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OK, I apologize for being sloppy there. Strike the "always" from my "broader mission" sentence.

But Mozilla became something else, and staffed itself accordingly, and marketed itself accordingly. The culture evolved to be broad and inclusive.

Some people would argue (as I think you have) that broad inclusivity is, at best, a distraction from technical excellence.

Others would say that inclusivity / diversity is a strength, and Mozilla is an experiment in demonstrating that.

I don't think we can draw any conclusions on that argument from the Mozilla example either way, honestly.

And of course I don't know how you viewed the Org when you left -- did it need a recalibration toward excellence with the accepted risk of alienating 30% of the staff and volunteers? Or did it just need better leadership to get more focused results out of the existing team?

I don't know, and I'm sure you won't want to say! But clearly what has happened in the last ten years has been unproductive.

I'm sure you'd have done a better job at Mozilla than the MOFO BOD has. And I suspect you'd have been able to do a much better job with Mozilla's trust fund disbursement resources, while avoiding the (frankly, obvious) mistakes made at Brave.

No disrespect intended. Seeking revenue is hard, and "obvious" from the outside doesn't map precisely to "not even worth a try" on the inside. I also wonder if the outside view was wrong, and that if you had pushed through the initial negativity, whether people would have acclimated to the novel revenue models, and you could pour more resources into the technology. People put up with worse in other browsers.

Anyway -- I appreciate your conversation here and all of your years at Mozilla. I hope something sustainable and good can come from Brave. I remain a Firefox user, pending further developments. :)
Good point, if it was just sitting by the curb, a metal scraper might have just cut the cord instead of taking the whole thing. I've noticed that different scrapers have different criteria for what they'll take. Some will take the whole thing and break it down or just sell it as unsorted metal and others are more particular and will pick through and just take what they know they can get the most/easiest money for.
Lua: Picked it up when I was dabbling in building Games relying on Love2D which uses Lua as the underlying language.

CoffeeScript: Felt in love with CS as I wanted to rapid protypes with (now defunct) Framer Classic.

Smalltalk/Squeak/Vala are something I have wanted to dabble with for a while but haven't gotten around to.
> I’ve also done POCs of work that has been met with resistance that I didn’t feel was justified in order to actually give it a fair shake. That is my coding fun.

I've had managers do this to me. What an awful experience. Because they're the manager you can't push back against the awful design decisions they made. They feel it's almost done so don't understand that it takes a lot of time to deal with all the side effects they didn't consider.
I’m not sure I agree, Xi already proofed that he’s a great political mind by his actions with in the inner politics of his own party.
I think he’ll treat the war with Taiwan rationally as the political tool that it can be.
When the set of constraints and what he has to gain will be in his favor he may do it.
I’m not an expert but I honestly can’t not see him risk what he built for so many years for that amount of potential destabilization.
Would Russian oil, which I seem to remember is heavy in grade, replace Canadian oil, which I hear is similarly heavy, in US refineries, explaining the 25% tariff on Canada which is implausibly supposed to be about fentanyl controls?
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I'll take "things the DSA would have fundamentally prevented" for $600, Alex.
Not familiar with FOL as a formalism, and would love to see this in action. I feel like it's a big part of the solution to propaganda.

The other part seems to be values obfuscation, and I wonder if this would help with that too.

If Joe says that nails are bad, it can mean very different things if Joe builds houses for a living and prefers screws, or if Joe is anti development and thinks everyone should live in mud huts.

Propaganda will often cast a whole narrative that can be logically consistent, but entirely misrepresents a person or people's values (their motivations and the patterns that explain their actions), and there will be logical fallacies at the boundaries of the narrative.

We need systems that can detect logical fallacies, as well as value system inconsistencies.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185769
Cross fingers :)

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/249#issueco...
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Strong yes for 3 reasons

1. Reducing dev friction.

When I had managers who coded they were ruthless about removing friction in the dev and deployment pipeline because they had to deal with it too. If build times went up, deployment infrastructure broke or someone’s PR broke dev they would roll it back immediately. If someone consistently blocks PRs the manager noticed the trend and would address it.

2. You get a much better sense of IC’s contributions by writing code.

There are ICs who play politics very well and sell themselves but that set is not the same as the ICs who deliver. If you are writing code you start to notice which ICs have written key features, built critical APIs or worked on hard problems because of comments and Git blame.

3. Understanding your codebase.

I hope most managers have solid CS and engineering fundamentals but that is a necessary but not sufficient condition to grasping the full picture. There’s a reason it takes time to ramp up to full productivity on a new codebase. If you work in the codebase and have had to use that one annoying but critical library or dealt with that tech debt from 2 years ago then you know what is hard and what isn’t. I’ve found when a codebase has a quirk that makes developing certain features hard all of the non-technical people keep forgetting why we can’t do that thing and all the technical people have it burned into their brains.
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Wow! Do you have pictures of your dad's landscape paintings?
How so? Getting your public/external IP does not seem possible behind a NAT without an external service.
The Russians are stealing their rare and valuable resources so they can gouge our long term allies.

Trillions of dollars in essential rare earth materials and natural gas isn't worth fighting for? Then why EVER go to war?
Heating and cooling cannot be easily load shifted. Daily fluctuations in energy production aren't the only forms of fluctuations. Seasonal fluctuations are large, too. And the seasonal variation has the unfortunate tendency to line up with periods of high energy demand. "Just don't heat your house in the winter" is not a viable form of demand shifting.

> For boiler heating and facility heating and cooling the same applies as for commercial and residential uses.

Note that this refers to "process and boiler heating". There's plenty of industrial processes that need to be kept at temperature for long periods of time, otherwise the batch is ruined. Titanium smelting is one example. I've yet to see a breakdown of what specific industrial processes can be shifted.
Whoever is doing DARPA’s PR and, apparently GR, since I guess federal agencies have to do that now, deserves a raise.
And Elon Musk too - and whoever are supporting both of them. They are not only Russian assets and puppets, but also enemies of the state. They are doing everything they can to dismantle US in plain view - and most of the country is watching and even cheering them on.
i lead dev teams in the consulting world, I don't code even though i really want to. Sometimes I get pulled in for time sensitive work or the hard stuff but that's about it. Every time I get bored as a manager and reserve some fun stuff for myself a crisis happens that needs my attention and then the code falls behind schedule. So I guess that's the end of that.

i like the analogy of a sports team coach for being a manager. You can motivate, cheer, train, and drive the team to victory but you can't step on the field.
I think you got this wrong. Usually you use one electronic musician to create all the background music (or license pre-existing popular music), and with music AI you make that musician more productive. It is not like non-musicians will even be able to select the bad from the good of the AI output. It takes a trained ear to build functional AI music as well.

Nobody will hire live studio musicians or a symphony orchestra to create background music. Way too expensive.
I'm pretty curious to find out if the controllable webcam experience withstands the HN hug-of-death
After a tree fell on their camp during a wind storm my very red friends depend on this and on their weather alert radios when they go out hunting.
It would probably be more expensive, but I would wager not too much. As far as I know the Americans are only providing the missiles, not the warheads themselves.
I think the GP meant "a" cultural revolution, not "the" cultural revolution. But yes, the CCP taking over Taiwan would erode and then try to erase the beautiful and diverse culture of Taiwan. Schools will teach obedience to the CCP. History will be rewritten. Free media and foreign media will be censored. The entire set of democratic institutions of Taiwan will be dismantled. And you can go on and on.
> Fixes your spaghetti code

> Explains wtf that function does

> Runs tests and other bullshit

Love it
We were originally discussing offshore wind. These things have to function in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. We don't really fully understand how weather patterns will change over time with climate change. The idea that these factors won't represent serious risks to output over 50-year lifespans is delusional. We should be building modern nuclear reactors. Small scale distributed solar in sunny environments is fine - the rest of this stuff is just a massive waste.
That's really not ergonomic.
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Honestly, though, nothing has come along or happened to create the need for more power than what was found in the iphone 6 or 7.

Modern phones are examples of too much power for too little reason as far as I am concerned.
At least when it comes to Germany, I can clearly say: No, it's not. An employee of the Tesla dealer for the Frankfurt region told me that he's got "less than 10" people on his list to call once he has the new Model Y in the show room.
The "new party" shift began at least as far back as 2016. People generally don't seem to know when Bernie Sanders dropped out, a lot of his supporters switched to Trump, not another Democrat. Both were viewed as outsiders, an "anything is better than the establishment" candidate.

(Wanted to put this as a reply to GP but it's currently [flagged][dead] so this seems to be the most relevant reply...)
>do a better job with case offerings

for hobby businesses like most of these weird little keyboards, adding $200 to the parts cost is a real stretch, considering their already niche appeal and limited capital for investment
> Opportunities to do that unsupervised were few and far between

Hanging out with friends at any location outside the direct line of sight of a parent is not few and far between. Kids can share phones on the bus to school or in the bathroom in between class or at the mall (or wherever kids hang out now).

>Kids aren't criminal masterminds as a general rule.

Kids aren’t criminal masterminds but they want to socialize with their friends. Kids used to sneak out of the house, then they would sneak to the house phone late at night, then they would sneak down to the family computer to chat on AIM, then they would text on their phones, and now they get around parental controls or get old phones to get chat/social media apps. Kids have always done it and will always do it, and now it also exposes them to the whole internet and all that comes with that.
Looks nice! I have a few questions after watching the video in the readme if you don't mind:

In sidebery my pinned tabs are always at the top, but it looked like the pinned tabs in yours are part of the scrolling area? One thing I like a about pinned tabs always being visible is being able to see when I have new email/slack/calendar notifications even if scrolled way down the tab list. Is that possible with yours?

I usually have 500-1000 tabs, have you tested for any potential usability bugs when having way more tabs than fit vertically on one screen?
if you're the kind of person that feels the need to abandon everything anytime a CEO says something evil, you should probably stop paying attention to what CEOs are saying
> Having been through my daughter's suicide attempt, I far prefer the option that ends with a live person.

You have my sympathy. But mentioning your preference and not your daughter's makes me wonder if they are the same.
Which is derived from opinions using democratic processes.
That doesn't seem to hard to do. They sell the connectors on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Connector-Positions-Pogopin-...

Each battery should probably have their own charging circuit anyway. So the pogo pins should be 5V and ground coming directly from the USB 5V line.
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You can say the same about creating images, writing text and coding. Yet here we are with all kinds of AI tools to exactly that…
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It cannot be lying, because a language model built to generate a plausible text continuation following a prompt has no awareness of truth (or anything else).
The way you described it, that's not a problem at all, but a clear improvement. Thing is, every industry already has "a high volume producer of generated content" that, except for the last case, arose organically, due to reasons other than trying to confuse the reader. The creation of "a high volume summarizer" doesn't automatically mean an arms race.

Medical claims won't be growing in pages just because a doctor can parse them a bit faster. They may grow initially, because it's likely that people's mental capacity is what keeps other factors from ballooning the claims further - but it'll level out when some other practical limit is reached. Same with coding and PRs, same with research and all kinds of activities - except advertising.

There, AI will (already is) causing an arms race, because the "high volume producer"'s goal is to overwhelm their victims, so if the victims start protecting themselves with AI tools, the producer will keep increasing production to compensate. But that's not the fault of AI - it's the fault of allowing the advertising industry to exist.
Even by that measure, it wasn’t a landslide. Trump’s electoral vote margin of victory is ranked at 44 out of 60 elections. And it’s not like he crushed it compared to Biden. Trump was at 57.99% in 2024 and Biden was at 56.88% in 2020 (47th place).

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I added a link in my profile if you're curious.
Ah, I see our disconnect. You are talking about export taxes and I am talking about the federal government.
he talks about that extensively and goes over the software fix(es)
It is, I would say it.
Goodness, the music that is produced has almost no discernible time signature. I don't know if my brain is faulty, but I find it extremely annoying to listen to.
Yes, the battery needs coding to tell the car about its capacity, battery type, etc. to optimize the charging. Fortunately coding modules is not completely locked behind dealer-only tools (see VCDS https://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/VCDS.php), but it is very inconvenient for the non-enthusiast who probably doesn't want to spend $200 on a tool to code their battery.
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Are there examples of LLMs fixing spaghetti code in the wild?
US tariffs on China are worse for Taiwanese independence than TSMC building fabs in the US.
There was never any possibility of turbine engines becoming widely used for civilian street autos. They are less fuel efficient and have slower throttle response compared to reciprocating internal combustion engines. This is inherent in the technology, not something that could have been fixed with further development.
> ...low profile, no pads, ortho layout, and no tenting...

I agree with the tenting remark, I can understand the preference against low profile, but I sincerely believe ortholinear is way better for one's hands than staggered. Maybe you mean it's a shame it's not columnar?

> ...ergonomics are personal...

Hear, hear!
Looks like yet another grift.
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I'm a senior Java software developer with just shy of 15 years of experience in the field.

Currently I'm active in the air traffic market with fitting domain knowledge and previously was active in the defense industry, so demanding customers/projects are nothing new to me.
Driven by my curiosity I enjoy learning new things and refining existing skills, for which, in an rather slow industry, opportunities can be hard to come by ;).
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Added a link in my profile that leads to a brief demo and description. Not posting here as it'd crumble under too much load. :-/
I've thought about the same thing; transparently, we were trying to get a reliable source of ATIS to inject into our model context and had the same issue with D-ATIS. What airport are you at? Maybe we whip up a little ATIS page as a tool for GA folks.
Ever since I saw this video[1] by Dave2D I have felt the need to move away from my regular mechanical keyboards to Ortholinear keyboards. Non split keyboards seemed too much of a hassle and Bayleaf looks like something I can totally switch to. If only someone built a DIY kit that I could buy off shelves.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVfB_0s470I
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Both times trump won, this was true. The DNC is just allergic to putting forward candidates that people want to vote for.

Kamala really ran a campaign like someone trying to lose.
I'm surprised no one else noticed that this is a submarine article for Anduril and called it out. "Sean's Substack" was created 2 days ago (at the time of writing this comment) and has just this one article, no history to establish credibility either.

The main story is about Manna, an Irish company, but that doesn't help the US itself as they aren't made in the US. The article is advocating for a similar regulatory regime as Manna (and presumably others) have received in Ireland here in the US, and then name drops Anduril near the end.

Anduril's current business is to become part of the military industrial complex, but if regulations are changed they could shift their production towards commercial projects and expand their business.
I definitely see this happening. Music generation has lagged behind image generation but is following more or less the same path. Early image generation models were completely unconditional; all you could do was sample an image. Then coarse conditioning methods such as text prompts and depth images came along; then additional tooling to tune images in a more fine-grained way.

That said, there is a difference to images in that music also has a "symbolic" level to it that is closer to text than images [1]. There's other work out there that uses LLM-type tools for direct melody generation (no audio). And of course, there's lyrics. I do expect commercial tools to start integrating all these capabilities gradually, it's just a matter of time.

[1] I guess there's also vector images (like SVG) - I've seen work in generating those as well, though it's less mature than directly generating pixels.
Do LLCs protect against criminal liability? Right now if your website has any way of allowing two users to talk to one another you're covered by this law and the penalties for violation include prison time.
I think Crystal is going to need much more community support (articles, tutorials, blogs, community) and corporate sponsorship for it to even thrive in today's environment where we have an abundance of choices.
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We see the same vision you've described, and it'll take thoughtful execution and distribution on our part to continue to make agents.json the standard for tool use.

I've been in touch with the AX team at Netlify since the article was first published. A lot of very relatable philosophies in that article that stuck with me.
Wasn't that what we the west did during the cold war?

Is it not just that media is more fragmented and we've underfunded the fact providing media since?
For #2, are you saying the administration doesn’t hold the purse strings?

Why the resistance to the top-down approach?

Nobody resists if it means more resources; and faster procurement of resources.

Instead it seems researchers are forced to navigate politics and raise funding.

Or do you mean that each department has its own IT department and it’s resisting consolidation?

For #3: It’s not about resources but about how “impact factor” is measured, and whether it’s useful a useful metric.

Often, for example little attention is given to confirmation of a suspected dead-end. That still requires in-depth knowledge of the subject, is still research, and advances knowledge.
Really? What does it do for you? Maybe I'm limited by imagination or the free plan but it seems like I get faulty info or hallucinations more than I get game-changing productivity boosts.
Steve Jobs on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVKcxK_tVBM

Summary: Managers who know how to manage, but don't know how to do anything are not the best managers. The best managers are the great individual contributors who never ever wanna be a manager but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.