skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like this beast that does these benevolent things, but at some point it catches up to them and they shut something down after getting people kinda hooked. For example Picasa - massively popular - free and pretty amazing desktop photo management tool. It slowly morphed such that all of the users of it were just folded into a cloud offering: Drive.

Chrome and all of it's open source awesomeness, again, mostly used to fold people into the bigger profitable picture. So even though there are developers that work at Google creating protocols that help everyone, including non-Chrome browsers - that benevolence has a product manager paying that developer's time. At some stage it's not all free beer.
Many comments are saying it's not a technical issue, I think it is. Chrome is mostly developed as an open-source project (chromium), meaning features and bugs are transparently discussed and fixed. Compare that to IE which was closed source, meaning nothing was fixed...
> just practicing bothsideism here.

I disagree. I was noting a more complex reality where scientists who agree with climate science might also choose to identify as Republican given the totality of the platform. In fact, I have known some. To rephrase my earlier statement:

There exists at least one proper (accepted by the scientific community as opposed to self proclaimed) scientist who identifies as Republican.

I said that in counter to a universal statement. The reason is that the existence of one counter example leads to a contradiction with the generalization. As such the universal is false. It doesn't declare a statement on the relative frequency of scientists in either party. I choose to stay out of that conversation because I find people struggle to be rational in these discussions about politics.
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One person. You didn't make an argument, you made a declaration.
An advertisement that entices you to buy a submarine.

Actually, it's a reference to Paul Graham's observation that when news articles start to appear about anything almost simultaneously, it might be the result of a deliberate effort on someone's part to sell something along with all the generated talk: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Exactly the sort of thing a clever person would say...
Sponsored content.
There is definitely an estonian consulate near me, but given the cost and the time required (6-8 weeks for a background check) I have decided against it.

I should have my UK private limited company setup within a few days time and for less than 50 quid.
A town in Pennsylvania was rendered uninhabitable due to a coal mine fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

There are also plenty of cities that remain populated despite immense pollution, because of no economic alternatives. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk#Pollution

Hydroelectricity also renders large areas of land uninhabitable due to submersion. Granted, that's a deliberate and planned event. But collapse of dams have displaced tens of millions of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
> Chrome has plenty of ideas of what's "next" for the web -

I mean, I feel like that's so much worse.
It comes from an essay by Paul Graham as far as I know: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

> "One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms."

I see nothing that would indicate this is an ad, covert or otherwise. It was posted by Jason Scott -- whose reputation should be familiar to readers of HN -- on the Internet Archive, and has a legitimate reason for being posted there. This is as good as it gets for "not for profit" and "not an adverticle".
Lenin didn't spark a revolution against the tsar. The tsar had already been deposed for months (in the wake of the February Revolution) by the time Lenin returned from exile and led the October Revolution against the post-tsar government then leading Russia.
The public and private sectors are, in principle, equally capable of incompetence; the causes tend to be somewhat different, but the outcome can be the same.
"Evangelicals" is large group of people with a lot of different backgrounds. As with all groups let us take this with a grain of salt. I do know a dozen evangelicals that know about Qanon but I know far more that don't have a clue what Qanon is.
I've purchased an address from registeredaddress.co.uk and should have it by Tuesday, fingers crossed!
Parent is tactical, and you are strategic. Together you will be employed for life.
At present consumption rates (10% of global electrical generation), 230 years' supply. That's expected to increase with technological improvements, but would of course be reduced by an increase in either nuclear fraction or total electrical generation, each likely.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...

If we relied on nuclear for all electrical generation, about 20 years or less.
Don't forget WebRTC, currently on the HN front page. Web-based peer-to-peer introduced by Google.
This is called “anecdata”
at a certain scale you have to assume that at any given time at least one of your users is guaranteed to be doing something dumb that will cause performance issues. if you haven't implemented rate limiting or request prioritization at every layer of your system in a fully shared environment this will break everything for everyone instead of just breaking it for the one bad actor. having fewer shared components means having fewer ways for this to go wrong. even multiple app instances and multiple db instances on the same machine isn't necessarily enough if you don't do proper isolation with containers or vms due to noisy neighbor issues. and don't even think about sending requests from different users to the same hdd because there is almost no way to isolate them appropriately, ssds make this so much easier.
>gallons are rarely exchanged between America and the UK

I didn't go looking for an example; it's one that I've run into a lot over the years, because people spontaneously ask why, over and over, American cars get much worse MPG than elsewhere. Not realizing the gallons are smaller.
IANAL and I wish those who aren't either mention that. But with that line of argument images from Hubble telescope wouldn't be copyrightable either but they are:
http://hubble.stsci.edu/reference_desk/faq/answer.php.id=92&...
I'm thinking something like panicking all the goroutines started in a context that's been cancelled, and something like defer to handle cleanup during cancellation. Some expression that can read and write a typed value for a key in the current context (not even the standard library can do this without generics). If contexts have to become part of the calling convention, that's fine, just don't add more noise to every function call in the source.
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I've generally heard the randomly, unbacked quote: "Up to a third of the population is easily swayed by any kind of persuasion/marketing".

I don't know the exact percentage but it is certainly non-zero. Given that many elections in recent memory are won by margins of <10%, it doesn't matter if the majority has a BS detector since that majority isn't the target of "mechanized persuasion" aka A/B testing based advertising.
Consider that rising populations and standards of living, as well as shifts from fossil fuels, mean increasing total electrical generation likely by ~500% in the next 50 years or so.

The alternative is a large number of very disappointed people.
What a stupid comment. Who cares who makes the games you enjoy?
Isn't Konqueror the original webkit browser?
Regrettably, I've not yet seen Marpa ported from Perl. The C core `libmarpa` is only part of it.

The most recent effort I've noticed is the Rust marpa and libmarpa-sys crates, but they've seemingly been inactive for a year.

It might be interesting to attempt a port to language like Julia, both dynamically expressive, and with a good C ffi. Just to get a feel for the level of difficulty. Though I've a many-years-old very fuzzy recollection that the test coverage was worrisome.

Even by the "shoemaker's children have no shoes" standard of our profession, the state of parsing can disappoint.
For starters, in a lot of restaurants, (1) there's a set of dishes that are patron favorites, and (2) the servers make substantial amounts of money on tips. Their incentive is to make you happy with the experience.
> 39 or more systems instead of one

They would need more irrigation systems if they packed the circles more tightly? Why?
I don't see anything misleading about the discussion as a whole though, what you are saying reinforces the point:

Everyone is just silently waiting to disregarding the judicial system for any transgression that rubbed them the wrong way. They want to kill with your death being lost in the fray.
America was like this five years ago too.
The original article is paywalled. Here is a detailed summary (by Daily Mail tho): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8662975/Elon...
No disagreement from me. Without gaming on Windows systems I would may never gotten involved in programming in the first place. I'm currently watching what looked like my nephews Roblox/Minecraft addiction turn into some real amazing content creation utilizing youtube as a very real learning source.
But also can you point to a WW1 plane and say "you see, planes are unsafe"? Chernobyl was designed in the early days of nuclear energy.
Curious if there is case law here?
Just press "Y" and then play with F1-F4 and numeric pad. Basically UFO mode.
Gas no, but coal and other burning based fuels create similar hazards, in addition to nasty waste products and mining related pollution.

Coal spreads radioactive ash and various noxious chemicals. In my area of the country, many lakes were “killed” by coal related pollution from the Midwest in the 70s and 80s, for example.

Nuclear waste disposal is a real issue that needs to be deal with, but overall the technology has potential to be much better than it is today.
For bash, the easiest way would be to just type help', which will report the currently executing shell's version number (e.g. 'GNU bash, version 5.0.18(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19.5.0)'

I'm not familiar with zsh, perhaps it also has some built-in commands that would report the release version?
my bad. there you go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210590
I recently read “Dark Emu” by Bruce Pascoe. It’s a great read on Australian indigenous culture.

He notes similar experiences documented by British colonists in Australia. They remarked on how the whole continent was kept like a large and beautiful garden.
Oh do they? In what way?
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According to Wikipedia [1], the transistor was independently rediscovered by two German physicists just a year later (1948).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor#History
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States were much more authoritarian back then
Which is unfortunate, since such social policy matters relatively little to the future of our nation and world when compared to, say, policy informed by climate science.
The book Freakanomics mentions that Westerners in groups tend to avoid picking the same thing to avoid looking too conformist (and the last people to pick are unhappy with their choice because they were railroaded into getting something odd like the Filet of Fish just to show they're their own person) while Asians tend to try to follow the herd even if it is not what they'd rather have.
I think all jobs have that component in many ways, though not all with the veneer of glamour. In my job, it's not doors. It's "I count things".

I'm probably something like a data scientist (my work precedes the popularization of that term) but I'm sort of merging of data/statistical analyst, report writer, occasional programmer, occasional ETL writer etc.

An extremely large amount of my work results in output that is a count of some measure or metric or whatever. It might be something that happened, things happening now, things that might happen. But a lot of it comes down to counts. I recently finished a month-long analysis of 10 years of data to validate potential operational changes. The result? Counts of what happened in the past, counts of what might happen if we make changes.

The list of questions I have to answer, and ask people, is as long as the "doors".

Most jobs are rarely as simple as they appear from the outside. On a novel project, it might take me a week to come up with a single number. I have had a few occasions where I have had to explain in a similar "doors" list why that is often the case. It often ends with me saying something like, "So I can get you a bad number in a day. I can get you something minimally usable in 3 days. Or I can get you the correct answer in a week."
It's a violation of Google's TOS to extract the data (so copyright doesn't matter a lot).
How do you account for price in that situation? When I choose what I’m going to order at a restaurant, it’s not simply based on what I think would taste best, it’s about the ratio of price to tastiness. Whenever a waiter recommends something, it’s almost always one of the most expensive items on the menu. In fact at this point I avoid recommendations because I assume waiters are simply trying to optimize for profit and not actually what I would enjoy eating.
Out of curiosity why are you searching for that? Like if that's your only comment it makes it seem like the possibility of it being an ad dilutes the message they are writing about?

Many articles are sponsored. Many are ghostwritten.

Protip: Often times the second company/solution in the article about the solutions is the one that paid for it.

Who cares?

You want the FTC to step in with an "AHA! #AD!" banner forced on everything?
I get your point but I liked it a lot despite this. They had some big names but the focus on the little people (players), the Nintendo call centre, and stuff like Gay Blade was a part of history I hadn't really seen especially as a non-US person.

Finishing at Doom seemed an odd place to stop, though I guess an argument can be made that's the start of the modern era even though it was nearly 30 years ago now. There's definitely setup there for a sequel covering things like MMOs.
Just curious, what do you think of UE's Blueprint? I wish they retain Unrealscript which could be a much more pleasant experince than linking graphs. Blueprint is the biggest blocker on my side, but again I'm not a professional so I could be totally wrong.
Sometimes when you want to play a game you don't want to sit in an office chair at the same desk workstation that you use for your home office.
As stated by others it was designed by to bankrupt them. They have to lease the raw material from the fed at huge markups.
A real problem and challenge. Notions of language and culture are unstable over such periods, let alone organisations, institutions, and governments.

https://wipp.info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...

https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/1/29/16932718/biohazard-desi...
Interestingly enough, this was initially blamed on the Legion of Doom hacker group:

It was a frightening outage that rang alarm bells in more places than just AT&T headquarters. Months earlier, the Secret Service had arrested a 16-year-old hacker nicknamed Fry Guy who had told them, under interrogation, that a hacker gang he was associated with had been planning to crash the system on a national holiday.

That gang, the Legion of Doom, was suddenly on the law enforcement radar screen in a big way. But they weren’t alone. The Texas-centric group was in the midst of an online feud with a New York-based rival, the Masters of Deception. LOD and MOD, as they were known, were at each others throats and the battleground happened to run through the phone switches and computer systems of America.

From the article:

https://www.cybersecuritymastersdegree.org/legion-of-doom-vs...
Or most of what we do isn't really important so it doesn't matter if it breaks every once in a while.
>"not for profit" and "not an adverticle"

Neither of those cases excludes the possibility that the article was influenced by a PR campaign in some way (author's intentions are in fact irrelevant to this question), in this case for a recently-released, and apparently not particularly great documentary by Netflix.
Five minute fire response times presume that there isn't a million acre fire saturating all fire departments. If CZU were rapidly spreading and hit the side of Palo Alto, Mountain View, and San Jose all at once, I think we'd have multiday response times. Fortunately, it wasn't.

Was it possible for it to spread like that? I don't know. During COVID19, we had a constant series of claims, repeated by politicians and public health officials, which had no basis in fact. Post-COVID19, I just don't believe claims like these anymore without a citation. Most were wishful thinking.
But that is also progress. If it wasn't for Google's investment we would still maybe running Flash. People have had a lot of time to advance the web before Google came along.

The standard is open, the code is open - I don't understand how "is Chrome the new IE?" even a question. It's not like they're bundling it only on ChromeOS and Android , it's not like they have the equivalent of VbScript /ActiveX and plenty of people are making browsers based on Chromium.
Including, it appears, the New York Times itself.

From their 2019 Annual Report, "Digital advertising revenue was flat this year as we’ve pivoted our business and focused on building revenue from audio and other new sources while also focusing on large-scale deals with the world’s leading brands. It’s a challenging marketplace to be sure, but we believe our subscriber-first focus will benefit us in the advertising space as marketers look for ways to reach our deeply engaged and highly valuable audience."

Link: https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2020/04/Final-2019-Annual-R....
> available on all tenants

Yes, but typically not across tenants. Maybe the flaw is only exploitable to admins of each tenant and they shouldn’t see other tenants data.

I.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216009
I respectfully disagree with you.

Safari is more limited but some of us like the tradeoff for more privacy.

I like to see Google experimenting with new tech in Chrome but I don’t want everyone to be forced to use Chrome because a few high profile web properties only work with Chrome.

Also, I don’t see anything wrong at all with individual web developers to make some of their sites only work with Chrome if that is what they really want. The global market is huge and targeting subsets and niches is not so bad for small businesses.
Is the server-side implementation of Mediasoup fairly light? Would be cool to run SFU inside something like a Cloudflare worker.
We will never know. Stop acting like you know the wrong decision was made because the sports team you bet against made it.
True, so we have to divide "centuries" by 5 or more, that's still long enough to help with the transition. Not sure if that's what you meant though? Please correct me if I misunderstood.
Cool. I can respect that. Google should give users the option of disabling AMP though. The fact that they've gone out of their way to make it increasingly difficult to access non-AMP versions of webpages makes me think their primary motivation behind AMP is to get people behind the Google walled garden, and not out of benevolent concern for performance.
it’s about the kind of ecosystem they’re attempting to build – look at AMP for example
Great, now come back to me with a plan to plant the trees required to offset carbon emissions. This is going to be challenging, because you'll need to reforest an area roughly the size of the continental United States to reduce atmospheric CO2 to levels from a century ago [1]. In order to actually do this, you'd need to desalinate massive amounts of water to feed trees in areas without vegetation. Generating the energy for desalination and pumping it inland would release massive amounts of carbon back into the atmosphere, necessitating more tress, necessitating more water, and so on. You'd probably have better chances sequestering carbon through an algae bloom in the oceans, but that too has drawbacks (namely, when the algae dies off it'll just release the carbon again).

By comparison we already have a nuclear waste facility built in the US, though it's use was cancelled by Congress (and it wouldn't make sense to put spent fuel there yet, since we would want it for reprocessing), and another site is under construction in Finland [3].

"Bury it underground, in an area with no aquifer" isn't hand wave. Storing nuclear waste really is that simple. The main concern for uranium is water contamination. It's actually a prevalent due to naturally occurring uranium [4]. Place the waste in an area with no aquifer and there is no risk of contamination even in the event that the containment vessels deteriorate.

1. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/how-t...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

4. https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/120396/uranium-contaminat....
Apparently the person you responded to? I also care, at least somewhat, who makes the games I play. If I know or like the team who made the game, I tend to get a bit more into the game / community.

As an extreme example, I made a (really bad) Quidditch game in Flash when I was in high school that I played for dozens of hours... pretty much only because I made it. (It was kind of surreal at the time having simple AIs that I coded outplay me.)
Balconies are simply about what the threshold for shape simplification is. It's just way too much data to represent a whole city and download it over Internet so somebody decided that buildings should look pixel-perfect from half a mile away, but getting closer one could see funny edges etc. so common for edge-collapsing 3D shape simplifications.
That list may not be the most reliable. It pretty much seems like they put Tesla last because of the bold estimates Musk gives for full self-driving. The part where they criticize the software seems disregard-able because it's impossible to find a standardized measure of comparison when all the other competitors don't have a product one can buy and test, and the environments they run in are far less diverse than the landscape encompassed by Tesla owners.
As long as AMP exists then Google can not be trusted stewards of the web.
I'm probably blurring stuff he's said on Lexicon Valley with stuff he's written.
The article is definitely capitalising on the show, but I think it's more of an ad for the Internet Archive and the value it brings. A lot of people will be searching for that game after the show, and it makes sense for them to post about it.
Facebook isn't running on tight margins. It can eat a huge blow to revenue and just keep trucking.
Agreed 100%, and IMHO it was a good thing that IE "was dragging the rest of the web behind", because it at least gave some stability to the platform and gave the small competitor browsers a chance, while keeping sites relatively simple. In contrast, Google's "pushing the web forward" propaganda and the explosion of complexity and churn that has basically become a cancerous growth is much worse.
>There are many ways to go about speeding up the websites for the end users that are less technically involved for everyone and require a new subset of markup and standard.

So why isn't it done?
I wasn’t suggesting that banks solve an insolvable problem. They just ignore it by doing something else.
yeah i've learned the hard way not to give a customer an sla without a rate limit built into it