skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am Firefox user for more than 15 years. I personally would prefer Firefox codebase to be adopted. I think Mozilla is the only big organization left who is pro-customer.

But let's be realistic, people want things to "just work". People in general are not bothered by privacy or security, but if funny cat picture can't load that's huge problem. People in general were moving from IE because it's shitty laggish software, not because it was not secure or was sending telemetry. So adopting Blink/WebKit is right business decision, because it makes customers happy, because a lot of sites are developed with only Chrome in mind. Bootstrap and friends support Firefox, it's true, but many actual sites with custom non-framework HTML/CSS do not. Some bugs are negligible, some are not. But what is 0.5% of all web sites for Microsoft? A huge deal, let's accept this.

Google Chrome has enterprise version which already supports Active Directory Group Policy, so corporate customers will be happy too.

What can Firefox offer today? Frameworks support Firefox and Firefox supports standards well. I genuinely believe that google Chrome in 2020 will be like IE6 in 2010 and rust based codebase will be superior by all means, easier to maintain and faster to execute. But I am very naive and optimistic about Firefox, because I simply love this browser.
The Edge team is a fraction of the size of the Chrome team.
This is good for legitimizing Open Access as a principle, but as a practical matter, it seems like sci-hub has solved the problem, at least for now.
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Big Media wants to have their cake, eat it to – and then hope to get a 3rd cake
Take the time to get one or more really, really good references to true, professional investment management services. (Not showy and "expensive", but good -- not "cheap", either, but real value for the real money you spend. This can be hard to determine, if you don't already have connections. And it can build on personal relationships; however, those can cut both ways, so be cautious.)

You want safe, diversified portfolio. You may be a bit challenged, near the end of the year, trying to position to manage tax exposure. But overall, be thinking long-term, not short-term.

Add to your daily, weekly, monthly schedule, time and resources for learning investment management. You don't have to do it all at once and overwhelm yourself. First, get safe. Then, learn, so that you can speak with and interact with your advisors from a knowledgeable position. You'll come to know what investments you're comfortable with, and what not. You may well also get better service from them, as a result. The good ones appreciate well-informed clients; they may even enjoy talking with you, on a personal level but also to the extent you have knowledge of and insight into your industry/segment that they may be interested in (not confidential knowledge).

This is what I know not from having large assets, myself, but from observing and speaking with a family member who does.

The professionals really do help, but he's also had to bring his own considerable knowledge and smarts to the table and sometimes override their advice. It's really more of a partnership, than one side or the other calling all the shots. If the people you are working with don't have this perspective (especially once they get to know and hopefully respect you), you may be working with the wrong people.
Seriously, I don’t understand why there are always complaints of Firefox over using CPU when chrome has same issues.
Are you using an SSD? What extensions are both browsers running? Did you do a fresh reboot? This seems pretty slow for both.
I am starting to think we need an additional layer that compiles to HTML and CSS, and guarantee to work across all the browsers.
Don't forget Symbian, probably the last successful operating system designed from scratch.

It started life as EPOC32, the operating system for "palmtop" devices made by UK-based Psion in the mid-90s; then Nokia and Ericsson decided they needed a smartphone OS that isn't Microsoft and bought into EPOC creating Symbian sometime around 1998. It took a while for Symbian to get off the ground because the hardware wasn't there yet and the partners kept bickering, but by 2006 it was shipping on a hundred million devices and was perceived as very successful against Microsoft's Windows Mobile. A few years later, Symbian would be trounced to oblivion by iOS and Android.

The interesting thing about Symbian was that it had a rich native framework but wasn't even close to POSIX or Windows. You didn't even get the C standard library; instead the system was built on an idiosyncratic embedded-centric dialect of '90s C++. This focus on optimization at expense of programmer convenience turned out to be a total dead-end once PC-style operating systems became viable on phones — but at least it made for a distinctive development experience.
Why would they have considered Firefox over just improving Edge? The problem is that Chrome is extremely dominant, especially on mobile and tablet. And everyone tests against Chrome but not everyone tests on Firefox or Edge(especially web devs on MacOS).

If things don't work or look broken, it causes more people to switch to Chrome over Edge/Firefox, turning this into a vicious cycle. The only way to break the cycle is to act like Chrome, so either chase Chrome's behavior with Edge or Firefox. Both of which entail a lot of effort and money with less than stellar results. Adopting Firefox will get them some development help but the fundamental problem of chasing a speeding train still remains.
Perhaps I exaggerated. It was noticeably better than the other side. Still could be more comfortable.
As an aside, does Apple or Google ever contribute to KHTML? Safari and Chrome would not exist without it and yet the last stable release was in 2014. Seems like yet another case of large corporations taking advantage of free software while giving little to nothing back to the community.
as someone with a large expense account? ie, outside sales or client relationships?
It is slower than Chrome. That's enough to me not to consider Firefox, given that speed is everything I care about.
Firefox added Pocket, and kind of nobody wanted it. So it happens in FF too.
I wonder what the legal implications of just quitting on the spot when asked might be?
Linux Foundation consolidates FOSS compliance efforts under ACT project
Don't we have AI by now that can figure out what button to click to change the password?
I'd argue that never even getting to shippable state is generally a worse failure than spending a few years on the market but never really taking off in any serious way.
Safari is the best choice if you care about battery life. I literally get 2 extra hours of battery life when using Safari on macOS vs using Chrome.

What's incredible is that Chrome uses more CPU on Youtube than Safari. When playing the SAME video side by side.
Edge had so little marketshare that this decision, in terms of the web, makes almost no difference at all. I realized recently that I never even bothered to test my sites on Edge; it wasn't even a conscious decision, I simply forgot it even existed.
Has anyone noticed chrome making annoying changes to keyboard shortcuts in the URL bar recently? When I do command-l to put focus in the URL bar I expect to be able to use arrow keys to move around the selected URL to edit it, but google seems to have broken that recently. Similarly, with focus in the URL bar I expect to be able to do <RET> to reload a page, but instead I have to hit <RET> 3 times nowadays for it to reload the page.
When policies that require scientists to publish in journals that either give open access or permit simultaneous open publication, does it affect previously-published works?

That is, will this mean that more new research will be freely available, but that old research will still be behind paywalls? If so, it would be interesting if researchers could push journals to not only allow open access for their new work, but also require that previous papers also be made available.
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The lobbying path for this would be US security (NSA/CIA/FBI) lobbying to both USGov and their AU counterparts ASIO/FedPolice who in turn lobby the AusGov.

They in turn talk to USGov and work on what they get and the selling points.

From the politicing it was the old "you're going to put people's safety at risk" if we don't do this message. So, no idea what AU gets out of it unless there a deal that makes some other issue go away for the Gov like taking some of our refugees, etc.

Corps get no say unless they need a sweetener to keep giving politicians money or favourable media via various industry bodies and groups.
> AlphaZero and AlphaGo Zero used a single machine with 4 first-generation TPUs and 44 CPU cores. A first generation TPU is roughly similar in inference speed to commodity hardware such as an NVIDIA Titan V GPU, although the architectures are not directly comparable.

> The amount of training the network needs depends on the style and complexity of the game, taking approximately 9 hours for chess, 12 hours for shogi, and 13 days for Go.

How much would that much computing power would cost on something like AWS? That's a lot of hardware, but if you're only renting it for 9 hours... the beefiest EC2+GPU instance Amazon has currently is p3.16xlarge, which has 8 Tesla V100 GPUs, and 64 (virtual) CPUs, for $25/hour on-demand. My understanding is that a V100 is slightly more powerful than a Titan V, so does that mean you could run the Chess training (at least the AlphaZero side) for $225? That seems impossible?

EDIT: pacala below pointed out that the hardware listed was just for running AlphaZero against Stockfish, not for training it. Digging through the preprint itself, they say that for training they used:

> During training only, 5,000 first-generation tensor processing units (TPUs) (19) were used to generate self-play games, and 16 second-generation TPUs were used to train the neural networks.

So that would be... a lot more.
Samsung Internet has their own implementations of quite a few web standards - calling it a reskin isn’t very accurate
I doubt it. This move has a lot to do with Electron, which runs on Chromium.
”This is why I’m already on board for Barack Obama 2008.”

But the tech industry is a key contributor for any democratic contender, so I don’t expect much progress here. Might still be the right choice though, but I don’t think this is the issue where you should turn your hopes on the democrats.
I still see zero benefit to me, today, to sort waste or save energy.
An interesting aside not mentioned in the article: an initial patent application for the waterbed was rejected due to prior art by Robert Heinlein. He described a (fictional) waterbed in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land.
I agree but I was commenting on economics. Western cities seemed to be planned around cars as opposed to walking and public transport. In my country we have the ideal of a large suburban house with a yard. This takes up space, which causes cities to spread out and cars become the norm.
I witnessed all of this since I started using Macs around '84/'85 and programming them around '89. I'm still in mourning about:

* Since Classic MacOS (OS 9 and below) didn't have a command line, it had GUIs for tweaking system settings. Better yet, it had a budget for preventing user interface issues in the first place. The user experience on Classic MacOS was simply better than anything we have today, on any platform (including iOS - and yes I realize this is subjective). The flip side is that the platform evolved faster until the late 2000s because developers could tinker more freely. Since the vast majority of users are not programmers, I don't think this was a win. To me, something priceless was lost, that may never be regained even with the incubator of the web pushing the envelope.

* I often wish that Apple had made a Linux compatibility layer. That entire ecosystem of software is simply not in the Mac fanbase's radar. This isn't such a huge issue now with containerization, but set everything back perhaps 10-20 years. Apple did little to improve NeXT (to make it something more like BeOS, or the Amiga). We really needed an advanced, modern platform like Copland or A/UX like the article said. But in the end, Steve Jobs knew that didn't really matter to like 99% of users, and he was probably right. Still, I'm in that lucky 1% that sees the crushing burden of console tool incompatibilities and an utter lack of progress in UNIX since the mid 90s.

* Much of the macOS GUI runs in a custom Apple layer above FreeBSD (rather than using something like X11). I'm not really convinced that the windowing system is that optimized, because it used to use a representation similar to PDF. So for example, I saw weird artifacts and screen redraws back when I was doing Carbon/Cocoa game programming, especially around the time OpenGL was taking off. Quartz is powerful but I wouldn't say it's performant. A 350 MHz blue & white iMac running OS X had roughly the same Finder speed as an 8 MHz Mac Plus running System 7 or a 33 MHz 386DX running Windows 95. Does anyone know if the windowing system is open source?

I could go on, in deeper detail, but it's futile. I think that's what I truly miss most about Classic MacOS. If you ever watch a show like Halt and Catch Fire, there was a feeling back then that regular folks could write a desktop publishing application or a system extension (heck whole games like Lunatic Fringe ran in a screensaver) and you could get Apple's attention and they might even buy you out. But today it's all locked down, we're all just users and consumers.

I still love the Mac I guess, and always come back to it after using the various runner ups. But I can't get over this feeling that it stopped evolving sometime just after OS X came out, almost 20 years ago. There is this gaping void where a far-reaching, visionary GUI running on top of a truly modern architecture should be. All we have now is a sea of loose approximations of what that could be. I wish I knew how to articulate this better. Sorry about that.
> Are you saying that it’s normal for Google to keep these teams out of projects?

not normal, but not unique.

I know from close sources that the security team involvement around Google Home was actively discouraged and the "launch bit" silently removed. For example.

Google is a very large company with very large politics and perverse incentives. Security is a hindrance for most of the product teams.
Probably none I'd guess. The embedded space really loves C simply because it's viewed (usually wrongly) as more deterministic than C++ but there are a lot of instances where C is not a good choice (when you no-shit need objects) so they come up with abstractions for common things (terrifying C patterns). Rust has a lot of features that C lacks so we probably won't need to do any abstraction for now.
Google App Engine and Google Cloud Functions got native support for Puppeteer a few months ago as well. Let me know what you think if you try it out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17795626

(I work for Google Cloud)
I use Firefox and Chrome. I've never had to switch to Firefox to get a site to work correctly for me, but I have had to switch to Chrome.

If a family member asks me what to use, I would tell them to use Chrome just because it's likely to be a better experience for them.
This is not true. Anecdotal, but I just toured a house Wright built for a veteran in a wheelchair and was pleased at how much thought went into the height and reachability of all the interior areas, in addition to the quality of the structure and the exterior.
Do you know what parts of the world is hay used as a slang for sex?
Plenty of people don't want it, but Pocket is actually quite popular. It's an essential part of my browsing experience.
Does it prioritize privacy? I haven't used Firefox in a long time, so my impressions of it are based on news stories, like them launching a partnership with sketchy VPN services or building in "easter egg" advertisements for television shows.
I haven’t had a single perf problem with Chrome. It seems to be related to the platform - I’m on a Mac
You made the claim, not me. You claimed that a large amount of articles are substanceless and you produced no proof.
In political terms:

Web browsing dominance is a single member district. Firefox and Chrome are the two major parties, and IE/Opera/Safari are third parties.

IE could have gone to Firefox to promote open standards and "back the opposition" so to speak. They chose, instead, the corporate behemoth behind the mobile OS they want a foothold on (presumably).
Gen Z is on a shopping spree. Are you ready?
Performance against SF9 was only marginally worse than vs SF8.
IIRC, Lyft was the first mover, Uber shamelessly ripped off Lyft's model that anyone can be a driver and come out with Uber X. So, imo Lyft was the first mover, but was smart to let Uber face all the heat sacrificing short term growth for long term success. Uber has been in too many things for me to believe that they can sustain the business (I may be wrong)
This has been a first-class Chrome feature for years, for whatever it's worth.
Average for what? Your number for an "SUV" is 13.6MPG. The worst fuel economy for a 2018 model I could find in the EPA database is 11MPG[1].

[1]https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=noform...
Is it? I thought it was about Blink, not about V8.
How much of a rewrite was it? IIRC they fixed a lot of bloat issues and called it a rewrite, but it wasn't a full rewrite.
I moved to Chrome when Firefox was bloating up and slowing down (2008?). Now I’ve started using Firefox again because Chrome (and Google) seems to be serving itself but not the customer. Firefox now does what I intend it to do.
I await the response from the Safari team with interest
> it is just a different system

Different in the same way that Windows 3.1 is "just a different system" than MacOS X 10.14. The U.S. pays 2-3 times as much, and does not provide healthcare to vast numbers of people. Many who do receive health care go bankrupt paying for it; many who think they have insurance find that they are denied it by insurance companies.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

My understanding is MS basically brought the world the personal computer. You and I probably couldn't have this argument had they never set out to get filthy rich and yadda. The world would likely be a very different place and I personally think that alternate timeline wouldn't be all upside. I don't think it would be some eutopia that we stupidly missed out on by failing to tell Bill Gates "kill it before it grows."
I wrote some extensions myself over the years, all my time writing those extensions went down the drain.
Well, I think it's actually two different things: I don't feel bad at all seeing IE/Edge coming to an end. It was a closed, non free, single-platform browser, who gave a lot of people a lot of headaches during the last 20 years. On the other hand, I'm worried by the fact that Google browser market share continues to grow.
It's not like there's any correlation between practicing a complex learnt art/skill when you are young, and your aptitude and ability for it later in life, after all.

Otherwise all the best footballers would save themselves until they'd paved their way to learning how to play by baking cookies and taking pride in it.

Or violinists.
Or opera singers.
Or mathematical prodigies.
Or chess players.
Or engineers.
The articles are all written by journalists using desktops. They tend to forget about mobile.

Safari has about ~5% percent market share on desktops, but 15-25% on mobile, including tablets.
Chrome has this too. I doubt its effectiveness as there are ways to fingerprint your browser without using cookies/sessions
>Before we assume that this is "a high stakes game of geopolitical poker to divert from Mueller", as the author suggests, let's see exactly what a C-level executive of one of the world's largest tech companies allegedly offered to the Iranians and for what purpose. Hypothetically, for all we know she was offering to use the company to launder money made from selling nuclear weapons tech on the black marke

Unless she offered it in the United States why should she be extradited here? I can get behind waiting for her to leave China, who presumably would look the other way. But why can't the Canadians prosecute her?

This idea that people who did not enter the United States can be subjected to it's laws and shipped off to it's prisons (with their abysmal human rights record) is scary.

And I say this as someone who's extremely critical of China and thinks we're spending too much time worrying about dank russian memes while China buzzes our aircraft in the South China Sea and imprisons millions of Uyghurs.
Totally share the love regarding container tabs.

I don't, however, like how the UI/UX is implemented. In particular, the management of containers -- why do I have to dig so deeply to add new containers? Also, as a color-blind person, the slightly colored thin bar above the tab is not a sufficient identifier. It just seems all sort of after-thoughty and jumbled to me.

Having said that, I converted to FF being my primary browser from being a long-time Chrome user and am happy about the change.
Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.
Cannabis for allergies, etc– there’s a risk re viruses;
what price though ? here they say it's pricey because it's a 20 year investment.
Would be interesting to know how many people who've managed footprints for a reasonable period of time (say 5-10years) who haven't had a cert expire on them. Wouldn't be surprised if it's single digit %ages.

So many human & tech error factors lead to this occurring and they're all the same old things. Staffing changes, spam filters, ignored warnings, skipped emails...
VS Code has something that JetBrains IDEs cannot match: Price.

For startups in developing countries $200 per seat is a lot of money... VS Code or Atom look amazing in comparison for $0
I find it a bit scary that I should apparently keep with my diesel rather than look at electric. Should I really?
I’m a Mozilla contributor and user; my name is chiseled in stone on their monument. I’m also a a Xoogler and a Chrome user. I think this screed is pretty ridiculous. Microsoft polluting the web with an inferior browser engine is not helping anyone. For the users it is better that they join another, superior browser effort. But what’s reall absurd here is the tone. Is this really an official Mozilla press release? It seems like they’re just trying too hard to make everyone forget that they get 99% of their money from Google.
I'm thinking about this in light of the IRA troll activity on FB & twitter during the '16 elections. They were pretty comical at times yet they seemed to fool enough people. I think it would have been near impossible for people in Saint Petersburg to fool almost anyone with short videos instead. Shame that vine was crushed.
The paper used latest AlphaZero and Stockfish at the time of writing. It's been in peer-review for almost a year.
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Well it happened in the solar module market[1]. And batteries are similar in many ways. They have a lot of government/policy support (rebate programs, pilot programs). Solar technology didn't change much during this period either (and in fact, the more advanced/novel technologies failed rather dramatically), a lot of the cost reduction was due to better manufacturing efficiencies and scale. I also think that because both of these technologies are older, they are less likely to be impacted by patents and monopolistic enterprises that can force prices higher. So that helps as well.

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tracking-reside...
I have a MacBook Pro. The fan spins up sometimes. So what? It also spins up when I’m doing other tasks. I’m always plugged in. So I have no opinion to share about battery performance.
The comments to this story is the lowest quality ive seen on HN in a long time..