skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most non-profits are accountable to somebody, usually whoever grants them money. In this case Google just pays Mozilla oodles of cash every year as cheap insurance against monopoly regulations and doesn't really care what they do. The worse Firefox is, the better it is for Chrome.

So the board and the org are accountable to nobody (else) and can do whatever they want. As long as they keep getting millions from Google, there's no real incentive for them to change. And there's a very real disincentive... if they actually do anything significant, they risk alienating their primary funder and the entire org goes bankrupt the next day.

It's an inherent conflict of interest.
Wow what a timing with trump and btc, ada, sol, eth, ... as reserves oO ... #make_us_cyberpunk

https://x.com/saylor/status/1896239478710390941?t=kbVp-WdWBj...
That's really it. Could I use the CLI? Sure. Do I? Nope. Using a tool like Git Extensions makes it so much easier to visualize what's going on. I have enough on my mind, I don't need to make the branch/merge/commit process harder than it is.
You're surprised that hackers don't use mainstream tools?
To me something Chromium based is just not a good alternative, since you'll still play in Google's hands.

Librewolf is based on Firefox. If Firefox dies then Librewolf is done as well.

Orion is Webkit-based, which is not too bad, but as you said it's ios and macOS only.
I read quite a few people gushing about Pandoc in a similar thread. I have to look into it, as I have similar needs as the OP.
The only rating system you actually need is binary (or "the binary")

Is it good or bad? Would you eat it again or not? Are they hot? Would you? etc

Every thing else can be expressed with words on the side.
Nah, disconnecting and then treating workers as if their outside lives and work lives are fungible is pretty evil.
For sure, I'm guessing that's where most of us would happily choose to cut scope if it were up to us. Like the sibling comment mentions though, sometimes the pressure for more features comes from elsewhere in the web ecosystem, and as much as I don't feel like there's a strong need for the web to add a bunch of new features, I'd also rather have the features if websites are going to go forward with them regardless because the other browsers aren't slowing down. It's a balance, and it just makes the case more to clear to me that even doing the minimum to keep the browser working with whatever the web currently looks like is is more than enough along with stability and security to keep an organization busy without needing any additional projects.
So?

Doesn’t mean he can’t be a role model. Just don’t emulate all behaviour exactly from any person.

People have flaws. Every single one of them.
I would imagine the logic from the HR director is something like “the reason you’re not as successful as me is you don’t know how to manage your time well”
> Does Google effectively own Webkit, though?

No, Google owns Blink:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

which outright forked in 2013, though at that point it sounds like they were already carrying enough patches to constitute a soft fork (which then became a hard fork).
No, the problem with insurance is not that providers have leverage over insurers. The problem is that people buying insurance have imperfect information about what that insurance will and won't cover when they buy it. Even after you get insurance trying to find a list of things that are covered if impossible. Even if you call the insurance company, they won't tell you.

How is a discerning buyer supposed to choose insurance based on anything but price when that is the only information available?

Then there's the entire bureaucracy that is medical billing. You have to know which obscure codes for diagnosis can be used with which, similarly obscure, codes for treatment. None of those codes ever exactly match what is happening to the patient, so you have to choose one that is close enough and hope the insurance agrees.

You ever wonder why it takes 6+ months to get a medical bill? That's why. It has to be processed by the medical billing bureaucracy until it bears only the slightest resemblance to reality and then shuttled back and forth between the provider, the insurance filing system, and the insurance underwriter. Only once that is done can they send you a bill.

How much cheaper could providers offer service if they didn't have to pay dedicated staff to play some perverse game of telephone with the insurance company?
I think it should be illegal to trick humans into reading "creative" machine output.

It strikes me as a form of fraud that steals my most precious resources: time and attention. I read creative writing to feel a human connection to the author. If the author is a machine and this is not disclosed, that's a huge lie.

It should be required that publishers label AI generated content.
< the money saved by cutting social services will be rerouted to the military and bankroll tax cuts that are clearly advantageous to the rich.

Biden campaigned on ending those tax cuts. He did not end the tax cuts. These are not new, and these are from trumps first term.

>Second, why offer him the benefit of the doubt? It is OK he is violating laws just in case he is doing it for good?

Can you tell me what laws he violated? have you actually seen the doge website? They are using FPDS-NG which is all public information... They are all vetted and passed a background check.

Finally, on Palestine... Yes, they elected an internationally known criminal organization, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the department of state to run their country. They then murdered a bunch of people at a music festival to give israel all the ammunition it needs. Now it's crying foul because Sharīʿah turns out to be a very evil way to govern yourself. Again, not saying israel is blameless in the last 100 years of fucked up shit that they have done to eachother, but you keep poking a bigger bear, doesn't matter who was wrong, that's not how war works.
Is it a wage gap or a socialization gap? My spouse works in schools, and even in elementary school, let alone later grades, a surprising number of boys are exhibiting a lot of sexualized anti-social behaviors and entitled attitudes. If a solid % end up basically toxic and unemployable, I'm not shocked.
Slacking off is super easy in the office. You just have to spend a lot of time there, you can drag meetings forever, goof off behind computer - even if the screen is visible. But bonus if it is not visible.
The main pubmed website seems to be working for me as well and I'm in upstate NY: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

NIH/NSF pages have always gone down periodically for maintenance or otherwise, where this tends to happen over the weekend. It seems like this reaction by the HN community is a bit hasty. I've been reading HN since 2008 or so, and I feel like the comment quality is not what it once was....
Right idea, but it doesn't really seem usable right now. It crashed six times on me in an hour, including twice when I was trying to submit a bug report about the crashes. Multiple other users are reporting similar issues.

Growing pains, I hope, but it doesn't bode well...
Please read more carefully what I wrote. Most trump voters may well he on board but that doesn't mean that most of the overall voters are.

A fraction of people who voted for Trump thought he would be like Trump 1.0 and just wanted to stop the woke drift of the democrats and/or didn't feel represented by a non-white+woman president.

We can debate how small that fraction is but it likely affected the election results.
I don't know what game this article is playing.

> But Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and space pioneer, is a businessman, like any other, trying to make his way in the era of Donald Trump.

He's not just any businessman, he's a billionaire who runs gigantic operations that depend on getting a healthy slice of federal and DoD dollars, so the author is either starting from a falsehood or is uninformed.

To the rest of us, Bezos' game is clear. He's trying to thread through a multidimensional needle's eye. First, he's trying to appease Trump to get a share of DoD money. Second, he's trying to compete with fellow oligarch Elon Musk. Third, Bezos has to compete in such a way that there's not a popular movement against oligarchs as a class. Tough constraints. Wouldn't want to have to figure that out myself.
Fussell’s Class (1983) covers some of this. His upper-middle (in class—income tends to track with these social classes, but not always) are accustomed to very free lifestyles relative to, especially, the middle class (or the lower two tiers of his multifaceted “prole” class—the upper tier of that class does stuff like own successful plumbing or welding businesses, not work at Wal Mart or whatever)

A major class marker distinguishing the upper-middle from the middle ends up being that the former are barely surveilled, largely free to set their own schedule, and basically are trusted to do the right thing (never mind that perfectly ordinary behavior patterns from them would be regarded as instantly fireable for others; it’s a different standard), while the middle gets constant status reports, return to office mandates, stricter start and stop times, maybe drug tests.

(The actual upper class, of course, simply don’t meaningfully have managers at all)

You know that older, expert manager everyone says is great that they bring in to run the business in the show Silicon Valley? Who spends a bunch of his time ignoring the place to breed horses or whatever, and seems to think that’s normal and fine? That’s this kind of thing. He doesn’t even get why that might be wrong, or why it might be shitty to take a big paycheck and ask hard work from others then fuck off to a rich-dude hobby half the time—that’s just what his kind of people do.
I’ve heard this a thousand times: You know that small stupid tool you wrote last week? Everyone is using it and you must adapt it to all our services (let’s say 100) by the end of the week. Ask if you need help, we’ll ignore you because we don’t have any specs.

Also as OP said: "a domain expert who understands process" What happens when that expert retires?
The people that see this as an issue are trying to respect the rule of law, while the other half celebrate anything Musk and his assistant Trump do even if it's clearly terrible.

When half the people are fine with it and all branches of government are allied with them, there isn't much the rest of us can do except try to clean up the mess when we get a chance to.
If aerospace gets away with it then we should fix that as well.
I read one article by Yarvin in 2015 and enjoyed it. I made numerous attempts after that to read him again and have never been able to finish one of his articles. He's always building to a point that never seems to arrive. Looking at where he is now I'm glad I made the decision to ignore him.

I also got filtered by Land, though, so take that for what it's worth.
Our building has multiple first floor stores/restaurants/gym - and post Covid our rental agreements stipulate an average daily occupancy threshold; with a penalty/incentive program based on failing or exceeding that threshold as it is part of the agreements set up with the retailers. There are business tax deductions for on-site workers like utilities, maintenance, office supplies, property insurance, etc. Additionally, there are tax situations - Schaad v. Alder in Ohio for example - where municipalities receive or lose income based on the location of remote workers. In that specific case the municipality where the remote employee actually worked received no income while the municipality where the office existed did.
The issue is that one has no control over what gets modeled by those looking at "role models".

Many of the best role models are the kind of folks who large systems or structures refuse to teach about en mass because these role models are uniquely subversive. Malcolm X vs Martin Luther King Jr being the classic example of this.
Their licenses are pretty expensive. Any good free open source alternatives?
You have to go to the source, anyway.

Yeah, and then check that. I don't get this argument at all.

People who uncritically swallow the first answer or two they get from Google have a name... but that would just derail the thread into politics.
Another powerful read that touches similar themes to this article is the memoir When Breath Becomes Air

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-bec...
It's useful to have most of your workforce (or other populations, as with police forces) in routine violation of unenforced rules so that one has cover for any individual persecution one finds convenient
Sure, but can we really deny that the 5 star rating is pretty decent and simple, having an exact middle point and then two levels for each side.
None of this is surprising.
I wouldn’t say they are disconnected, unless they were already born with a silver spoon and have never had to live like the rest of us. I would say they know how it is for the rest of us, but just don’t care.
It may be an acceptable compromise if the two alternative options weren't so extremely unpopular with the other side. That's why the checks and balances are required.
It's not marketed as a markdown-to-pdf tool, but I've found that Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) does an excellent job. Just create a new "vault", paste your markdown into a new note, and export to PDF.
I worked on a 500+ page book[1] in Pandoc that included a bunch of code samples, math, a table of contents with working links and an index. (In hindsight, I wish we had thought about the index from the beginning rather than adding it after the fact.)

What worked well for me: Pandoc with a custom LaTeX template, and a decent amount of inline LaTeX to handle edge cases. We had a LaTeX theme to use from our publisher, but we also needed our own totally separate theme for the free version version of the book.

For one-off things like really long code lines, I found it best to manually figure out how to handle them. Sometimes there was a bit of TeX magic but, more often, I just rewrote or reorganized the code. I see the presentation and structure of code and math snippets as an integral part of how I'm communicating the underlying ideas, so manually changing things around to read better was fundamentally no different from going back and editing prose.

Unfortunately, this also means that the process was relatively hands-on. If you need something ≈completed automated, I expect Pandoc → LaTeX is going to fall a bit short. Edge cases need manual intervention, and it's easy for formatting errors to sneak in—the free version of our book has some formatting mistakes like code bleeding into the margin because I ran out of energy to fix all of them!

[1]: https://github.com/TikhonJelvis/RL-book
I am 100% going to link to the original post and these replies next time there’s a jj thread and people express bewilderment about needing anything else because “git is so simple”.
> They have to make money somehow. If the browser is free, who's the product?

The problem is that this covers Firefox and all the Chromium browsers. We've left behind the ability to pick a good option and are instead looking for the least bad option now.
Two things to consider when thinking on your points:
On no initiatives to get straight men into HR, is there a great clamoring to get into the field of HR, or nursing (the other often cited example), do you perceive them as high prestige or high paying? You’re probably referencing subsidizing efforts to get into law, med school, finance, etc which are high paying and prestigious.

Regarding overt assistance given, this is to help balance the scales for deep structural support given to men. Which to your final point of difficulty of discussion, the structural biases are well documented but often derided when brought up in a discussion against complaints about the overt support provided to women.

We definitely need to address the issues about “the boys are not alright” but re-establishing old basis is not the way.
Daily-driving Android as a dev environment
Same with nursing. Of course there is discrimination against men, but there are so few that it's mostly based on other things (like which island you're from).
They do add a lot of extra privacy protections, which includes disabling some of the engine functionality. And btw many of the bad Google stuff is in chrome, but not in chromium. So having chromium is not necessarily that bad by itself. Brave is also chromium under the hood.
I find that the command "git add -p", which allows you to add individual sections of files rather than whole files before committing, helps with this issue.

It's quite natural to wind up with a bunch of work that really needs to be in multiple commits. I don't think this ever changes for most of us.
Dark mode will be remembered if cookies are remembered.
Resist blocks the website from knowing if your OS is light/dark so auto-dark/light, will be disabled unless resist is disabled.

It's all better explained at https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-dow...

Having a look at about:config and searching 'resist' exposes a few other interesting options to customise like whitelisting etc.
I'm curious—what would you like to do with the API?
You forget that it was blue collar populism that won this election. It's the upper class liberals that are clutching their pearls.
everyone in here arguing about women this, man that, meanwhile i'm just...

...jesus... £24k... £26k... honestly god bless every man and woman who wakes up in the morning and choses to go to work, cos they can't possibly be doing it for the money lol.
Typora is the best I've used. It's a GUI, but it's pretty fantastic for a GUI Markdown editor (especially an Electron one), and its PDF export is consistent and customizable with styles. Includes a few good ones out of the box. Plus an automated TOC.
It most definitely not a good thing. It makes these reliant on that billionaire rather than the public.
Most likely, a really long time.

If you own a 3D printer, one of the first things you learn is logistics. You have to stock up on filiments, clean your printer, cure your prints, sand or snap them into shape and assemble them with a cohort of pieces.

That part alone is just not something I see machines doing any time soon. Self-sufficiency is even less realistic, robots will almost always benefit from leveraging human manufacturing and even human logistics. As of today, we're still "better" at most of the things that matter.

You could probably direct an AI to build "terminators" out of ABS plastic today, if you worked hard assisting it. I don't think there is a feasible future where robots mine iron to forge steel and build soldiers to defend robot-kind. That's a fragile supply chain that humans can interrupt at-will.
Oh yeah, you are, but I'm talking about outside in the culture. This becomes very important in the teens.
It appears to be a closed-source variant of the Tor Browser, itself based on Firefox.

If I were going to use a Firefox variant, I'd probably go with LibreWolf.
I enjoy working from home. But I'm not going to deny that it has had a catastrophic impact on the downtown business and commercial districts in many small and medium-sized cities. Those places stuggled badly with lockdown in general and a lot still have not recovered from the sudden societal shift where so many people just stay at home in the suburbs instead of coming into the office. I don't know what the answer is, and I certainly don't want to return to the office. But the outlook is bleak for a lot cities.
> Privatization is what a lot of people believe is the answer, thinking that there is so much waste and useless things the Federal government does.

Somehow I doubt that external consultants will be cheaper than in-house government employees. There's a reasonable argument to be made that the US needs more bureaucracy:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-a-bigger-better-...

As to waste, Reagan tried to find it, bringing in the private sector:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Commission

* https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/topic-guide/president...

* https://www.gao.gov/products/123531

* https://www.pgpf.org/programs-and-projects/convening-experts...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42463355

* As did Bush (43): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_Inspectors_Gene...

* FDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownlow_Committee

* Truman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Commission

* Clinton/Gore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv...

There's an entire agency whose job is auditing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Offi...
some petty executive saying "let them commute!".

There was a day after Christmas where the team was kinda taking it easy and went out for a longer than usual lunch, and an executive got in our face about how the day after Christmas is not an excuse to slack off. Then the person had us a deploy a feature that afternoon to prod even though it was supposed to be launched after the holidays. The person also did this remotely because they took the day off (the rest of us were actually in the office).

Power is much nastier than people realize. What I provided was an anecdote, but the #metoo movement probably started just like that.

Edit: I just realized how Dickensian this was, plot synopsis of A Christmas Carol. Just missing the ghosts and soul change.
18F was let go yesterday morning, 1 March.

2nd “what did you do” email came Friday, 28, Feb.

1st “what did you do” email came Saturday 22 Feb.
> Overall it seems like young people aren't making a lot of money, period.

To add some context to that, the median salary in the UK is $47,596.
The cost won’t be the same but 2-3x more.
Our metrics went up, and stayed elevated. Do you not have metrics? Those metrics will slide when RTO in invoked.
I always find of hard to tell was wages mean in terms of what they represent after taxes, retirement savings, and medical costs they way they're reported regardless of country.
I’ve ran into almost all of this, and css is still the worst thing in the list. It’s literally the highest wtf/gfy per minute among all. Barely debuggable, inconsistent, comefrom by design, inarticulate crap.
Pretty sure $10 million is the sweet spot for compensation too
> They are going to open source it as well.

Means nothing until they do
Smart Cameras Spot Wildfires Before They Spread
Meanwhile all GPT4o models on Azure are set to be deprecated in May and there are no alternative models yet. We should start moving to Anthropic? DS too slow, melting under its own success. Anyone on GPT4o/Azure has any idea when they'll release the next "o" model?
In This Economy?
If it looks correct in a browser, then chromium + playwright.
> Have we really already forgotten "Too big to fail"?

The entirety of the GP's post (other than the part you quoted) addresses that exact point.