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Missed the edit window, but thinking about this more:

> Keeping in mind commercial success of a work, author or company is not why copyright exists.

Lets take a look at the clause again:

> To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

Lets go ahead and skip over the fact you're consistently ignoring "useful arts" part as well and keep going.

What exclusive rights do you think they're talking about here? Do you really think they didn't mean the economic rights related to their writings and discoveries? How do you imagine this would "promote" the sciences if not by allowing the creators to share their works and ideas while still retaining economic benefits of their labor?

Reading between the lines, the whole point of IP is to help protect the potential commercial success of sharing your ideas. It doesn't guarantee the idea will actually be a commercial success, but it does give them the exclusive right to the commercial success for a limited time.
> What's the real use case of PWAs?

Having apps that works as well as native ones, while using the same codebase and open technologies, and that is naturally as decentralized, safe and accessible as the web.

Also not needing to be politically correct, approved by Google and Apple or share large percent of revenue and marketing data with them.

It could be happening if Firefox took it more seriously and Apple didn't prevent it from happening.
Still part of union negotiated salaries for brewery workers in Germany. Since almost all breweries also have non-alcoholics, that part of the payment is aparebtly more often taken in the form sparkling water and the likes.

I can vividly imagine your wife's flatmates joy once a quarter so!
I have written a lot of Erlang code over the years, including an Erlang Redis clone which had some interesting performance characteristics[1] ... though not recently, I went too far down the engineering management track at Snap and elsewhere... but I worked closely with Fernando "El Brujo"[2] when he was CTO of my consultancy. If you want to see beautiful, canonical Erlang code, he's still slinging it out. Dig through his repos on Github, or better yet, ask him to provide his suggestions.

[1] https://github.com/cbd/edis
[2] https://github.com/elbrujohalcon
Reminds me tangentially of this great recreation of a deposition: https://youtu.be/PZbqAMEwtOE
Organic compounds in asteroids likely formed in colder regions of space
Show HN: Nudge v0.5.0
A new version of my push notification tool with small improvements.
Google and Apple get to engage you frequently all the time for free. You have no choice in the matter. Every surface is theirs.
> Windows has several competing "official" UI libraries. Every library has a different look and feel, and all are in various stages of decomposition

I can’t fathom why they made the decision to push every style to a different rendering engine. Working on Windows gets you to see every look and feel and the deeper you go, the closer you get to Windows 2000.
How much does the Mozilla CEO deserve? I know the tech salaries and I believe a comparable role (senior director or VP) in a Faang would at least be 7 figures, can we try to ballpark by how much we are over (or under) paying the CEO?
That seems like an odd reason to not use a browser, especially considering how the company that makes the dominant browser is also a mess.
I agree completely that the cause of such incredible economic ignorance must originate within the education system.

Very good point that it’s likely still the tailwinds from Soviet propaganda and covert tactics to influence western culture.
Thanks for being there for A/UX! Proud to still maintain a mirror of jagubox on the Gopher server, and my clock-chipped Q800 runs it splendidly.

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/archive/jagubox-gsfc-nasa-gov-aux
There's a filter at the top right if I remember right, change it to Last visited
Ok, I’ll just find a hippier word to use to describe “hook and loop” so Velcro will lose their relevance.
Why be sorry, large sample sizes more or less guarantee the generation of outliers. But once someone attaches mythology to the event, you get another Sam Altman. Worldcoin alone should raise a lot of questions about his supposed one of a kind brilliance, but it didn't, so here we go again with another auteur too big to fail now.
There’s no way to do either. The Mozilla Corporation doesn’t take donations. (The Mozilla Foundation doesn’t make Firefox.)
What will UMAP do? What will t-SNE do? [video]
Do you not know what protected statuses are? There's a reason those exist. There's a reason it's allowed to penalize someone for being bigoted but not for being gay. This is not a symmetrical/both-sides thing.
It was not that great in tech. I interviewed during the same time in tech and got limited responses even after what appeared to be positive interviews. There wasn't quite as much of "we completely do not respond", yet it still existed. Mostly a vacuum of rejections with no context. Very little other than "no" in most cases.

At least in my case though, it just got to "putting in 2-3 customized applications a day, can't really stop to worry about the type of response, unless its helpful. No's a no, next application."

Plus, 2007 was the era where Google's puzzles and homework assignments were what everybody was fighting about. Which company's got the craziest hiring homework and weirdest math puzzles that have almost nothing to do with your job?
That sounds like a really awesome workplace you built there. Nice job.
> They had to find alternates.

Except they didn't use salt for that. That's a myth. Did you read the article?

> the lack of fiat currency as the reserves of silver and gold were exhausted.

True, they had the same problem in the middle ages. Since we know massively more about the middle ages than Ancient Rome AFAIK they partially solved it through a mix of barter and credit (accounting was done using currency bit might have never changed hands in reality). As long as most trade is local that must be a pretty effective system.
Yeah, it does have all the crypto bloatware, but it doesn't force it on you so all of that can just be ignored. I actually think Brave (and maybe Safari) is the least opinionated browser in terms of features it forces on you and it's somewhat easy to turn off or ignore what you don't want. I might be deluding myself but it's always feels like the lightest browser that I use.
No, see, I don't accept the moral rights of authors as legitimate. See my original comment.

Because I don't accept these rights, I don't think "compensating" someone by putting restraints on others would be at all legitimate.

Framing it as "compensation" helps bring into focus how abhorrent it is, in fact. What kind of person derives "compensation" from seeing others muzzled?
>It's a lot of work for the 95% of clowns out there you interview, and there's a push towards automated process, but it will hurt your business.

If 20 candidates enter your funnel before you hire one in a screening-technical-offer flow, that’s maybe 5-6 hours per week spent on recruiting in 1 month. You can even send a few personalized rejections to worthy but unfit applicants, sending 80% of applications to trash. The effort is noticeable, but it is not a lot of work with good automation, planning and interview design.
As for self-hosted web apps, Tabula (https://tabula.technology) is a great tool to extract tables from PDF files.
i also use ublock matrix so i get to play "which third party hosts are needed to make this page work" for every new website
My guess, you were not fast enough? Imagining myself as a recruiter, I would probably be working with a fair number of leads at the same time. Any of those who are a good fit and quick to respond would get sent to HR.

My recent job I landed because I was pushy, I called the recruiter by phone and sold them on me, got the contact for the company manager, called them too and got hired. I got decent technical skills, but talking to people is what gave results.

Just one thing, "talk the talk, walk the walk" is real. Bullsh*ting will put you in a bind sooner or later.
Not until they do better in power draw. Safari or Orion for me until then.
If you want something done right you often have to do it yourself.

Especially when the communication required to delegate it well is more work than just doing it.
While all those are cases where LEO had legitimate reason to have access the information, none of them provide a compelling reason why a warrant couldn't be required.

The third-party doctrine has become far too broad. There are so many situations where people share information with a third party, but also expect and deserve a right to privacy regarding that information. The fact that HIPAA doesn't provide a reasonable expectation of privacy in information shared with your doctor/pharmacist is just absurd. The law does explicitly carve out these LEO exemptions, but reasonable expectation of privacy is a constitutional right, and those carve-outs should be deemed unconstitutional. And we should extend those lines with good privacy laws all around - any information that a company is required to protect under civil privacy laws should also be exempt from the third-party doctrine and require a warrant.
Again, Control Deck was how they branded their own products. In the 90s they ran advertisements advising people to refer to their competitors' products as game consoles. I don't remember anyone using the term "Control Deck" to refer to the console.

Nintendo also referred to their cartridges as Game Paks, another term not used outside official Nintendo materials (including Nintendo Power). Everybody just called them cartridges, carts, or just games. It kind of reminds me of how Texas Instruments tried to get "Command Module" over as a term for their TI-99/4(A) cartridges. It didn't go over.

Oddly enough, the official TI-ism for the 99/4A unit itself was "console".
>The US had a gold-backed currency for the entire 1800s and there wasn't any significant inflation: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl... .

The same source also shows that between 1800 and 1850 prices halved. I guess that's technically not inflation, but 50% deflation isn't great either and causes other economic problems.
To Mozilla: In 2024, please switch to WebKit.

Gecko had a good and honorable run, but no longer sparks joy. It's not a differentiator, which means that the resources you're applying to it are a waste of time and money.

Please thank Gecko for serving its purpose in our lives and let it go, before its reputation gets worse. Firefox's market share has slipped so far that most web developers no longer test with it.

Adopt and contribute to WebKit. Focus on things that matter.
I’ve been ghosted a few times over the years. It stung at first but now that I have grey hair, I no longer take it personally. I actually started ghosting job offers and invitation to continue to the next phase of the interview process. If they’re really interested, they’ll find an alternate way to contact me.
Not just did it not have containment, it was intrinsically unstable.

The west never built reactors that dangerous, and nobody operates reactors that dangerous (that type was fixed).

Anti-nukies have this feeling that anything nuclear is categorically more dangerous than anything non-nuclear.

They imagine the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to be a liefeless wasteland out of a dystopian sci-fi movie, when in reality it is a thriving wild-life reserve where you might have a slightly higher statistical risk of cancer.

And you are absolutely right: they evacuated way too much. In Chernobyl as well.

In both cases the negative health effects of the evacuation were far more severe than the negative health effects of the radiation.

Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have evacuated at all, but a whole lot less.

Numbers don’t lie.
It's decidedly non-ideal that it requires an extension and a native helper, but https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire... works.
In Spanish it's officially "velcro" from the French abbreviation https://dle.rae.es/velcro and no alternative. About as generic as you get.

Speaking of velcro shoes, I inherited some velcro fastening trainers because my eldest kid felt he'd grown out of using them (he has the same size foot as me). I feel very self conscious wearing them in public because nobody wears velcro trainers. In the 6 months I've had them, I've been keeping an eye out in a busy European city, and I've seen just 1 person and that was a sort of work uniform shoe some guy had. Nobody has "fashion" velcro shoes. They do look kinda goofy I suppose.
as a frontend web developer there's a reason I use Chrome and bought an iPhone. It's so I see what my users are going to see
> the only remaining ethical web browser

I hate associating ethics with technical debates. Chrome didn't win by being ethical, it won by being better. Plain words cannot save Firefox from losing its market share. I know battling against tech giants is hard, but appealing to ethics will only lead to hostility for some people.
Firefox doesn’t need to get me to “engage” when I’m already in their browser.
How do you level the playing field of past 100 years of fossil fuel subsidies? I think its fair to subsidize nuclear, wind and solar. If renewables + nuclear are subsidized to the same level as fossil fuels (trillions/year), in 10 years we'll have super cheap, clean, abundant energy.
For all my apps that had controls pinned to a specific coordinate, I made sure to make the windows fixed-size.

I taught courses on VB from versions 3 to 6 and this was always something we went over.
Wow, I just googled that[1] and it's absolutely shocking. I want no part of a browser vendor who thinks they should be in control of what is and isn't on the web.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
I've been using Firefox for regular browsing for years now, but I use Chrome for streaming videos (Firefox streaming quality is noticably worse) and LibreWolf for YouTube (blocks ads). It's annoying to have 3 browsers open basically all of the time.
I never stopped using it. Firefox is great
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The Files app allows storing files locally, and mounting network shares. You can also seamlessly copy and paste files (via handoff) between macOS and iOS.

I typically just hit Cmd+C on the Mac and long press+Paste on Files on the iPhone. If you are using the iPad with an external mouse or trackpad you can also drag and drop it directly to the Mac.

As for the distinction between random JPEG files and the Photos app, I think that's actually quite good. I don't get my gallery littered with random images, and it also supports non destructive editing, among other features. Moving between the two is also fairly easy, you can use the Share sheet or just drag and drop.

The one thing I would change is that screenshots end up in Photos.app by default, I'd rather have them go to Files.
> how normalized the process for violating the 4th Amendment and patients' privacy is.

Well thats the rub, isn't it? Right now the courts don't see this as a violating of the 4th amendment. I can see the argument for requiring a warrant. Im not necessarily against the requirement, but this isn't normalizing a 4th amendment violation any more than license checkpoint (which the courts have also ruled isn't a violation)

[Edited to add the rest of the quote]
I switched away from Firefox about 3 years ago (after more than 10 years of using it) because I got tired of them breaking stuff (and my habits) with unnecessary redesigns every 6 months or so.
You can't. FF is opensource, and in theory you could pay someone not employed by mozilla to work on it and submit patches. But really you're still contributing to money to mozilla in that labor == money.
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Thanks, good tips!
But that's exactly what it is then: a check mark. I can interview dozens of candidates, and then add a total count to my self review. There is no incentive to do a good job (how would that even be evaluated?..).
It allowed for both, the default being pcode (IIRC because it was more compact) but it could also do native code. The feature was introduced in VB5.

Note that it still required the VB runtime either way.
I'm not sure what part of the story I just described was "bullshitting."
Good point. It's also worth noting that raw flash also is generally treated as roughly append-only for wear leveling. "General-purpose" may be in the eye of the beholder, but I'd say these append-only data structures are useful in at least two significant environments.
I switched to the Arc browser this year, and I love it.

The best feature is that it auto-closes tabs. It makes having different spaces for work and personal browsing easy, and they are constantly adding convenience features.

It runs on Chromium. I don't know how that intersects with the ethical and standards issues around Chrome.
Low but non 0 and you’re still duplicating the values written to disk. So your SSD lifetime is decreased and this is effectively a RAID0 layout which means data loss is risky too.
Agreed, which is insane! We'll spend untold zillions fine-tuning and A/B testing the process by which we get users, but when it comes to getting coworkers it's "Well HR says the applicants have to make an account to apply so I guess that's just the way it is".
> Safari outsources a lot to the operating system and as a result the interface and interaction becomes simpler, but less flexible.

Yes, definitely agree with that. But I think of "noise" as stuff that interrupts your normal interaction with web sites and in that regard I don't think Firefox is particularly noisy.

There are definitely a lot of features, settings and extensions with Firefox and while I don't use very many of them I do really appreciate the ones that I do use.
It took a long time, but the situation improved a couple weeks ago. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/28/open-extensions-o...
Completely agree, but they never seem to learn.

The plumbing companies (like Netflix) look jealously at the content producers, and they desperately want that sweet content revenue.

The content producers (like Disney) look jealously at the plumbing companies, and they desperately want that sweet plumbing revenue.

Sometimes grabbing for the other revenue stream works out (like for Netflix) but most of the time it doesn't.

Disney was so eager to get into the plumbing business that it forgot how to create compelling content and now it can't do either.
I don't agree with your proposed solution (make all drugs legal), but I do think that the pharma industry in the US basically gets to socialise their losses while privatising the gains.

The Sackler family's opioids, for example, have caused untold damage, and they made billions from it. They were able to offset the cost of all of that onto the society.
Firefox needs to make money.
This answer unlocked a principle in my thinking about a certain class of problems I’ve been struggling with in a different domain. Thank you!
The article is paywalled, but more generally, can someone defend EA to me? Does EA offer a specific idea that we should adopt in our thinking?

When I think of other, recent intellectual movements, I can clearly state "why" I should support them.

For example, YIMBY, the "idea" that producing more housing will lead to lower housing costs.

Or, Energy Transition, the "idea" that the falling costs of solar, renewables, and batteries will enable everyone to enjoy the fruits of industrial civilization, at lower costs, and without CO2 emissions.

Or, 15-minute cities, the "idea" that if I can walk to everything, I'll be healthier, it'll be more convenient, and we can save money driving less - with smaller roads and less parking.

But what does EA offer? How should we act differently? And if so, what will get better? I associate EA with concerns about AI safety, but I've never seen a coherent plan to address AI safety. And, if not AI safety - what's the "idea" that EA offers?
Having used some machines with older HDDs up until recently, I can definitely sympathize with you there. If you go to `about:config` and change `cache.disk.enable` and `browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl` to false, your cache will be stored solely in RAM and this should speed up your experience somewhat.
What bothers me is that all their recent ad campaigns just revolve around the premise of "We are not Chrome", which really doesn't sell to me.
Jeez. On one hand, sure, it’s frustrating when this happens. But for everyone trying to get hired out there: don’t just sit passively waiting for results - call your damn recruiter on the phone! Recruiters are human and yes they make mistakes. Sometimes a phone call may actually result in jiggling you along in the process and actually make the difference between getting hired or not.

Don’t sit at home and feel sad and stroke your beard and neglect your side projects. Communicate, sell yourself, don’t be afraid to be a bit pushy!
If you read a story about the edge of the world then you have an example of an "flat earth" believer.

Regardless of shape, I think the most fundamental shift occurred with the idea that the Earth is not a center of the universe.
Brave's built-in Adblock is just as good as Firefox+UBO in my experience.
Note I used HR for everything other than sourcing. The bottleneck is usually identifying people and initial phone screens. The rest of the process is legitimately HRs job.
It’s not really said in the story, but this is a bidirectional connector.

There are certainly times when the UK generates excess energy from wind.
>It comes at a heavy cost though: you need to keep tons of the yellow stuff around

A cost to the government, but much less of a cost to the lower classes, who pay low taxes thanks to progressive taxation so inflation represents the biggest drain on their wealth (especially since most don't have access to financial instruments or the education to use them).

>I mean if you're going to invoke extraordinary measures like this

It's not necessarily extraordinary; we haven't seen the Federal government bail out a state yet but we also haven't yet seen a state undergo a complete financial collapse, so it's quite possible there'd be a bailout if things got bad enough. The WSJ predicts a bailout of the states is upcoming: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-coming-biden-bailout-of-blu...

>like the government debasing the currency, which was still done even when countries were on the gold standard

They did that by essentially turning their currency into a fiat currency: saying it was worth X, when the actual precious metal it consisted of was only worth e.g. half of X. But yes you're right that in theory nothing prevents a government with 100% gold standard from debasing it like that, however doing so would be more visible to citizens than inflation since it'd require centralising how the currency was priced.
I imagine this greatly depends on the age of the kids and their immediate friend groups. A very young child generally isn't going to care or even understand some movie or show is old or not, everything in life is new to them.