skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll look into it, thanks. I was planning on Rust being my next language but I'll see what Nim offers. I take it your bias is because your the/a creator?
But, and maybe I'm mis-remembering, how many people were actually active netizens at this point in history, able to find the ISO? Thinking back to when the dreamcast was a big console - I don't feel like it was common enough to really make a dent in dreamcast owners?

Also, and again only from vague memory, wasn't the dreamcast itself underselling drastically. If it was game sales that broke the manufacturer then maybe - but I recall the console itself being a bit of a flop?
Apex Ping is a great example.
Getting into the information business
Well, they did improvements around keywords lately - whenever I type my keywords now they are highlighted in the URL field
Exactly, Interstellar is good. The setting is a backdrop, but it's not a bad backdrop at all. In fact, I like how sci-fi and colonization of the solar system is made to look normal, it might give future generations a feeling of "of course we are going there". While it being a good love story in its own right.
What, JPEG? I thought real designers prefer high quality content and use 20 megabyte PNGs. (been there, done that)
I mostly agree, but his latest two videos have been a bit of a return to form. He's always been at his best on historical/geographical topics rather than philosophical ones in my opinion.
Ye, I feel the NYT article is a bit off, specially when consulting other article about the same https://www.extremetech.com/computing/281338-amazon-launches...
Semi-related, there's a piece of hardware being made (some parts 3D printed even) called GDEmu that replaces the optical drive components with an SD card reader, allowing people to play (backups of legally owned games) on their original hardware without wearing out the drive mechanism.
wasn't the case on mac when i dled golang 2 months ago
I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power. They leveraged their position in search and webmail to push people to switch, and hammered the message in mainstream advertising (on buses and newspapers, even in Europe). If they had pushed FF instead of building their own browser, now FF would be in that position - regardless of technical merits (which were minor, and basically boiled down to a single one: process-per-tab, which meant the browser never crashed if a single website misbehaved).

FF was not without responsibilities (they got bogged down in backend work on gecko that never really delivered, then got distracted by side bets like FFOS and friends), but without Google's other properties and market share, this would never have happened.
I've always been keen to understand more about electronics, but never know where to start - I flicked through a PDF of the Mims Notebook and it looks like a great reference, but without enough explanation for me.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a more "from zero knowledge" place to start learning?
After enabling webrender, Firefox is the smoothest scrolling and most responsive browser on android that I have used
Looking at your Win7+nVidia bug, I'm kind of confused why you would expect Firefox to fix this when this seems to be a bug in the nVidia graphics driver.
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How many people the newsletter will go to?

Mailchimp should work. It is free up to 2000 subscribers.
Zoom has to be using h264 under the covers. Did they recompile the OpenH264 into WASM?

like:
https://github.com/kazuki/mediacodec.wasm

It could also be that they are using websockets to deliver MPEG-DASH/HLS segments for low latency.
I will think of this every time I see a getter/setter pair on a class. The illusion of modularity and encapsulation with net negative in code quality.
Being hard makes you brittle and likely to crack under stress.

Being tough means being able to bend and stretch without breaking.
GDRP is a reflection of a mass surveiled and dystopian ad ruled society. GDRP makes it HARDER for consumers once the’ve consented. All that will happen is that this will be gamed instead.
That's recently (and silently as far as I can tell) changed for me, I now get a fairly good google search on Firefox on Android.

However you're right in general Google are using the position to enforce Chrome
Kubrick was also a fairly skilled photographer and contributor to "Look" - a widely popular pictorial magazine that had a peak circulation of over 7 million copies. The Museum of the City of New York is hosting an exhibit of his photographic work entitled "Through a Different Lens". Unfortunately the exhibit ends January 6, 2019. There's also an accompanying book for sale.

https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/through-different-lens

https://shop.mcny.org/products/through-a-different-lens-stan...
Feels like a this would be appropriate analogy that they might be able to understand how rediculous it is:

* Police may or may not put cameras everywhere

* Police MUST catch criminals as soon as they break the law, otherwise the police would be as accountable as the criminal.

* Policy CANNOT ever talk to, interact with or accuse non-law breaking citizens
This. The pain of developing apps for the web could be tolerated as long as there was a vision for browsers becoming a kind of universal runtime. But that has failed miserably.

Think about what Chrome's dominance means: Chrome can push users and developers around as it wants. There is no long-term viability, and anything is at stake. Chrome already has QUIC support, will soon gain Grid Layout Level 2 support, etc. At the end of this decade, we'll be left with a generation of developers lost in the cloud.

For too long, the situation on the web has been that the inmates run the asylum, including so-called standard bodies financially dependent on Google. As they say, the road to a dystopian future is littered with good intentions.
Nice lead toys to play with..
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Whenever I find myself falling for this, I keenly remember the advice given to me from Your Money or Your Life, which is that you are at work for 1 reason and 1 reason only: money.

Many people say they work for other reasons, like socialization, meaning, etc. Robinson (the author) makes a point that you can find these things in volunteer activities, and that your loyalty ends at the paycheck. Your company will not hesitant to eliminate you when it's financially viable. Why should you be any different?
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Feedback on MVP please
> But, and maybe I'm mis-remembering, how many people were actually active netizens at this point in history, able to find the ISO?

Does it matter? You only need a few people to download and burn the CDs, and sell them in stalls or out of a backpack. From what I remember from that era, physical distribution of warez through burned CDs was very common.
At this point in history, at least in the U.K., you could go round the back of your local car boot sale on a Saturday to find someone selling unauthorised copies of console games.
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Reader mode is awesome.

I haven't used chrome for years, so actually don't know. Maybe I'd prefer it but I make a policy of not using google software and services (where the choice still exists).
I think an additional factor that discriminates 2001 compared with other films was that it was made at the height of the space race when there was a lot of technological optimism about the possibilities. When the film was released, Apollo 8 hadn't yet orbited the moon.

Also, the screenwriter (Arthur C. Clarke) was a confirmed space cadet (in the nicest sense of the phrase) and didn't see a need to throw in dystopian civilisations and evil corporations (standard fare in contemporary Hollywood SF) when there was so much scope in 'just' exploring the possibilities of the universe.
LineUp is an JavaScript tool to visualize data akin to Tableau but opensource
This is oversimplification.

Binary compatibility, of millions of third party libraries out there, is the biggest hurdle.

How many years did it take to switch from Python 2.7 to Python 3 ?

AWS lockin is a bigger threat.

I prefer to keep my binaries cloud agnostic and X86 and X64 compatible rather than AWS only code or even ARM binary.

By the way what happened to Amazon phones ?
My understanding is that DOM manipulation and queries will always be far far slower than the logical equivalent in JavaScript. Does "thousands of times faster" challenge that?

Ie. React's virtual DOM is a phenomenal idea because it greatly reduces actual DOM interaction. Is it not really saving us much in Firefox?
Regularly I see people here make rather shocking statements about how 100k salary isn't a lot, how they need multiple millions to retire, (in threads like this one yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643427 people were suggesting that a million dollars isn't enough to live the rest of your life on for example, while 1 million dollars is higher than MANY people's FIRE number).

I think this article will be a bit sobering, if not unbelievable, to a decent percentage of the HN community.

Chiefly I wany to stress this bit:

>According to the Federal Reserve, the average net worth for families in the U.S. under the age of 35 was $76,200 in 2016. That same year, the median net worth was $11,100, so keep in mind that the average is skewed by a small percentage of affluent Americans.
> What I've seen coming out of Mozilla over tthe past few years, from DeepSpeech to Rust and Servo appears to be foundational technology written by Mozilla engineers. This tech has the potential to do a lot of good, having it be a public resource is important IMO.

Many things been coming out of their house, but not a usable browser — a raison d'etre stated in their charter.
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I'd like to see a source on this info. But it's definitely wrong.

4 years in college isn't enough to triple your vocabulary. And the average fluent speaker uses far more than 10000 words. In my second language, I'm slightly over 10,000 words (I keep track of everything I encounter in Anki) and I'm still nowhere near as fluent as a typical high schooler. I encounter several new words daily.
The problem is inception crossed the line into fantasy. Antigravity paint or whatever mcguffin you want to name is explicitly changing some rule. Inception went the magic wand route.

That’s not uncommon. The Matrix for example was straddling that line, but eventually crossed it.
Guess what? We get crashes in Google's Kubernetes Engine (GKE), with dropped network packets, network data corruption and whatnots; and they are hard hell to debug.

Now somebody is putting another layer on top... what can possibly go wrong ...
I disagree; the whole point of late capitalism has been to make labour more fungible than it was, to the point where it's actually very easy now. Labour-power, at least in the Marxian sense, is a commodity, but labour is not.
> But, and maybe I'm mis-remembering, how many people were actually active netizens at this point in history, able to find the ISO? Thinking back to when the dreamcast was a big console - I don't feel like it was common enough to really make a dent in dreamcast owners?

As I remember from my high school days, there were lots of people who were downloading ISOs (i.e. in their work or university, where they had access to fat 1Mb/s pipes), burning them and selling at a significant profit. Of course it was illegal, but still they managed to sell them through their friends or from improvised stalls on the weekend computer market, etc.
A good next step up from Mims would probably be the ARRL Handbook. After that, or possibly concurrently with it, Horowitz and Hill's Art of Electronics 3rd ed. would be worth looking into.

I've heard good things about Practical Electronics for Inventors as well but haven't actually seen a copy.
It means that it's time to break down those companies with antitrust laws. Apple, Google and Amazon should be broken to many separate companies.
Indeed, there are more contractors than US personnel in Afghanistan and formerly Iraq.

These are not only used in logistic and services but also as combatant troops.

And this not always has been the case, during the first Golf War, the percentage of contractor was much lower at 10 to 20%.

This is a recent evolution (around the 2000s).

It also raises a number of questions like:

* legal loopholes when atrocities are committed (one example is the Blackwater case in 2007)

* the very damaging conflict of interests that arise from privatizing war (conflict of interests in a public contract for let say a bridge can cost money to the collectivity, a conflict of interest in for waging war can destabilize a region, kill a lot of people and damage a country reputation for decades).

* This can be also be liked to the fact that contractors have an incentive to have their contract extended ie not ending a war quickly but pouring gas on the fire.

In my opinion, privatizing wars is really dangerous. War is a kind of violence that only a state should be able wage and preferably with a lot of checks from outside (UN) and within (governments, public opinion, votes and laws).
I run something similar in chrome but make use of profile switching heavily to segment what I’m doing with session isolation. I can have my work logins separately from my personal or test logins- has Firefox improved profile switching, it used to require custom start up arguments?
But we'd get a larger chassis just by doubling the height, right ?
Pro tip: If you really want to hear opinions different from yours, do not sound like you are ready to dismiss them anyway.
Ha, just had a sudden need to listen to that album again - it's been far too long.

Earth people...
If they get rid of bookmark keywords, without some other equivalent mechanism (i.e. one that lets me set up URL bar commands so that "wp X" -> roughly "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X", "g" -> "mail.google.com/u/0/h", and so on), then I will be really annoyed.
They could have the best browser on the planet and they would still be a bit player. Google owns mobile and webmail like MS owned the desktop, and most people will use what the platform owner tells them to use. As long as the ruler doesn't fall asleep at the wheel, like MS did with IE, everyone else will be a bit player.

I think market share is the wrong metric to fixate on. FF market share has never been particularly big, that shouldn't be the target and it never really was. The target used to be improving the web and being the most innovative and reliable engine for web standards. This is what Mozilla was good at, before they started thinking like your run-of-the-mill big company ("we need to find the Next Big Thing! Market share! Leverage! Competitive advantage!"...) and wasted years in pointless side-bets.
And controlled by gamma-light?
In my case I got fed up of replacing drive mechanisms after about the third one so I invested in one of these. It has the side benefits of much faster loading times and a much quieter console all round, too.

I won't deny that there is also a piracy aspect to it - I have a fairly large collection of boxed original Dreamcast games but there are a few on my GDEmu that couldn't be classed as "backups". The unreleased Half-Life beta is well worth checking out, for example.
I think it's really sad that we have to use sub-par compression because we can't trust TLS to keep our data secure when we use good compression, since TLS leaks the compressed size to attackers, and when compressed, the size can depend on the content.

I don't have a solution to that issue, but it seems really fundamental, and something we should all be on the lookout for ways to solve.
Would honestly love to read any sources you have on the SNR.
There are two points to note.

The first is piracy probably didn’t lead to the failure of the Dreamcast. They didn’t sell many of the consoles... if it was a piracy issue then you’d expect they’d sell many consoles, but few games (the line up of games was really good).

The article mentions Ikaruga a lot. It worth noting that Ikaruga for the Dreamcast was released a year after the Dreamcast was cancelled. They probably weren’t hugely concerned about piracy at this point.

From memory it was an easy port for them, because the arcade board that Ikaruga ran on is also the same as the Dreamcast.
Just keep looking for a real job. You and your “founders” are both clearly in over your heads...
It seems that issue was related to automated algorithm. For long term solution and this never happens again, Zoho decided to be registrar themselves.

More information can be found out at:

https://www.zoho.com/service-updates/blog/update-on-zoho-ser...
I remember a friend of mine giving me a big binder full of burned Dreamcast games after his console died and he moved on to a PS2. He certainly wasn't the technical type, I think his Dad "bought them from a bloke down the pub", so to speak.
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Good question! Looking at https://netmarketshare.com/methodology (the source of the 9% figure), you seem to be mostly right
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You are beating a strawman with great dedication, congrats.
Razor Blades aren't short in supply
You could also rent a game from Blockbuster, and clone it. I know folks who did this. I don’t really know if more was involved as it was a bit before my time.
last years results https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16074793
>Dozens of small companies (ranging from a couple of people to a couple dozen) rely on me to decide and direct their tech stacks; I always suggest something other than Amazon even where Amazon is suggested first by them; the vast majority defer to my judgement.

so what do you recommend instead of Amazon?
I’ve had good luck using https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back to backup gmail.
Not only Amazon's but Apple's, Jiāngnán's as well. I think Intel really should crank up innovation if they would like to stay competitive.
Yes, I misinterpreted the problem slightly. Rather than always being a problem, it is only a problem if there is uncertainty to which lat/long degree the location resides in.

It appears to search for smaller and smaller features until it finds something that does not span multiple areas, while still being within the same area as the final location. For example, for a random address on Hawaii, the plus-code becomes "74FF+W7 Ocean View, Hawaii, USA", as Island of Hawai'i spands multiple lattitude degrees.

However, this results in increasingly complex reference points, and I am not sure whether this can be done in a generic fashion. Of course, it may simply bail out to full codes at that point.
Imagine if Firefox used webkit/chromium underneath.

Would that allow Mozilla to make Firefox more awesome by freeing up dev time that was taken by servo and gecko, and now can be used to make great UI and extensions and features?
Linus Torvalds has in multiple talks said that he does not hate gplv3. He thinks limiting DRM (tivo case) in the license is something he do not want for the kernel, and he strongly disliked the method where GPLv2 automatically upgrades to GPLv3 with the "or any newer version", since his view is that GPLv3 and GPLv2 is two very different licenses because of the DRM clause. During the debconf talk, he said that describing gplv3 as being similar to gplv2 was immoral.

Here is a direct quote "I actually think version 3 is a fine license" - Linus Torvalds

FSF view DRM as just being a physical version of a legal restriction, and they often quote laws that makes it illegal to bypass DRM as proof that DRM is also a legal restriction. Thus in GPLv3 they treat them as identical and they don't see it as a change in how the GPL license work. Linus strongly disagree on this.

This is very different from the Apple case and I doubt anyone can find similar quotes from them.
Doesn't surprise me. The EU should fine Google for a lot of things, including that.

There's always duckduckgo, though.
The 4 MB JPEG would be downloaded, though, while the headers would be uploaded. Consumer internet has terrible upload speeds in general.
I was wondering if I had deja vue over the probe leaving the solar system.
It’s all purely done manually. There’s almost no overlap between things that could go in my general personal and general work windows (exceptions: HN threads where FastMail comes up and I respond, or the very occasional article from HN or RSS feeds that is directly tied to something I’m doing for work). I store them on different virtual desktops, too, so when Firefox starts I just move the windows to the appropriate desktops, and then keeping it all separate is straightforward.

I do also use container tabs a little with some automatic assignment (automatic assignment to container, that is, not to window, useful as that would be), but I don’t think I actually need them any more; I think that FastMail is now the only thing where I need actively different sessions for personal and work, and it supports multiple logins just fine.

Then sometimes there’s a particular project that I want to focus on, and so I create a new window just for it, and shift it and any other related stuff into another new virtual desktop.

P.S. I just closed 50 tabs because I had finished something and deferred another thing.
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Someone you would refer to as boring and creepy
A much less expensive and much more normal solution would simply be to put a single CRC digit at the end.

Systems such as what you describe are too complex and non-standard.
"regime change by cutting off their benefits and forcing unrest seems to be the only way"

You do realize the number of countries US has destabilized over the years is not an insignificant one?

And that the results have seldom been satisfactory to anyone but the particular companies that benefitted from the escapade?

What you are saying amounts to that the right of american companies to make a profit is more important than the political sovereignty, happiness and wellness of peoples living in countries which threat these profits.
> He frames the struggle in the Silicon Valley patois of contrarianism. “I’d rather do the right hard things now that I’m in,” he says, “than the wrong easy things.”

Based on his fallacious belief that he knows what is the right thing in a societal domain outside of his subject matter expertise.

Silicon Valley hubris in a nutshell.
I'm one of the core developers
In the UK at least it was more than likely due to Sony's far superior marketing of the original PlayStation. The arrival of the PS2 and the Xbox sealed the deal.

That said, I've always seen the original Xbox as the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast.
Actually the system in Paris barely works anymore.
Konqueror was "suicided" by KDE themselves, right about the time Apple picked it up to make WebKit.

The truth is that working on browser engines is hard and unfashionable work, nobody in opensource really wants to do it. Every desktop environment made its crappy half-baked reimplementation when it looked like deep desktop integration was inevitable and Netscape was a black-box (the IE 4/5 era), then dropped it when Firefox came about - it was good enough, and the integration fashion had passed.

I do agree that KDE was (still is) ridiculously ignored in the US. The licence schism generated a certain tribalism that is now difficult to overcome. Which is funny, considering GPL is now The Devil in the US.
Seems like that's what it is. Only heard about it recently through another offhand reference in another HN comment.

https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics
These days, Firefox has containers, whereby you can have isolation while inside the same profile (so same history, bookmarks, extensions, &c.). Full profile switching is as functional and clumsy as ever (because there’s really no good way of improving it).