skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the endgame is control of Chromium being passed from Google to a neutral foundation -- which I suspect it will be -- then everyone wins.

There is zero chance of that happening. Like all public companies, Google acts in its own self-interest. Google controls Chromium, and there is absolutely no benefit to Google to hand control of Chromium over to an outside entity. 98% of all patches to Blink are reviewed by a Google employee.

If establishing a foundation were going to happen, then it would have happened when Apple and Google were still collaborating on WebKit.
This is par for the course for Kickstarter projects. Naive principals with no experience repeatedly failing, but writing about it, so it's all good. The Kickstarter public seems to select for presentation skills, not for execution ability, so in the end backers get more story than product.
Users don't see google.com, they see shittypopups.com delivered by Google
IE, at its height, was available outside windows. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac

At that time, 2001-2002, IE6 was highly praised. You don’t get to 96% marketshare by being something everybody hates. The hate came later when CSS demand ramped up and it became clear IE6 used a non-standard box model. Worse still MS essentially abandoned the browser, the result of total marketshare dominance, and tied it directly to the operating system.

The reason people are complaining about this is the lack of diversity. This has proven very bad in the past. It essentially makes the platform a proprietary space even if the dominant browser is open source. The key here is who directs the technology and direction of the platform.
Still works better as authentication than a 4-digit PIN or 4-point unlock pattern that you're entering right infront of strangers tens of times a day.
Would you differentiate "productivity" from "organization and discipline"? Organization and discipline I think can help personal growth fundamentally.
Hypervisor from Scratch – Part 5: Setting Up VMCS and Running Guest Code
It isn't really a fallacy, just pedantic. We can't really assert a philosophical concept of 'truth' in physics, because there is always uncertainty. By extension, any statement that 'this is how the world is working' has a good chance of being wrong in theory and practice.

For example, as I know we have random variables in the current models of quantum physics. Based on our historic experience with the universe, they may yet prove not to actually be random. Until quantum physics, random variables were always a theoretical construct to fill in gaps in our knowledge - eg, "experimental error" was expected to be limits in our ability to measure rather than something fundamental.

Classical physics is really handy, but it doesn't accurately model how the world works in a can-I-simulate-reality-according-to-our-best-knowledge sense. That falsifies the theory.
I have been looking in to nano satellite and while they are intriguing, I haven’t seen any useful tasks that you can do. You also have options to subscribing/renting bigger satellite data. In less than 1.33kg form factor, sensors gets very limited and life in LEO orbit pretty short. It seems like they would be good for some school projects but are there any compelling applications?
I agree that this should just be everyday normality. However there seems to be wave of recent popular articles and essays about an epidemic of loneliness. I think essays like this can serve as a positive example of how to interact with/behave towards others and hopefully try to improve social well-being. It’s certainly not the end, but I like to think it can help.
Ask HN: Why do I perform better in video games when I don't wear a headset?
Hey guys,

I'm a mid-twenties software engineer who plays a lot of video games in my spare time. Games of choice are mostly FPS titles (e.g. Overwatch, CS:GO) and I tend to be competitive when I play. In case it's relevant, I also have a particularly vicious case of ADHD.

The nature of the games I play make a headset effectively mandatory, as sound cues are particularly important. That being the case, I've noticed that, for some reason that I can't pin down, I tend to perform better overall in-game when I'm not wearing a headset. Specifically, when I don't wear a headset, I:

- Auto-pilot less (I think more about my objectives, how I want to execute, and what I'm doing in general)
- Tense up less during "stressful situations" (I'm generally overall calmer)
- Seem to aim/track targets better (likely a result of the above; my mouse arm is more relaxed)
- Am overall more focused
- Simply win more games

As a result, I frequently opt to put my headset around my neck and simply turn up the volume, however this is far from ideal.

Why would just wearing a headset impact my performance? Is this a known problem?

At first I thought it was a comfort thing, and tried other headsets to no avail. I'm now leaning towards it being psychological (sound makes the experience more immersive, the increased immersion makes the "virtually stressful" situations actually stressful, and the increased stress impedes my higher-level thinking), however that's just baseless intuition on my part.

I'd really appreciate any insights any of you have. :)
I’ve seen this demonstration at least a couple of times, once as an undergrad around 1971. I always remembered it and a few years later I was working with a minicomputer with limited I/O so I decided to blink the row of front panel lights just to show that the program was running. I blinked each on and off with a slightly different frequency and got a similar, interesting effect.
An unorthodox chain of thought:

1. In order to end the stronghold of advertising on the web, we need to first address advertising in the wider world

2. Advertising (amongst other things such as lobbying, flouting rules, pollution, anti-competitive practices) is driven by companies' almost desperate need for "growth"

3. Growth is driven by investor pressure

4. Investors are driven by need for ROI

5. The need for ROI is driven by inflation and its erosive effects on saved wealth

6. Inflation is driven by government spending via printing money

Therefore, we should reduce inflation?
Easily said if you’re not one of the latter category, I suppose.

I am all for the compulsory purchase of property for very large infrastructure projects like this. Protection of worker safety is less negotiable.

Pertinent to this discussion, if you haven’t seen the wonderful Aussie film ‘The Castle’, you should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpqT_l7QcBM
should all self-driving cars report their location to 911 dispatch to allow any vehicle to be re-purposed as an emergency vehicle at any time?

That doesn't make much sense. The primary advantage of emergency vehicles is to transport medics to the site of the emergency so that they can administer first aid and stabilize the person for safe transport to the hospital.

Having just any person off the street pick up a critically injured person is not going to go well. In all likelihood, they'll further injure the person due to their lack of training.
You have a classifier for credit assignment (giving a loan, etc.). The classifier is 99% accurate on the entire population. The classifier is 55% accurate on a small minority.

Uh, concerning this hypothetical.

I'll admit a scenario of this sort sounds appealing at first blush. But "99%" accuracy rate with credit assignment is transparently absurd if considers it for a second. There is a clear, significant limit to the accuracy that can being assigned to anyone's credit, if credit means "actually repaying". The fundamental uncertainty of the economy guarantees this.

The distinction between this ideal (99%-55%) and whatever it might be in reality ( 65%-55%) matters. What's is the system is squeezing a few more percentage points out of data for a large company. And what is the cost of those percentage points?

[EDIT: ACTUALLY - the pernicious scenario is a system that isn't not any MORE accurate for any group than any other BUT which is NEGATIVELY biased against one group and POSITIVELY biased against another group. That situation is EASY to get when one unselectively slurps up any data available. The inaccuracy of predictor is a problem for the company, the biasedness of the predictor is a problem of the individuals discriminated against]

The situation is that a company really can a total better prediction rate for various desired qualities by using completely biased, unfair markers. (White-skin, went to "a good school", from a wealthy background, dresses well, attractive features...). When one allows "black box optimization" to get those features, what one does is allow the use of these considerations, which all otherwise legally off-limits. Legal strictures against discrimination say that objective measures of black people's ability need to be it, not because other measures never matter but because other measures are unfair, other measures don't consider past discrimination.

As a further example, outside of race or gender considerations, some percentage of employees may be forced to care for a sick relative. Maybe that makes them a potentially less effective employee or worse credit risk or whatever. Human evaluators might have values that such questions outside consideration. For an opaque multidimensional analysis, this may a ding - the human user doesn't even know if it's a ding.
My TLDR- We don't have any clue on how quantum mechanics function other than some guesses so we are not in position to predict anything about its future.
Science might as well believe in God if its backing any logic to explain QC.
Tough call.

Yahoo was "the Internet's homepage" (before Reddit co-opted that), and was, when keyword-based search was kind of sucky and already getting gamed (HTML "keyword" headers, if anyone remembers those, Lycos, HotBot, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, ...) a pretty good way to find things. The Yahoo directory itself (Yang's Hierarchical Officious Oracle or Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) was carried forward for a while as DMOZ (since killed), and has certain similarities to Wikipedia, though that focuses on knowledge and not necessarily webpages. To that extent, I find Wikipedia more useful today, because it tells me what I'm looking to find out, rather than directing me to some page, which may, or quite probably, may not, have what I'm looking for. And in either case, almost certainly assaults my senses.

Yahoo also served as an information hub. Before there was Google News, there was Yahoo News, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Maps (I think). One of the first online web-based email services (and still a large, though declining, share of the market, along with Aol and Hotmail, along with a few other relics).

The consumerisation of Yahoo was already turning me off by the late 1990s, and I remember running across the first print magazine pushing that side of the company in San Francisco in the late 1990s / early 2000s, and deciding that the company had jumped the shark so far as I was concerned. I've always lead the crowd....

(I'm not bragging. I'm saying that if I predict something, give it another 20 years. Though I occasionally get closer the mark.)

At the time, there wasn't anything on the Open Web that was close.

There were entirely closed portals, most especially AOL, and other early online services (Prodigy, CompuServ, etc.). But the idea of one place you could go for all of that, no. Yahoo started the Portal Wars. (Best rejoinder ever: "My ass is a portal".

One version of that (from 1999, and, of course, /.), here:

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/99/03/04/1128220/redhats-ne...

So, at the time, Yahoo was huge. And the Internet was tremendously smaller than today -- about 100x fewer people online then than now -- call it 30 million rather than 3 billion users. Today, a social site with "only" 30 million MUA is considered a failure or minor player.
Same principle, though not a physical simulation: http://wry.me/hacking/moire-eel.html

By moving the mouse you can amuse yourself with various Moiré effects.
Don’t be like that.
My parents are completely in a Fox News bubble and so are lots of other people unfortunately. It changed their views completely. Prior to Fox News they were reasonable humans that saw things in a rounded way and that eroded upon repeated exposure to it. I wish they had never gotten cable.
Strangely enough, I’m budgeting $350 a month for my younger son’s “Uber allowance” to get from school to work or from school to home if he has to stay after and just times I don’t feel like being soccer dad.

We would be spending an extra $200 a month for car insurance if he had his license - even if he didn’t have his own car. I know my parents were spending at least $500 a month for my car and insurance and that was over 20 years ago.
What I enjoy about this one is that it's a beautiful scene... that immediately ignites when you press play :)
Honestly this should be required reading for anyone who's motto is "just source it from Alibaba."

There is a good reason most companies who choose to manufacture in China tend to co-locate a person within the manufacturer's facility.
I think he was saying that if you are not a noble universalist, then the media will portray you as only being in pursuit of your narrow interests, and conclude that you are probably a racist in disguise. In addition to that they try to claim a monopoly on the label of universalism and deny it from anybody else at will. Is that correct?

It took me some time to parse the sentence, I guess he would reach more people if he had used simple terms

The fun thing is that this argument that only the elite may be noble isn't exactly new - it goes back to Ps-Xenophon in the ‘Political regime of the Athenians’ back in 5th century BC. He claimed that the demos is corrupted by his debased position, and that only elites are good (given the chance to rule exclusively, which they hadn't in Athens)
> Some situations cant be avoided like if something falls off the car in front of you.

It can be avoided by allowing adequate breaking distance between the car in front. Most of the time having to make any decision between swerve and break can be avoided and someone that chooses swerve and kills someone should be charged with manslaughter.

Something non of the self driving cars seem to do is slow down for road conditions.
Add Hyder, Alaska, accessible by road only from Canada. It also gets its telephone service and utilities from the Canadian side.
> I can't wait to see what the same company that gave us VSCode is able to build on top of Blink, and eventually separate from Blink.

The situation here is very different from WebKit and Blink. Google was already the plurality contributor to WebKit at the time of the fork. By contrast, Microsoft has contributed virtually nothing to Blink, and they intend to be identical to upstream Chromium. Microsoft is not going to fork Blink.

Blink is completely controlled by Google. (98% of Blink patches are reviewed by a Google employee.) This means that Google has complete control over the direction of the Web platform. While Google may not be able to set the default search engine in Edge, it has and will exert more subtle influence on the Web as a platform in ways that benefit Google. (Just to name one example, Chromium has deployed whitelists of Google properties for NaCl support.)
This move by Microsoft may probably help Microsoft have Windows users using its browser, but I seriously doubt if it's good for the web.

There are people claiming that Microsoft could easily fork from Chromium, but honestly, do you see that happening in the next few years? Having read that Microsoft's Edge team was a very small one, I don't believe Microsoft will fork Chromium anytime in the next two or three years (no financial incentive, which could be a big motive, to do so)...and that's a long time to keep pushing the Chrome/Chromium way ("what Google wants for the web").

As an aside, I very much liked this article linked within, titled "The ecological impact of browser diversity" by Rachel Nabors. [1]

To all those who evangelize Firefox, please also see if you can donate money to Mozilla. It may seem like Mozilla has a lot of money (more than 90% coming from Google for being the default search engine added in the browser), but this is not enough, and could turn to be nothing if Firefox's market share becomes next to nothing and Google decides to pull the plug when the current contract expires. Partnerships with Bing (or other search engines that not many people use) may not bring in as much money to Mozilla.

Read about all the work that Mozilla does (aka "not just Firefox") in its "State of Mozilla 2017" annual report. [2] The audited financial report is here. [3]

[1]: https://css-tricks.com/the-ecological-impact-of-browser-dive...

[2]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2017/

[3]: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...
I wouldn’t say no raise, but my raises have only been over 3% twice in over 20 years and that was really early in my career.

Job hopping is the only way to get a meaningful raise.
Idioms are colloquial metaphors
If part of the deal was in stock, that stock has depreciated.

Stock is something a company can create. Cash is something it needs to acquire.

Stock swap, write-off, devalued stock. No net cash position change. Asset-liability shift may be worth the market-cap writedown.
Except that, despite all this drama, they delivered an excellent product (eventually).
Yeah, I've been following the laundromat saga. If he can't develop a property like that one, then nobody can in SF.
one more point to ICE vehicles, they only catch fire if you shoot the gas tank
WordPress Help: 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid
My wish is always to create a self-sustaining environment with clouds and rainfall but it never works...
I tend to agree somewhat, but think that this is mostly a strength. As a Kickstarter supporter, I tend to intentionally choose to support smaller and less experienced creators, because I believe in their vision. I want to join them in this journey to see whether they can, or maybe cannot, bring that vision to life. As long as the creators are doing what they can and being honest about their process, I get exactly what I paid for. If I just wanted a product, I would've gone to the store.
You are right. A monoculture IS a good thing for browsers engine.
That's a good point, but that being said, wouldn't it be based on what Protocol you felt the most strongly about?
Within the past year or three, Amazon have been Google's largest ads customer. So there's that.

Possibly incentive for Amazon to make itself its own best adverts option.
Many games don't have win states or shouldn't have win states. More people need to listen to what Sid Meier has said on this. That HN article was written by someone who did not know what they were talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtzCLd93SyU
That's the point of Kickstarter, isn't it? I've backed some pretty awesome products in the past and have, so far, avoided the failures.
Yup. Amazon Basics is just the start.
The statistical middle class could easily say the same about most tech people.

While we may look at billionaires as “them”, people with a household income of 60K a year (the median household income), can’t dream of why people who just sit and type on a keyboard deserve six figure salaries.
His alarm is valid, and his reaction is tempered.
This is both unnecessarily unkind, and inaccurate: keyboardio seems like a successful use of Kickstarter to me, even with these issues. They have produced and distributed product to their backers which delivers on their promises as far as I can tell.

And, of course, there's a sampling bias at work: even very experienced commercial users of Chinese ODMs have these stories. They just don't write them up publicly for everyone else to learn from.
So the only competitor to Google’s monopoly on web browsers is... funded almost entirely by Google? Yikes
My wife and I were able to help her father escape the Fox bubble. The film “Outfoxed” was useful in our case, FWIW.
There's no real reason for a customer to care about these trade offs. They want to get work done, nor worry about the business model behind one of their tools.
In modern society we already have a mechanism for preventing machines from doing immoral things: hold someone accountable for its actions. It can be the owner or the manufacturer, or some mix of both, just someone should be responsible. This sets up the incentives for either better management by the owner, or for the manufacturer to design the car to avoid illegal harm. Why have a parallel system of morals aside from the law when we can just apply the law?
Dust and any kind of fire results in a pretty impressive explosion.
> the irony of Microsoft saying this is nearly too much

Where is Microsoft saying that?

Problems with monoculture: lack of innovation, a single agenda being pushed forward, anti-competitive behavior. Google doesn’t want technology X? X is dead. Google thinks Ad platform Y is bad? Y is dead. etc
In a hypothetical future war between major powers they would likely knock out each others' large satellites. So the combatants would have to make do with nano satellites for low resolution overhead imagery and low bandwidth communications. Nano satellites are small enough to be somewhat survivable, and losses can be easily replaced.
I disagree. It's far easier to look over somebody's shoulder as they type in their password than it is to 3D print a copy of their head. I think most of the disdain for biometrics on phones is because Apple were the ones to popularise it, and tech people hate anything Apple does.
Thats how I usually approach stressful situations, so I should be fine.
Here is an article that points to a lot of US government data, and then gives their economic/political interpretation of the data -

https://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and...

You can concur with their analysis or not, but the relevant government data is properly referenced.
Please read this different take and explanation in this article linked within the main article, titled "The ecological impact of browser diversity", by Rachel Nabors. [1]

[1]: https://css-tricks.com/the-ecological-impact-of-browser-dive...
Chrome also shows an error. The reason nobody at Digg noticed is that Digg is not https by default, so only people using certain extensions would hit that error.
jazz is variable actuators/pendulums
Let me know if there's somewhere you'd like me to send or publicize it if I manage to get it cleaned up and decide to publish it.
Why don't you use apps that encrypt text and Skype or any other encrypted call apps instead?
amazing, I need to read that book, any other suggestions ?

also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696782
HQ Trivia and Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dead at 34
> HackerNews loads instantly, as do many other sites. HTML works fine.

They load quickly, not instantly. That's the fundamental mistake you have in understanding why people prefer AMP, Facebook instant articles, and Apple News.
the article is right in every point. it just forgets some key ones. how the minorities and especially the immigrants are part of this universalist narrative and used as a damocles sword on any one raising a critiscim of this market centric-universalism
Look up statistics, I guess?

I found [1] and (assuming it can be categorized under "Financial Profits") made it into a (terribly quick and dirty) graph [2].

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERP-2017/ERP-2017-table6

[2] https://i.imgur.com/tOlYKUa.png
TIL that Seth Vargo is now working at Google.

Dude, I sure hope they deserve having you on board. I am not at all convinced that they are capable of understanding just how much you bring to the table.

My opinion of them has definitely gone up a few notches.
Wings (1927)
Seems like you have yourself answered your question in your list line. One browser owned by one organization could hijack whole internet for its own interests. Just like in any other necessary item we need multiple supple options are good for creating healthy competition.