so the referee can't even know whether or not they're allowed to apply the rule against a without knowing if it halts. On the particular machine mentioned above that would require solving the halting problem.

And yes, I'm sure the people saying "they'd just kick you out if you tried this in a tournament" are right. That's really not the point. The point is the cited rule doesn't really make things better with respect to turing completeness. If magic the gathering without the cited rule is turing complete, then with it it's both just-shy-of-turing-complete* (you'd be able to run any program that does halt) and uncomputable.

* Depending on the precise definition of "turing complete" it might in fact be turing complete. You can evaluate any program. Either it does halt and you can report the output, or it doesn't halt and you can report that you're in an infinite loop because the referee-oracle said so. That's probably enough to satisfy most definitions - even if it's a strange way to implement it.
There is another way: make your browser THE browser for power users. Add crazy features that appeal to 0.1% of the userbase. Allow a free extension system that allows developers to come up with features you haven't even imagined and see what gets mindshare.

Once you have committed power users who love your product, they will be more than happy to evangelize it to everyone they know. While their friends may not use any of the advanced functionality, they'll still use it if it works okay for them and their friends insist on it.

Mozilla had something like this, and chose to throw it all away to make a browser for Idealized Grandma that more closely resembled Chrome - because Chrome was successful, so they figured they'd copy what they did. But while Chrome was a fine browser, and maybe even better than Firefox in some ways, what this mindset missed is that the main reason for Chrome's dominance was a) being shilled on all the largest web properties, even with popup bars, b) being installed as the default on Android and c), being bundled in installers. Also, if I remember rightly, an advertising campaign. Mozilla was not in a position to do any of this. They should have - and still could - stick to their strength.

Now the only reason to use Firefox is ideological (privacy) and habit. I still use it at home. But I don't bother installing it anywhere else anymore. What's the point?
I agree, and thanks for pointing that out, but between the two security failures, I'd rather have an incorrect OAuth2 implementation, which can be quickly fixed with no impact on existing customers, than credential stuffing, where I need to email customers apologizing for why I needed to reset their passwords.
I suspect the system for scoring "toxic" comments is less likely to flag the bureaucratic "I have reverted your edit for a second time because it does not meet WP:NPOV or WP:NOR. Please be aware of WP:3RR and be prepared to discuss any further changes on the talk page" comments about reversion and more likely to flag the sort of very angry and personal comments that come up when the page being edited is related to the culture war or actual longstanding war. Whether the recipient of the angry messages was previously a constructive contributor to that topic is an open question, of course.
I think it's a pretty reasonable question when the salary is so incredibly out of line with what developers make. Is the CEO singlehandedly responsible for productivity equal to that of sixty or so developers?
I think you're being a bit pedantic.

There are people who rarely make edits on Wikipedia, and then there are people who do it all the time and participate in the wider culture/community/bureaucracy of Wikipedia.

I believe the original comment was talking about people who regularly edit Wikipedia articles.
LMRL Gym
I'm not sure anymore that "The Web" is worth saving anymore. I find myself browsing less and less original content. The content that dominates is polarized between Internet Hate Machines on one extreme and Corporate Astroturfing on the other.

A lot of the interesting people I follow are already using Gemini (though I remain unconvinced that that's a way forward).
Russia is an outlier right now because of a huge shortage of skilled developers, a lot of tech people left the country in the past two years
Washington D.C. is a great example of this.

While looking at residential location choice, around 10 years ago, you could discern a boundary (Georgia Ave in those days).

Netflix used to show the most popular movies by zip code, and one side of the boundary it was "Mamma Mia" and the other "Tyler Perry".
Maybe a better execution of Firefox OS would have helped.

Nowadays KaiOS profits from it.
I'd use the same things we use for all the other things we run in the cloud, nothing special about an AI model here. Probably holds true if you think about input/output monitoring too, it's going to be called through an API, and there are plenty of tools for monitoring that as well.

Ideally your cloud provider has an easy to use solution. If not, there are monitoring services you can pay for as well. Running the open source alternatives takes some expertise.
The reading scores look good, stable with pre-covid and ranked 9th in the world. This might be a curriculum related issue. I've heard from friends that they have to send their kids outside of school tutoring in math now because their local public schools decided to keep everyone at the same math level and their children are bored out of their minds.
Per the article, this is irrelevant. The case being made is that the figure seen by the government falling under 2%, which it is getting close to, will trigger a chain-reaction of consequences that will dramatically hurt Firefox, and it's not clear if Mozilla, the organization, could weather that.

It doesn't particularly matter whether or not the figure is accurate in that context. Maybe that can be fixed easily by having Firefox contextually relax tracking a bit or by having the government change how they perform the tracking, but the status quo is not really sustainable. And that's really all the article is saying at the end of the day.
"Allows plugins to make fetch calls that bypass CORS completely."

I'm sure that won't have any risk involved...
It's 30K (33K London) for a starting RA1, so well below the 38K cutoff.
Guess I better improve my golf swing then
You just invoked godwin's law. Not very interesting "observations" you make.
I also have crashes on sway, but there’s a rough workaround now which prevents the issue totally.

I believe there’s a design issue with Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144

Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope we can keep its engine alive in this era of Chrome dominance.
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Can recommend Firefox for android, and as a bonus it supports many plugins.
I was definitely taken back by that statement. Marginalized groups, for example, have always noted how cities offer increased isolation away from bigots as compared to smaller towns and rural areas. It may be a prevalent idea in academia, but I'm not sure anyone thinks that way on the streets.
Crazy thing is that I know a few Linux users that would love to have safari on our Linux machines for syncing.

Firefox on iOS is a horrible experience. My desktop I have switched to Vivaldi so I can easily sync tabs between desktop and phone. I don’t love Vivaldi but the overall experience is superior to Firefox on both.

Would prefer safari on my Linux desktop and use it on my phone
Did I need to append a /s for people to get my comment?
What is psychology, but applied biology?

https://xkcd.com/435/