skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know for sure what the breakdown is.

Right now our overall system does little to discourage the obesity epidemic, but in a universal coverage system there would be massive financial incentive to fight it (either the government or insurance companies being forced to provide coverage for all)
Chrome is nothing more to me than a launchpad for (google) ads and a vehicle for surveillance.
>The owner of this website (www.lowtechmagazine.com) has banned your IP address (x.x.x.x).

Anyone else getting this? I'm just going to read it on archive.org but it seems weird. I'm coming from a Digital Ocean NYC IP
> The US is barely in the top among developed nations, and it's not much better than the next 10-15 countries: https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-trends/data-cancer....

First, you're posting data that isn't relevant: that's the rate of cancer incidence, not the survival rates. That says nothing about how well the cancer is treated.

Secondly, it's nonsensical to compare aggregated cancer statistics between countries, because the demographics vary drastically, many cancer risk factors are highly hereditary, and the survival rates for different types of cancers vary so dramatically.

If you look at the actual survival rates, once adjusted for racial composition and type of cancer, the US comes out far ahead. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18639491
IIRC, it was faster than Firefox 3 specifically, which caused many FF users to migrate. Something happened between FF2 and FF3, since the latter appeared noticeably slower.
You could write down your seed on paper instead of storing it or the private key electronically.
For me, it was the unified bookmarks across all ones machines with Chrome. No more fiddling with copying bookmarks or syncing - it was done automatically and it worked.

No other browser had it built in at the time.
It was more of an excuse to get him to play with Erlang some... I always thought he might find it fun to work with.
They also discuss an "eddy current retarder" design, which uses a magnetic mechanism that sounds vaguely like an electric generator but generates heat directly, as an alternative to the water break/impeller design. Sounds like maybe you get the best of both worlds, in terms of a smaller package but avoiding the motion -> electricity -> heat conversion losses due to the extra step.
It's often the case that this works fine. When you get into corner cases (i.e. if you try to stretch what animation APIs can do or you start to need to care deeply about the performance constraints of flex layout), you start to need to care about how the browsers actually work.

... but you can (and I'd argue in a lot of cases, looking around at the overly-complicated sites on the web, should) write a lot of fully functional web pages by keeping to the standard and trusting it's good enough. We are no longer in the bad old days where IE and other browsers deviated significantly---most of the browsers today adhere closely to the spec, and in the places they don't, it's often more like one browser handles a nasty corner case better than another because the browser built an optimization in for a critical path your page layout cares about.
This is such a fairytale retelling of history. Firefox was well on the way to crushing IE. It was the whole reason Microsoft re-kick started IE development again. Firefox was the dominant browser in 2008.

Safari was the browser pushing ahead on performance and being lightweight except in JavaScript. So Google took WebKit and added their own JS engine to it so that Gmail and their office suite could compete with Microsoft's offerings.

It worked and all browsers started an arms race for JS performance.
Considering all of his examples were top boogeymen of the alt right, I'd be surprised if there was any deeper reasoning behind it than parroting talking points.
One thing I found is that Firefox doesn't do gc/cc that often on it's own. I keep a tab open to "about:memory" and click on "gc / cc / reduce mem" ever so often and it keep the memory usage between 800MB and 1.2 GB with several tabs open (jira, slack, HN, misc other sites)
Chrome is the new IE all over again. Remember that it was IE that saved us from Netscape's slow performance and advancements of new web technologies.

Jump ahead 20 years, low an behold Google Earth - Chrome only!
Nuclear weapons take time and money to develop. I doubt much has changed in the last two years.
It depends on the dataset. Char-RNNs do pretty well compared to Markov chains when used to generate smaller texts. (which is why I've become less of a fan of the Shakespeare example the original Karpathy post used).
Probably because Apple take privacy seriously, which is a direct threat to Google's bottom line.
Buses yes, but the market has asserted that buses serve a pretty different use case vs. door to door car service.
Or you could block the trackers, which are most of the bloat.
I'm tempted to say JS is not the biggest problem between browsers, but CSS... the fact that valid CSS code behaves differently and that it cannot be fixed without changing most of it. Not even mentioning if you actually need to change your DOM structure to make a layout work.
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Did until recently- notice that you can now get regular Diet Coke (and I assume other sodas) in mini cans and the new Diet Coke flavors come in skinny/tall cans only.
He's stressed out about it because he continually over-promises. He needs to be concerned about the stock price because Tesla is going have to cover billion dollar debts in cash instead of stock.

He also just can't stand the hit to his ego to have so many people shorting his company.
Be careful as most ergonomic advice is not supported by quality research or facts.

I have back pain from a muscle injury. I use a small wireless keyboard in my lap. That way my arms rest naturally and my elbows are touching my sides, as if you sat naturally with your hands resting on your legs. This way I avoid using my back muscles which happens when you move your elbows or arms outward. The typical office position with arms outstretched and sometimes resting on chair arm supports actually strains back muscles.
> The fact that you're emphasizing ads over the very real performance advantages just means you've got an axe to grind.

Alternatively, it could mean that, like me, they had NoScript installed when Chrome came out[0], making Firefox genuinely faster by dint of brute do-less-stuff-ism.

0: or when we heard about it anyway.
No, think more "food for micro-organisms to do useful work" rather than "fuel for humans."
No country should be allowed to have mass-destructive weapons unless it has enough resources to compensate the damage that it can bring with it. More over the countries that possess mass-destructive weapons should pay insurance to its potential victims. I think it is the right way to disarm entire world.
How large is the project? I'd like to clone it to my drive account, but not if the data sets are too huge.
I use a 2017 Macbook Pro in work, on which I use Firefox as my main browser.

I also have Firefox on my Windows 10 gaming machine at home and while I haven't run any performance anaylsis, I can;t tell the difference between the two in terms of speed and responsiveness.

The Mac version has crashed on me a few times though whereas my Windows 10 version hasn't.

Other than the OS they are on the two browser instances are set up exactly the same way.
I feel like they should be able to pull off a nice looking pokemon game. Think Breath of the Wild but pokemon! This looks pretty close to that no?
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It's curious how western media portrays India as a rogue, failed state with crazy leaders who will start a nuclear war at drop of a hat.

India is 7th largest economy in the world by GDP and has more than one billion people. It's also a country with no first use policy. The country which never started a full scale war with any country even after many serious attacks on her soil (mumbai blasts of 93, parliament attack of 01, mumbai attack of 08).

All fearmongering articles like these show colonial/racist mindset of western media, even the liberal ones like NYT and WaPo.
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This same issue exists for autoimmune disease as well as many other diseases. My understanding is that the hospitals were going to post the costs for treatments and make the process more transparent. Has this happened?
it’s not a coincidence that the US is much wealthier and home to much more innovation than socialist European countries.

Clearly our system is bad, but there are multiple ways to skin a cat.
It looks nice.

I'm still waiting for an "open world" style Pokemon game. For example take the Zelda: Breath of the Wild game/engine as a starting point and make a Pokemon game.

There's nothing inherently wrong with an on-rails game, and Pokemon games are well known for it. But it feels like the type of theme where exploration being a cornerstone would be fantastic.

I was hopeful after Pokemon Go's success (a game pinned on exploration) and Breath of the Wild, that that would be a natural progression.
It performs okay (except for a few versions a while back when the helper processes would periodically lock up in kernel mode and it would take a reboot to fix), but 980MB of memory to have one tab open to Hacker News is definitely not lean.
I haven't personally encountered this phenomenon. Can you give an example of an established standard that breaks on Chrome but FF / Safari handle?
How does your link relate to your comment?
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Eh, I meant ~30%. 39% would be rather specific.
The actual HTTP requests this browser makes seem to be going through a proxy somewhere which I'm guessing renders the page on the server using this legacy look and returns it to be displayed. I thought it was using ajax to load pages directly from whatever URL I typed.

I'm surprised this had no support for the <ol> tag because numbered lists aren't rendering.

--

Edit: yeah I just noticed how all the links on every page have the domain part changed to worldwideweb.cern.ch.

But damn I can't help but remember Newton's "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Tim BL did not invent URIs, TCP/IP, domain names, or hypertext. He simply figured out a brilliant way to combine all these things together. Satoshi Nakamoto did not invent hashing, proof-of-work, signatures, or any of the other cryptographic protocols that make Bitcoin possible. Likewise, he simply put all these different ideas together in a brilliant way.
So, it's 1) automatic; 2) for an entire network.
No more ads getting burned on your toast in your network-enabled toaster, I guess.
https://aihabitat.org/

https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim

https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-api
He probably should, at least not to the level of deliberately antagonizing them. It's foolish behaviour. Would be different if he didn't engage in illegal behaviour.
I've had to use both on and off for years.

My patience with software is small but I had few issues with Firefox except on Google properties.

Not saying your experience didn't happen but it doesn't match mine.

I even used to be a Google fan and without being able to pinpoint a date I have memories of trying (and failing to) start using Chrome as my default browser at least once.

So I agree with GP and personally think the real story is more that Chrome:

- had massive marketing budgets and misleading campaigns

- won a number of benchmarks (but nothing to write home about on my Linux or Windows boxes)

- sometime between 2009 and now web developers forgot what we fought for when we fought against IE until 2009: that sites should work in all mainstream browsers. We didn't fight so much to kill IE as to let everybody else live.

- Suddenly sites started showing up that only worked in Chrome. Every new browser including modern versions of IE is more capable than anything we had back then and we also have polyfills and whatnot and so if someone cannot be bothered to do basic testing in more than one browser then I don't know what.

- I cannot say that Google was the worst but they certainly have had their "weird issues that doesn't affect Chrome". And I cannot say they did it on purpose and everyone is innocent until proven guilty but let me say that for a company that almost prints their own money their QA departement might have been slightly understaffed :-P
Think of the athletic department as a self contained division within the enterprise known as UT. That division has its own P&L, and consistently makes a profit. [0]

[0] https://www.hookem.com/story/texas-athletics-generates-recor...
If you have a green card (and most likely you'd need to renounce your other citizenships) you can work there. ITAR and other CUI (and even a lot of classified stuff) is only restricted for foreign nationals.
The notebook is about 400kB. It also downloads a 4MB dataset and julia, tensorflow and dependencies need about 400MB, but that gets stored in the ephemeral Colab VM, not on drive if you copy it there.
It's fine as a toy, but yea I'd prefer a powerhouse chip to make it worthwhile.
The web is a global open standard platform for the free exchange of information. I would call it one of the great achievements of computing and mankind. To hear someone say "Meh I'd trade that to save myself a bit of effort" is deeply, deeply disappointing.
Other than cash, how do you give money over $15k without being nailed by the gift tax? Keeping as much money in retirement savings seems wise as those are exempt from liens.
It depended on the restaurant. I got the feeling that some restaurants somehow had access to special flavorful ingredients, and some did not. I would not be surprised if this was simply the corrupt side of life in a communist-run institution.

We have a favorite Cuban place in the States (shout-out to Corazón de Cuba in Long Beach, Long Island) and the owner said that he is able to make much more flavorful food in the states than he was in Cuba proper
That's not really an apples-to-apples comparison though, is it? I mean yeah, a cluster that you never power up costs nothing, that's what I would have hoped.

https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/

Assume that you are actually _doing something_ with the cluster, then there will be charges for vCPU and memory. The pricing on this page indicates that if you only need your containers for 10 minutes a day, every day, then you will pay $1.23 for the month at 2GB/1vCPU. That's pretty modest usage at a pretty modest cost.

Sure, you can do it, but... you may need to re-architect your product to take advantage of transient workers. (Now I think we all should do that, but that's another conversation...)

Compared to DigitalOcean's $10/mo (single-worker, managed) cluster, which provides one full-time node with the same specs, that you can slice-and-dice to run as many tasks as you can fit in 2GB of memory and a single vCPU. Now it becomes clearer that Fargate is priced at a premium. If I'm doing the math right, you'll pay $177.12 for that same task space with your Fargate cluster.

If your hobby project needs to run for more than a couple of hours a month, you will usually pay a lot more with Fargate.
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That would certainly be interesting. I think they might have to modify the traditional 8 gym/Pokémon League system, though.
You just said Chrome was the superior browser for developers.

> the best long term effect

What do you mean by this?
> Each tab got its own process and could crash without taking down the entire browser

Chrome has never been process-per-tab - this is a common misconception. It's process per domain, except there are certain circumstances in which two tabs on different domains will still share the same process (such as opening a tab through a middle click).
Developers have never, in the history of the world, cared about standards. Nothing can be more blindingly obvious when strolling through history. You don't even have to look at the web. Look at SMTP, IMAP, you name it.

People don't write C++ and think about the standard, they write C++ and see if it compiles.

Should they operate this way?
Of course not.

Are you going to change human psychology and cause this to happen anytime soon?

Nope.

If you want them to change, you'd have to provide a reason it matters, and very abstract long term notions of "goodness" are not gonna cut it for most developers, for better or worse.
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Not condescending (if that's what you mean), it's more of an attitude of hopelessness. After all, it will be "normal" users that control where the market goes.
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I'd be thrilled to use another browser if they worked.

In my case, the feature that is missing from every other browser is MIDI access. I can plug a digital piano into my computer, and Chrome can talk to it. This is a standard, but the other browsers talk about it but never do anything, it's been "coming any day now" in Firefox since 2015, when I first conceived of the project ( https://pianop.ly/, a web app for playing piano along with original music videos from YouTube, karaoke style). It sucks that I have to tell people to use Chrome or it won't work. (although technically they can use Brave, Opera or other Blink based browsers)

Regardless of that one feature, I'm curious why there aren't better alternatives based on Blink that allow you to get the Blink engine without all these things we hate about Google's decisions (related to the being an ad company, for one thing). I understand that we'd still have a monoculture, but I don't see that as nearly the problem it was when browsers worked so differently, for basic layout and such.
Don't go to the ER for a sprained thumb.

Unless its an actual emergency, go to urgent care. I live in a pretty expensive area of California and they still only charge $95 per person they see. And our insurance covers it completely. And rightly so, they would much prefer a $95 bill to a $14,000 one.

With kids we go a couple times per year. They definitely have saved us a lot of money and time.
Here's the original announcement from Sundar Pichai - who was then the VP of Product Management, now CEO: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browse...
Your article says that Nathan Phillips, the activist agrees. There is even a video backing this claim.

What if the PR firm is saying the truth?
Even then, pair programming with a different person every day sounds awful.
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Yes, and a responsible publication would at least acknowledge their owners hand in the current mess.
It’s not one person in Canada.

the Court ruled that the Quebec Health Insurance Act and the Hospital Insurance Act prohibiting private medical insurance in the face of long wait times violated the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoulli_v_Quebec_(AG)
Can't you have both?

To me, the thing that makes playability and enjoyability worse on games like this is the grinding they make you go through before you can even do anything.
Pokemon set in Industrial Era England, eh? Better than it could have been. I just hope this one's mechanics lean closer to XD than, say, Moon.
What is the difference between the two?

I am primarily a back-end/services/middleware dev and don't do much front-end stuff these days.

When I do though, I use Firefox's dev tools and I don't know...I'm not sure what I'm missing?

I have Chrome on this machine too and have tried the dev tools there but I beyond layout I don't know what the differences are or what Firefox's dev tools are lacking.
See jorvi's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264960 there are some bugs that drive me back to chrome when I try it
I've used firefox and never bothered with chrome as a daily driver. The speed issue is entirely marketing driven. Nobody cares about a few tenths of a second of load times until the ads were shoving stats down our throats that chrome was so much faster

Firefox is and has always been perfectly adequate, except maybe for a few html5 canvas type apps.
I really don't think this is it, if I'm being completely frank, because they already have an enormous amount of up front work done with making Windows PWA friend:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa

I also am willing to surmise that they are going to put in alot of work re-working all their APIs that are exposed as Edge based interfaces into whatever engine they and up with here (namely chromium), so I don't think it would have been beyond them to put in the work to do something like they did with node and chakra core:

https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore

(which, btw, for now isn't dead: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/5865 likely for the reasoning I mentioned above)

I just don't buy it. I don't think easy electron compatibility is the main drive here.
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This is flawed thinking. But it's very popular flawed thinking, so you're certainly not alone. :)

If marketing has a return on investment (and it does) then marketing spend also increases money available for R&D.

Marketing and R&D are not pieces of a fixed pie. Marketing spend grows the entire pie and provides additional dollars for the company to spend on R&D.
The value of my time that it would require far exceeds the value of this activity. It's of net negative economic benefit to society.
Everything you wrote is correct. And yet it's vastly superior to what I had living in LA.

BTW, if you want to help improve bike infra please consider asking your employer to support https://dublin.cyclingworks.org/ - we're trying to pressure Shane Ross to take cycling seriously.
I would strongly argue that ring fencing is a very bad idea. We want to give opportunity for successful orgs to try new things and fail. This is why companies use some of their profits to try new things (such as Google Wave, but also such as Gmail). Wikimedia foundation, since it does not generate much revenue outside of donations, must necessarily use donations to try new things, even if they turn out to be failures/not needed.
My brain just can't accept that. It's seems too nuts. What does mass mean when you are talking about waves and fields? What does it mean to collide two waves together and look for smaller waves coming out? Everything is divisible? Or is there some kind of Planck wavelength?
This is so sad really. I have to keep Chrome around to run one extension, but Chrome's WebExtensions are now the 'standard' in the main browsers and many companies have been shunning support to the other browsers by not bothering to package outside the Chrome Store.
Why should BOTW be the objective? It was a pretty meh game. And dungeons were terrible.

Explaining myself to the user below: weapons breaking too often, combat is crap, very limited amount of types of enemies, etc.
> This is no accident: as Khan said, Pakistani leaders intentionally leave their nuclear threshold ambiguous.

It's interesting to me that this strategy persists. While outwardly cunning, the danger of an unarticulated threshold is total annihilation. A double edged strategy, to say the least.
Chrome's growth was due to speed initially, but at least a decent chunk of it later was due to trickery. I've had to uninstall Chrome from my Mom's computer multiple times. It's one of the most popular bundleware apps out there. Free antivirus, games, system 'utilities', Adobe Flash updates, etc all got paid to employ dark patterns to sneak Chrome onto PCs and have it automatically set as the default and pinned to your task bar.

Examples: https://imgur.com/gallery/WWZxj