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> It's not really comparable to IE. MS had a pretty explicit goal of destroying Netscape - to the extent that they were making deals with other companies to break compat with Netscape.

Netscape is irrelevant. The fact is Chrome is using it's market dominance to affect the implementation of standards and in doing so, is breaking numerous websites. That IE is famous for but because Chrome is made by Google, it gets a pass.

> Chrome is breaking 'autofill=false' on webforms because its really bad to have autofill=false most of the time.

That is not the Chrome web-teams decision to make. The point of standards is that the standards should be followed, regardless of your or anyone elses opinion. If you disagree with a standard, you work to change the standard, you don't just change your browser's implementation of the standard, break a ton of functionality all over the web, and then sit there saying "well that's how it should be."

> This isn't anticompetitive - they aren't trying to break websites on Firefox, they aren't contacting websites to get them to do some Chrome specific thing. They're ignoring a really bad default that hurts users.

I agree with this in principle, but then they should be working to see that the standard is changed, and do so in such a way that the other browsers can follow suit and allow the standard to be improved. I don't disagree with the stance Google is taking; I don't like that one company is allowed to make such a sweeping change, and all the people who would get all over Microsoft's or Apple's asses about it if it was done in IE/Edge or Safari, are just all cool with it because again, Google is the golden child.
Why would terrorists want bitcoins, or any currency that has a blockchain tracing the movements of the digital coins? USD are valuable in most places around the world, and are practically untraceable, plus you can actually buy stuff with them.
Ok, I haven't read the article, on mobile... But Intel and AMD shouldn't be aligning on anything. This sounds extremely anti-competstive.

Nvidia should get an automatic x86 license.

Actually, I have a proactive anti monopoly idea. Any company that is the predominant player in a market cannot use patents to limit the ability of a competitor to make a compatible product.

This would mean anyone could make x86 chips w/o a license.
Even an unauthenticated request returns a 502.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json...
Could always do what 4chan did and just ban all Russian IP addresses.

https://twitter.com/4chan/status/741452104112439296

(joking...)
But his shitty scrolljacking doesn't break the web, at most his own website. Google probably broke a lot of website _except_ its own.
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Can anyone explain to me what a "downasaur" is? I've not used Android, so I don't know this term.

Also, I'm not sure progressive anything on the web is a better experience for users. I have a reasonably fast connection everywhere I use the web and I find it a much worse experience when I load a website and see a really low-res version of images that suddenly changes to high res. Likewise, seeing all the text laid out in one font only to have it suddenly jump seconds later when it's done "progressively" downloading the font that's barely different from the standard one.

It seems like what would be more helpful is a way to understand the speed of the connection and choose what to send based on that, rather than assuming everyone has a bad connection. Or make it so your web site doesn't need a bunch of cruft like fonts that the user doesn't care about and just loads quickly regardless of connection speed.
meanwhile... once I scroll to the globe, Chrome locks up.

:|

Scrolling in FF is indeed super smooth, but that background janks all over the place. Not sure what I'd prefer, tbh, though agreed that the vast majority of scrolljacking is utter garbage.
I fear that we will overcorrect and make painkillers hard to get for people that are suffering. In some countries, the chronically ill are unable to get access to powerful painkillers and that is a damn shame.

I also think that we need more research into pain-fighting interventions to develop non-opioid painkillers.
ditto. all websites started loading slow for me around 12:45 eastern. I'm on Comcast business from South Bend, Indiana

Update: I've created a separate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637412
Maybe having a gradual response: video flagged, unlist video not the whole account. It seems he had a previous issue, but overall he was more good than bad.
I wonder how some of the legal doctrines described would treat stolen zcash, since anonymity of some transactions can be guaranteed mathematically (assuming some cryptographic assumptions). If a jurisdiction would, for a broker that didnt keep good records, place liability/taint pro rata on all its depositors, would it follow that all participants in the zcash network are similary pro rata responsible for reimbursing stolen coins in the eyes of that jurisdiction?
Software wallets have a lot of risks, but side channel attacks are not one of them. Hardware also does not necessarily mitigate that.
I like the idea that the reality is just mathematics, I thought about it independently, but it gets weird really fast.

I yet to have read this essay, but I had two thoughts:

1. Similar to Turing completeness, actual physical reality might not matter for the internal observer. All Turing-complete machines can calculate same things and observer from the inside of the machine cannot determine on what hardware the machine is implemented. Similarly, this can be case for observers within our universe (humans). So maybe there is, at a high enough level of abstraction, only one mathematically possible universe.

2. The mathematical theorems are shortcuts to computation. For example, I can add two numbers on a computer, or I can use a theorem, which will tell me only some property of the result, but avoids having to do the actual calculation. So if universe is just a computation, one could avoid actually computing it in certain cases by having a theorem that would tell them enough information they need. In other words, you don't actually need to simulate anything in order for objects in simulation to "exist". So there is no need for actual hardware on which the universe runs to exist.

Addendum: So I read the essay, and I disagree that the multiverse is necessary. As I already stated in point 1, it can be the case that all possible mathematical realities are the same at high enough level of abstraction.
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Part of the magic of CSS to me is that it doesn't require javascript to work. But loading this site with localStorage disabled just shows a blank white page. So I guess not only is javascript required to render the page, but if it can't store some (what exactly?) data locally then it entirely fails without any kind of warning. Weird.
> The balance needs to be somewhere

It might be a controversial opinion, but I think that the balance should always lean closer to the user's side, not developer's.
The web is the only platform aside from perhaps some assembly languages that is that stable and that ubiquitous. Websites have always been a "write and forget" deal; there never was supposed to be any feedback loop of developers fixing breaking changes. This is why old websites from 1998 still work in your browser.

This is why there are piles and piles of cruft within browsers and web standards for making sure old behavior that folks may rely on continues to work.

The commitment to stability on the web is astounding; I don't see anyone changing that any time soon. Google should not be breaking things just for its users; because its users are affected when they break things too.

That's the problem with Javascript. When Javascript breaks, it's not the developers who get the error, it's users, who have no idea what it means and no way to fix it. This is not the case with e.g. compiled languages; there's no extremely strict guarantee your code will still compile on a new release.

That said, Google did push this through the right channels (https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/35 , https://github.com/w3c/touch-events/issues/74 , https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/18 ) and it seemed like browser vendors were in agreement that this wouldn't be a problem. This is something that does happen; browser vendors "unship" or break functionality after discussing it sometimes.

So while I'm not convinced Chrome stepped out of line here, breaking sites absolutely is not putting users first.
> It really is amazing to witness an intelligent and thoughtful person build their own fantasy...

When it comes to the vocal conspiracy theorists you see online, I think they really get a kick out of believing that they're just smarter than everyone else. "Everyone else" being the 99% of the population who they label as "sheep" because they agree with science or facts that are "too obvious."

The other spectrum of conspiracy theorists however, may just really want to believe in their fantasy world.
AlphaGo and AG0 were built with ridiculous amounts of compute power that Google donated to the effort. To replicate their results would cost millions of dollars.
Basic marketing to sell the book...don't be dense
Dogecoin was made to take the piss on Bitcoin, not as an ICO. The fact that Dogecoin isn't currently worthless is a testament to how hilariously blind people are to the bubble.
Is 'most' true? It may also matter whose tax dollars they were. Google isn't being helpful.

To be absolutely clear, I'm very much on the side of open publishing. I just want to be able to form a more accurate reasoning so that I can well explain it to others.
More on this:
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2017/06/on-currency.html

> Property that had been granted currency had a different legal status from property that didn't. Let's assume that a good has been stolen and sold by the thief to a third party, a shopkeeper, who innocently accepts it not knowing that it has been stolen. For most forms of property the original owner could sue the third party and get the stolen article back. But not if that good is one of the few to be considered by society to have currency, wrote Macleod. When an article is said to have currency, or to be current, the original owner cannot chase the third party to recover stolen property. So in our example, our shopkeeper gets to keep the stolen good, even if its stolen nature has been proven in court.
And Github.
> Nothing in the breakdown explains why the Joycons are so expensive at $80.

It's because people will pay $80.

This is a common misconception, that the price of a product is calculated using "how much it costs to manufacture, plus some profit margin percentage". That is false. Cost to produce only sets a floor on retail price (and sometimes not even that); apart from that they have nothing to do with each other. You charge what the market will bear.
when chrome can't connect to a site or it crashes, the page that shows up has a dinosaur on it.
I'm guessing it refers to the fact that on Android Chrome, when there is a error connecting to a site, the error screen has a little pixel art dinosaur on it, (which also has a little game included as an easter egg).

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XhkHbI_l-0M/maxresdefault.jpg
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The problem is that there are a lot of Arduino form-factor mainboards from other manufacturers (like the one in the article) which have no code provided. But manufacturers cargo-cult into the form factor without realizing that code is the important thing.
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If one gives this problem a bit of thought I think it is really political problem, not a safety issue. First, nuclear fuel is just pieces of metal or ceramic. If it blows up on launch these won't explode in a nuclear chain reaction like what happens in a nuclear weapon. They will just scatter and fall into the sea. They have not been activated yet so they have very low radioactivity at that point. Brand new nuclear fuel is basically harmless. The worry with nueclear fuel is after it is used it becomes very radioactive.

And, even if the fuel was a problem, reactors are going to be designed to be refueled. One could send up the reactor and fuel on different launches with the fuel sent in packaging the would survive any explosion (although the fuel itself already would)

RTGs are actually more of a radiological hazard, as the fuel for those are necessarily very radioactive.

In the end I do agree with your position that the safety of the people on Earth are likely to be a problem because safety is a feeling, not some well defined risk factor. Without some large generational educational project (or maybe change the name?), most people will think that nuclear power can never be safe, even when driving their gasoline powered car on a two lane road to work.
They're not valuing users, they're valuing advertisers.
Debugging this problem in this way was not possible in the time of Alto and became possible in late 80's (with LeCroy DSOs) and really practical in early to mid 90's (HP/Agilent) and then cheap relatively recently (chinese DSOs). In the days before that you relied on CRT based scope and tried to make the fault frequent enought to be visible on it.

To some extent this is easier today (but not might be so in few years) because you can buy realtime DSO that is fast enough to capture almost any computer interface used today with usable resolution (albeit you can probably find some successful small-ish hardware startup that would cost you less than such scope)

The art in this kind of debugging is IMHO in using woefully inadequate test equipment to come up with meaningful idea of what might be broken. And this is still done today, with TV repair shops fixing OLED TVs with nothing but DVM and RLC bridge, me looking at 400Mbps+ serial LVDS on customer site with 50MHz portable DSO (they didn't have anything else) and such.
Not ever, eh? Interesting.
Also facing this.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/68937777
Yes and no. The code is available[1] but it is a rather poor state, having no documentation and not being packaged properly.

Getting it into some sort of shape is on my list of things to do.

[1] https://github.com/andrewstephens75/gensite
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Do your part and start mirroring parts of it! http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent/
> Does Google not care to fix this issue

Why would they care? YouTube is the only game in town for content like this. Where else is this channel, or a new one looking for a platform, gonna go?
It's not the browser developers jobs to police the web.
We tried banning alcohol once already...
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Not only that, the reporting process and categories were weird. A few months ago, I got a series of friend requests with similar pictures (a naked woman with the name of some website superimposed). I dutifully reported them, but there was no "spammer" option, and none of the categories really fit. At least one time, I got a response that I could block the user, but no confirmation that they were deleted.
I have a vague recollection of something like this in central Asia, within the last year or so, but I can't find a reference to it (maybe from a peak in the Pamirs to a mountain of the Karakorum?)
why do i have to give my email, to even get a look at the table of content?

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You're right, I misspoke. My point I think still stands - there are something like 1-2 thousand different Cryptos, many without ICOs, but there is little value in purchasing them, be it via ICO or an ordinary exchange.
The author seems to be striving to miss the point.

There's a big difference between dying of cirrhosis, heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer, emphysema, etc in middle age and a 19-year-old kid OD'ing a couple of weeks or months after falling down the addiction spiral.

It's not just the number of deaths, it's the impact to society. Line cooks don't steal kitchen equipment to buy booze and smokes. Opiate addiction upends lives in a way that alcohol and tobacco simply do not.
Recent related discussion (right?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616637
i think the argument made by GP (which i agree with) is that the controllers should be sold basically at the cost of materials in order to encourage the "multiplayer in-couch experience".

i would expect most of the profit comes from licensing fees and royalties, anyway. that's where they'll recouperate the engineering cost.
Visual input is the primary means we humans consume information. We use while driving and reading and for everything else. Clenching to the data structures and information storage/encoding probably not the way forward.
The sad thing is that at that point they probably did need those systems, as I imagine all the good workers would leave.
How is this not duopoly collusion to push out Nvidia? Smells just like 'competing gas stations' on opposite corners with the same exact prices.

AMD can be Aldi, Intel can be Whole Foods.
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Mobile-friendly copy of the parent's quote:

> Consequently, the megaAVR remains the most open-source 8-bit microcontroller on the market — by a long shot.

and your quote:

> But even as popular as Atmel is among hobbyists, Atmel has largely stayed out of this space directly. Instead, they’ve secured small-volume AVR sales by relying on the open-source community to build their own tools for themselves: turning out a slew of hardware and software used to program the megaAVR devices.

> While I applaud the efforts of these developers, these tools are inferior to Atmel’s. Their programming speeds are terrible, they don’t support the new tinyAVR 1-Series devices, and they have absolutely no debug capability.

Don't use leading spaces to quote text, that's for unformatted text. Do this instead:

> *Text.*
The actual paper:

Quark-level analogue of nuclear fusion with doubly-heavy baryons

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02547
By "policing fake accounts" they also mean "hunt down real accounts who don't use their real name, and ask for a scan of your ID".
All scams start with a "choice". That is not relevant, and the author is right to educate "choosers" by demonstrating the information asymmetry that leads to them going broke by choosing incorrectly.

It's great for you that you were able to be repaid at the cost of other victims who were robbed and swindled, but that isn't a responsible way to handle these things, and is most definitely not a model for handling losses. It's illegal for a reason.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637271
It's descriptive, not prescriptive. Rayiner isn't endorsing the law itself, he's just telling you how it operates. People often seem to have trouble distinguishing between positive statements ('this is how things work') and normative statements ('this is how things ought to work.')

I agree with you that the laws are corrupt and should be changed, but that's going to involve refactoring the entire legal system on different operating principles, which is a radical change. IT's important to understand that this isn't one bad decision by a court or something that can fixed with a patch. Are you up for such a gargantuan task?
I agree with you but you'll rarely get anywhere on a public forum by framing 95% of the population as suckers. Which they are, but the truth hurts.
Is this the only reason? It looks like the port is configurable. I would prefer to put a reverse proxy in front of an application and leave it on a port > 1024 than give an application root privileges.
And consumers don't say, I want the same processor as the Xbox.
Shouldn't sites be serving the the full trust chain, except for the root?
I disagree. Flagging a channel should disable it solely for the overly sensitive dimwitted user that voluntarily selected to view the video in the first place. YouTube is not a broadcast medium. Videos are available by voluntary positive action of the viewer only. Taking a video down, much less a whole channel, doesn't protect the viewer whose sensibilities were aroused. It only serves to forbid others from making the choice of whether or not to view the content themselves.
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Crappy bandwidth?

I was playing populous over a 300 baud modem in the 80s with my friend.

Also, i was grounded in the early 90s for calling into PCLink and running a $926 long distance phone bill that month.

Then, we setup a warez BBS as the backside to the computer systems we setup in highschool

One of my first jobs was desoldering bad memory out of apple IIs

Man the 80s were fun times.
Couldn't they just create a small company with 1 "employee" and patent everything under that company and just "share" their secrets?
In fact, you may very well also be paying to get your research published. They get you coming and going.
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Let's be clear here, this isn't a change in favor of users. This is a change in favor of Google, to speed up their browser, and in favor of their advertisers, for better overlay control.
Likewise. Comcast in Atlanta.
The subtitle is "Should they be considered an “epidemic”" and it says in the article "We don’t often call alcohol or tobacco “epidemics,” even as we regularly use that same language for opioids that are linked to a fraction of the deaths from alcohol or tobacco.".

They are basically proposing to re-define epidemic. Traditionally, an epidemic is the rapid spread of something, usually a disease but not necessarily. Alcohol and tobacco have already rapidly spread. There's nowhere else for them to spread.
True, but alcohol deaths are a much lower percentage of the drinking population than opioid deaths are to opioid users. That makes it more difficult to reduce imo. Alcohol kills indirectly in such a way that aside from efforts to curb drunk driving or drinking altogether there's not much that can be done. Personally I think mandatory breathalyzer ignition locks are probably the best you could do to quickly cut down on alcohol related deaths.
This is about fusion, not fission. Your point stands of course!

since they are technically inverse its important to clarify IMO.
sp4ke sez> " I'm saying you cannot get the kind of data only monopolies have and you will never be able to compete with them."

More a political statement than a statement of relevance to the workplace.

You need not worry that "they" will hold you back. It is unlikely that analyzing monopolys' data will explain how early man built flint tools, Joe the mechanic repairs his car, fifth-grade Fred solves his geometry problems or van Gogh painted. ML, including AutoML, appears to be a long way from solving most AI problems. There's no need to feel that "they" are holding you back by witholding data. And then remember:

"Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true."
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AMD forked over the driver code, NVIDIA doesn’t let Apple
handle the drivers and pushed CUDA which apple didn’t want anything to do with.

As for the performance per buck thing it’s not accurate.
For gaming and 3D applications AMD has a huge bottleneck in thier geometry pipeline which causes the to underperform in games especially pre VEGA.
NVIDIA also used tile rasterization and shader output caching on die to increase performance this is something that AMD adopted only with VEGA.

Pure flops don’t mean much even for compute.
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