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Just tried searching for 'firefox' as a quick test.

I do get a page of Firefox results, but I also get a box titled 'People also ask' after the first four results, with the very first item being; 'Is Mozilla Firefox Safe to Download?' I also get a box at the bottom of the page titled 'Web Browsers,' with the first item in that box being Chrome. And Firefox is just not in that box at all. Not a popular enough web browser to include in the box marked web browsers when searched for by name, it would seem. On the other hand, UC Browser makes the list after Chrome, Opera and Safari, which I hadn't even heard of until today, but is apparently by Alibaba.
FF had tabs. IE had already adopted them. Chrome worked a bit better with lots of tabs. Iirc, pre-chrome, a crash (usually flash) in one tab would crash the browser. Chrome fixed that.
Having worked both in the public and private sectors I think it’s actually the exact opposite. If we miss a deadline, or if a system goes down when it really wasn’t supposed to the consequences can be as severe as someone dying because life-necessary data wasn’t available. The only sector which is as focused on security, on-time-delivery and risk-management that we are is banking, which is frankly rather similar to the public sector, except their business focus is much more narrow and they generally have a lot more resources.

This is actually part of the reason we try to think about what technology we use and how we use it. We have too many critical systems and too few people, so we need to be extremely efficient in our choices. If something is cool, but adds complexity, then it’s just not worth it.

Because we are the public sector we do a lot of benchmarking though, and we actually have ASP WebForms legacy apps that are rated as high as your favourite mobile app by our citizens. Which was my point, your users don’t actually care about your tech-stack when it delivers.
Not at all. Read a biology book, or a book on fundamental physics. We really don't understand much about the world yet.
JK Rowling's commencement address is exceptional. One of the best speeches I've listened to.
Maybe I should just forget about it, but I don't understand your point. Where did your friend move and why? Where you criticizing the police for increasing presence in case of a hooligan invasion? Or where you applauding them for doing so? And how is this connected to what GP posted?

I'm genuinely confused. If you read this, maybe you'd like to elaborate. Cheers!
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You're right. I got confused with this and facial recognition being used at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016 and 2017:

https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2017/3628
If they say "can we come in?" it likely means they're legally not allowed to come in unless you invite them in. Which means they won't kick down your door either if you just don't answer.
It is called zero because it only play with itself. Follow alpha go zero and leeks zero.

It has not studied human play. Unlike alpha go.
I agree...I am talking about the data releaed by Google to prove its not a Monopoly. The only reason Google is not considered a Monopoly in laws eyes is that people have the option but they are not shifting. Like chrome supports changing of Search engines. The only argument can be raised against is Google is on Chrome, that everyone is using Chrome and Google products are not working properly on non-Chrome based browsers
You might not have seen the dark patterns if you always used Chrome. If you browse with another browser you can observe their dark patterns daily...
And if birds didn't have wings, that is enough for me to say that squirrels are better at flying.
We don't necessarily create complex simulations to understand them, but to have those simulation available to then build for e.g reinforcement learning models.

To take a simple example, if you have a high-school wagon-rolling-down-a-slope Newton Physic exercise, then you can capture in your mind everything which explains the problem. But then take https://youtu.be/a3jfyJ9JVeM , it's still Newton, but so many constrains that we cannot picture in our mind everything and we are not even solving the problem with a close form equation anymore. But we have modeled a simulation which enable us to make experiments and build locomotion algorithm. Actually, you don't even need to understand Newton or Physics to implement that paper, you can just see it as optimizing a black box.

In the future I could see that happen at larger scale. For eg we put everything we known about the brain or cells in a simulation, we can't picture what's really going on because the system is too complex, yet we can run simulations and optimize models to find for eg new cures, treatments, etc.
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I think you're being overly generous to Nature. By my read, they just misinterpreted "deepest hole drilled offshore for scientific purposes" as "deepest hole drilled offshore for any purpose".

The water depth was already cited in the top-level comment:

> deepwater horizon drilled to 10,683 m in 1,259 m of water
I wasn't even aware of health concerns.

My first uninformed impulse reaction:

More cell towers means lower signal strength which means less risk of health issues.
I hope mass users/customers of such applications start caring about things like GDPR compliance
There is a longform article on Huawei which I can't find right now, but essentially it suggested that Huawei's ultimate authority is a "workers committee" which ultimately is controlled in turn by the Party.

That said, it's really not a stretch. To give just one example: There are strong suggestions that Microsoft got NSA money to buy Skype, principally so that MS would revert Skype to a server-based model and take encryption out. Whether this case is true or not, it seems pretty certain that the US government makes use of national players. And it would be incredibly far fetched to even imagine the PRC not doing the same thing.
I tried too, but since the documentary is simply called "SR-71 Blackbird", it makes it hard. The subtitle "To keep the peace they fly alone... unarmed... into the unknown" ist cool but yields one result: an auction of the movie poster [0]

In turn, the movie poster however let me to a reverence to the movie in the book "SR-71 revealed the inside story" by Richard H. Graham, Col. USAF (Ret).

0: http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detai...
Not the poster, but maybe the fact that they only needed 8 officers means the hooliganism wouldn't even be that bad, meaning it's a very peaceful place.
I'd suggest just installing `gawk` from Homebrew and using it instead of having to guess which sort of crippled `awk` you're lucky to be using.

The same thing stands for GNU coreutils (`brew install coreutils`); here's macOS `cut` vs GNU `cut` as a quick example.

~ $ cut --help
cut: illegal option -- -
usage: cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
cut -c list [file ...]
cut -f list [-s] [-d delim] [file ...]

~ $ gcut --help
Usage: gcut OPTION... [FILE]...
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --bytes=LIST select only these bytes
-c, --characters=LIST select only these characters
-d, --delimiter=DELIM use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST select only these fields...
-n (ignored)
--complement complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields
-s, --only-delimited do not print lines not containing delimiters
--output-delimiter=STRING use STRING as the output delimiter
the default is to use the input delimiter
-z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
This is very memory intensive. Which may not matter if the data volume is small enough. But it is also a bit hard to understand, at least not so obvious at first sight. For most use cases sort -u would be ideal and way simpler to understand, if you don't mind having an ordered file at output.
I can't claim to have been harrassed by unexpected visitors, I also do find unannounced visits annyoing however.

It's something that I also communicate to my friends (although I would never not open the door for them, for obvious reasons). My reasoning is kind of like "I've been fulfilling my societal duties all week goddammit, if I want to be alone in my cave for a few hours just leave me be!"
Several places, like Daly City, it is.
Are you a person of color? Do you have piercings, pink hair, stuff like that? Maybe you shouldn't generalize solely based on your personal experience?
Eventually, though if things go well more than 100 years. You mention physics, which is one important limitation, but there are others.

The global human population is limited and will likely peak and begin to decline within 100 years. [1] Many technologies are limited by the size of the supply chain required to produce them and the scale of factory required to make the technology cost-effective.

For an economy the size of a village, you are never going to have a self-sustaining technology level much higher than a blacksmith shop. Why? Because higher technology requires higher level inputs -- precision parts, refined materials, components that are produced in high tech factories.

The economy is like a pyramid, with the highest technology outputs being the few top layers at the top. Each higher tech layer depends on larger layers below -- the different components and feedstocks and tools required in production of that technology. The overall size of the economy limits the sustainable height of the pyramid.

Currently the economic/technology pyramid size is growing, driven by growth of human population and globalization of the economy. There are also efficieny effects where higher technology decreases the labor required for the lower layers of the pyramid.

When human population peaks and the economy is fully globalized, continued growth of the economic/technology pyramid will be limited to efficiency gains.

My feeling is population will have peaked but globalization will still be ongoing 100 years from now.

It is harder to forecast the limit of efficiency gains -- when robots are smart enough to generally do any work that humans can, what will be the efficiency limits on such robots? I don't expect that to be all played out in 100 years.

The big wildcard is if we extinct ourselves or otherwise cause a huge setback. Biotech is close to the level where engineering an extinction virus is a possible by a lone individual with access to the right lab. Can we survive the technological ability of genocide viruses becoming widespread?

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/jrcsh/files/lutz_et_al_2018_d...
If you think that there is a problem in the model they are using, could you point to it and explain the specific issue?
If you heat them past the smoke point, yes, they lose a ton of nutrients and become quite unhealthy. In normal use, no, not really. The impact of heating them is quite small. And comparing them to animal fats...they're clearly slightly better in some ways, but slightly worse in others. How you balance those factors...I don't think we remotely have good data on yet.

For now I'd just try and eat in moderation and look askance at people making sweeping assertions about any food being all good or all bad.

(On the other hand, we have much better data about the environmental impact of vegetable versus anaimal calories.)
With GNU awk, scripts are compiled to bytecode then interpreted with a big switch/case loop.

edit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/tree/interpret.h
> Most other dependency management tools don't allow this condition.

Ah, but how many of these dependency-management tools are in fact "corporate" vs. genuinely community-led projects? Surely this too is relevant to the controversy.
No, I'm sure there is no projection going on, since I have never had any concerns about the police in any country I've lived in so far (all in Europe), never had to do with the police except for one case of registering the theft of my bag, and I've never been to the US. As I've said, if the police wants to talk about you or your business or family, then the generally best advice is to get a lawyer.

As for other things they want to talk about, that's fine, as long as you bear in mind the following. First, in many countries police has to investigate any suspicion of a criminal offence even if it is unrelated to the initial investigation. In many countries, police has no leeway about that even if they claim the opposite. Second, the police often investigate someone as a mere witness before formally charging the person for a crime, because that's easier to start with.
Shame. And if you google "ieee Huawei", you can still find several news like "celebrating the release of new standard co-operated by Huawei and IEEE" on the first page.
Now their version should be changed to "IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization(under the guide of U.S. gov) dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of the U.S."
In the past, even physical war accelerates the development of tech(most for weapons tho some could be utilized to daily life), and now politics are forcing tech to go reverse. Wonderful.
Big fan of this, excellent idea. EOL is always non-trivial to find for each project.

I think a good addition could be a feed of some sort available for each project e.g. https://endoflife.date/ruby/feed. You could then poll that from readers or Slack integrations and be notified when particular projects have entered EOL. Maybe an early warning for could be useful too, 3 months before EOL or something like that?
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The man page of (n)awk [0][1] is surprisingly short and readable.

[0] `man awk` on mac

[1] online version https://www.mankier.com/1/nawk

[2] gawk's man page works great as a reference https://www.mankier.com/1/gawk
Mozilla does plenty to differentiate from Chrome and does a lot of work to increase privacy for web users. They have to make compromises in places to make sure they are relevant enough to push privacy elsewhere. (And of course there is lots of google shilling to spread paranoia about Mozilla).
Ah, I see. You were saying that because they marketed Chrome "legitimately", they probably didn't market Chrome with dirty tricks and dark patterns "at first", am I right? But I don't really think that's how it went - I think they used every trick in the book, as early and as often as possible.

If that's not true, and some marketroid in Google woke up one day and thought "hey, we could get a lot more bang for our buck by being super scummy!", then that would be an interesting tale. But it seems more likely that what happened was that Google just pulled out all the stops.

At any rate it's not much of a defense. Their "legitimate" marketing in no way absolves them for their "illegitimate" marketing.
Crap, you're right. We'd better revise the manual.
It depends on where you live; to request information from government bodies/agencies, you have to resort to various Freedom of Information laws rather than Data Protection. However, there might be certain exemptions, which will prevent any such pranking and unless it is sensitive information, you will most probably be informed of the number of hours it will take to fulfil a request and the costs involved.
Yes, and hence a higher chance that they are not a hardened paid-for core team, but a looser team where people can come and go, and where an outsider can get influence.
Do they serve with straws because people actually want to suck their drink through them or are they just included as a signal for service quality?

Over here in Germany (a country exceptionally delusional about being good at environmentalism) tiny plastic spoons have suddenly become a standard feature at ice cream vendors. The only reasonably explanation is that businesses feared falling behind, an irrational fear of a plastic spoon gap. If they all just stopped including them without asking at the same time, nobody would lose (except for plastics manufacturers and their distributors I guess)
Some of the discussion seems forget that the lc0 use neural network. There is essential no logic and there is no mtcs in the core part. Just play.

And it is called zero ad it does not read any human game, like alpha go zero.

It is just play and play to train the neural network ... you may say it want to find a function by itself that play the game. And the function is in the weights.
I'd love to see what "translating" Stockfish's algorithms (ex: backwards pawn check. Bishop moves check. Paired Bishop advantage check. Etc. etc.)

Do you know if all these checks are documented somewhere (other than the source code)?
`sort` would also be memory intensive would it not?
I flagged the slow YouTube issues to iVPN (openvpn) previously but got palmed off by support, otherwise they offer an excellent service.
The only people I've seen suggesting that it has health implications have been hanging out in my city centre also claiming that 9/11 was an inside job and that InfoWars is a legitimate news source. This is in the UK!

...so I'm not convinced of any issues so far.
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> 1. If you use a VPS to host your own VPN.. you don’t gain privacy. Usually your IP can (mostly) still identify you. And your VPS company will hold you accountable for your traffic eg DMCA.

Unfortunately, the same can be said for your VPN provider, depending on the provider. They can (and more than one does) save your name, address, billing details, as well as your source IP, and which IP and source ports you appear as after VPN translation has occurred.

Even if they don't do this, traffic analysis by the underlying network provider can de-anonymise your VPN'd traffic from your original source traffic too, and it doesn't take a genius to do this either.
Calling it "advertising" is a understatement here. You don't end up with the product just by consuming an ad.

My parents never wanted to install Chrome. They still ended up have it. It came with an update and they didn't uncheck a checkbox.
All their friends use Chrome also because of this despicable trick.

When this wave of bundled malware behavior by Google started and I had to uninstall it all over the people and family where I installed Firefox before, I stopped using it as a second browser too.

I whish someone would finally sue them for this. At least to give it the attention it should have.
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Recycling has become such a lazy way of dealing with a bit more convenience. Single use plastics and plastic packaging should be banned or at least be taxed accordingly for subsequent processing.
On a previous post people were complaining that math wasn’t as clear as code. I’d argue that this this is exactly the kind of code-like clarity math notation provides you. I makes perfect sense, but only after 2 full pages describing what’s going on in one line.
Those people can also do A/B tests, and compare various methods of advertising. And they get their money's worth on customers (e.g. a promotional vlog by an a-lister can suddenly push millions worth of product). So probably not.
> This is very memory intensive.

Only for ones not familiar with awk.

It would make a lot of sense after you understand how awk works (as the article explains).
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Why do you find it odd? I find it to be the very best introduction to C-style control structures.

Chapter 2 of The AWK Programming Language has incredible benefits for a novice.

https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_P...
So at what point would this become a net positive to society?

Let's say it stops an average of 5 mass shootings a year and 200 domestic homicides, will the cost of lost privacy be worth it?

I don't like the idea of systems like this, but in places like the United States where gun control and mental health treatment are off the table I don't see many other options.
A look at pathfinder
In China, big cities will set a distance of 500 meters between two bus stops. In my hometown which is a quite small city with 500k population, bus stops doesn't really work and every time you want to get on, just wave your hand. lol
Ok. Good example.

To deal with that, the legal system needs to define market & dominance. The "markets" FB is dominating are far squishier and unstable than the markets of 100 years ago. The market for coal or steel or intercontinental shipping are easy to define. Photo sharing? Social Networking?

How do you define competitiveness. What effect does FB's dominance of photo sharing have on consumer prices? Barriers to entry? Anyone can launch a chat or photo sharing app. Substitutes? Plenty. Those are the types of questions the old laws and precedents will try to deal with. It's like an alien biologist trying to prod orifices that we don't have.

How does this harm consumers or the economy? The economics underlying the legal framework are just as outdated. They're looking for prices and outputs and stuff that FB doesn't have.
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Related :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19595450
Of course in the long run you're right, but where traditions are involved, sometimes it can ease the transition. "No balloons" is a much harder sell than "expensive biodegradable balloons", for someone who feels it's an essential thing. Eventually price pressure will cause the tradition to phase out organically, with people feeling like they have a choice, rather than the resentment caused by "no more balloon release parties, starting next week!"
Isn’t that just a narrative pushed by RT as Russian propaganda?
I cant wrap my head around this. They say identifiable information is removed but if that's true how do they know who to intervene with? How do they re-identify people who are at risk?
You're not remembering correctly.

IExplorer 5 was the best browser available, the Chrome of its time.

>> monopolies create the setting for massive disruption

I know that HN has a fetish with disruption, but no, it's not monopolies that create the opportunity for disruption, but the exact opposite of a monopoly, which is competition, often made possible by advances in technology. There's no inherent property of a monopoly that facilitates disruption, other than the monopoly just being on the scene nearby.
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there are a few holy grails that we have yet to achieve:

unlimited energy, and a pollution free environment. the latter means not only renewable energy but the elimination of most forms of plastic and other pollutants. given how much plastic we use now, that is a major undertaking.

i also believe that with more and more automation, humanity will be able to free up resources to put into education, and there is no end to imagine what a society full of highly educated people can possibly achieve.
They can cut the cables or slow down traffic.
Well, a constant barrage of promotional messages, playing with people's feelings, taking advantage of psychology, hurting their self-worth to hook them (buy these clothes to be like those beautiful people, fat? you need this product, buy this gadget and enter the lifestyle of the persons using it in the ad), embedded covertly in TV, movies, celebrities and openly in tv, billboards, print, webpages, video games, mobile apps, flyers, posters, and so on, is not exactly "minor".

We see hundreds of ads every day. Even if we miss each particular product placement, their aggregated core message "buy more stuff" and "your life is not perfect like the people in the ads" registers just fine.