skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasons are manifold.

Some are nicely summarized (factors leading up to the current Political/Military/Economic domination) in a two-part Stratfor article;

1) The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire - https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-united-st...

2) The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 2: American Identity and the Threats of tomorrow. - https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-united-st...

The way i look at it is (in no particular order);

Luck - WW2 decimated almost all developed countries. The US "home" was untouched (no war on their soil) thus leaving them as the sole industrial/military powerhouse with resources intact. This is actually a huge factor and the current state follows directly from here. They also appropriated a lot of Scientists/Technologies from the losers which gave them the needed headstart in many tech areas.

People psyche - The country was founded by immigrants who basically had to do whatever to "survive". Since they had no history in the new land, they were not bogged down by crystallized cultural norms and beliefs. Thus the focus on "Capitalism"(euphemism for Greed and "do whatever it takes to win") and "Hustle" (not always driven by Ethics/Morals contrary to what their leaders may claim). This setup their current culture where their desire is to be THE global hegemon by any means necessary. If you think about it, this is a great motivator for just about anything.

Geography - Covered well in the above articles. This allowed them to develop independently of detrimental external influences.

Control of World Economy - By forcing everybody to use $ as the world's currency. The ramifications of this is all-encompassing.

Military/Education/Industrial Complex - This is a crucial nexus which is directly responsible for much of their dominance in the technology domain. The Military funds "Blue Sky" projects in close association with Academia and the Industry. Because of this close-knit setup, the path from Ideation to Realized Implementation is very fast and seamless. No other country does this as well. Because of the "Power Law", progress in Technology is accelerated leading to being the natural front-runner.

Finally, it should be clear that "Military Dominance" is used to enforce "Economic Dominance" and vice-versa.
You left out the big one: genetics.
Firefox also has bad input lag compared to chrome, everywhere from the address bar to basic textareas.

I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699 quite a while ago with some measurements. Sadly, no progress so far.
and we should stop.
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If we spent as much societal resources on elementary education as on healthcare, and schools had teams of intensively trained specialists come in and work with students 1:1 for many hours every week in the area of their expertise, then I would concede your point.

But a single conscientious and patient parent working 1:1 with a child consistently over the course of years is going to beat out a string of generalist teachers managing a 30-student classroom almost every time.

It takes a teacher/class months of overhead at the beginning of each year just to get to know all of the students and figure out what their skills and preparation are. It takes hours of overhead every day coordinating big groups of students, some of whom don’t want to be in a setting that inherently compromises their autonomy and often disrespects them, even in the best case where the teacher is kind and progressive. Feedback on student work is delayed and sometimes mediocre because carefully examining the work of 30 students takes a huge amount of time and effort. Glaring student misconceptions and gaps in basic knowledge and skills are allowed to persist for years. Generally little support is given to help students get over psychological blocks related to particular subjects or activities. Students are frequently cruel to each-other and teachers are often unaware or don’t have the available bandwidth to deal with it.

There is a categorical difference between lecturing to a class of 30 vs. direct tutorial, and the latter is generally much, much easier and more pleasant for both teacher and pupil.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038013
(Originally posted on dupe; re-posting here)

With the ambient positive mood regarding the significant rise of sci-hub, open publishing commitments from academics and institutions and the correspondingly significant pressure on rent-seeking publishers, perhaps we will see parallel pressure extend to politically partisan or subjugated organizations until an open science free of such politicking emerges?

One solution would be anonymous scientific publication and review. Imagine that: let science stand on science, instead of appeals to authority. The bonus with such an approach is that it simultaneously solves for various "isms".
I'm not sure this demonstrates anything of the sort. Google delegates this specific decision to AdSense partners, but there are plenty of other categories of ads which Google prohibits outright (like guns, pornography, or profanity).
Woof. Flashbacks to Sister Mary's Calculus class in 12th grade.
Link to the business please?
It’s banned because it’s made by people intentionally trying to not just subvert, but inject fake data into Google’s core business model. It’s like asking “why doesn’t Apple allow Cydia in the App Store?”

AdNauseam clicks occur far more often than normal ad clicks, aren’t associated with other ad load events, timing is all similar, ads are clicked regardless of predicted relevancy. There’s dozens of obvious, and hundreds of non obvious, ways to detect if a particular user is a bot or not. Literally legions is PhDs study this attack vector and work at Google and Facebook.
Yeah, sure, privacy is good.

It's not a product-making sale point for the vast majority of people.
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Here is the thing about war crimes, they are mostly meaningless unless the military that committed them, agrees to be prosecuted for them.

None of the permanent UN security council ever will, and without their crimes are on the scale of genocide, nothing will be done.

I mean Russia, literally just took over Crimea, and nothing was done.

Do you estimate that some leaked documents, or videos will do anything?

Has a single war crimes case resulted from the manning dump?

At this point, these dumps are just political tools, masking as something more IMO.
> three different pieces of hardware

This. Data is real when it has been acked by a quorum with independent power. Three is because two doesn't give you enough slack to maintain it.
I actually can't tell if that was an intentional "margin" joke, or if the author is just bluntly stating a fact about Wiles' proof...

EDIT: Nope, probably intentional. The author doesn't say something similar for any other proof based on a quick CTRL+F :)
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Last time that happened uBlock was captured by the enemy.
Have you tried firefox's container extension?
A more light weight, but easy to use separation of "profiles"
I once wanted to do something similar, so I wrote my own realtime audio streaming tool [0]; the UX resembles something more akin to a foot-gun than the polished (and much more feature-complete) Roc, but it does have excellent latency properties by running at the absolute ragged edge of what it can.

You could connect multiple clients to stream music to a single server (or multiple servers if you wanted to); the server kept a list of pending audio buffers for each client, mixing them all together into a ring buffer that gets spat out to portaudio. If a client underran, it simply missed that ring buffer rotation, and it "fell behind" by one buffer length (we request the minimum latency from portaudio, so this is usually measured in single-digit milliseconds). That would cause a few crackles and pops in the first second or two as the natural jitter of the network caused the client to underrun a few times, but then it would stabilize. (This didn't bother me much, as I usually was playing silence when I first connected it in any case).

In my experiments, the overall system latency was pretty close to the perceptual limit, I would estimate around 10ms, streaming over wifi from my laptop to a raspberry pi.

[0] https://github.com/staticfloat/popuset
It has become a real problem for Canadians visiting the States[1]. The US government doesn't seem to care whether it's legal in Canada or not. Presumably that's because the law is written such that foreign legality is irrelevant.

[1]: https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/07/05/canadian-cannab...
Well, glad I never started using Chrome instead of Safari on my Mac.
I'd go for at least 2 years of auto removal, in case for a coma.
> What's the worst thing that could happen from Google tracking me across the web could?

Discrimination. Public humiliation. You assume Google is only using the data it collects to show ads. What if they sold the data other organizations? What if the data was used to prevent you from getting a job or membership to an organization? What if there was a data breach, and suddenly everyone knew about every site you visited?

Taken to a further extreme, what if the government used this data against you to strip you of certain rights/privileges?

These scenarios may seem extreme, but they are all feasible. You and I may not have anything to hide, but others may, and they are entitled to that privacy.
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I agree with almost all of what you're saying. I'm not suggesting that a social experience outside of the purview of the insular groups this small subset of religious folks experience is not beneficial. What I'm suggesting is that the particular experience offered by public schools (especially in rural and semi-rural areas insular religious homeschoolers typically inhabit) is not particularly beneficial for the socialization of (otherwise) religious homeschoolers.

I don't know of any studies (or if any could be performed, really) that demonstrate the social impact of public schools on students like this, or at least easily-identified outgroup kids. I know from anecdotal experience that in the public schools I attended that they (the semi-cultish religious kids who were not/no longer homeschooled) were not treated well, never successfully integrated socially, and disappeared from my radar very quickly after graduation. With hindsight I feel very badly about that now, and wish there some way to impact the systemic cliquish nature of public schools, especially high school. Unfortunately I lack a time machine for the kids of the past, and simply don't have answers for those going forward.

Either way, my suspicion is that public schools specifically do not offer the best (or even a much better) experience for socializing students.
The first thing I look for in a math paper is whether the typesetting is up to TeX's standard. If it's not good enough, I'll just skim the text.

I'm not sure whether this pro-TeX prejudice is a good or bad thing...
Key point (for Windows) on that page is:

ADM/ADMX templates with 300+ user and device policies

ADM/ADMXs are a list of settable policies (rules) that Chrome will read from the Windows Registry on startup[1]. I'm going to make a huge assumption that the Chrome.exe for Enterprise users is no different to the Chrome.exe that everyone else uses, and it switches into 'Enterprise' mode if it sees certain key policy entries in the Registry[2].

These polices are typically set on a Windows Domain Controller and are pushed to Domain member machines (and users) on the network on a regular basis.

However end-users can simulate the policies by setting these Registry entries manually (There are about 4 places in the Registry where they live). Depending on where Chrome looks, the user may need local admin privileges to do this.

So, what we really need is a 'Chrome Enterprise Enabler' tool, that does this automatically for non-technical users. They would run this tool, the required Registry keys would be enabled, and WebRequest API based Ad-blocking would continue to work.

Unfortunately, none of this helps Linux users as I don't see a Linux Enterprise Chrome package.

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[1] I've got 25+ years of Windows domain administration under my belt, this stuff used to be my bread-and-butter.

[2] Even if not, extracting just the Chrome MSI installer from the Enterprise bundle is trivial.
See my sibling comment.
Even in EU it's a tough sell. Your current employer has to agree to it. Why should they, since you're leaving? It only complicates counting employees.
Woah, all this is so complicated! I would rather have them individually explain what each variable/math stuff does here to know its importance. Can anyone explain it?
> Reports say Zuckerberg is unlikely to lose the vote because he owns 60 per cent of the company’s shares.

So...no.
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If these principles are followed throughout the engineering org, can you explain how the recent reports of password and other information being stored in plaintext happened? That is Security 101.

Genuinely curious.
Thanks for the ping! We decided to use the same name (Wasmer) for the language embeddings as for the standalone runtime as we thought it could be easier for people to find related resources for the runtime. Hopefully is not too confusing! :)
I think the author's page (Alex Spartalis) deserves to be mentioned:

https://www.alexspartalis.com/cheat-sheet.html

He has the same version (v2.10) there and mentions that, "The Web version does not include the distribution functions due to file size restrictions. Email me if you would like a copy of these." That explains why pages 213-330 are missing. Someone should offer to upload the full copy to keybase.pub (or someplace) since his personal site can't handle the load.

People sometimes do tremendous work creating a program/book/artwork, and want the world to see it, but don't get around to really share it or promote it.
"they've added HKT"

no they did not, if they did it would've been a major news.
All big companies start out as small companies, which means 1 or 2 or a few people writing code.
I believe marijuana (and many other intoxicants) should be legal. But I wouldn't sell it because I'm afraid of legal repercussions. That's not hypocrisy, it's self-preservation.
Doesn’t the definition of a “steady-state” economy mean that there will be no real GDP growth, but only nominal growth? I don’t understand the assertion that GDP can grow indefinitely just because the arbitary “utility” can. There will still be physical limits inside a steady-state which would be subjected to price, which will affect GDP.
Try removing custom css from the firefox profile(userchrome.css/usercontent.css) and disabling themes.
Fermat wrote that in the margin of his book Arithmetica that a proof existed, but there wasn’t space in the margin to write it. It took Wiles 385 years to find a proof, and it won’t fit in a margin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

That’s the allure of the theorem; that a simple unknown proof may exist.
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How long did it take you from setting your eyes on the company and sending your application to them responding?

Also: Share your whole experience if you wish ?
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This is probably true for Google, but not Facebook, given how many times they have broken things, especially security related.
Atleast during Login I frequently get the message to install chrome so I can use my security keys and get forced on TOTP. Easily fixed with a UA change and the security keys even work! Who would have thought!

And managing your security keys also requires Chrome, if you're on Firefox you also get told it's incompatible, despite being compatible.
There is an additional danger here.

Currently, we can go use Firefox or Joe's homemade browser to to back the features that Chrome removes, such as the ability for an ad-blocker to access and remove content. But we've already seen just last month [1] that Google actively prevents Firefox from using some features of Google products (need to find the HN link). Thus Google as a content provider can easily steep people into using the Google web browser.

This is really starting to smell similar to the Microsoft - IE debacle all over again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669586
Out of curiosity, what would you say was the thing that still kept you on Chrome even though all of the things you said apply? Inertia due to habit?
In the real world, i.e. Evolution, if you fall for the predator’s camouflage, you help your species thrive by removing yourself from the gene pool. If your fellow herd-members see you being taken down, that has a tendency to raise their awareness. If not then they follow the same evolutionary path…
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Very cool! Could you add "native" to the benchmark so that we get a better idea of the scale?
Are you building the DB layer in Clojure and call it from Java then, or are you writing your whole app in Clojure?
This is exciting. About 5 years ago I tried to set up a home-made Sonos clone by using two Raspberry Pis to stream synchronised audio across my network. I did get it to work, but it was a huge hassle finding the particular combination of PulseAudio configuration flags to use, and I had to set up a dedicated wireless network for the bandwidth because it fell over if I used compression. I figured the best approach would be to write a PulseAudio module in C but I never had the time or skill to do it.

I'll definitely be giving this a go!
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Not literally "steals"... It's not possible to "literally steals" tech.
The USA has sources. Besides the natural ones, we also have coal ash and spent nuclear fuel rods.
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The buttons are generally used to punish the clerks on duty. All you are doing is griefing minimum-wage employees.
For some reason I was expecting this to be about Adobe ColdFusion
When Apple said "It's a hot product!", they really weren't kidding around.
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One of the problems we have is people not being able to take a long term view. Everything has always to work within 5 years... Result: nothing is done.

What I wrote should have started at least 30 years ago. As the saying goes, the next best time to start is now.
Same. It took me a second to piece together the fact that the link directs to nature.com and that it's the other type of cold fusion.
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Great writeup, thank you.
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A probation period of three months is pretty common here in the UK, even for senior people. I've got 20 years experience and just checked my current employment contract, and I had one. Nobody seems bothered by it. Remember that if the company wants you gone, you're gone regardless of any probation period. The probation period only determines how many steps they have to go through to do it and how much notice you are given.
I use a similar approach in RediSQL (http://RediSQL.com, fats in-memory SQL on redis protocol).

There is a single thread that reads from a queue of statement.

The downside is that is hard to hold a lock on the db while doing application level operations, but that is a really advanced use case that I see rarely on the wild.
This is actually pretty cool. Let's you embed quotes from a podcast on a website or Facebook etc with a built in player.
As a native speaker parent is correct. "since decades" can be made grammatical by adding "ago" - "since decades ago" - but imo it'd sound more natural to say "for decades"
Protonmail has taken the perfectly reasonable position they will comply with the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are located: Switzerland. Other web mail services generally take the same position, though often in different jurisdictions. To the extent laws differ between Switzerland and the home countries of other services, they are different, and this would be true EVEN IF their technology, and policy for handling such requests, was identical to those of other web services.

From their privacy policy:
https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy

We will only disclose the limited user data we possess if we are instructed to do so by a fully binding request coming from the competent Swiss authorities (legal obligation). While we may comply with electronically delivered notices (see exceptions below), the disclosed data can only be used in court after we have received an original copy of the court order by registered post or in person, and provide a formal response.

If a request is made for encrypted message content that ProtonMail does not possess the ability to decrypt, the fully encrypted message content may be turned over. If permitted by law, ProtonMail will always contact a user first before any data disclosure. Under Swiss law, it is obligatory to notify the target of a data request, although such notification may come from the authorities and not from the Company.

ProtonMail may from time to time, contest requests if there is a public interest in doing so. In such situations, the Company will not comply with the request until all legal or other remedies have been exhausted. Therefore, not all requests described in our Transparency Report will lead to data disclosure.
yes, I definitely gained a lot of insights from these 5 podcasts into the whole development as well as management process inside facebook.
scammers taking it to another level
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So if I read this correctly, it's an algorithm that Firefox could use when it handles the HTML canvas tag. For instance to draw SVG or text. Is that correct? And the good thing here, is that it uses GPU instructions to determine occlusion, and thus speed up the drawing process.

What I don't get: if that's the case, shouldn't it be integrated at a lower level, i.e. not just for drawing SVG or text, but the whole of the canvas tag? Because that's where occlusion also could take place?
One of the greatest programmers of the modern age.

He's the type of genius that could have done anything in the field he set his mind to.

I'm really glad it was video games and not ad tech.
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> I don't think developers should even necessarily explain that this is what they are doing, because then they have to ask permission to do it.

In my experience, it pays to be open with product managers and QA about what you are working on, how you are implementing it, what the risks and benefits are, etc. For example, it helps QA to focus their testing efforts on the areas that are most likely to be broken by a refactor. And having some understanding of how an app is built and where the problem points in the code lie helps product managers to develop a sense of how much effort a certain change might take, and reduces the chance that they will be surprised by some behavior in the app as the result of a change.

And if someone on the team wants to question me about the cost/benefits of a certain refactor and discuss alternatives, I think that is totally fair game. Same way that if I want to ask a question about the cost/benefits of a new feature and discuss alternatives, I feel empowered to do so. It's not about asking permission so much as it is about developing a shared understanding of the costs and benefits of the decisions that we make, and working together to optimize them.