skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its more than just them using it for their apps. I think they want to turn Electron into a reusable Desktop UI framework for Windows and given the fact they now own GitHub they can force that for the Windows rendition of Electron. It all seems like almost a bad idea if it makes Edge too reliant on Chrome. I really was hoping Microsoft would instead have fully open sourced Edge. Edge could use some community love to make it a sweet out of the box Windows browser.
But how do you even tell something's not correct? For example in the article they had to manually examine the index and find out some words were missing. How do you detect that not on the hardware level but up on the software level?
You are totally right to say this, but local government is the rule of the vocal NIMBY that actually shows up to council meetings, and makes headaches for government officials not working to their beck and call. Local government exists to appease these ignorant few because no one else votes in the elections.
I can't answer your question, but I had an uninformed thought.

This idea reminds me of what happens when you dangle a very long slinky and then release it. The bottom of the slinky hovers in place until the collapsing top finally reaches it. The information that the top end lost its support has to propagate through the slinky.
A big problem with these is how unsteady they are. I've seen them topple like cards in barely a gust.
It's impossible for me to be as anonymous as I like on Quora, because they require a government ID with the name I want to use. Which isn't even that weird! It's my legal last name, plus my childhood nickname for a first name.

Your name just didn't provoke their Real Name Gestapo.
Thanks for the bits about eikasia, etc... Never heard about them before. About awareness, thinking of the fact that if someone has formed a perception about something, his perception being wrong or right doesn't change the fact that he has formed a perception and the fact that his perception exists, so there may exist at least some subtle particle of correctness in his perception, <next is the derived thinking that I have to avoid:> ...and this is a clue about something to be discovered and I have to think and analize...<> Ultimately, Be aware that the example's person perceptions are just perceptions make us aware that all our perceptions are just perceptions. No need even to go to Buda's and others theorie's pointing that everything is result of a chain of happenings, rolling since before dinosaurs and all, cause-and-effect-chain that you are just part and all your perceptions about everything are just result of what the chain has put in you, so ultimately you have no real independent wish and "you" don't even exist as an independent entity, if you consider "you" is your mind with all your perceptions in it.
It's a discussion of tradeoffs, and the OP was happy to give me insight into his daily thinking on the topic.

I appreciate him entertaining my questions and giving a sincere response.
I've been using firefox on my personal computers and phone as my main browser for ~18 months. Honestly at this point I prefer it to chrome. On mobile the ability to use native extensions like ublock origin is amazing.
> The big wild card, though, is whether Uber or Lyft buy Lime or Bird. Uber is talking to both companies about an acquisition so this is not just a hypothetical question.

Why would Uber buy either of these companies? Uber already has JUMP scooters. Can't they afford to create way more scooters than either Lime or Bird?

Sure, Uber isn't one of the two companies who are part of the scooter pilot in SF. Still, I doubt that justifies spending hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars on buying a company.
China is the unofficial name for the PRC and is widely known to be a country. I mean... everyone agrees China is a country and you're just talking about using a more official name for it vs not doing that. You're the only person I've ever seen saying 'China is not even a country.'
Well, I mean, Russia’s done quite a bit of it, but we hear as much or more about many of those as about Kashoggi.
How Designers Paint Stories with Words Using Kinetic Typography
The only reason Edge isn't successful is because it's not cross platform. Which, I realize, is kind of the point - but sort of also why as a browser it is now dying.
Yeah it's mostly accurate but drop level 1. Lowest I've seen for technical employee of any kind is 2. New grad is 3. 4 is about 2 years later. 5 is the point where you have "no expectation if advancement" and is the most common level for mid-career people.
Considering the politician with the best understanding of exploiting a major social media platform is President now, imagine where these youtubers will go.
The first company to do this is the first one that's dead in the water. Right now many users have both apps on their phones since they are functionally identical. Add a con to one, and the userbase will jump ship.
They are fragmented and not under a single focus and that is the problem. While the executives at the top are focused on cloud those in charge of the OS and other crucial products are making some oddball decisions for whatever reason. If Microsoft could push all their teams towards a consistent vision it would be great. Otherwise we will continue to see this giant love-hate of Microsoft vs the appreciation they deserve for the things they do get right. I am company neutral so I try to appreciate companies that do some things right.
I've been having the exact same issue. I tend to leave a relatively large number of windows/tabs open and Firefox is starting to edge towards unusability on a 4x3.2ghz + 16GB RAM system simply because its performance and memory consumption is interfering with other applications.

Though I really think most major browsers are somehow all simultaneously losing the thread. Websites are fundamentally just formatted text and extremely basic graphics, for the most part. It's not like I have 50 high end webgl demos running. Rendering text and basic graphics is not something that should be consuming anywhere remotely near the resources that have become typical. If javascript is the problem, then that should be dealt with and not simply accepted as the price of doing business. In many ways I feel like the mantra that 'premature optimization is the root of all evil' has gradually turned into 'any form of optimization short of making sure you don't run O(n) in O(n^2) is not a priority.' But like anybody who's worked on a project knows those placeholders that 'you'll get to later' end up being exactly what goes live. And when optimization is disregarded, you get text/graphics rendering struggling to perform on systems millions of times stronger than what sent us to the moon.
"To call W3C a standard and then have different implementations is no standard at all"

Precisely false. A standard must have different implementations to ensure it is robust.
Google is an American company, and the US won't let that happen

Ahem https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/15...

The price of access to the Chinese market is to parrot the Party line globally.
Power users ceased being particularly important or influential in the early 2010s. Computers have gotten easier for an average person to use and maintain without needing to be de-wormed every 4 months, all browsers are "good enough" unlike the times if IE6, Google's brand is ridiculously powerful and is further able to push Chrome via Android preinstall.
A future solution would be having charging ports on streets and have people plug them in after a trip. The scooter/bike can then report back to the server that it was plugged in after use.
I see.

Just a wild idea that I haven't tried yet:

Would it work if you configure your etc/hosts to point production domain to localhost and open the production domain in the browser?

I'm gonna try this when I get free time.
If its the least bit warm any longer than 15 minutes and you are gonna have some sweat.
How to stay warm in your van this winter
I'm Trying to Raise Funds for Python Kickstarter Course
Welcome to the Digital Ant Farm (1995)
Not sure if it might have this but have you tried using Firefox Developer Edition? I would suggest if disabling CORS is missing to request it for Firefox Developer Edition. Its Firefox bleeding edge with some developer focused plugins out of the box.
Wait, I haven't heard of these recent stability issues with Windows 10 or experienced them myself. Do you have a link about it?
Financially, Mozilla is currently entirely dependent on a search contract with Google, their mortal enemy.

They obviously see that this relationship is extremely risky, especially as Firefox becomes less popular and thus their userbase less valuable to Google. As such, they're trying to diversify their revenue stream.

Do you have any better solutions? Browsers are absurdly expensive to develop, by the way.
2008. “Fuck you, Microsoft, for not bundling Firefox or Chrome.”

2018. “Fuck you, Microsoft, for bundling Firefox or Chrome.”

Hilarious.
LastPass is one of my least liked most used tools. Everything about the implentation feels second rate; slow, unreliable login capture, unreliable form fill, occasional inability to edit records, buried password copy, clunky UI, inappropriate modal nagging in browser and app... Most times I use it I am cursing it.

I tried to switch to pass, and I'm not sure if it was something to do with how I imported but it didn't list my passwords and the browser plugin was clunky and didn't work. Anyone had success with pass/gopass.

Bitwarden seems like a happy Medium, I'd rather not do my password ops. The pricing seems fair (and rather optional). I'll try it, thanks.
Listening. Looking at people, with chin down. Agreeing. Letting the other person do all the talking. Never disagree, people don't need convincing. Always smile, even if you wish to carry a dagger in the other hand, hiding it in your back. Appreciate. Suffer fools gladly.

There are several others. For more information read the works for Robert Greene, Machiavelli, Balthazar Gracian and others.
"Loads" is relative. There's still 20x more C++ in Firefox than Rust.
People are generally not so bright and have very short memory and attention span.
It does support DAI payment, maybe you missed it in the dropdown? It's between Chainlink & Substratum :) TUSD is also supported I think
I don't personally need to use, but help in my marketing process: Facebook, Twitter, Quora and every other popular social media.
Because in real companies the IT department needs a real good reason, or a large number of devs that need it, to reconfigure a server that way.

If you're not a lone wolf, or working in the SV bubble, the IT and security departments are going to tell you to go pound sand.
What are VS Code’s insane telemetry options?
This is the man who recruited the 9/11 hijackers
Not really. Its the same as people who are vegetarian or people who ride a bike rather than take a car even when a car is so much more convenient for them or people who bring a refillable drink bottle rather than buy a disposable one. Some people are just really driven to support a cause and fight for something they know is right.

If you don't feel strongly about this then thats ok but I think we are all better off that there are people who put the effort in to make society better even if it means personal inconvenience.
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Product: Publicly we design and manufacture high performance LIDAR sensors that outperform the products from velodyne at much lower cost. The system we've developed has all of the core aspects of an AV - real-time sensor fusion, localization/state estimation, HD map generation, and a realtime perception stack for semantic scene segmentation, object tracking classification and decision making, but many of these modules are in their early stages. We have developed a crowdsourced 3D mapping product that we've been deploying on customer vehicles with the goal of 3D mapping the earth. Product is already shipping to fleets, ride share, and car companies. 65 person company in The Mission, San Francisco.

Interesting reads: https://medium.com/ouster

Apply at ouster.io/careers or email Alex Treister (alex@ouster.io)
Can anyone explain how is Quora still relevant? How did they raise the $85M for their series D only last year?

To me it seems its going the way of Yahoo Answers, if it already hasn't. It might be gaining some traction in developing countries but the ratio of signal:noise seems really low at this time, coupled with terrible UI.
I looked over privacy.com - specifically their security page[0] which reads impressively. As I looked at my "dashboard" I couldn't help but notice (according to uBlock Origin) that privacy.com, ironically, connects to facebook (.net) and google (fonts, apis, gstatic).

I'm certain none of those 3rd-party connections are necessary and yet... like muscle-memory... devs continue to thoughtlessly invite tracking.

[0] https://privacy.com/security
I'm very willing to do the most simple of tasks. My current research involves retyping source code because I think some of the issues in current CS education revolve around the ability to copy and paste everything. Even now, when I'm debugging my CentOS systems, I make an effort to type out the commands I find in StackOverflow. Otherwise, how will I ever learn how to extract a tar file?
I haven't even tried to use these services, can someone please explain why centralizing all your online activity helps with privacy?
I wasn't kidding at all! I once found my ~4yo niece watching a series of YouTube videos that were just close ups of adult hands unwrapping small toys. Zero animations. No audio or editing. The video had a million views or something. (I can't even find this video because I don't know what to search for.)

When I read the BBC article, I assumed it was something equally no budget. Little kids like weird stuff.
I thought its bitcoin address at first
I got into using macOS later on but after 10 years of Firefox I had no issue with it on the Mac. I guess I possibly did not even notice the bugs mentioned. Ironically I couldnt use Chrome after beta cause I was too used to how Firefox works.
> If Google annoys enough people, people can take Webkit and do whatever they want.

Not sure if that should have been Blink, or if you're making a subtle point about how Blink was forked from WebKit (which was in turn forked from KHTML).

Personally, while I can see why some may react to this news with concern about a monoculture, I find it hard to feel sorry about the end of the last significant closed source browser engine.

If Microsoft gives up IE and Edge then all the major browsers will have an open source foundation. With Gecko, WebKit, and Blink there remains a healthy range of options, too.

And as the history of KHTML/WebKit/Blink demonstrates, derivatives will appear if there's enough interest. Perhaps someday Microsoft will follow the examples Apple and Google have set by creating their own fork, if the circumstances warrant it.
I used to bike to work year round before these and I'm not eager to go back. Biking for 2 hours on the weekend is enjoyable, showing up to work sweaty and coming home exhausted five days a week was not. Hills are not fun!

I feel safer on one of these too; the acceleration can be handy in emergency situations where you'd otherwise be barely up to speed on a bike, in the wrong gear, etc.
Why do we devs get the blame for avoiding their crap browser all that has burned us over and over? Repeatedly. For years. Hours and hours of frustration on this front.

Encouraging the best-working alternative is the creation of monoculture?

C'mon
they don’t have the resources to crack down on any dissent that isn’t notable

Engaging the services of a company specialising in doing things “at scale” would surely help with that.
It's interesting, I don't see this argument made against other open source projects that are dominant, such as the Linux kernel.

I rarely see people saying that there need to be competing kernel projects with completely separate code bases but all trying to conform to the same ABI, etc.

(Yes, I know there are other kernels out there, but my point is that people don't complain that Linux is so dominant like they do about Chromium vs Firefox)
I like tech. I like programming. Lots of the stuff I see here is quite cool. Liking tech does not mean disregarding privacy. In fact being enthusiastic about tech is almost required to seriously improve your privacy.

A lot of the stuff here is cool open source projects and even the stuff like this thread is still worth talking about even if I wouldn't use the product myself. No point reading only posts and comments I agree with.

Also even though I would never use this product for privacy reasons, I personally benefit from other people using it when the air I breathe doesn't kill me and I don't fear for my life while crossing a road.
How can I test Edge when Microsoft don't release it for Mac and Linux?

A browser for a single OS? Talk about monoculture.
Maybe OP is mainly referring to the recent update issues where entire folders have been delated as part of the "forced" updates.
They have a life cycle of 3 months, so $3 per day.

They can only be ridden for 50 minutes before they need charged, which costs $20, which comes down to $0.40 a minute.

I don't see the unit cost economics, let alone how the prices could come down by 80%.
How does Edge’s telemetry compare to Chrome’s?

Have there been any problems with Edge similar to Chrome’s suddenly logging people into the browser?
> If there were no attacks on civilians, that certainly makes you wonder if they could've avoided conflict by simply not sending their troops there.

And then Hamas agents would breach the fence and enter Israel. And you think that's a good idea, why exactly?
Basically no.
This reminds me that I think there's a real market opportunity for a clean-sheet proprietary browser. Everyone just assumes open source (except for Safari and Edge until now).

I think it's possible to build a significantly better browser than Chrome or anything else out there. And I think at least a few million people would pay more than $100 for it (there are 326 million people in the US alone). This would be a good time to do it.
Yes, definitely. For example, the explanation of MergeSort in CLRS’s “Introduction to Algorithms” has a figure which shows tree a of lists being transformed into another shorter tree of lists where the lower nodes have been merged.
Do women in physics get fewer citations than men?
I was sort of surprised that after the PPC took off, nobody tried to do something meaningful with the 68k architecture in the immediate aftermath-- license it from motorola, and make pin-compatible clock-doubled 68060s, or eventually applying modern-x86-style "It's RISC everywhere after the decoder" designs.

There was probably a few years when there would have been commercial appeal-- getting a few more years of life from all those workstation platforms (pre-SPARC Suns, pre-PA-RISC HPs, etc.) that ran on 68k-family chips, anyone with a Mac that had software performance-constrained by the PPC migration-- as well as the Amiga enthusiasts.

When Transmeta showed itself to the world, I figured that's where their business case lived. (68k as one of many possible small-run high-margin markets)
There've been studies on the "more expensive" part, and IIRC it's about a 15% premium in terms of development time - there've been a few studies. Here's one I could turn up quickly: https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia....

Simultaneously, you get a bunch of benefits. (Most importantly, there's no bus factor of 1 for anything)
TIL I can use ctrl+R to search bash history! This is going to save me a lot of time going forward!
I call this "first, then."

- First <tidy up the room>, then <play games>.
YouTube has an entire app for kids: https://www.youtube.com/yt/kids/
I know it's probably really early to ask this, but do you have a rough estimate of when the power usage improvements will happen? Battery life is the main thing stopping me from using Firefox more, so I'm really looking forward to this being fixed.
> Imagine 30 years from now, a company

Not just a company, the current state of things is every private company database will be hacked and leaked and available to the general public.

Treat all data you give to someone else as public data now and use fake info where ever possible.
That is a true shame. I've been happily using Firefox and will continue to do so.

How people trust Google's Chrome (with many closed bits) is beyond me - but of course we're all free to do whatever we want to do.

Also last time I benchmarked Firefox and Chrome (on Linux) Firefox turned out to be faster at least for the sites that I frequent.
There are some great quality of life improvements for kubectl in 1.13 including:

- It is now possible to use named ports in the kubectl port-forward command (#69477, @m1kola)

- kubectl: support multiple arguments for cordon/uncordon and drain (#68655, @goodluckbot)

The new kubectl plugin method reaching beta is exciting too
http://modern.ie Free Windows VirtualBox images you can use for testing!
The same way you test safari on a Win or Linux machine?
I wouldn't touch a proprietary browser if you paid me $100
Dominant on server or generally? Windows is pretty big generally, and it isn't obscure enough on servers that I don't have to deal with vendors daily who require me to inter-operate with windows.
Yes, the midwest people never think the progressive wing is listening no matter what and no matter how much listening and actual solution creation happens. That's really more on them than anyone else. The party that had plans to move people from coal shoveling to solar installers? Democrats. The part that didn't actually care about the people in the midwest and just lied to them that their jobs would be fine or would come back? Republicans. Their jobs are going the way of the dodo right now and have been over the past 2 years.

What's the progressive wing opinion on white men? There isn't one... like at all. It's not a thing that exists currently as a goal of theirs to focus on. Are you ascribing a white men opinion to Democrats from somewhere?
I have heard the anti theft devices have gone off while people try and pick them up and move them out of the way from blocking the path
Both of your links involve armed combatants fighting IDF. nobody is calling those people civilians. I'm calling these people civilians:

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news/...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-video-shows-pal...

https://mobile.twitter.com/dcipalestine/status/1017882226275...
Maybe 1$. There is Vivaldi. Its much better, but nobody wants to pay.
about:config has `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` :) just set it to 0.

Though I firmly believe that about:config is in no way a user-viable option (as useful as it can be, for dev purposes), so I don't intend to imply that means "firefox has that too". It doesn't, it just has a workaround.
With so many browsers using Blink/V8, couldn't it be argued that an independent foundation should be created to take over the project so that no company (Google) controls the code? Each browser can then implement their fork / skin of the rendering engine / V8. It could even allow the foundation to experiment with larger changes how Mozilla has done with it's rust-based renderer.
Microsoft please, can we have the tabs on the side by default? There is a lot of vertical space that is unused and it is a thousand times more practical to have tabs there on the left or on the right. Try Tree Style Tabs for a week on Firefox and you will understand why it is the future of browsing the web.
> They are hiring people based on leet code questions and school prestige and not based on real technical knowledge about systems

Isn't that true for almost all companies based in the Sillicon Valley?