skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> JQuery is a great example of how you can create a library with some core functionality and know with 100% certainty that if you use it correctly it will work across all browsers that it was intended to support.

Maybe 5 years ago. You cannot use modern JS and CSS in IE11, you need to use transpilers, polyfills and pray to god that all your dependencies are compatible. Testing and debugging is IE is slow and painful.
TPMS is a US requirement. I drive a Canadian car that detects if the tire speeds have gone out of sync and reports if there’s an anomaly.

Doesn’t always work for gradual pressure loss, and doesn’t tell me which tire, but that’s what the gauge is for.
There’s no need to confront anybody. Just notify security immediately if you see someone go through a security gate without swiping their access card, or if they tailgate you.
You totally missed his point. Which was:

For as long as you, I and everyone else continues to use Chrome, we effectively support Google's ability to monopolise the browser space.

Google's continuing monopolisation of the browser space will (and is?) leading to a dearth of alternatives.

So, by waiting for the time when Google finally puts that final straw on the haystack which makes this whole thing too onerous to bear - and then you say "right, now I've finally had enough - I'm switching ...."

... you may find that there's nothing left to switch to.
> He's done very well for himself, and that's praiseworthy

Eh. Doing well for others is praiseworthy. Doing well for yourself is it's own reward, and neither deserves nor needs praise.
Wow you're insanely petty.

My TPMS is failed, so I keep a pressure gauge in the car and check once a week because I can't afford to fix it.

Same with my girlfriend's car, but it's even dumber. The sensor in her spare has failed.

Even the check engine light... are they supposed to stop making income until they can fix their O2 sensor? Surely that isn't a safety issue.

Stop being an antisocial asshole. Not everyone has infinite choice in what they can do for work.
If the rocket is powered by a reactor, at some point a test of the propulsion system requires a reactor.
How does one read a algorithm or data structure book like an novel?
most books require busting out keyboard or pen and paper and solving one thing or another.

Just genuinely curious because I love reading technical books but I can never finish them from page to page.
Well the advantage of this approach is you get vector graphics, which you don't with a standard mesh based approach to 3d. That's why I was mentioning the signed distance field thing -- you can get the same style without z-fighting, plus you can do some interesting shape blending and stuff which allows for some interesting possibility.
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Yes, if you don't want z-fighting. If you don't care then this is perfectly fine. But since both approaches can be expressed in a very similar way (primitives that can easily be mathematically modeled), and rendered in the same style, I figured it's an interesting way of achieving the same thing if you want the same style and scalability while allowing for intersecting objects. The trade-off is that ray marching is more expensive.
Yes. Clearly, there was some failure in systems engineering. And one must look at this very carefully and find out what went wrong such that many good diligent highly qualified people screwed up so royally.

But unreflective ill-informed hostile accusations sometimes seen here (“lies”, “care only about profits”, etc.) is certainly neither appropriate nor helpful in avoiding a repeat of the problem.
guys. as a long time old school dev. I have heard about components all my life from ASP MVC to JSF in java. what is really the difference with angular? A better embedding of RX-JS and AJAX is that it all?
The other downside is that if you have a laptop and take it outside your home network, the ads will reappear.
This is a big opportunity for MS to keep this functionality as a side-patch that's maintained and applied to every new version of Chromium they use.
Just gate the clocks.
Thanks for all the interest!
The big missing part is facilities to enable sustained life on other planets such as Mars. We still pretty much have no clue how to engineer it right, and it does not seem that Musk or any of its ventures is working on it.
> How many businesses in competitive areas have fax as a preferred method of communication today?

Oh just large legal and healthcare companies[1].

[1] https://www.popsci.com/why-fax-machines-still-exist
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Awesome. Mozilla should be happy. Let Chrome die.
There’s a lot of bias in this article title. I’m kind of disappointed in them for it. “Complex ad blockers” would have been just as informative but without the blocker-favoring tilt.

Bonus irony for realizing that a properly configured blocker as they’re favoring with this title would reduce their site’s revenue, being both JavaScript and ad-heavy.
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Actually no! In fact, responses like this make me afraid to post at all.

Because, either I make honest disclosures that I work for Google, when talking about Google software or other things, or I try to be pseudonymous and not disclose. If I do the latter, well, that could have a lot of repercussions, it would be a violation of the social media policy as well, so it's not really worth considering, plus it even just feels dishonest.

But if I do the former, I'm stuck with people reading it like I'm some corporate marketing drone, despite the fact that before I joined Google, I was already prominently on internet communities like Hacker News. I'm trying to follow both internet etiquette and company policy by disclosing that I work for Google, but invariably whenever I speak on something there's this weird conspiracy that I simply must be on the corporate payroll astroturfing; despite that I'm, practically speaking, just a rank and file software engineer.

Also, I am not trying to mislead people. Average consumers are obviously not going to use the enterprise policy features. They should, however, be available on any Chrome installation, if the article is referring to what I think it is. The article claims it is a 'paid' feature, and I don't think there is a such thing.

I don't even understand this accusation. I straight up have been personally using and recommending Firefox since Quantum came out.

As for the frequency of discussing Google stuff... I mean come on. The frontpage of Hacker News is sometimes covered in discussions about Google stuff. I can't escape it even if I want to. It is actually a big downside of working for a large employer; it becomes fairly difficult to disconnect from work when on vacation (as I currently am, actually.)
> Zdog is a vector drawing library, it's resolution independent. When you render to SVG, you can later rasterize that SVG at any resolution. This lets you do things like print at large sizes or high DPI.

Signed distance fields and ray marching are completely resolution independent... The only limit is your canvas size. You can emulate the exact same effects, plus some additional ones since you can blend the shapes.

They aren't incompatible, but the trade-off is in efficiency. Ray marching is more expensive usually, but also more expressive and extensible. If you look at https://www.shadertoy.com/ , a large set of those effects use signed distance fields exactly because by using mathematical functions you can have vector-like infinite precision.

I guess you're right in that you can't, say, put it in a document and print it. But considering that the advantage of this is that it's 3D, if you wanted this for print you'd probably just draw something in inkscape or illustrator anyway.
> If a medical supply company replaced medical article photos with much better versions but which showed their logos in a few pixels on some equipment, would this be unacceptable for you?

I think the key difference is that the hypothetical medical supply company produces the products that the article you're talking about is written about. I'm fine with seeing Coca-Cola logos on the Wikipedia article about Coca-Cola.

The North Face, however, does not own the national parks and scenic locales from the articles they defaced. They were not adding professionally shot photos to articles about North Face products.
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Only for values of "travel" that consist entirely of beginning in a particular location, and then staying there.
I use Firefox Nightly and I haven't seen an 'install Chrome' banner on YouTube.

The use of Shadow DOM v0 is a pretty good push, though. Chrome is way faster to load a YouTube page than FF. I hope they update their version of Polymer soon.
How about real time cross border remittance and settlement? Current fiat approaches require large illiquid reserves, are slow, and not very scalable.

It’s also useful for transmitting money long distances when banks won’t do business and you want to avoid a paper trail (drugs). Fiat is perfectly fine for in person transactions, but not when distance is involved. You may or may not morally agree with it, but this is a proven use case.
Microsoft displays ads within their OS. They would join arms with Google if they honestly decided to tackle adblocking.
It does for Edge
and they will. You have to make sure the bait is taken before you do the switch or they all get a away.
A trivial way to check for Firefox in javascript:

!!{}.toSource

There are many others, of course.
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> 2. Enthusiastic reporting of false positives

I used to work in a casino that sent out a notice to all employees urging them to report more suspicious activity. There was no information or training given on what specifically to look for.

After some time the initiative was deemed a great success. Although there had been zero improvement in the rate of dangerous activity stopped or prevented, there had been a giant increase in the amount of reports that turned out to be false.
I agree. you need to think about where to put your component, when to design components containing components and when to design a global component embedding everything in one, when to create new services, what should be the service range, will ever components need that service or no, ect, and they are all hard choices to get back from once you have a big codebase
Google Chrome (desktop) does not contain ads/"suggested content" on the New Tab page. For that reason alone I'll continue using Chromium on desktop until they actually pull the trigger and remove/neuter uBO.
I often wonder where we would be if the Earth was the size of Jupiter. Or if life started on the Moon instead of Earth.
What's the back end? As in where does the music come from? Where are the files located? Who's paying royalties? Who's paying for bandwidth? What are the rights on the songs? How does new music come into it?

TANSTAAFL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as...
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I think it's more about self-unfulfilling prophecies. I mean, a happy ending for Ebeneezer Scrooge doesn't necessarily mean that the Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come was a liar.
Because there is no status quo? (And solutions that aren’t better than status quo should be automatically thrown in the trash?). Now if your question is why are markets useful, then that is obvious is it not?

Secondly, I find this viewpoint highly regressive, the asking of why is X useful question. We can go to the moon but why is it useful? These type of questions are ultimately backwards and short sighted. Why do we spend X to research Y and why is Y useful is not clear until $many_years. It may not be obvious to you if it is useful or not but it is not up to you to decide (the invisible hand of the market decides).

From your other comments, it is clear that you have already decided that “all cryptocurrency are scams” so I don’t think you are arguing this point in good faith.
How is talking about installing Firefox and never looking back issuing "statements in support of Google's interests"?
Counterpoints:

https://www.cs.vu.nl/%7East/reliable-os/

Especially QNX [1]. Green Hill's INTEGRITY, Sysgo's PikeOS, and Lynx's LynxOS-178B are other examples in safety-critical fields like aerospace. I think DDC-I's DEOS, which is in a bunch of aircraft systems, looked like a microkernel in its architectural diagrams. One of their main advantages, other than size, is that they let you evaluate systems piece by piece looking at components in isolation and then their specific, permitted interactions. Traditional monoliths might have control flow and state changes jumping all over the place.

[1] Look up demos of the Blackberry Playbook vs iPad to see how usable, fast, and stutter free QNX-based system was.
The article here is largely a statement of a tautology because it defines success as financial success.

If you're born with enough wealth, you have an income higher than those stated in the article from investments only; you've "succeeded" by their metric from birth.

At 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than that, you can afford to hold out for what is effectively an infinite period compared to a poor person and so never work a $20K job because it is actually beneath you - you don't need it - it would be a net negative over you continuing to study, network, search for other work, etc.

Of course a person with money is more likely to go to college - they're more likely to do pretty much anything they want to do, because they have money!
I mean, those annoying “join our newsletter”, “quit using adblockers”, and “allow us access to cookies and all your data or else” popovers went from nonexistent to everywhere in the span of 2 weeks.

Once one major site does it, they all will.
Definitely regional. When I was in NYC I always got lower ratings when going from Manhattan to Queens, even while tipping well with cash. Bay Area? Went up to an almost perfect score (even going from San Francisco to Oakland frequently), people acted surprised when I tipped cash, etc.
You don’t have to put yourself at any risk, but if you work in a secure facility, you are usually explicitly required by contract to “play policy police”. That is, report any security violation like someone jumping the turnstile, or not having a badge.
He is featured in this NOVA documentary. Geometry is cool.

https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-origami-revolution-episode/
Waterfox is good if you miss the old add-ons from pre-quantum Firefox. But it is the old model, and one lagging page will still hose the whole browser.

I tolerate it because I need my Downloadthemall extension, amongst others.
I believe he acquired it through ex culo research, so him providing his source would be rather inadvisable on an SFW website.
I'm not sure, but I guess a relatively developed country without a big nosy state would do (or one that doesn't care about the Internet/speech censorship/spying on people). Other obvious places where you don't want to have your servers: Australia, USA, UK, Russia(duh), Turkey.

Case study: Vincent Canfield, of the half-joke email provider cock.li, moved his servers to Romania after them getting seized by German prosecutors.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/cock-li-server-s...
Yeah, although personally I don't want to embrace z-fighting :-) Different subjective opinion though.
Going to the New World was also silly for Europeans at the time. Everything was going to be more dangerous, more risky and life threatening. But pushing ourselves to go beyond risk is what makes humans progress in the long run. Going to another planet is a huge, difficult step forward. By all means everyone who goes there will be worse off, but think beyond their existence, 300 years in the future. It may become a pretty nice colony once we figure things out.
Bookmarked for when I master basic data structures.
> How about real time cross border remittance and settlement? Current fiat approaches require large illiquid reserves, are slow, and not very scalable.

It's bad for that, we've been through this. To send money you have to pay ~1% to an exchange in your home country, wait a few days for it to clear exposing yourself to huge forex risk, pay a $1 transaction fee give or take, then pay ~1% to an exchange in your destination country netting you 3-5 days latency, 2% fee plus $1 plus 10 minutes and incalculable forex risk. And the risk your exchange will literally just steal your money a la Quadriga. Or getting it confiscated en route like the $825M taken from Bitfinex by various government entities for laundering money.

There are a lot of solutions to this problem ranging from a credit card to buy things, TransferWise (0.85% fee give or take) to Interactive Brokers ($20 per million fee, or 0.002%) to Norbert's Gambit (free) to a wire transfer if you have to settle instantly. Or even just opening an HSBC account in both countries and moving the money instantly online via web banking.

Then there's Square Cash and Venmo for free domestic transfers, the free/instant domestic RTP network in the US, the free/instant SEPA network in Europe and the often free/instant Interac e-Transfer network in Canada.

> ...and not very scalable.

According to the Bank for International Settlements triennial report of 2016, the foreign exchange market cap averaged $5.1 trillion per day.

That's $1,861.5 trillion dollars per year. Forgive me for thinking that means the scaling issue is pretty much solved. It's probably the single most liquid market in the history of the world.

> It’s also useful for transmitting money long distances when banks won’t do business and you want to avoid a paper trail (drugs).

I did say a legal use case. One that neither violates laws nor sanctions. Worse, Bitcoin leaves you with a paper trail. You'd have to use Zcash or Monero.

> Fiat is perfectly fine for in person transactions, but not when distance is involved. You may or may not morally agree with it, but this is a proven use case.

It is, though, because you can use your Visa card to send money instantly to anywhere in the world that isn't sanctioned.
DNS / domain based blockers are entirely too coarse in my experience. There are plenty of cases where an ad or a tracking script comes from the exact same domain as real content. A real ad blocking extension can match only parts of the URL, or block certain file types, etc. Ad blocking extensions can also do CSS to clean up the page after blocking the ad, or "display: none" ads that for some reason can't be blocked any other way.
Yeah, you could do it in a shader, but in SVG not so much
You can't embed Gecko? Patently false.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/Embed...
Why settle for some petty ad revenue when Google is handing you the opportunity to regain some browser marketshare in a silver plate ?

It's not like MS is dependent on ads as much as Google.
Indeed, part of this story is that the MCAS system was not classified as "critial" (i.e., a system which can cause a crash if it fails). If it had been, then it would have faced additional scrutiny and they'd probably needed three AoA sensors and majority voting. Apparently the authority of the MCAS system was increased during development, with the criticality judgement based on the old smaller value.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-saw-737-max-flight-control-...
This assumes that the virtual realities are constructed in a proprietary model with consumers and producers. Actually, everybody would have to be both, otherwise the system would grind to a halt with consumers unable to raise funds to purchase products.

But information doesn't need to be rationed in that way: what happens if people join an open source virtual reality instead, where consumption is unlimited and production is voluntary? Nothing in this world would be part of the economy as economists measure it.
Well then 95% of the drivers in some cities are terrible and deserve it.

I highly doubt that 95% claim though.
If he explicitly says "No donations sought", wouldn't it be kind of rude to throw money at him?
A lot of aircraft systems key off of "weight on wheels" and other flags so they can ignore certain edge cases.
I switched to the Brave Browser a few months back (learned about it via Coinbase Earn). Its a great alternative to chrome with solid ad-blocking & I got $10 out of it.
That can't be a very expensive part to replace. May as well do it.
I just read your comment again, and I want to add this to my other reply:

I would say the top, most useful, make-or-break practice that I would say is most essential to Scrum succeeding is a combination of:

* 1 point ≈ 1 hour of work

and

* no task above 3 points, try to only have 1-point tasks

Coincidentally, this process is what took the longest in our planning meetings, because the coders sat down and planned out the tasks, kind of the way you would in an algorithms course.

The payoff is that our estimates, after the first couple of sprints, were dead on, and there was very little "discovered work" mid-sprint. No midnight oil. And no corner-cutting.
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This kinda erases history. IE was riddled with security flaws and stagnant beyond belief when Firefox usurped it. There was a compelling reason to use an IE alternative back then - they actually offered something IE couldn't give.

Chrome doesn't have that problem.
It depends on his agreement. He may have the authority to do it.
Seems like Apple changed the search/discovery algo and he got hit with it.

Don't think anything particularly devious has happened, but seems like the App Store search team really hit some folks who were trying to organically build a good app/biz over time. For what it's worth there's some pretty good feedback here for AppStore search + customers who voted up the app individually, so hope that helps.
They have tabs
Shame, it was one of the better apps.

For alternatives I'd recommend Tusky. It's not perfect but does the job and the source is available.
I'm probably getting punished for dragging drivers out of Manhattan then -- which I do all the time when going to airports. Oh well. If it's proportional to the area then I'm probably still doing OK.
what is "enterprise users of chrome"? Does this mean paid GSuite accounts?
Too bad it is only accessible from localhost. Otherwise you are using a bunch of routers and other infrastructure which is not solar powered.
Plenty of people see 1 star = not free, 5 = free
I tried to like RSS feeds in Firefox but I ultimately decided to self-host my own TinyTinyRSS server among all my other stuff (Plex, Wireguard, SFTP)
We now have bars where people can drink and fling axes around indoors. If the insurance premiums weren't high enough to stop that from happening, I don't see abstaining from user tracking keeping anybody's pub out of business.
This doesn't really explain how a PiHole compares to an ad blocking extension. Both block ads at the network level so your browser never has to download them.
Are you suggesting that everyone should be taking this FDA-approved medication that prevents blood clots?
That would only work as long as they're not figuring null ratings into the score, which would still decrease the host's average.

I'm not sure how it works for either company - is it (transactions/rating score) or (ratings/rating score)? Downthread, we learn that Lyft gives null ratings an automatic 5.
You can work in relatively low stress job, but not love it.

It can be boring, mundane, unfulfilling, uninteresting, repetitive, etc... That doesn't generally produce a traditional "stress" but does wear on you emotionally.
I'm a fan of HappyOrNot for dead-simple intuitive feedback: https://www.happy-or-not.com/en/smiley-terminal/
The rise of populism across Europe, including Brexit, has the same root cause as the rise of populism in America: people believing they have been left behind by the global economy and abandoned by mainstream politicians.
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