skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people say the efforts by Liberal/Labor are to discourage a lot more refugees from overwhelming Australia. Resulting in increased crime, less jobs, etc. They acknowledge that some will suffer in the process.

Other points I noticed:
- Coming across as emotional about the harm and suffering on Nauru or escaping war, they will dismiss all arguments as immature and feel like they're being an adult to you.
- Some are persuaded by increased economic activity and net welfare investment benefits but want more screening but wouldn't know how to do this effectively.

Source: Asking random people about policies. Some people you can try asking: mechanics, tradies, checkout people, business people, asking people who handout stuff for Liberal/Labor. To get a deep understanding, read their sources, any of the Murdoch rags or right wing morning shows (ie Alan Jones).
Completely agreed. There's always a second-mover advantage for burgeoning industries in that second-movers can avoid the mistakes that the first movers have become entrenched in.
Maybe you could partially reverse the model if you had this data + timeline? I'm not sure though. Probably just didn't think anyone would want to dig through a 1000+ games.
No, because all Fortune 500 CEOs have the power that makes the organization respond to their slightest whim, whether they wanted that or not.
I want to switch to Firefox.

The few things preventing me seems small, but have made the transition unfriendly and/or tedious.

1. Chromium "Multiple Users" feature allows me to separate business and personal life very conveniently. Now that I have this feature, I cannot give it up. It seems Firefox has this functionality, but it's difficult to use without additional extensions and "Import from Chrome" doesn't support it.

2. 1Password and other extensions I use on a daily basis have inconvenient drawbacks on Firefox. For example, 1Password dropdown does not show in form fields like it does in Chromium.

3. Firefox UX still feels... meh. The ugly dotted focus ring around any link I click stands as a good example. I don't see any preference to turn it off. Menu navigation... there's no submenu peeking-- you have to click in then click back. The whole browser feels jerky compared to Chrome.

It's easier and more pleasant for me to ignore Chrome's lack of privacy and forget about Firefox.

I think Mozilla should give some serious thought and focus on making it incredibly easy and smooth to switch to Firefox.
But that isn't true. AlphaGo Zero seemed to be considerably stronger against humans than AlphaGo Lee. Lee managed to win one game against AlphaGo Lee, but AlphaGo Zero won 60 games in a row against top players, as well as all games against Ke Jie.
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Not really.

Some were ported to Intel. Others (HP/UX) became dedicated big iron operating systems. HP/UX and Solaris are still being updated and used.
i don't believe that for a second - edge being as spec compliant as firefox, that is.
I still think this is a bit melodramatic. I'm biased but all the same, Microsoft having major foothold in Chromium seems like a good thing. EdgeHTML didn't really do any good for us because barely anyone used it anyways. It would've been a bigger loss had there been substantial market share, but from my understanding Edge barely took off even with very aggressive behavior to push it on us. (My default browser has been reset to edge nearly every major Windows update. Windows also resets "corrupt" file associations - magically, those "corrupt" file associations work without issue if I just forcibly uninstall the app it wants to reset them to.)
> Every single day it seems like a new article comes out

That's because some news organizations have invested in bringing Facebook down. If you pay attention, you'll notice those same organizations have also tested the waters with Google and Amazon, and to a lesser extent, other SV companies and the SV community itself.

I barely ever use FB. I really don't care what happens to the webapp (although I do very much appreciate the open source tools they've built, such as react and pyTorch). But I am concerned that these media companies are attacking the tech community, and are basically opposed to any platform that circumvents their role as gatekeepers of information.
It cost $66 million but saved $40 million its first year?

How's the projected rate of return on that guy look?

It's about time people realize "green" can be profitable.
”but a system like this is going to be designed for maximum lifespan”

I don’t know what this system was designed for, but a product that costs $66M and saves $40M in its first year need not be designed for a long lifespan.

It seems scrapping this after 3 years still would net you a nice profit margin.

So, depending on how much designing for a long lifespan costs, that may be a thing of the past.
This is the exact attitude that is going to doom the open web.
So you believe both

1) IQ is a good measure of aptitude

2) White people have higher IQs

Congratulations you are a white supremacist.
It's all about tree tabs ;)
Ad-Tracking Consent & The Dilemma: Some Thoughts on the Washington Post Case: https://mingli.me/2018/12/06/ad-tracking-consent-the-dilemma...
> Is Hackernews being brigaded with anti-Facebook content or is it finaly Facebooks time to die?

IMO, neither. The media in general does have a large amount of anti-FB fervor that is substanceless (this article isn't one though the exact same link was posted already [0]). However, regardless of frequency on HN, the crowd here is too niche to affect FB's sustainability.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608658
Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing.

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055161
> What is your experience of how employees are handling the barrage of major public scandals then?

For real problems, like Cambridge Analytica or the recent API token breach, by trying to fix whatever is broken. A lot of the other scandals honestly don't seem to have any basis in reality that we can discern, so we spend a fair amount of time looking puzzled, then shrugging and getting back to work.
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As I understand things, the Mozilla codebase is a much older, vastly more complex and significantly less embedding-friendly environment than WebKit and derivatives. At least from here, it is easy to see why the choice may have in part been technically driven.

(I'm a diehard Firefox user but not gonna lie, side-by-side, I'd prefer surfing through WebKit's repos by a long shot!)
What are the benefits, _today_, to use Chrome?
it's a bit weird, but it's perfect for writing quick shell one liners with once you get used to it. no regular scripting language can match it for that
I'm wondering how, logistically, this make sense.

Does Microsoft adopt Chromium/Blink for embedding in UWP apps and Electron? That will reduce memory and storage requirements for the latter, but greatly increases the attack surface of the former.

Microsoft is also taking on an _enormous_ maintenance burden in integrating it with their own sandboxing and protection mechanisms. I'm in disbelief that the ongoing cost of maintaining this fork and tying themselves to Chromium will be worth it.

And the incentive for Google to now embed more and more ChromeOS/mobile device management into Chromium. For example: Google intends to ship an alternative credential provider for Windows 10 through Chrome. Microsoft will have to painstakingly isolate every feature like that which Google adds, and adopt an aggressive posture of doing code reviews of Chromium.

I'm not sure how, given that they are such strong competitors/adversaries, this can work out.
I'd say the main fault of the writing is that it gives virtually no indication of why Lucca is different from other places because it's honed in on details like the "gentle thud of his feet" instead. The centre of Lucca is a grid of immaculately-preserved narrow medieval streets which contrast markedly with the modern city so it's not like there's no observations to make there. And I'm sure that his destination, San Gimignano appears far more arresting when its fairytale towers sit on the horizon for hours as you ramble across the rolling green Tuscan countryside, but you'd have to be tempted into doing the walk to realize this...

The actual route sounds really quite interesting, but mainly because I've seen aspects of it before.
Everyone seems to be missing that this is Microsoft’s tacit recognition that Electron is the future of apps. Electron has abysmal performance and doesn’t work on ARM. This is them fixing fundamental chromium issues, to improve Electron performance and give themselves a further wedge beyond TypeScript
CEO of BinaryEdge here, ur 100% right. If I show you the queue of posts we have you'd see similar posts to this one just with different technologies that we have seen being infected or misused(etcd, docker, and about 10 or 20 more types of DB's).
> It could be if you insist that it's a meritocracy in the face of all the evidence that it is overwhelmingly biased towards white people

Last time I checked, Asian Americans were the wealthiest racial demographic in the US. Does it follow that meritocracy is even more biased towards Asians than it is towards Whites? Or, perhaps there's more to it than blanket claims that, "it is overwhelmingly biased towards white people."?

This is what is so insidious about accusations of dog-whistling. It's a cheap and effective way of simplifying reality and portraying the target as a straw man.

I wonder if the right will adopt this tactic and start calling things like "diversity initiatives" as a dog-whistling for the exclusion of conservatives.
10 years ago it was forseeable that MS would lose the browser wars.

BTW, this is not the first time MS has considered Chromium. Back before the fork of Edge, they considered using Webkit.
Isn't it better for everyone that Microsoft is now working on an OSS browser engine?

https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge/blob/master/README.m...
When I first got a Windows 10 machine I used edge long enough to download Chrome anyway.

The real question in my mind is: how will Mozilla differentiate in such a way that it even makes sense for users to support a different browser platform?
My wife luckily works in the school system and gets a pretty decent maternity leave for the US. I was planning to take at least a month off, possibly half time for a few months.

Re: FaceTime, is that for you or the baby?

Does a baby understand that’s you on the other side of the screen!!? I wonder if there is research on this. That’s interesting.
It said it was winning games with 1:10-100 time control. Why would you say thats only just barely stronger?
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Containers (per-tab identity) are my favorite Firefox feature these days
TBH, I'm not really following your logic here. While obviously a 15% reduction in cost cannot happen yearly, the Moore's law comparison is still relatively accurate.

Those Lithium Ion batteries that haven't changed in decades? They were only commercially released in 1991, less than three decades ago.

I feel like people have a hard time seeing that a curve is still exponential when it moves at ~4% a year, as batteries have for the past century or so. But that still means that the technology could effectively double in ~15 years. How many ICE applications become irrelevant at that point? And which ones become irrelevant at various points in between?

The battery revolution is in full swing.
> and none of them were never really all compassing or guaranteed to stick around for a time.

I recently learned that the ribbon used in Office is proprietary to Office itself and wasn't/isn't used in other products - not even in other Microsoft products, which use a different ribbon, which even behaves differently.
There are no equivalents to electron. You either use a browser, or you get stuck in someone else's lacking UI, like qt. Electron just works, and that's why it's everywhere.
I've told you guys before - my 10 year old son scored 'well above average' on their interview process. We live in the UK but they are still trying to recruit him. And no - he cannot write code.
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These guys are amazing. They have a lot of data and an excellent app with a lot of potential!
What do you mean “even more control” what part of tech does Microsoft realistically control now, given the prevalence of cross platform apps and the web being the dominant platform.

This seems like some late 90’s derived sentiment
I have a broken hand so bare with me.

Racism has been talked about for decades, centuries, yet we still haven't realized people are tribal. People are apprehensive against those not in their tribe. If I were in a position to hire someone and I had two equal candidates but one of them was a veteran I am going to hire them because we share a common tribe - we will understand each other better. Does this mean I am against the other person? No it just means I stuck with my tribe, and I won't apologize for that, its animal nature. It could come down to race, where they are from or any number of points that allow me to connect with them on a more personal level.

A large chunk of the racism talks I see come from the west coast (maybe biased as I live on the west coast and I am in tech), but the biggest thing I've seen is the most of them have never actually lived around a majority of black people. Originally, I am from the New Orleans (yes there are race issues there) so being around black people is quite natural. More importantly, I've lived in other countries, traveled through Europe and Asia, and lived/travel through the US. So being around other non-white folks is quite natural. Do I seek people like me to be around, yes. Does that mean they are white? No. Could they all be white? Yes, but that might be due to the demographics of where I am at the time.

Though most importantly, race issues have exploded due to the media, social media and politicians. Talk to REAL people and get to know them (talk to them as an equal) and you will see most people aren't racist, sexist or any other form of ist, we are people trying to make it in this world.

Lastly, I don't believe anyone in America is oppressed due to their race. Socio-economic status is far more oppressive and harder to get out of. For me it was the military along with a good portion of others I served with. One thing the military teaches and shows you is that race is not an indicator of how well you will do, it is your work ethic and commitment. Those who see this do well.

Are those, where the military is not an option, left without options? I couldn't say but its not do to race but their socio-economic status as I said above.
Look at VS Code: Electron doesn't have abysmal performance. It's just what people do with it that causes problems.
I state it in the spirit of helpfulness — openness itself is clearly not a compelling feature to the masses, and the masses are who needs to be compelled. So if this is your battle, perhaps a different strategy is in order?
It will not, but this will bring the prices down: https://fi.google.com

There is something really really big happening there, since "your communication costs" have been inflated to the max by the telco's for years. This new concept of provider independent network usage will kill a lot of providers that have grown by overcharging their customers with a jungle of plans and costs.
People will primarily move more inland within their own countries. Some cities will be raised. Neighboring countries will absorb some. Small border shifts may happen, as have happened for centuries.
So much wasted energy: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore

RIP!
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Now just do Magic: The Gathering!
This was a major outage in the UK causing millions of people not to have data access on their phones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46464730
so we are averaging the emissions all the way from a 4cylinder engine to a v8(slk 55 amg)
this is totally true and how you can tell you are leading a team and not "in it all together" no matter how horizontal you want your organization to be

there are people that won't leave the office until you leave and will take every random idea you have as a canonical decision

thats how you know you are the boss, to them, whether you wanted it that way or not
Do the Mozilla folks not realize that WebKit still exists? Even as a fork of WebKit, I'd have to imagine they've diverged significantly in the last 4 years.

Fears of a monoculture are legitimate, but still overblown at this point.
There are still orders of magnitude between current batteries and the theoretical hard cap. Current batteries throw away enormous capacity due to the safety constraints in preventing thermal events. Lots of folks looking at how to solve that problem.

And what then? In term of energy contained in atoms, current batteries are many, many orders of magnitude away from the theoretical maximum energy density of matter. (And so is liquid hydrocarbon fuel.)
In case you hadn't yet seen the (4-hour-old) news this is responding to, like i hadn't:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-edge-to-morph-into-...
Every one of your points made me go "yup". Lived the dream in every one of those ways. Still do.

Thank you for the kind feedback.
The payback period is ~18 months so lasting less than 10 years is mostly irrelevant.

On top of that these systems are still useful well below their original capacity, so they can rather than a sudden huge bill you simply add more capacity as the original battery’s degrade in a fairly predictable fashion. Over time you end up with a much smaller annual investment than your saving every year.
Thanks, I'll send them my architecture and writeup at some point. I'm avoid spending much time working on crypto stuff until the markets capitulate, but it's looking more and more like that could be within the next six months.
> The savings are because you can use the energy generated by green sources to charge the battery if you can't use it immediately

Not true. The system is used for grid stabilisation rather than large scale power storage. It doesn't have the capacity to power South Australia for more than a few minutes at most.
It’s a known quantity — it’s what I’m currently using, and it works.
The premise is a stretch. Arguably, general purpose computing today is either nix or VMS-derived--and I'm not even sure those are are sufficiently different in underlying model to be completely separate operating system trees.

That said, I can buy Windows NT as sufficiently distinct to be a unique 1990s OS. But Linux is clearly a *nix and OS X is as well--UI and integration notwithstanding. Sure, you can pick NeXT Step and Linux and go "90s!" but they're clearly part of a much earlier tree.

And, if you bring in mobile, Android clearly derives from Linux. I don't know enough about iOS internals to identify where it sits in the OS tree.
you missed my point of the poster not necessarily being the creator of the repository.
Is this a repeat?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18587607
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Yeah, sorry that was a disastrous typo -- see my edit :/
Eh, it was also responsible for a lot of innovation at one point too. AJAX was an IE innovation, no less!
Quickie visualization from the recently released census: Poverty rate vs election results
https://twitter.com/csytan/status/1070800405125201920

Posted on Twitter because HN doesn't support images
This screenshot shows both features. The middle button can be pressed on every icon (!Alarm, :0 being the floppy disc drive, the pen and ink, clock etc) plus the editor window.

The icon above "TextFile" would be dragged to a file window. The only file window shows the ROM applications, so it's actually read-only and there's nowhere useful to drag this icon.

Clicking !Alarm etc with the left mouse button selects one at a time, right clicking extends the selection. There are few other things to usefully right click on. The scroll arrows / bar scroll in the opposite direction with a right click. Selecting a menu option from the pop-up menu with a right click keeps the menu open.

The other really nice thing was the anti-aliasing, which was wonderful.

http://www.linuxvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Risc_OS...
For children especially, cities can be tough. You can't exactly "play" in your frontyard if you live on a busy street. There's less serendipity and unstructured play time when you have to go to a public park or another location to get together.
They keep breaking extensions.

I am sick of Firefox now.
I feel like you should spend some time with Go. If I were building a startup, I would probably choose Go for core infra for being able to move quickly as a developer and write incredibly performant code with about as much mental overhead as most dynamically typed languages.

Anecdotally, I've seen it replace Java in quite a few small and medium sized established companies.
I may have phrased it badly, but my point wasn't that they would/could not target individuals, but more that they don't really care about their capacity as developers; more that these people are simply government implants in the target org, and that whether they are unable to provide the capability through ordinary channels is simply irrelevant.

If the Govt strongarms a developer into implanting a backdoor, they won't care that they can't do it without breaking company policy or QA or workflow or even the law, because they cease to be primarily an employee, and become an asset of ASIO.
With Edge using Chromium, is data still going to Google like this blog posts says?

Chromium is the open source version minus the proprietary services and codecs[0].

What am I missing?

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what’s-the-difference-betwe...
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No, it wasn’t in quotes. The Guardian should just say “paucity of African Americans” or some statement that avoided ascribing intent.
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I can 100% imagine that happening.

Excellent point and responses like this are why come to Hacker News.
Please, do some research before judging. It was an incredible product.
Firstly, I think I have to say 'define "failed".' The company is sadly dead and gone, swallowed by PalmSource. BeOS tech was used to build the ARM-native, multitasking, media-savvy PalmOS 6 "Cobalt" -- which sadly never shipped on any devices. PalmSource was then in turn swallowed by Access Corp of Japan.

These guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_(company)

Still alive, to quote GladOS. It provides the Kindle web browser, for instance.

Second, BeOS has been reborn as Haiku, which is also very much alive, and includes what Be code it legally can (the Tracker, mainly).

Haiku is IMHO the most complete/most interesting desktop FOSS out there. Haiku is now self-hosting and recently entered beta, after a long gestation. There's very little manpower behind it, so progress is slow, but it is moving.

So, significant influence, I think it's fair to say. BeOS shipped, it sold, I reviewed v5 and it remains my favourite x86 OS ever written. (Yeah, I'm biased. Sue me.)