skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my first thought from those screenshots as well. They are the dominant web portal for the world with more views than Facebook. Their position gives them a crazy advantage in the browser wars.

Firefox pulling ahead of IE back in the early 2000s was a sign of open source disruption taking on a monopoly:

https://xkcd.com/198/

Chrome is the total opposite; well at least initially. They pumped millions into Mozilla and then took the parts they liked from Gecko and Webkit and created Chrome. Originally closed source, even though we have the open source Chromium today, most people used the official Google branded and integrated version.

I feel like with Microsoft and IE and the anti-trust cases from back in the day, we're see a return to what the author termed web browser 'monoculture.' The author does make a point that at least Chrome isn't stuck in the past.

Chrome, FireFox and Edge all seem to be doing the rolling release thing today, which is vital to us not getting stuck in IE6 land again. (Not sure if Safari does this yet). I've recently started using Vivaldi, but I do miss my dedication to Firefox and all the years of usage, plugins and bug reports.
They raised a ton of money recently to cover the continuing investment they forecast needing to make it to profitability. But they then turned around and bought hemorrhaging Solar City, so it's unclear how long the cash will last and whether it's long enough.
Just as a thought, would it be impossible for Firefox to render the Tor browser bundle unnecessary, by making every release of Firefox feature Tor functions (and other privacy controls) by default?
I had no idea that there was once a real-life incident reminiscent of the film War Games!

[Solving chess] took Schaeffer harnessing computers all over the world, drawing on and expanding his expertise in parallel computing. He conscripted machines everywhere from Switzerland to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a major Department of Energy facility that often deals with nuclear weapons.

“There was somebody else there [running a program] called BOMB and I was running checkers programs,” Schaeffer told me. “It was a very strange situation. Security should have been concerned.” And they were. They paid him a visit after discovering gigabytes of data flowing out of a national lab to Edmonton, Alberta.

(edit: add the remainder of the second paragraph.)
But that's the problem. S3 is cheap if you use it with other AWS services and it's designed to be only cheap that way. Bandwidth is expensive to avoid that people pick services from a combination of Azure/AWS/Google.

If you're just looking for storage, S3 is certainly not the cheapest provider. Glacier is a bit different but clearly just for archives.
I was referencing the claim made in the article:

“May 2014. House fires were comparatively less deadly in the sixteenth century than they are today. Even conflagrations that consumed whole neighbourhoods claimed few victims, for wooden houses burnt readily but slowly and few had many storeys.”

What I assumed they meant is that while your cause of death is less likely to be a building fire, in the event of a building fire you may be more likely to be killed. That is, the absolute probability has gone down, but the conditional probability has gone up. I dunno about the truth of it, but I found it an interesting thing to consider.
I got off Gmail back around 2013. Unfortunately it's made my e-mail even more unreliable than back when I uses Google's shitty e-mail service:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-...
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>Was there? Because last I checked all that these so called 'reputable' sources of news seem to put out is biased garbage full of misleading data and often blatant lies.

The inculcation of this sentiment is precisely the effect I'm referring to. The waters have become so muddied with nonsense that no one can tell right from wrong anymore. And thus, actual news organizations with trained reporters and fact checkers and a tradition of at least being held to some kind of accountability lose all credibility. It's not a perfect system, but it's one which evolved to solve the exact problems we are facing here. There's a reason Trump attacks the media's credibility on a daily basis. Throwing your hands up and saying "it's all fake news" is precisely what the propagandists want.
when i was in college i decided to pick up a bit of prolog by writing a pentomino solver. i have no idea what i did wrong but three days later it still hadn't found a solution :)
Elisp is not to be replaced with Guile. That's a myth.
I don't understand how you know it can't be fast.

I think proof of work mining is extremely wasteful. But once it is in place, you can sign a merkle tree of any size. You can add as many transactions as you want. The problem is that the ledger has to grow and grow. It would be nice if something was developed where you didn't need to keep the whole history.
I can't wait for them to add a stories UI so I can see what my friends are searching for while I'm searching.
From the article, they needed a solution that works for small numbers of bottles being delivered to an individual.
To say that this is unsafe is incorrect. It would be unsafe in the west compared to other cars, but in India compared to other cars and motorbikes that riders have as an option the Renault actually INCREASES safety dramatically
bloomberg.com, I think. Many of their articles border on totally apolitical.

edit to add: their core business isn't actually selling ads on news articles, which also helps quite a bit.
Some weird reason duckduckgo usually gives worse search results than google.
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Ok, I see distcc helping people with computer labs and server farms, but I thought mysterydip wanted to help the Gentoo community and other such. I.e. peer-to-peer build sharing.

So what kind of cryptographic guarantees would you need for that? And if you can only verify the build results by trusting signatures from upon high, then what is the point? Perhaps those builds could be turned into work in a proof-of-work blockchain. Do compilers contain any hard-to-do, but easy to verify steps?

Whole shelves full of useless PhDs thesis are just waiting to be written on this topic.
I don't, but I like google now on my phone, and occasionally hit news.google. so, if google.com includes those two, I might start to visit it while on desktop.
It would be great if ether/crypto currencies could support some way to "chargeback" fraudulent purchases. They could call them chargebacks.
And now they're going to copy Bing. It's just so weird.
Dear God. I can barely handle the news snippets that have started appearing in Google Now, I'm actually really close to disabling the entire thing because of them. I guess this means they're not going away anytime soon.
Kinda off-topic: I own a Renault Zoe, which is an EV hatchback that you can get second-hand for about £4k, and also a Tesla Model X 90D.

People get far too excited by Tesla's brand, when there are really competitive EVs out there.

Feel free to AMA about EVs or how mine compare.
Can people outside of the Ethereum org implement their own languages that target that VM?
But also, a quick fix to this is to add a modifier that throws if m_owners[1] is already initialized
Former colleague moved back to Iowa to work on an agricultural start-up. Given how prominently agriculture features in most drone pitch decks, I asked him what he thought of them.

"They're great! We check them out every time they come to town. Usually bring the kids, too."

"How do people like them?"

"They're nifty devices! Really futuristic."

"I mean when they use them."

"Use them? For what?"

"..."

"Haha, hell no. Those whippersnappers fly out here once a month at best. When I need something, I go to our local tractor vendor my family's done business with for generations."
Then what else is it? There's a strong focus on community building (i.e. push/pull requests) (social), and those people create the bulk of the site's content (media), which in turn draws in outside users and encourages them to sign up and through a combination of sharing content (i.e. forks/clones) and new content (i.e. new projects). Of course it's social media. The difference is literally only in terms of what the media in question is.
I'd say Python would've been the 'safe' and 'sane' choice, but maybe it's just my bias against Java and JavaScript talking.

Just curious, has anyone ever heard off choosing to teach something like bash / PowerShell? It might seem less intimidating than downloading a lot of stuff and students can play around with stuff already in their computer. Hell, maybe even something like VBA (as much we might dislike it) since non-majors will likely encounter it in MS Office anyway.
I started using Vivaldi after struggling with slowdowns in Firefox. Even with the new multi-processor window support enabled, my browser still frequently slowed to a crawl.

I miss some of the extensions of Firefox and Vivaldi does have some interesting bugs, however development on Vivaldi seems rapid. Recently they finally combined the web page inspector into the browser (it use to open a separate window).

I've loved Firefox for years and would honestly rather use it, but the performance problems turned me away.
> So it's basically a marketing tool, but isn't that what blogs are for

depressing thought
What about the carbon emissions in order to manufacture the car, dig up mines for lithium etc? Surely that needs to be accounted as well.
I've had calls from my bank's fraud detection department about single transactions of less than fifty pounds that they were concerned weren't from me, so clearly the traditional system is plenty scalable enough.
Naivety, youth.
How much data consumes 4G/LTE streaming of HD video via Sky Drone FPV 2?
I haven't heard of Plenty before. At first I thought they wanted to build indoor farms in cities, but I guess you could still build them someplace else (where real estate is fairly cheap) and make turnaround faster by taking advantage of indoor technology instead of using fields. [The articles mentions LocalGarden and FarmedHere, which I guess is where my impression came from.]

Is that where they hope to make their money - getting consumers to pay for fresher food? Or else, can they grow better produce indoors? Just trying to understand their value proposition.

Not long ago I was reading about a different thing called Farmbot. There's a discussion online about how much area you'd need to grow all your own food. They calculated something like 250 square meters using black beans. I was really impressed by how much space food production takes up. It's funny to think that just to survive, each of us living in a city depends on a big chunk of land somewhere else.

https://farmbot.io/2015/10/14/how-much-food-can-farmbot-grow...
You're comparing a measure in dollars with a measure in people. Yes, per capita expenditure on prescription medication is high in the US. Most other countries have a national health care system which negotiates the price for the whole country. The US market is where pharmaceutical companies expect to recoup their R&D costs, which makes drugs more expensive in the US than anywhere else. This effectively means that the US subsidizes drug prices for the rest of the world in exchange for determining which drugs are safe for humans (via the FDA) and getting slightly earlier access to newly developed drugs.
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Thanks for the detailed issue. Sorry for the trouble! Could you send me the recipe link? I'm unsure know why you'd be hitting the issues you mentioned.

I'll try to respond to the issues you raised one-at-a-time:

1. 3.3 grams should be valid. Unsure why that would be a problem unless some weird unicode stuff???

2. There's no ingredient limit.

3. Esc clearing: I agree :) Clicking on the black transparency layer should also clear it. I just need to build it in. Maybe tomorrow :)

4. Plus -- you're right. Hadn't thought of that

5. Headings: I've left that for users to choose to do on their own. Hard to get too strict about that stuff. (Same reason steps aren't numbered.) I'd suggest doing all caps and a line break at each section.

6. Errors: I agree. There are a number of things ahead of that on the list of priorities, but it's a good idea.

Thanks for the descriptive feedback! Heston Blumenthal's recipes are always welcome on the site! Let me know if you run into any other trouble.
The reason is Google probably has 100x the money, and 1000x the expertise.

I love DuckDuckGo for their no-following and no-tracking you policy. I admire that and want to support them. But yet, I know that many, many of the queries are usually yield far better results on Google.

I'm just hoping that with time and enough people using DuckDuckGo, it will get a lot better.
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Oh I understand what talent is. What you don't seem to understand is that Buffet isn't the rule but the exception. His wealth wasn't something he foresaw but something that happened over a long time. His insight is primarily to invest in the US market overall and everyone who did that have done well for themselves. That could might as well been wrong no one had any idea.

You can read as many books and follow his strategies as much as you want you will never be him and it's not because you can't be as talented as him and that was the point my comment. You can't read your way to success.
The bright lights and noise levels in casinos are deliberate as they impair rational thought. Study after study on "cognitive load" show that if your brain is being stimulated or worked in one domain it impairs good decision making in other domains.
I cannot imagine the court case. The courts are utterly incapable of understanding enough of the technical aspects of far simpler software cases.

So like most court cases, it will simply be a matter of human influence winning the case.
This is what I'm interested in, and I saw that Apple fixed the exploit enabling attackers to own the WiFi chip. What I want to know, does owning the WiFi chip on machines not having the patch provide a beachhead to exploiting the iOS kernel. And if so, are there known active exploits at that level?
It's hardly a "bailout" when Tesla generates more revenue for the state than these tax credits are worth. The sales tax alone on many of the current models exceeds this tax credit.
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Google.com is the home/start page for a looooot of people.
> millions of dollars in lobbying against gun laws

Wait, what? This is a "lobby"?

I thought the NRA with their even larger resources, backed by industrial interests, is the actual lobby. You know, the one who pushed forward those laws into insane directions, which you'll find almost nowhere else in the world.
Um, Henry Ford founded ... Ford Motor Company.
as does the android app - has for a long time. The only announcement here seems to be that they're putting some marketing behind it and calling it a capital-P Product, instead of just being a feature of the app.

If they're actually adding it to Google.com that's newsworthy, but i think that's just the BBC misinterpreting something.
Why not use Crystal Reports? I know it's a pain in the ass, but afaik it's still the best thing to do to generate PDF's and you have full control.
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And because Jobs had the right connections he could help Pixar. Next wouldn't have made it on it's own.
Thats very different. You are talking about proximity I would agree with that but mostly because of the opportunities that come with hanging out with them. Again back to luck and timing.
> They eventually fixed it

And then broke it down, step by step. It used to be perfect but over the years gradually got changed/removed features that I loved, with no about:config option to get them back. Things like no menu button[1] (my device has a physical menu button), text reflow when zooming was removed, double tap to zoom to a paragraph now (sometimes?!) selects text instead of zooming, the tab you have open is no longer on the bottom side of the tab menu (it would slide open fast, as soon as your finger touched it and would feel super snappy; now there's some fancy animation)... etc.

It got to the point where I started looking for other browsers, but there just are no good options. Chromium sometimes bugs and uses 100% CPU for hours until I notice, and most other things are closed source. So I'm stuck with a mix of Firefox and Habit browser.

Habit seems to be what Firefox used to be: configure it any way you like (and it does a fantastic job at that). The trouble is that it's closed source and it has an inferior rendering engine, so I don't dare using it for things with a login that are valuable and it doesn't work for some websites.

Edit: by the way, the desktop story is completely different. I could never go without Firefox on non-mobile for various features (besides the privacy matter).

[1] What does that matter: Well, space (now there's two buttons next to the already-small address bar) and usability. I used to be able to hit the tab button without really looking. It was on the side of the screen, I'd just finger along that edge and I'd open my tab menu. Now I need to tap somewhere specific, and if I accidentally hit the menu button, I need to either reach over to the other side of the screen (on a 5.5" phone, that's a stretch for my thumb) or hit the back button (which would require shifting my phone, then touching it, then shifting back, all balancing it in one hand, oftentimes at least). How friggin' difficult is it to make an about:config setting to hide a button?
2020 election will be Larry Page running against Mark Zuckerberg
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The Business Insider piece sourced it's information on what the bill does not on the bill text, but on a combination of an advocacy email from an opposed legislator and reporting by the Mercury News.

The rebate plan does not do at all what the article claims; specifically, for instance, it does not establish a new general rebate that is designed to match the difference between an electric vehicle's price and that of a non-electric vehicle with similar features. Instead, it establishes a declining rebate for compact electric vehicles that starts at an initial level that would provide an approximate net purchase price after all existing incentives equal to the most commonly sold compact vehicle in the State, but where the rebate level would decline with EV penetration by income segment. (Health and Safety Code 44215.4, as added by the bill.)

In fact, there was no specific rebate plan in the version passed by the Assembly, which notionally is the subject of the article; there was a requirement for the PUC to adopt incentives. The sources the article relied on (assuming BI doesn't misrepresent then) were either inventing bill content from whole cloth or speculating about what the PUC might do; in any case, the bill has been significantly revised already in the Senate, to address the same broad purpose but to be more specific about program parameters and move the primary administrative responsibility for programs to the Air Resources Board rather than the PUC.
Sorry, but have you looked on the democracy and justice-culture index maps worldwide? The democratic, end-of-history, justice-seperatly-delivered state is currently in full retreat.
I agree, the futurists got it the wrong way around, assuming something cyper-punk-currency enough would blow the state away and allow for crypto-anarchy to rule. Instead, we got states that on slight economic decline implode on themselves (a whole thinker caste in denial about human nature hunting scape goats) and suddenly the crypto-currency nonsense doesent look idiotic, because it can work on, even as the state becomes hostile.

Thats the vision- a somalia like decline, but society moves on, with schools back uped to youtube, with contracts backed up to the block chain, with the currency back uped to bitcoin. I find the ideals of crypto-anarchy laughable (those guys would be gunned down on the first corner, in a real anarchic world), and yet, i can agree to the path we taken. Cellphones and facebook, to have a culture of shame, that fights wild mobs and public hysteria, because the internet does not forget your lowest point. Anyone in power in fear of getting caught in public, for the world to see as just another corrupt, well fed monkey?

Yes, that is something to work towards.
Didn't bill gates say something like "startups are needed, because you need failure so that some startups can succeed".
> Tesla generates more revenue for the state than these tax credits are worth

California collects a 7.5% sales tax on the purchase of new vehicles [1]. A $40,000 car would thus generate $3,000 of state sales tax income. That appears to be much less than the value of the proposed credits.

[1] https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/california/sales-tax-vehicl...
Anyone with young kids up to their teens will know that Facebook is gone and snapchat is the new hot. Also instagram which is owned by Facebook but the point is that the next generation don't want to hang out on a social media network with their parents. Always looking for new things.

While also looking at features like the snaps.

So introducing grown up news into snapchat might not actually be a good long term choice for the platform.
If you read the thread, you'll see that many people are discussing points on which it fell behind, sometimes on specific platforms and sometimes in general.

(Then again, your comment is 6 hours old, maybe it wasn't discussed yet back then.)
ARM doesn't design SoCs, ARM designs CPUs.

My point is that an Intel/AMD product is a complete solution while an ARM product is just the very basic implementation of a CPU.

ARM doesn't mandate on anything related to the SoC except for the CPU, everything else related to PCI buses, memories, physical implementation, chipsets, etc, is up to the SoC developer to decide and implement.
There are no holes in my logic. You are basically supporting my point. If very talented people come out with failures what separate those who are successful? And we are back to luck and timing. Talent is important but it's not defining for being successful.
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Exactly. Write a book about how to make money which has one advice. "Write a book about how to make money"
It's the world's most visited website.

> Google is known for its sparse homepage, which, though mostly white space, has, according to analytics firm Alexa Internet, become the world's most-visited website.
Why would you think this? For illegal activities there is a hierarchy -- why would there not be for legal activities?
That would be absolute madness. Can you imaging Apple pushing a 137MB file to all active iOS devices over cellular? I'm sure the carriers would appreciate :)
I think the real take-away here is that there is just no substitute for looking at the URL bar to see the domain. HTTPS means that the url bar is not lying, but you still have to look there and see if it's the correct entity.

EV certs are more of the same - you still have to look up at that URL bar and see the organization name.

All of us who know how to trust websites, do it by looking at the domain. We don't remember what sites have an EV cert. It doesn't matter, the standard procedure always works: check https, check domain, done.

No other solution works reliably, at the scale of the web. Any other solution ends up adding complication. Doing this the right way really isn't hard, people just need one half-hour class, in their entire life, to enable them to reasonably safely use the web.
I wager that they have agreed not to do so in their carrier agreements.
They had a lot of problems with mold in the past with the bottles. They don't mention that in the article - i guess they don't want to draw more attention to that disgusting issue. But the mold issue was probably an important factor in their bottle design as well.