skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, people were stuck at their homes, with no other things to do than engaging electronically with the rest of the world, but this, somehow created problems for Mozilla, a company that builds a fucking web browser?
Not if Apple has its way. They've consistently regressed, failed to implement standards, implemented them brokenly, delayed/delayed/delayed, stated that a feature was bad for privacy|security|performance, etc. Just an endless stream of roadblocks.

For example: photo and file uploads (yes, really! remember "iOS doesn't have a filesystem, so no uploads" which really damaged craigslist because Browse didn't work on iPhone for many years), webrtc, PWA add-to-home, sticky/fixed positioning, scrolling through notch (it worked, and then it didn't), service workers, push notifications, and so much more than I can't even remember (maybe someone else can list their favorites).

Even when eventually we got the features, they were often broken in order to keep pushing people into the App Store.

Does the author REALLY believe that Apple won't instantly drop support for any feature that could seriously disrupt the App Store? Not on your life.
I’ve been trying to come up with a metaphor to explain the housing crisis in California to my friends in LATAM. Shoes are a pretty good. I want something punchier, though.
What is with Facebook and Microsoft ?

I recently installed Facebook messenger on android and it literally had ads in the chat list itself. Yuck.

Same for Microsoft. At least I don't have to use any ms product but everything has ads now ?? Why ?
And also why drafted soldiers are young enough to not even qualify for alcohols.
Descent and warcraft 2 on Kali. Good times.
For who is that unfortunate?
The duopoly of Webkit and Gecko?
I think they're counting Webkit (Safari) and Blink (Chrome) as two separate engines. Given that it's been 10 years since Blink forked from Webkit, I think that's fair.
"feat" is something that adds value to product's end users. The things we put on release notes. "chore" is something that adds value to the engineering team. The things we have to do to keep being productive.
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Mozilla deserves a lot of criticism. It doesn't need the anti diversity crowd for that. It's its own worst enemy right now (and it really starts with Baker). Diversity (which I really support) has nothing to do with it.

What they have to do is put firefox back on the map. They deserve criticism for not doing that and for failing at their mission of an open web.
I applied to Rewind on December 5, and I never heard anything back. It sounds like you folks would benefit from some sort of AI assistant that prevents information from slipping through the cracks. :)
HN doesn't like some facts. Those disliked facts change over time. Don't overthink it. Downvotes in everything you post should be worrying, an ocasional downvote here and there is actually a good sign that you're not a part of a hive-mind.
> LOLWUT is also going to be a tradition starting from Redis 5. At each new major version of Redis what the command does will change completely.

FYI, here is LOLWUT for Redis 6: https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1207712536147251202
> Native apps can block screenshots

> This is important to protect privacy (nudes) and people have come to expect it.

Considering you can just, ya know, take a picture of it, this doesn't seem important at all.
I don't think the comment you're replying to is 'shocked' by the detail you're talking about
Do you have kids? If so, did you try to deduct extracurricular activities? I did and was audited, also 100% of my friends were audited for the kids related deductions.
Anecdata of course.
Also I find Canadian personal taxes are way too complicated. I can think only of Italy where allegedly personal taxes even more complex.
“Startup”… bro, Blue Origin was started in 2000, before SpaceX (or ULA) even. I think it might be time to retire “startup.”
> Browse didn't work on iPhone for many years

The web API always allowed you to choose photos from your camera roll.
To be clear: I don't support nor even agree with what she is doing. She is a key part of the disease Mozilla is suffering from.

But with that said, I am also willing to at least respect the fact someone is making an absolute killing of a living for next to nothing. Think about it: $7,000,000.00 for doing next to nothing at bare minimum. Most people would kill for that kind of income to work ratio.

Mitchell Baker is a woman who figured out how to game the system she's in and win big (bigly?), I can and will respect that even if I otherwise vehemently detest her. The first step to addressing a problem is figuring out the problem.
Because they're harebrained ideas. I don't want to pay Mozilla for a limited version of mullvad when I can get the full mullvad for less.

I don't think they actually ever expected any of these ideas to work. In the meantime you can't even donate to firefox if you want to, only to the foundation.

I mean, I give money to KDE every month and they manage to build a whole desktop environment. Why can't I do that with Mozilla? Oh wait, how much money does KDE waste on a CEO?
Edge is based on chromium
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An homage to my two favorite sites (13chan and HN).

I don't think it's too hard but feel free to request hints or leave feedback :)
> Apple doesn't always like it, but you can plead your case to the reviewers

Since when? What app does this? SnapChat just notifies the counterparty of screenshots, which is largely "nudes", but no other app I've used actually manages to block my screenshots.
You can now easily search through every executive in federal government
You are not rebutting what people were actually talking about in this conversation.
Sorry but I'm glad you aren't able to implement those features on the web.
Well technically they exist also to make sure the CEO does a good job.

Which in this case they're not doing.
Assembly line robots are still a bit different from LLMs directly generating binaries though, right?

An assembly line robot is programmed with a very specific repeatable task that can easily be quality tested to ensure that there aren't manufacturing defects. An LLM generating binaries is doing this one off, meaning it isn't repeatable, and the logic of the binary isn't human auditable meaning we have to trust that it does what was asked of it and nothing more.
That is so cool and fun!
https://github.com/mindee/doctr/issues/1049

https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR#whats-coming-next

Happy to see OCR is advancing lately, but I really need HWR.

I am looking for something this polished and reliable for handwriting, does anyone have any pointers? I want to integrate it in a workflow with my eink tablet I take notes on. A few years ago, I tried various models, but they performed poorly (around 80% accuracy) on my handwriting, which I can read almost 90% of the time.
Blocking screenshots is a solution in search of a problem. How do you plan to block another phone or high definition camera taking a picture?
https://www.opm.gov/about-us/open-government/plum-reporting/...
If I hire unqualified people and pay them high salaries, does it count as bribery?
Hang in there. Every rejection is bringing you one step closer to your ultimate goal.
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I was. Things have shifted enough (it’s been 10 years? Wow!) I think it’s fair to consider them separate. They also use completely different JS backends.
There is also an argument to be made that actual gambling has less of a negative social impact.

Having been bored during the pandemic and gotten myself some gambling tokens at a brokerage site it turned out that i almost kinda funded some pretty severe human rights violations. Drones dropping grenades and mortar shells on indigenous people with bow and arrow type of stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSf3268tAbg

Maybe check your portfolio for Freeport-McMoRan

Funnily enough, the youtuber that made the video also had his house fire bombed by organized crime for reporting on Australias gambling industry.

edit: Picture of drone in question https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1426514097617752066
Mozilla seems to be in a lose-lose situation with HN crowd.

When they attempt to diversify their revenue with VPN, email tokenization, etc, (things not tied to Google revenue) … HN crowd ridicules them for not being focused on gaining browser share.

When it comes to Firefox, it seems few have even given it a fair try anytime recently.

(How can they gain share when HN doesn’t give them a try)

Irony is, HN loves Rust. And Rust was created at Mozilla.

Note: I have no ties to Mozilla and am a Safari user.
Firefox engineering is in a pretty good spot. What they need now is clout and market share to bring in income and brand awareness. I'm not sure how else to achieve that? They need people to associate them with being the good stewards. Best way to do that is to be a good steward.

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?timerange=3...
Sadly I think that’s about to happen in the name of “openness”.

I understand all the arguments against Apple getting to lock everyone into their browser.

But the practical effect, I fear, will be disaster when they’re forced to allow it.
I don't think that was his point. I think he just vaguely meant digital computers could never compute the same functions as analogue computers, particularly whatever the "alive function" is.

To answer your point simply, machines don't have the same energy constraints as small animals. A bird brain gets more compute per watt than my desktop pc, but humanity can (and does. often) hook up a power plant to a building sized computer.

If you believe the function a brain is computing is computeable on von neuman, efficiency isnt relevant, in so far as you build a big enough machine, and get it running the right program.
That's really what my question is about, are you allowed to distribute pirated content if, and only if, it's being used to train AI?
And if we're talking about centenarians in blue zones, we also have to account for recovering from world war 1, world war 2 which introduce famine and "accidental" deaths
How do you think things get into yum and maven in the first place?
that is Machiavellian or Ten Rules of Power or whatever; it is not clear that the position is being gamed, but that the results with the current players are certainly out of constructive balance
Was Frisco, TX named because the railroad went to SF, or was it named because the Frisco Lines railroad (which itself went to SF) passed through? That is, was it named after the destination, or the railroad? Frisco, CO is named after the railroad, even though it /doesn't/ pass through...
> When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

I was working at Mozilla when she made this comment -- shortly after laying off ~25% of the fucking company -- and it was the final straw for me. I can't speak to whether it was the final straw for others as well, but I can say that in the span of about 8-9 months after those layoffs every single person on my team, many who had been there 5+ years, quit and took "normal" tech industry jobs that typically paid 2-2.5x more than Mozilla. Apparently in Baker's mind it's OK to ask the people doing the actual work to take a massive discount to their compensation for ideological reasons, but when it interferes with her lavish lifestyle it's suddenly unthinkable.

She is truly an anchor around Mozilla's neck, and at this point I've just sort of grudgingly accepted that she'll only leave once she's drained every last drop of blood she can get from the company and from the well-meaning and dedicated people trying to make a genuinely independent web browser. All I can hope is that some sort of phoenix (get it?) manages to arise from the ashes when that finally happens.
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anyone knows a good RSS aggregator without a frontend, just need a backend preferably in python
It's interesting, for sure. I find the warping more distracting than it seems valuable, though. I can't seem to get any useful information out of the warped part of the screen, so IMO it's not any better than a plain dividing line, and just wastes space.
If there is a climate where people expect that exercise of free speech will result in retaliation, then people will self-censor before there can even be an incident to report. This phenomenon is known as a Chilling Effect.

This is why people's beliefs about whether speech is properly protected or not are relevant. If people don't believe that free speech is protected, speech can effectively be curtailed even with few actual incidents.
Every time I sit down to write a toy language I get stuck on two conveniences: syntax highlighting and auto-formatting. I feel like they're table stakes for a programming language in 2024, but they're _just_ annoying enough that I lose interest. Any tips?
I purchased a home with those blinds. Every single one of them has worn a groove into the cord lock, rendering them unusable. Absolutely ridiculous, and fixmyblinds wants $11 for each replacement. Problem is, even after replacing the cord lock, 6 months later they're broken again.

I went with cordless shades from blindster.com, and they're performing great (knock on wood).
I’d prefer to support my favorite (Safari) when voting with my feet. I don’t want to be forced to give it up either.
For comparison, modern anti-tank sabot impactors are roughly 1/5th the mass (and kinetic energy) and travel at similar velocities.

So if they've shown you can bludgeon a tank rather than puncture it, I'm not sure how useful that information will be when it involves ~5x the propellant and a correspondingly bigger round/barrel/etc.
> This is important to protect privacy (nudes) and people have come to expect it.

Well that's unfortunate. I can take any camera and point it at a screen to capture its contents. Any expectation of privacy on that front is artificial and naive
It might seem incredible, but there are legends of entire companies being built without App Store access in times of yore.
Genuine question: can anyone explain CEO pay to me? I fail to understand why it is commonly accepted that one or a few people can earn n times more than the average worker actually responsible for creating value. It doesn't seem meritocratic at all...
Even in software engineering where we are arguably spoiled to be able to do interesting work possibly from home for upwards of 100k a year, what is the incentive to actually want to do work, if someone else can unjustifiably make 7m a year?
So how is it possible that we as humans collectively just accept this, also psychologically speaking?
I used to program many different terminals, back when they were a thing.

A classic terminal only has a screen full of memory: it does have extra memory that would allow it to scroll backwards.

The ESC [ S command (CSI itself can only be used if you are sure the line to the terminal is 8-bit clean, and as a third-party developer, I could not guarantee that) scrolls the scrolling region. The scrolling region is either the entire screen, or it's just a couple of line at the bottom. A scrolling region is used so the use can have a scrolling place to type commands and Aldo have a non-scrolling area to display data.
It is a non profit. Having less revenue is a win. Duh.
It's not fair use per se which is why I put it in quotes, but more like training is basically exempted from copyright in law: https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/ai-in-entertainmen...

For commercial use, too. For EU though, commercial use needs to respect opt-out. Other countries can ignore opt-outs.
Yep, no problem. I was still a teenager, so basically every injury I sustained then is just a tiny scar now, along with a mental note of activities to avoid.
The board knows the ship is sinking. You and I would work hard to keep it afloat. They’re working hard to loot the hold of everything they can cart off and sell before it sinks.
I can just take a photo with another phone, you know that right? It wont be hd but will be enough to compromise privacy if that’s really your concern
I haven't been this angry since QWOP, gold star
That doesn't make a person a genius. It makes them a sociopath. What they are doing is not intellectually difficult and actually requires low emotional intelligence usually.

I can't speak toward her specifically in all honesty. I would need to research it further. But a policy of reward/praising all the con-men (using that phrase loosely) in America is a bad policy.
I added the quote in case it was a citation thing.
You're talking as though HN is a monolithic entity with a single opinion.

There are some HNers (myself included) who hate the direction that Mozilla is going under Baker. I want Mozilla to give me an option to put money into a bucket that will directly pay for browser development, the way that restaurants have a tip jar that goes directly to the employees. I want that because I use Firefox as a daily driver and want it to survive, and the way Mozilla spends the donations they get to the org as a whole isn't helpful to that end.

Separately, there are other HNers who still think of Firefox as the slow dinosaur that Chrome unseated. These HNers likely don't have a strong opinion about Mitchell Baker because they have no skin in the game.

And even more separately there are other HNers who love Rust. That Rust originally came from Mozilla may or may not even matter to these HNers. They probably do remember the day that Mitchell Baker laid off the whole Rust team, though.
I am not right now looking for this but say I want to add a search function to my program it would be nice to be able to add the extension to my existing DB for a fee (say 30-50USD/month) without having to spawn a whole instance.

I hope cloud providers offer the service but what I have seen is they only support fully OSS which is annoying. I guess it is fine if you plan on being acquired like citus.
No, it did not, not until iOS 6 (!!)

And Steve Jobs ensured that Flash uploaders popular at the time could never work on the iPhone, either.

Example: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/4104/is-it-possibl...

Ironically, Microsoft had tried to kill the web off with Internet Explorer just a few years before, but no one noticed what Apple was doing, because they did it so well... they got 400,000 and then a million apps in their app store, completely bypassing the web altogether.

And as evidenced by your comment on this very technical forum, even now, people still might not have noticed what Apple was doing.
They antagonise the funnel-web until it begins striking and the venom is dripping from its fangs, and then they use a liquid dropper to suck that venom up. It is wild.

Here's a video of the place near where I live doing it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tN-mHIXoXlQ
> Honestly this is one of Doctorow's weakest arguments

This isn't Doctorow. I went and searched, here's the article I think you're referencing

https://doctorow.medium.com/web-apps-could-de-monopolize-mob...
Eich was CTO of the Mozilla Corporation since its founding in 2005 until 2014, during which Firefox market share slid from its peak at 30% to 13%.

What would Eich have done as CEO to turn around Firefox that he wasn’t able to do as CTO for nine years? That said, Brave has innovated and had some VC-fueled success. I just don’t see him as the Firefox savior some people do.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#yearly-2009-...
Well.... I grew up exactly between Boston and NYC and nobody called Boston "the city".

It's just hard to think of SF as a metropolis- even with its densely populated downtown- when you can sort of just plonk its 750K residents down in the borough of manhattan (half the size, twice the population).

When I lived in outer sunset, it was more like "the beach, with a park, oh and a mildly urbanized area to the east"
Someone who was a genius wouldn't strangle their cash cow just to have a steak dinner. She's ruthless, conniving, and short sighted. Perhaps she knows she's incapable of improving the business, in which case stealing more money from it before it goes under makes sense.
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It's not that the board sets CEO compensation that's bad, it's the personal connections they have and the observation that they appear to set compensation more based those personal connections with the CEO, not based on any measure of performance or anything..
Excited for a future where arbitrary complexity is dealt with by millions of personalized LLMs that completely simplify any regulatory hurdle by grasping an intention and figuring out the rest.
The web has apis to add icons to your home screen and to send push notifications. Both work fine on android.
I think that makes sense. Wholesale copies are still restricted for purposes of revenue, but otherwise derivatives and training can be done to benefit society (since it doesn't impact the revenue of the original work, of which you still need to purchase a copy).
I use Firefox and I have 0 intention of going back to chrome at all, I have adopted a strategy of Firefox by default with chrome as mere backup for what Firefox won't run.

The way I understand it they upset the free speech abolutist, but to be honest I don't really care, I like the roadmap and what the devs have been doing to firefox lately, I also don't mind being in the minority. I like it here, i'm not one of the ones that's going to switch browsers unless some major shoe drops that slows firefox to a crawl.