skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The billionaires somehow think their current wealth protects them from a hungry mob. I really don't understand tbe reasoning.

Motivated reasoning makes it difficult for most of us to realise why someone else may call us a mortal enemy (unless we ourselves are severely depressed), and the super-rich are no better.

Outside-the-box thinking is also always difficult. Empires fall when the ruling classes begin to assume the empire's power is the natural order of the world and begin fighting each other to extract wealth from the empire rather than to grow it.

Even to the extent there is historical precident specifically of a threat to business leaders: talk of personal threats to those winning at capitalism has been around continuously since the Communist Manifesto, yet with the fall of the USSR many may think such talk is just talk, that Brian Thompson was a fluke rather than an indicator, etc.
> Limited set of predefined values to us...

With the ability to predefine css constants I guess it's now possible to use the style prop directly and not have to use raw hex colors and pixel values (eg. there are css libraries with these https://open-props.style).
Brave has sync which does not rely on a centralized server — it's peer to peer between your machines only. I encourage you to do your own research on it because the hivemind's opinion was solidified long ago and results in repeating lots of nonsense that has little connection to reality.

(I don't use it except for web development, but I also despise FUD.)
Made by and used by one of the largest open source projects in the world. And built in 5 days.

The new Flash is a whole other pair pants. Also if people want to make easy things for the web in a closed platform, Unity already exists.
> Private organization funds itself.

A pertinent example would be Tesla. They shipped approximately 100 cars a month in 2009-2010, with the chassis made by Lotus.

They received a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy in 2009 ("people’s hard earned money") to invest in a production plant to make their own cars and batteries. They did so, and launched the Model S a couple of years later.

They paid the loan back in 2013 with 13 million of interest (quite attractive rates, really).

Looking at the wealth that was generated on the back of such a loan, one can only think the government should have taken equity, rather than a percentage point of interest.
mercurial was arguably better - but switching to it is probably a bit silly now
I worry less about 2.63 % of the marketshare using some aggregate browsing data than I do about GOOG dominance (60-90%) in the commercial surveillance industry.
You threw this elsewhere but I want to reiterate here, this is a really impressive work! I'm glad someone is out here piecing together all the shards of the vase like this.
The salary cap for most federal employees is $195,200 - that's the max for any level of experience. Big law firms are paying 225,000 for new grads and it goes up quickly from there. The median software engineer salary in the bay area is 260K. There are a lot of careers where a smart and motivated person could instantly be doing better switching from public to private.
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay
You're just justifying why his dictatorship-lite was ok, which is fine. But how does any of the 2nd paragraph counter right wing calls for their own?
I believe they will prove effective.

I believe the government is in need of disruptive change. I welcome the effort.
Someday we’ll look at short form content bingeing as the equivalent of the Roman empire’s lead water pipes, if we survive.
Archive: https://archive.ph/9IdwR
Exactly! designed specifically for people who love burning corporate budgets.
The difference is private companies that accumulate too much waste and useless things can fail and be replaced.

Even if that is true, in some areas companies' interests strongly misalign with that of citizens. An insurance company earns more by rejecting customer declarations. An ISP earns more by giving customers less bandwidth for a higher price. A toll road company earns more by doing as little maintenance they can get away with, while keeping prices high.

Yes, in a perfect market, customers will flock to competitors that are better for them. However, in many cases a perfect market is not attainable for various reasons. E.g. because the cost of entry is too high (e.g. making a competing ISP would require you to put your own fiber in the ground) or because there are network effects that are nearly impossible to break.

This is why certain markets need strong regulation or government monopolies -- to protect people from pure profit seeking. Health care is a good example. Health care in Western Europe is much better, while less money is spent on health care. This is because health care is strongly regulated and insurance companies cannot f*ck over customers. The objective function of maximizing profits becomes a constrained optimization problem, which generally leads to other ways to increase profits, like pressuring pharmaceutical companies to lower prices of medicines.
As far as I know, Mozilla is funded primarily by Google. From their 2023 financial report[0]:

> Approximately 85% and 81% of Mozilla’s revenues from customers with contracts were derived from one customer for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Google is not named, but to my understanding the "one customer" refers to them. Their aggressive monetization strategies are neither effective nor work to retain what little users they have left. This money is also being spent on crap like executive bonuses and acquiring adtech firms, so no wonder people feel alienated.

[0]: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-202...
It looks nice but like any social network the value is in the user base. I saw one book on your site (the order of time), and searched for it on Goodreads to see more reviews.
I only experienced visual distortions, and I felt like a child who just came to this Earth. I grabbed objects as a curious child. I had much more self-reflection on shrooms, as LSD is too stimmy for me.
> Where the fuck are y'all with your guns and "don't tread on me" flags now that MAGA is tearing down the government and installing an autocracy in all but name?

The same place they were when Breonna Taylor was summarily executed by government agents retaliating for Kenneth Walker exercising his second amendment right to home defense at night (the exact type of scenario they continually grandstand about!) - following the twisted logic and misdirection of their mainstream media so they can continue lazily attacking a strawman of their fellow citizens ("oWn tHe lIbS!1!") rather than reflect on what it would actually take to live their purported values.

At this point the only real question for so-called "conservatives" is when will they realize their leaders have betrayed us and given away our country's future to China?
If I could be certain we can vote again in 2 and 4 years to undismantle the government, undo all the damage that these folks have done, I would be fine with that. For those of us who are educated and read history, we know these acts are stupid and will fail badly, leading to a recession, and pandemic, WWIII, perhaps all three at once. I will hold all of you personally responsible for your deluded vote if and when those things occur.
I do like the look, though GoodReads' UI doesn't bother me.

What will make a site like this useful though is:

1) How many people use it -- for this usage needs to be as frictionless as possible. You might want to consider at least being able to view it (though perhaps not post reviews, to avoid spam), without signing up for an account.

2) The quality of the reviews. If they're Amazon product level garbage, they become useless. One thing that might help is being able to filter by range of reviews -- i.e., see 2-4 star reviews only; or filter by books with an average rating computed _without_ taking 1 and 5 star reviews into account.

3) Not sure about 10-star rating system. I think that's harder for users to keep in their head. I'd suggest 5-star but allow 1/2 star ratings.
Interests of power are not always aligned with those of majority of citizens. In both there is very high misalignment now.

World still lacks political systems that align leadership representation with citizen interest.
> Learn using Linux: > 3yrs.

That's quite dishonest in the context of general usage scenario.
An opportunity to provide value to the government by replacing their own service with an inevitably more expensive one which can be recontracted out to whoever suits the interests of a specific administration with minimal pushback.

It's not Musk's ideal scenario I'm sure, but he'd be an awful lot more happy with it as the new status quo than what was there before.
It just feels satisfying to me—organizing my library neatly by rating, based on how much I like each book. A four-level system just doesn’t have the same impact. Personal preference, I guess.
Too much money not enough new ideas.
Time to enter the tick cycle.

I ask chatgpt to give me a map highlighting all spanish speaking countries, gives me stable diffusion trash.

Just gotta do the grunt work, add a tool with a map api. Integrate with google maps for transit stuff.

It's a good LLM model already it doesn't need to be einstein and solve aerospatial equations. We just need to wait until they realize their limits and find the humility to build yet another useful product that won't conquer the world.
> Rust and MDN have been huge successes

Neither is an income stream, and Rust was evicted while it was still taking off and is no longer a Mozilla project.
It's important to have some in house expertise to know what to buy from the private sector though.
And they mostly ignore that. They have access to what you actually watch, rather than what you say you like. They know what you start, what you finish, and how quickly you jump on a new one.

It doesn't matter how many times you down vote Mexican soap operas or singing talent shows. If you keep watching they're gonna keep suggesting them.
IMO the 4o output is lot more Enterprise-compatible, the 4.5 being straight to the point and more natural is quite the opposite. Pricing-wise your point stands.

Disclaimer: have not tried 4.5 yet, just skimmed through the announcement, using 4o regularly.
Something tells that's an intended feature not a bug, that they will re-hire personel, re-buy assets like all those EVs, re-rent offices, but next time it will be with gov-aligned providers, and the cost will be the same for less.
> I asked Prof Peter Etchells, an expert on the psychological effects of digital technology at Bath Spa University if this could be plausible. "To the best of my knowledge," he says, "There isn't any good science to support the idea that short videos are specifically or uniquely bad in terms of effects on the brain."
Except for too big to fail companies, that is...
> (jitteriness and nausea, which is also why I avoid shrooms—too physical

Try psilacetin. It is shrooms without the shroom matter, meaning there is no nausea at all.
What if they have and it's what they want? If you're a billionaire who already has everything this system can offer, you'd likely desire a system that can give you even more. A system that doesn't limit you in ways that this one does. You'd want to be a king. Even if it means waging war with other kings, it would enable a far more exhilarating life, full of possibilities that don't exist in a system where ordinary people have a say.
Russia has been openly attacking the US, not by military means, but still. Do you really think the former presidents Obama and Biden would tell you that Russia isn't waging a war against the US?

Hearing on the Internet that the US needs, according to your assessment, an impotent Russia as ally to fight China does not make it so either. But I get it, it's a very popular claim in certain circles on the Internet right now. You can almost tell where it's coming from. You know from whom I've never heard such a fantastic idea? Actual defense experts.
Hence why companies adopt UI toolkits, otherwise it gets messy. Without discipline it's hard to develop a set of core components and often times devs will duplicate work and fail to extract common parts due to the nature of working on features across the stack and failing to recognize common patterns.
I learned the git CLI first, and still prefer it, but I've found VSCode's source control plugin very helpful for teaching newbies. I tell them to avoid the synch button and just manually git fetch/pull, but adding a commit is easier for a newbie to do visually.

I also found LazyGit recently and think that's a good middleground for doing things from the CLI.
The internet has never been as good as it was when flash was at its peak.

Just this past week Trump made a tit of himself on camera with Zelenskyy. If this happened in 2005 there'd already be some minigame out where youd be Zelenskyy fighting JD Vance.

But flash is bad because it's not semantic markup, so instead we have react slop serving reaction videos istead.
Is there any evidence that government teams are more wasteful or less productive than commercial alternatives? How does spinning a government team into a government contract of a commercial vendor save the government money?
What about things that no private company could do or would at least find profitable? I’m think of ‘free’ healthcare or even keeping the nukes in working condition.

Are either of those endeavors necessary? Are they profitable? Should they be profitable?
I'm glad I have the chance to explain this to somebody. Research is also a natural monopoly, because a fundamental particle can only be discovered once. Repeated development of what's under the hood of a car isn't wasted because every car is different, but repeated invention of internal combustion would be wasted time and energy.
Entrepreneurs forget that they worked this hard because it was their company. Most companies act like their employees should work this hard because of their culture. They forget that we wouldn't be there if they didn't pay us.
If you’re philosophically opposed to what Firefox is doing, Firefox forks like LibreWolf, Floorp, etc. seem like a better place to turn.

Moving to Brave is just supporting a Chrome monoculture in the long run, and the problems with Chrome are far worse than the problems with Firefox.
It's marketed to be slightly better at "creative writing". This isn't the problem most businesses have with current-generation LLMs. On the other side; Anthropic releases nearly at the same time a new model which solves more practical problems for businesses to the point that for coding many insiders don't use OpenAI models for such tasks anymore.
Different times.

I think the first glimpses of freedom was what made those moments magical.

Now the Internet is even more filled with cool and exciting stuff and I definitely take that for granted.

Even just being able to type "hi" and get another human reply with "hi" was mindblowing. Similar to today but for different reasons.
They haven't yet made me any good recommendations. I'm still giving it data, if for no other reason than to track my reading. I know that book recommendation is hard. But I do think I got better suggestions from Goodreads.
I didn’t say there isn’t malice.
Dumb yet serious question : what problem is a dotfile manager even trying to solve?

Personally I have a git repo in my home directory and just commit dotfiles to it. The only drawback is that git always think there’s a git repo no matter where I am in my home, so I usually rename the .git folder to .git_hidden. And on the (rare) occasion that I want to update one of my dotfiles I just rename the .git_hidden directory back to .git.

It’s really just two “mv” commands, I can’t believe you need a tool for just that.

What am I missing out on?
0 to 10 is a mess as well because some people give 10s very often and others only give a 10 for the very best things. And of course the bots all rate everything 1 or 10.
If you know anyone who might benefit from the data, let me know!
Maybe, it's also the time I uninstalled it. Maybe it's a completely different company now, or maybe it's the same one. Briefly checking controversies on Wikipedia and since then they've installed promoted VPNS, and pretending to be Tom Scott to solicit donations: https://web.archive.org/web/20181224011529/https://twitter.c...

What we do catch makes me decide how much to trust companies to do what we don't see.

Mozilla becoming untrustworthy doesn't make another company trustworthy.
I agree. I hope we keep growing and one day reach that level. People also bring in their reviews when they import from goodreads. So it's not gonna take that long.
Doesn't that require the user to curate a friends list of people with comparable tastes? I've never met someone who has my exact (eclectic and multilingual) taste in books.

Besides, I wouldn't even know who to 'friend' or 'follow' on a site like this. What's the point? Chances are I'd just end up in some bubble, which defeats the whole point of reading.
Does the law differentiate between pii data or is it just any data?
I didn't say that. The current American populace seems to be saying that.

I was raised in the Cold War "Red Menace" days, and Civic Duty was considered "Red-Blooded American." My father[0] was in the CIA. He was a Harvard LLB, and could have been quite wealthy, but chose what he considered his Civic Duty, as a career (which wasn't really rewarded well).

I've never been particularly extreme, myself (very centrist -a vanishing species), but Civic Duty has always been important to me, and to my family, for generations.

That no longer seems to be the case.

[0] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/MikeMarshall.htm
Yeah, there’s some truth to that.

It also doesn’t help that it’s two pronged: Flash is an animation tool and a software development environment.

There are some great animation software packages out there like Toonboom or even something like Moho or Opentoonz, but as far as I am aware they do not have the same kind of direct integration with a programming language like Flash did.

On the other end of the end of the spectrum, you have tools like Game Maker which do have programming as a core feature, but you’re expected to do animations elsewhere and import them in.

So Flash is a competent tool across two complicated domains.
Small bit I noticed: when signing up you can import from goodreads or story graph.

Its probably my device specifically, but the way the screen rendered, it wasn't immediately obvious I could scroll to see a skip button
I've been seeking out and trying alternatives for years, but there's one thing that I think is essential to practicing safe Internet: a uMatrix/uBlock-style connection blocker. No alternative browser I've tried comes close to acting as my user agent, it doesn't seem to be a priority for any of them.
OpenAI has been irrelevant for a while now. All of the new and exciting developments on AI are coming from other places. ClosedAI is no longer the driver of change and innovation.
All those distractions cost money, and wanting more money is the reason that they are not maintaining their commitment to privacy.

If they had instead invested that money sensibly, they could have used it over time to do the only thing that the world wants from Mozilla: pay for developers to work on Firefox.
Yes, I share the same concerns. Frankly I’m not sure what can be done on long term security when Russia has demonstrated its willingness to threaten nuclear weapons. I wonder if Putin being no more would result in a different Russia, one which isn’t focused on expansionism.

I don’t think this is the intention of the U.S. negotiating a peace deal, but a pause could give time to let Ukraine and europe to build up arms. I might be wrongly optimistic but I suspect a build of arms across europe would result in a more powerful force than Russia alone.
Any suggestions? Seems that some of my triggers may be happening already. Perhaps we can go with:
1. Global economic collapse
2. WW III
3. Major Pandemic
4. Martial Law declared (might be too late)
5. Elections cancelled
6. All of the above.
What about

- upstream firefox
- volunteers
- paid developers
Open source gets you lots of diversity - but it has always been hard to drive "polish" and support for non-technical users. I feel because most open source developers work on what matters to them.

Support for non-technical users then mostly comes from the manufacturers of hands-off devices that run linux like Android for the kernel, wifi routers, infrastructure servers and software, software engineering objects (build systems, libraries, tools?)... and you have to recognize things have been pretty successful there: few non-technical users even recognize that these run linux or other open source.
I appreciate that the article spent a significant amount of time explaining the flaws of this research.

This headline is clickbait, though.
Private companies have economic incentives to charge as much as they can get away with and pass that excess to the owners of the company. This includes participating in collusion with peers and regulatory capture to artificially raise the rate in the market far beyond what efficiency would dictate.

Private companies are inefficient by definition when individuals are able to extract millions to billions of dollars from the market.
maybe unpopular opinion, but I would be happy to pay small yearly subscription so they could focus on development instead of harvesting money from my data
There were two paths, the examples I would give are Cheney and Graham. Both thought Trump was terrible, one stuck to her convictions and is now out of government, the other rolled over and is now licking Trump's boots.
Yes, I was agreeing with you. I'm not the person who downvoted you.
If you added half stars and stuck to a 5-star system, there's less user surprise for functionally the same thing.
If you read up on how the UK government treated him after the war, it was essentially murder even if they didn't outright execute him.
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Yes, I can only hope this first month is the start of a lasting trend. Also, controlling the media can only do so much to mask material reality, if things get really dire really quickly.
Tried on FF for Windows, OSX and Android.
Yeah, I was thinking multiple slices. But I'm not a graphical designer so I deliberately didn't offer suggestions. :-)
> The difference is private companies that accumulate too much waste and useless things can fail and be replaced.

The US healthcare system is evidence that this is an overly simplistic view.

In a not for profit healthcare insurance system, every dollar not spent on patient care is considered waste, and we work to decrease it.

In a for profit healthcare insurance system, every dollar not spent on patient care is considered shareholder value, and we work to increase it.