skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet explorer also added features at a pace others couldn't keep up with.

Then came the lawsuit that threatened to break up the company over a free product.

That's what made Microsoft stop work on internet explorer rather than the, 'we won!' narrative.

By over-extending chrome, Google's exhausting the competition to extinction.

Right now, only Firefox's remaining.

Apple's decided to go at their own pace.

Once Firefox dies, Google will go after chromium forks and start stop updating some key areas, turning them proprietory. Or better yet, packaging em to run on their own servers.

It's what they did/are doing with android.
Looks a lot like https://www.sococo.com/
As dangers rise, many fear their California Dream is fading
I wouldn't blame the government here, but the media. Their job is literally to represent experts and their true image to the general public - as in, they're supposed to research and tell us whether the expert seems credible, and if the government is lying about experts (or anything else) it's the media's job to call them out on it.
The desperate fight to save his family from fire ends in tragedy
The people who love SF don’t seem to want it SF-ier, otherwise these proposals would pass (I’ve also lived in Cow Hollow and Bernal Heights).

I work in the city with SFers. They all complain incessantly about their apartments, the noise, the commute, etc.

People in SF, commuting by Bart or bike for 20-30 minutes, complaining to coworkers who spend 50-80 minutes on Bart commuting in from San Ramon and Walnut Creek. Singles in SF don’t seem to understand what dual income, 1-2 kids might want. It’s not SF (not school lotteries, yes to playgrounds).

If it was so great, selling more of it should be easier.

And I know about the two people blocking slow streets... not the same NIMBY story as infill housing nobody is convinced will be great.

Update: There have been a few responses to my OP. No stated examples of where infill housing plus better urban planning have yielded the improvements that the SF infill crowd are trying to sell. It needs a master plan, which doesn’t seem likely from SF governance.
I think laws are extremely far-reaching. Imagine you're a group of like-minded people in power in the world's most powerful country right now. What's to stop you from dismantling a company?

Or in other terms, do you think that laws are slower than the cost of innovation? You're right to quote "innovation" here, because it seems nebulous. But the only reason it seems so is because it is difficult. To "innovate" independently of national boundaries, a company must have infrastructure, talent, and capital (at the least) that can pick up and move.

I'm aware of capital mobility, but at some point "the buck stops." In the case of innovation, real results need to come from real people. You can't business and finance it away to some remote island.

Edit: Changed something like "imagine you're a group of GOP officials" to "imagine you're a group of like-minded people in power in the world's most powerful country right now." My thoughts aren't meant to be political, so interpret the latter however.
Did you mean "Huawei's rebranded (insert some long existing OS name here) is now open source"?
Chrome Extension to fuzzy string search all bookmarks and history in
I love reading these pretentious responses, which amount to: "Oh why don't these silly midwesterners just listen to us with our prestigious degrees". You fail to see your own bias, by worshipping at the classist alter of institutionalized "higher education", while snubbing your nose at anyone that didn't attend your elitist universities.
https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
Those same guidelines were echoed by the CDC because of the PPE shortages caused by people mass buying masks and such. So they understandably designed those past guidelines to prioritize health workers who had a higher viral load than probably any of us experience from day to day activities, mask or not.

But now that masks are common place, the guidelines were evolved to reflect the new reality.
why dont huawei/xiaomi/lenovo/zte buy arm?

and then the hilarity of trump banning doing business with arm afterwards would be worth some popcorn...
Oregon’s air quality is off the charts
I think this is a great product you've built.

Suggestion: for each snippet / moment you show, show the thumbnail at that time.

Related: Google's Key Moments effort: https://blog.google/products/search/key-moments-video-search....
Doesn't say it's 3x3.
I think it’s fairly well established by now that at least part of the initial advice against wearing masks was because the federal government bungled the stockpile and wanted to prevent a run on remaining retail inventory. Which is a shame because it seriously undermined their credibility and lent much fuel to conspiracy theorists.

(I have a workshop long stocked with both disposable surgical and N95 masks and reusable P100 masks/cartridges, so I have no skin in the game.)
That's the way I interpreted it because it's true. A lot of the criticisms are misdirected one by people that haven't used C except being forced to use it for few assignments in school, C++ jockeys that think C is the 30 year out of date version of C that's supported by C++, and people that haven't used it at all for anything real.

I also agree that what the standard committee has been doing for the last 20 years amounts to willful sabotage.
Computer science needs renaming - like you said, computer science is not about computers, and it's obviously not about science either (it's closer to maths).
Because there was a critical shortage of masks in hospitals treating COVID and people were hoarding them, and it was unclear at the time that asymptomatic carriers could be contagious. Once there was no longer a critical shortage in hospitals and it became clear that the asymptomatic could very much spread it, he quickly switched his position. It was an entirely sensible position.
C doesn't "run on hardware" .. unless you're talking interpreted C. Of course compiled machine code is running on more hardware but that's just a truism.

The question is are people using C to program these hardware more? .. or are people gravitating towards safer compiled languages (Rust?). That's a valid question, even if the answer is "no C's usage is only increasing."
Given how SoftBank has mismanaged things across their portfolio companies, wouldn't literally anyone else be a net positive to get ARM out of SoftBank?

For all the PR ARM's old founder has been doing, i don't see he's been able to scare up a buyout partnership.
Indeed. And true humility.

"Less certainty, more inquiry." --Erik Seidel
Not sure what they had in the back, but the boxed units normally stocked under the displays were all gone. Employees in electronics confirmed mass exodus of TVs during Stimulus Week. Frozen vegetables gone for a few days, 1lb beef was dwindling most times (I wasn't visiting when they expect high traffic so maybe they were just being really efficient and what I saw was what was left without passing expiration date - no reason to set out a full shelf of beef at 8pm closing).

My sample size is... 2 Walmarts in Reno. But that was the forethought - "where is all this sudden money about to go now that everyone has 'free time at home'?"

The article prompt is ex-tech-leader pointing out reduced R&D budgeting, so I wanted to test the connection that there's an obsession with "watching" or "observing" pre arranged activity [via screen] instead of participating.

Everybody got the individual choice to purchase "what's already produced and available in storage" instead of being offered state money to build a few huge projects (spanning many provinces).
There used to be a script that would turn the telementary data off in Windows 10. I forgot the link to it and didn't save it.

I agree no updates is hard to run when Microsoft updates Windows 10 every now and then and cancels access for older updates unless they upgrade to a newer version of Windows 10.
purely MCTS with no reinforcement learning techinques invovled.

I was making something with a actor-critic with MCTS that can assess the board position as well.
It should be easy enough to google. So I didn't bother.

* ChromeOS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm...

* Fuchisa: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master... (I picked this bit sort of at random because it talks about a bunch of stuff)

* https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2019/10/31/rust-2020.... ("Runebender is generously supported financially by Google Fonts, for which I am very grateful, as it makes it more of a serious and professional project.")

* Chrome: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/q/project:experimen...

This is as direct of links as I can give, but there's a ton of commentary around all of these topics; they've been covered on HN before, even.
X is what Google used to be.
This is not correct. UNIX timestamps always have 86400 seconds per day, and consequently, they do not actually count the number of seconds since the epoch.
And if we as a society decide that people should have health care, food to eat, and shelter , we shouldn’t put the burden on private companies. Companies should focus on making money and paying taxes. The government should use that tax money to provide universal healthcare, increase the earned income tax credit and make it easier to get throughout the year.

A private company shouldn’t be worried about providing a “livable wage”. A “livable wage” to my 18 year old son staying at home is not the same for a single mother of two doing the same job - that reality was part of the structure and purpose of the EITC. It’s just implanted badly.

I don’t need big government to make decisions for me.
This is not why we're fleeing.
They said masks weren't effective but changed their tune after the PPE shortages were ameliorated. Predictably many people only accepted their first answer or worse, lost trust in their recommendations. They're thinking, "what are they lying about now?" This was a big public health blunder and only fanned the flames of the bizarre politicization of masks. They should have been upfront with the public and encouraged mask wearing from the beginning.
I don’t know if you’re aware of this but I had a lot of fun and maybe this can be used for some interview as an initial ice-breaker problem?

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
They paid everyone under the sun to bundle chrome with their installers, they are pushing chrome through every one of their properties, and last but not least they deliberately introduce incompatibilities.
The problem with HCQ is:

* it still has had no good RCTs backing it up

* it has significant negative side effects

But I have been eating zinc and quercetin rich foods, like spinach and kale (respectively). Quercetin is a zinc ionophore like HCQ but without the side effects.

I don't understand what your problem with vitamin C and D supplements is. People have taken supplements for a long time, and those vitamins have been a part of the human diet for much longer than HCQ has existed.
"FINE< WHY NOT GO EVEN FURTHER AND REALLY HELP THE POOR?!?! IM SURE YOU'LL BE SORRY THEN!"

I never really understand some arguments with people who think most regulation is bad and not voted in blood.
They would not; you're either drastically underestimating the number of messages modern secure messengers handle, or overestimating the number of packages verified every day. But PGP is also an archaic way to sign packages, and there is no network effect to package signature schemes; all of them can, and should, be replaced with modern schemes like minisign/signify.
Should not be an LLC is not the same as not being a businesses. Propertiorship are perfectly good way of running a small biz.

Each category has additional paper work and regulations which protect the people like customers, vendors, employees and investors who they deal with.

The "limited liability" part of LLC benefit comes with the cost of following some governance and having seperate finance and agreeing to follow additional regulations as required .

Very small businesses should opt for propertiorship just as small business should not go public and become a PLC. The benefit giving access to retail investors comes with cost of deeper regulation in that case.
Alright so give me the damn job! Covid has screwed me over, I'll start Monday
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It's a self fulfilling prophecy that's been ongoing since the 80s. An entire political party's ideology is based on the idea that government doesn't work and when in power they set out to prove it by making government dysfunctional by defunding agencies and confusing their mandates.

That same party politicized clean air regulations, climate change, and wearing masks. This has crippled expertise because if one side can just pay anyone to say anything, whats the point?
My God you are a pretentious twat, I would never want to work with you.
> whenever the virus is neutralized.

I suspect not before 2022. And even that is generous.
Microsoft was working on the .NET framework to beat Java. They had J++ to replace Java which became J# and then C#. I think they got sued over it being too much like Java and had to change it.

Now Microsoft has open sourced .Net to run many languages on different platforms.
Big discussion 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22077019
Not sure what you mean by this. I'd say the US way of teaching in STEM prioritizes solving problems, which is an excellent way to do it, and exactly what an entrepreneur or researcher most needs from school. School systems in other countries are far worse about this, basing school on rote practice and memorization.

Though also class projects strike me as a good way to encourage exploration and creativity, and seems to be something emphasized much more in the US versus other countries in my experience.
I’m an American, but my favorite dish is from the Philippines. I lived there for about a year doing a religious service mission. Anyways, the dish is called Bicol Express named after Bicolanos (people of Bicol [which is a city in the Phillipines]) they like this dish really spicy, but most Filipinos prefer a more mild version. Here’s a recipe from this site [1] that turns out pretty well which seemed pretty mild to me though has a nice enough kick to it. Here in The States I usually just skip the ampalaya, vetsin, and bagoong (alamang) or shrimp paste. Because of preferences and because some of those things are hard to find in American grocery stores and the closest Asian store is pretty far from me. All the following is from the site I mentioned above

“””

Ingredients:

1 med. Eggplant, cut in 1" slices

1 med. Ampalaya, cut in 1" slices

6 pieces red pepper cut in 1/2" slices

6 pieces chili finger (sili)

1 cup coconut milk (first extract)

1 cup coconut milk (second extract)

4 cloves garlic minced

1 med. onion

1/2 to 3/4 kilogram pork, sliced small

1 tbsp Bagoong (alamang) or shrimp paste

2 tablespoons cooking oil

salt

vetsin

Cooking Procedure:
Sauté the garlic, onion, pork, shrimp, and bagoong
Add second extract of coconut milk and bring to a boil
Simmer until pork is halfway cooked
Add the vegetables (including the peppers and chili fingers)
Add first extract of coconut milk and bring to a boil
Simmer until cooked
Add salt, vetsin to desired taste

Hot Tip:
I prefer freshly extracted coconut milk rather than processed-canned coconut milk.
If you want it to be super spicy-hot, add more red chilies

“””

[1]: https://lahatsarap.blogspot.com/2011/08/bicol-express-recipe...
I for one totally agree. I don't want to pay some lefty tax instead of just being able to sue the company after it kills me through negligence. That'll show em.
It all depends on what you're used to.

I was born in a City of 6 million people.

I then moved to a City of 2 million people. It feels small by comparison.

To me a "city" is a place with an opera house, multiple museums, multiple options for every type of good international cuisines, shops open in the evening, and a transit system beyond bus (tram, or metro/subway).

I lived for a couple of years in a place that was the capital of a European nation, but was only about 600,000 people, and had "only" 3 Ramen restaurants. It felt like a town to me, not a city.

So yeah, I basically feel like every place below 1MM is a town.

In a city, I should to be able to (though I never have, and never will) streak naked down the street during rush hour, and for it to be a non-event. The European capital I lived in that thinks it's a city once had a frontpage story in the daily newspaper with the headline "Man on <street name> gets on all fours and barks like a dog at passerbys". That's not a city to me.

3k residents I would call a village.
"OpenHardware is engineering on an artist's business model" -Logxen (at least the first person I heard say it :) )

Openhardware is more than about being the cheapest...it is about free modification of anything and everything involved in the project and the ability to share, innovate, sell (as long as GPL is respected) and create. I would actually argue that what makes OSHW projects weaker is the race to the bottom. I watched this happen in more than one OSHW community so far that I have been involved in. Largely, the core devs abandon projects once they get big enough to bring in the cloners since typically you end up getting a lot of "You need to fix this because we are using it, we don't care if we buy your hardware, you are responsible for making it work to my needs". I know this is very common in OSS as well. It is very frustrating to watch happen knowing that the cloners (in our case) do not respect GPL of the project, do not handle their own customer support and sell at a rate which makes it so the "real devs" cannot afford to maintain the project.

Even knowing all this though...I still have a focus on OSHW over patents. My personal belief is that patents only are valuable if you can defend them. I also feel that if I have something valuable enough to want to patent it is probably something the world may need...why not give it away and help everyone.

The real benefit of OSHW is the same thing that can make it very difficult as well...everything is open, so you leave yourself open to all compliments as well as criticisms...there are times where some people with very high level training are willing to help by contributing but more importantly by trolling. If you can fix the issues that they are complaining about, it shows that you are interested in helping the community (and at times they are also very high level people who are not intending to help but they are pointing out issues which may be opaque to the devs).

As far as OSHW robotics. Look into Moveo for a hardware example (there are others) and ROS for control software.

Background: I have been working directly with Reprap since 2011 (Long time member and Op in #reprap@freenode) and working with the Smoothieware/Smoothieboard project since ~2013 doing QA/Inspection/Test/Rework/Hand building protos.
Protection from this judicial decision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamex_Operations_West,_Inc._...

The AB5 is meant to codify it in the law.

> The Court then reached the principle holding of the case, interpreting the “suffer or permit” standard in the wage order context. The Court held that the hiring entity bears the burden of “establish[ing] that a worker is an independent contractor” and thus, “not intended to be included within the wage order’s coverage.”[46] The Court went on hold that in order for the entity to meet this burden, it must establish each of three factors, in what is called the “ABC test”:

> (A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact; and (B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business; and (C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed.[47]
There's a difference between being able to say "you need to explain your work and projects to me" vs. you're going to spend the entire interview day preparing and giving presentations.

I agree with the other commenter, it baffles me that we think that asking someone to write code, when the majority of their job will be writing code, is somehow an unfair interview process so the solution is to have them give only hours of powerpoint presentations.
Heh, all these comments are very much "to each their own" but ya, holy heck did I ever HATE my commute. It wasn't even that long, but it was depressing. I didn't even realize how filled with dread I was every night before going to bed and every day around 4pm or so realizing I'd be faced with getting myself home. This situation is heaven for me (not saying I'm happy about why we're in this situation, to be clear).

Of course, I live alone in a decent-sized apartment outside of downtown. I also work at an XP shop (I actually much prefer remote pairing) and I'd probably feel differently if I had to work alone all day every day.
Dyson's arguments on climate are still quite valid. Climate has always been variable, never static, and CO2 is incredibly beneficial for plant growth. Climate models are inherently flawed. They do not model clouds or biological systems well at all. They are forecasts of nonlinear, dynamic systems for which uncertainty is an exponential function of time. Listen to his arguments: https://youtu.be/Pou3sGedeK4
This would be the immediate effect today. An alternative description is "VC money supports the axe hanging over unprofitable uber jobs". The question is - does uber need to find a solution to this problem today or in X months?

This is going to happen one way or another.
"Raising suspicion" isn't really a concern in this context. And of course he understands what his own emails mean. Seeking extreme clarity when discussing them is not the same as not understanding them.
This theory is commonly called “Peak Oil” and has been repeatedly been debunked in practice since it was first proposed in the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil#Predictions

While certainly the quantity of fossil fuels is finite. It is unlikely we will ever “run out of fossil fuels” because the price will simply increase as supplies begin to run low. Then two things will happen: we will consume less and expand the scope of production to more expensive source.

This has already happened repeatedly over the history of the fossil fuel industry.
I moved to SF in 2009 and there were very few tech companies in town and it was in the middle of recession. Even then good places had a bidding war. If you read this Bay Area housing market report[1], you will see that it still showing strength in SFH market. My guess is SF will continue to do fine

[1] https://www.bayareamarketreports.com/trend/san-francisco-hom...
There is nothing stopping California from increasing corporate taxes and providing health care to everyone in the state.

Why go through the Rube Golberg solution?
Dispelling Myths: WireGuard Is More Secure Than Other Protocols
Is Gardnerville bad though? Never been there but the town seems to have really cheap land, some beautiful ranch properties, reasonable proximity to Tahoe/skiing, and zero income tax. I know culture is not measured in $/sq.ft but as a Californian paying out the nose in taxes for nothing, it seems to be a pretty decent location.
There's websites for disposition of company assets when they go under. The Makani auction was advertised on the Silicon Valley Disposition website [0] for a while.

[0] https://svdisposition.com/