skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This presumes that inflation wouldn't happen with gold, which isn't straightforwardly true. Technological advances could make gold easier to extract which would increase their supply, which in effect is printing money.

Yes, but it's unlikely there'd be such advances made consistently year after year, given that's not what we've seen historically. 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 only difference is that it would go to miners rather than "elites in the financial system".

Yes you're right. Based on historical data though I'd expect them to receive overall much less than the financial industry currently does, given how much less inflation there was in the period prior to Bretton Woods ending. As per that link I shared earlier, the CPI was 51 in 1800, 25 in 1900, 116.7 in 1970, and 900 in 2023.
Someone's been watching The Ocho.
Brave is my primary also, but Orion is creeping up. It’s still a little buggy, but nested tree tabs is very nice.
Checks and balances are essential to the American way of government. Law enforcement should have to follow the Constitution, which means dealing with the check of obtaining a warrant. If the reason is really that compelling you’ll have no problem convincing a judge or magistrate.
I was going to say check out something from Casey too. Maybe just randomly jump into one of the 600+ videos for handmade hero and try to see what he's doing. I think Casey is a great educator, even if he has a lot of hot takes.
And NixOS. The fact that Nix has had a binary cache was one of the reasons I chose it over Gentoo.
True. There isn't any actual untouched forest land in north Florida. It's all been harvested and replanted many times. Almost certainly it was private sale or leased land. But those farm trees still produced more oxygen and stored more carbon than the solar panels will.
You are citing individual examples that you hand-picked.

I am citing the stats that average over all of this.
Don't know that op means but I can relate. Not long ago I was searching for an apartment to rent in my hometown to move closer to my workplace and I noticed that prices went crazy high compared to few years ago, so high that I can't afford them anymore. Students have demonstrated by mounting camping tents near the universities to protest the lack of affordable housing. I'm quite sure it's because owners prefer to rent to tourists than locals (higher income and no taxes, depending on the owner's compliance).

Cities like Venice lost their original character as many locals preferred to move out of the historical center to reduce the cost of living.

Other cities like Florence don't allow new bed and breakfasts to be registered, to try and control housing costs.
GitHub works with Firefox. I use that combination every day.
People here have a major hateboner against Brave. Some of it is crypto, some of it is Eich, relatively little the product itself.
chrome has to be worse. now there's that ad privacy option that you have to remember to change
Netflix buffers more for me and quality is awful for up to 20 seconds, I like the small jump back on Disney+ when resuming
Yeah, it could. People can also lie on affidavits for warrants, but it does leave more of a paper trail to catch the guy. Honestly I don't think I'd be against a warrant requirement, but I also think we need a way to speed up the warrant process a _lot_. Right now it often involves a 1 hour + drive to a magistrates office, 30-45 minutes of filling out paperwork by hand, plus the hearing, getting the actual warrant printed+signed+logged, then 1 hour + drive back to where you need to be. I think you'd see less pushback of warrants in general if it leveraged the technology we have. We should absolutely be able to file an affidavit electronically, facetime a magistrate, and get a warrant approved/denied that way.

But again, getting records from the pharmacy isn't really the issue. The government already has the records of the doctor that "wrote" the prescription. All the pharmacy is giving you is the physical copy of the record + data of who picked it up.
Only issues I’ve run into since switching this month is just some weird jank from 1pass not always filling in forms. It’s been a while since I last used Firefox and I’m very pleased with how much it’s improved.
> GUIs are simple when you don't need to do any styling

Styling should be provided by the host, not the app. The app should give, at most, hints to the system - that this button is the default, what the tab key navigation order is, etc.

> Web front-end are a completely different game in that regard

They shouldn’t be. The API is different, because the presentation layer leaks all over the place into the app logic. With runtimes such as VB’s the UI elements see and react to events, while the runtime takes care of pushing those events either to the host software or to the event handlers that are part of the app.
Making fun of ChatGPT because it can't count
Not bashing on this amazing technology. Just a doulbe-check on what aspires to bear the title of "inteligent"
> The money they make from Firefox usage gets spent not on Firefox or the web but primarily on social justice activism, which is invariably exclusionary of ordinary European and American men.

I know facts don’t care about feelings, but according to Mozilla Foundation’s on website it says $22 million since 2015. The most recent financial numbers I found are from 2022, which lists “software development” expenses at $242 million. That’s 1% a year.

I know you’re speaking from a place of feeling aggrieved that some underrepresented person without power somewhere’s life might be made just half-epsilon better, and under the mistaken belief that life is a zero-sum game, but for your own benefit, perhaps you should get informed before spouting off nonsense.

Who am I kidding? Facts don’t care about feelings, and feelings are all that matter.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-202...
Using Safari on Apple’s stuff seems fine. What really matters is not supporting the chrome-alike push toward monopoly.
Comparing Tech Used for Apollo, Artemis NASA Missions
At that time, you’ll be at least on your second and likely on your third set of panels.

Still the same reactor chugging away…
I do use it but I just wish crypto wasn’t baked in.
> Koreans aren’t super cool with marrying foreigners. A close family friend was only able to marry an American on condition of them not having kids.

This was a family request? Or government?
Do all commercial desktop VMs - VMWare fusion/parallels/UTM/Vimy now use this virtio model?

in theory win arm64 should run roughtly the same for all?
Firefox is noticeably slower on Android than Chrome. That's where Brave really shines: as fast as Chrome with a built-in ad-blocker.
Gradle Reduced Build Scan Storage Costs on AWS by 75%
Yep... the move from m68k to PowerPC was pretty much the deathknell. To really be a successor to A/UX, the core code would have had to be ported to that chip, and the amount of work required was simply too expensive to be justified. I also had heard, unofficially at the time, that Apple's license for the UNIX parts of A/UX were specific to the m68k architecture, and that they would have had to renegotiate the license to even be allowed to port it to the PowerPC.

What is interesting is that after A/UX died, some alternatives did spring up, such as Yellowdog Linux (which was NOT a macOS/UNIX hybrid, but rather vanilla Linux).

It is a shame, because if Apple had continued in investing it it, we would have had MacOSX much, much earlier.
That’s something weird with your setup, GitHub works just fine on Firefox for everyone else.
If someone could wrap the Gentoo build system with the Nix packager, and port Arch docs to Nix, you'd have the perfect Linux distro.
I don't get the point you're making. Yes, the popularity of technologies is impacted by the popularity of related technologies.

My argument is that Rust is certainly going to remain relevant for the next 20 years or so. When this project is no longer maintained, it probably won't be because Rust is no longer being developed, and it probably won't be because nobody writes Rust around.

If Lapce were written in something like Zig or Crystal, I wouldn't feel so certain about that. (Not a knock to Zig or Crystal.)
Wouldn’t it be Ctrl-v not ctrl-p? To paste instead of print a blank page?
I haven't used it. I've written and used NIFs, but mostly they're simple enough that C is fine, and Rust isn't really needed. I think discord ends up with complex data structures in their native layer; Rust seems reasonable for that, but I never experienced that need.

That said, I did have a concurrency issue with a NIF I used, but I don't know if Rust would have been helpful or just made it really hard to express.
Formaldehyde.

Nothing on concentrations or anything, which makes it difficult to assess the risk level, compared to e.g. a cheap bed made out of particleboard and foam mattresses. Meh.
> Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data.

Firefox makes almost all of their money from Google, so...

> If that’s the case, web developers can easily write sites that work on all browsers

Not sure what the point is here but if everyone is using Chromium/Webkit obviously this issue goes away too.

And, oh, that's it. I thought this was going to have like... a list of reasons. This feels like a very odd post to be #1 on HN right now, it contains almost no information.
Now consider states make it illegal to get birth control pills and retroactively go after anyone who has them prescribed. It's according to the law, ain't it?

The states should keep their noses out of this and in effect all drugs should be made legal. If you do have a problem (ie an addiction) we should make it trivially easy to get help instead of burning resources to investigate these. As far as abuse goes: it should be trivially easy for a pharmacy to check if a doctor did indeed prescribe something without raping the privacy of everyone involved. As a matter of fact, why the hell does it take 30 minutes to fill a prescription in 2023?
I don’t want to make any kind of a system, in fact, I am not even sure if I am behind that point-based proposal.

All I was trying to say that the point of the comment i was replying to was making a faulty statement “well, the way you explain it is already how it works under conditions XYZ” with a “those XYZ conditions you mention directly contradict the premise you are addressing.”
Oh, great, I just got my replacement machine a few months back.
Yes for the GP but UBO on firefox isn't defaults either. The bulk of the benefits you get from mullvad browser past what you get with default firefox + the same extensions are easy config changes. Things you can accomplish by just scrolling through the settings and flipping on a few settings with "more secure more better" worded descriptions.

For the average user there's not really a particularly good reason to jump for a downstream browser unless you are specifically using their main features (tor or VPN). It's easy enough to get 95% of the way there with 30 seconds of config tweaks off stock upstream.
Not the worst idea to avoid a website for breaking in FF (or take a chance to touch grass), but unfortunately when you can't pay your credit card bill or need something for your work and it only works in Chromium it can't be avoided.
I use Firefox as my default browser on my desktop and netbook (Windows/Linux), as well as my phone (Android), since the addons I want to use are available there and there's no Manifest v3 weirdness. The UI and performance are both okay (though content process limit is no longer exposed through the UI which isn't that nice when your netbook has like 4 GB of RAM), I quite enjoy the DevTools in particular, even more so than the ones in Chromium browsers.

However, I got some Apple devices for development and it seems like Firefox on the desktop breaks access to some sites (Private Internet Access, the one that got bought out by Kape, either in OpenVPN or WireGuard mode, same issue), which was apparently a known issue last I tried figuring out what's up. So there, I kind of moved to Brave which seems pleasant for the most part. It's also honestly be nice if Windows let me get rid of Edge or replace it with Chromium/Brave as my secondary browser easily instead of sticking around as bloatware.

Maybe that's just me hating on software nowadays in general (since it isn't always very nice to the user, for a variety of reasons), but Firefox is pretty great when it works!
This isn't personal on their part. It might be a bit rude but if you're going into the corporate world, get used to that. Just move on, if you're sitting there stewing about getting "ghosted", you can be sure they are not. I don't think it would bother me any more than getting a templated, cliche rejection letter.
> "to what extent are there entities that manipulate the arc of the HN narrative(s)"

I may have encountered that a few years ago, someone had submitted a link about progress in medical ultrasounds.

Another person claimed in many long posts that "never, never there will be portable ultrasounds".

Clearly now they are wrong, but even at the time there were PoC of ultraportable ultrasounds.

The guy knew its stuff, so I suppose he/she was working in the industry, and he/she saw the thread as a menace for their business.
Also a die-hard Gentoo fan (daily driver for 20+ years).

I tried Arch and what astounded me the most is that the docs didn't seem as good as Gentoo's. That surprised me because I end up looking at Arch's docs all the time and it's all of a very high quality.

But the Gentoo Handbook is really a masterpiece. I've never read a clearer explanation of how to go from unformatted disks to a working system.
Really?

While I’d love personalized feedback, all I really want is for your Applicant Tracking System to fire off a short email from noreply@company.com, bcc’ing everyone other than the person getting an offer.

Subject: Your Application to $company

I regret to inform you that $position at $company has been filled by another candidate. We appreciate your interest in working with us.

[Add other platitudes, info about reapplying or whether you’ll be considered for other jobs here…if you want].
—- $Name or HR department

If you’re too pressed for time to do that…maybe you should be hiring someone who can.
No, not even close :)
See, that's the only reason I'm being so persistent here: you absolutely did not say "California trades with Alabama." You said something about trade, then you said you enjoy lots of local produce, then you said someone in Alabama "does not." Full stop. That's a statement so sloppily-worded that it's simply factually wrong.

You didn't say the person in Alabama "does not enjoy as much local produce", which you maybe meant. If you assumed the audience would understand what you actually meant despite your wording, well then, all the comments taking issue with your statement should be evidence for you that they did not.

In response to these comments, instead of attempting to state your point more clearly, you insult your audience's intelligence and double down, acting like what you said was perfectly clear (it wasn't) and we're all just "offended" (we're not).

I'm only trying to point out-- because you seem genuinely incredulous at some of the responses you've received-- how much the above communication style makes you sound like a belligerent asshole to anyone with regular human feelings.

If you can't see that, I'm afraid you'll continue to have these "I don't get why everyone's got such an attitude, I literally only said x !" moments.
Unlimited history is nice but I hate how history works out of the box. I might be doing something wrong but ctrl+h pops up a sidebar which shows every single website visited today in no discernible order. I've learned about ctrl+shift+h which is better but even there, the UI is a bit lacking compared to what Chrome has out of the box. Is there anything I can do to improve this?
>Nvidia has a monopoly and for that reason has lost interest in giving value to customers. It’s busy with AI and no longer seems interested in gaming.

I look at Nvidia Reflex and DLSS improvement from what I thought was fancy to something I found more like magic. I dont see how they have lost interested in gaming.

If anything, their AI business revenue has been partly subsidising their Gaming market where they are now the first player after Apple to get leading edge node capacity.
Yeah, hard to recommend a browser that breaks on certain sites for subtle reasons to family members who aren't as tech oriented for instance.
I always read that some sites don't work with Firefox but the writers never mentions which sites are broken.

So I'm curious, which sites are broken in vanilla FF?
Been using wipr, I never see ads.
That's true, in Germany, Russia fossil fuel companies funded the green movements and their anti nuke rhetoric.
Lately, I have been struck by pragmatism of approaches discussed in https://clojuredesign.club/

For example, one can start separating pure functions from side-effects, aiming for aggressively minimal side-effecting functions. Applying this approach to calling REST APIs, one would first create a full request (including the http method, body, headers, etc) in a pure function, and only then send that request to the wire. With such a split, one can easily unit-test the request construction (it's a pure fn), and also explore the request.

It was mind-bending to me when I first heard it. The podcast is full of such approaches and it seems that Chris and Nate, the hosts, have quite some battle scars to source from.
Michael Cohen Used Artificial Intelligence to Feed Lawyer Bogus Cases
It's already the case that companies using "Real User Metrics" will miss many Firefox users -- client-based monitoring is indistinguishable from client-based tracking (intent notwithstanding) with the result that if I need to disable three separate sets of protections (ETP, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin) before my browser will report my useage of my employer's website.

Not everyone using Firefox will be quite so determined as I am, I'm sure. But it's still an issue that I try to raise with people who want to use browser statistics for anything.

It's also worth noting that Firefox does spoof its user-agent in some circumstances, if you visit `about:compat` then you can see a list of sites that have user agent tweaks applied to them. See also: webcompat.com
Hey! So I finally felt inspire and made a demo of my Firefox userchrome.css and Tree Style Tabs customization and CSS on my Github here [1]. It makes it so that the Tree style tabs expand and contract over the page, showing just the favicon and number of sub-tabs when contracted, along with a few other things, like reducing border sizes and adding better indication for sound in a tab. It's pretty nifty I think; I hope someone finds it to their liking. :)

https://github.com/jessebeard/firefox_settings
Open source liability is coming
> We don't know how to identify and cultivate talent in this industry yet, it's clearly dysfunctional and deprioritized.

Do you even watch professional sports? Professional sports is not great at identifying or cultivating or recruiting, and the incentives there are far simpler, and the performance metrics generally easier.

Take the NBA. A handful of teams are famous for cultivating talent, but mostly because the modal nba team is terrible at it.

Even the best regularly completely mess up. The team of folks that put together the Warriors -- a franchise that dominated the nba for a decade -- completely blew a #2 draft pick, who is close to being out of the league. They gave Jordan Poole a huge contract and then were forced to trade him because he decided to stop playing defense and start taking terrible shots. He's busy being a tank commander in Washington.

Hell, Michael Jordan -- my take for the greatest of all time, and, at worst, the 3rd best basketball player ever -- famously didn't go #1, and that's with one of the best college coaches of all time (Bobby Knight) telling anyone who would listen that he was an extraordinary basketball player. Hakeem went first (ok, that's not a disaster) and a complete bust went second (complete disaster).

Lots of GMs struggle with really basic roster construction issues (Russel Westbrook on the Lakers). etc.

iirc, only 4 of 30 coaches (Pop, Spo, Steve Kerr, Malone) have held their jobs for more than 4 years.

edit: It's very common for top-25 all time players to not be drafted first, or often, even all that high. Steph Curry, with a decent shot at top 10 all time: #7. Jokic: 41st (!!! -- essentially every team passed on him). Giannis: 15th. Luka: 3rd, after winning euroleague mvp at 18 (yes, I'd confident he'll end top 25). etc.
I made sure all new computers at my work include Firefox. I also encourage staff to use adblockers.
Because you're asking: we cannot downvote submissions but if I could I would downvote this one. Not because I'm "manipulating the arch of narrative" but because it is a low effort post, pretty much designed to attract conspiratorial comments and commentators who feel silenced/persecuted by downvotes or moderation. That's unlikely to result in a constructive, interesting discussion.
> Water went from being something I hardly considered to something I am far more careful about 'wasting'.

Water being "free" from a well probably doesn't help with aquifer longevity, at least at larger scales.
Why Porsche? Why not Tesla?
Yes I have noted that phenomenon, to the point I would be happy to have a HN client that would ignore the first comment its children.
I know what he's talking about. Firefox has constant nag screens. I just restarted Firefox and got two separate nags[1]. I am certain that within the next week it will nag me for at least one more thing. Maybe it'll want me to try Pocket, or sign in with a Mozilla account, or set up sync, or the absolute worst offender - when I launch the browser it will say "heyyyy I gotta update and I treat this like it's 1998 so you'll need to wait, and then I'll need to restart". Firefox is VERY naggy.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/dLr6E0C
And for a period, Ford Rangers and Mazda B4000s were effectively the exact same verhicle with a slightly different body.
> So, I suppose that the main point. In these cases, we weren't investigating the individual as a suspect, we were trying to understand the nature of an incident that could affect the safety of others in a relatively linear fashion.

That doesn't matter. You're still talking about accessing private, sensitive data about an individual.

> I think it's fair that the public has the right to his honesty in this scenario.

Yes, and that's exactly why warrants exist. The courts are specifically responsible for determining the outcome of cases in which private rights potentially conflict with public ones (or with private rights of other parties).

> Of course, these powers present the potential for abuse, and I'm sure it happens. Just not in the world I ever operating in; our powers and obligations were taken very seriously internally.

Having worked extensively in this area, I'll be blunt and say: anytime someone who works in law enforcement says that there are no abuses of power in their workplace, that means either they were so oblivious that they never saw abuses that are occurring around them, or they were so mired in the system that they are incapable of recognizing the abuses of power that they themselves are participating in.

Out of charity, I'll assume the former. But to be honest, every time I've spoken at length about this with LEOs, it's inevitably turned out to be the latter.