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> A major antitrust report that the House Judiciary Committee released this week found that Chrome’s market share allows Google to “effectively set standards for the industry,” an issue of particular relevance as Chrome phases out cookies.

HN is full of creative thinkers. Someone should figure a way to get gorhill before the committee so he can explain what ublock origin does and how Google has been trying to destroy it in the name of "efficiency."

I'm not sure exactly how to frame blocking all the goddamned ads in a conversation about Google monopolizing all the goddamned ads. But senators and their staffers should know about blockers and be using one on all their machines.
"Subversion used to say, 'CVS done right.' With that slogan there is nowhere you can go. There is no way to do CVS right."
Where I live we have lots of trucks - the "fuck you" trucks - and the popular ones now are matte military green, beige, and black, matte black if you're extra cool. The military aesthetic is exhausting, I almost want to move to more liberal state just to tilt the balance a bit - subarus and prius with dutch bro stickers are preferable to military-esque trucks with chimneys up the back and black and white american flag Punisher skulls. Between those and the people with the brass knuckles MMA stickers, the prevailing outward sentiment on the road here is "I'm happy to shoot or beat you." That demographic isn't interested in purple from my observations. Everyone else seems fine accepting a plain colors. I had to wait a couple extra days to get my car in the color I wanted - wasn't even a "fun" color, just a more interesting shade of blue. I heard another lady told about the wait and she just took white. I suspect that happens quite a bit. You can get fun colors, but you need to wait.
Reading highly reductive US coverage of my country is what makes me skeptical they do much better in covering their own national news.
Beware, government is not those who command it. If there was some real democracy out there where citizens all should be actively implicated in the government (as opposed to supposedly delegate it), then what would it mean to have citizen wanting to increase control on citizen?
Yes. You can go and try explain this to them. Good luck.
Interesting they want to phase out cookies given how hostile they are to people that browse without them.

If you go to youtube without cookies, your video starts playing. Then it stops and you get a popup asking if you want to sign in. You click no, then it rewinds your video.. then you have to click play and re-watch the part you already watched.

Every video.

Even google as a search engine becomes a less attractive option when you have to agree to their 50 page long privacy policy every time you search for something.
not really, if you cannot see then the camera should not be able to, and the opposite applies
It’s not enough for the government to read everyone’s messages; they must also work with the platforms to make it seem to the public like the platforms are secure against government snoops, so people will continue to use them freely.

The whole “Apple wouldn’t decrypt the phone for the FBI” is one such false narrative in the media to further this. Apple had already provided the FBI with the phone’s iCloud data, which usually contains backups that have complete plaintext message history. Apple also dropped their plan to encrypt iCloud device backups that would prevent this sort of surveillance, specifically to aid the FBI.

Facebook already provides whatever surveillance law enforcement requests. This is a press hit along the same lines to spread the lie that routine communications on Facebook are not subject to surveillance.

They absolutely are. You can tell this by trying to send banned links via Messenger. A platform that doesn’t surveil the content will necessarily permit them as they will be opaque to the provider. Facebook has many systems in place to monitor and censor message content.
I had the iSight camera when I was in high school. Brings back a lot of dial-up memories too.
It's a logical place to start given the X-Client-Data backdoor to DoubleClick and Google properties, which is fundamentally anti-competitive in the ad space by giving DoubleClick access to data that other ad networks are unable to obtain and making it literally impossible for Chrome users to opt out of (and not disclosing the DoubleClick relationship).

Then there's the constant stream of new web APIs which are used almost exclusively for tracking purposes by ad networks including Google properties. For an example of that, look at the AudioContext APIs which leak audio latency information (regularly used to fingerprint users) and are available to websites with no opt-in, no notice and are accessible even if you never use audio on the page. Practically all of the modern web APIs spearheaded by Chrome offer yet another tracking data-point that is abused primarily by ad networks including their own.
> I learned to embrace the JS ecosystem and all of its quirks a long time ago.

Stop conflating the NPM ecosystem with JS.
There is no such thing as "Darwinism" outside of Creationist propaganda.

Evolution by natural selection is directly observed in labs, farm fields, and jungles alike. Biologists are not seeking to "establish" it, but to refine it and place it in context with evolution by sexual selection, by genetic drift, by mutualism, and by other influences less well characterized, not least epigenetics, which acts at the scale of individuals.

I.e., lots of "mechanisms" are known. None contradicts any other. What mix is responsible for a change is often hard to tease out.

Darwin wrote about both natural selection and sexual selection. Which do you imagine to be "Darwinism"?

You would better get your information from people not seeking actively to delude you.
We can go even deeper and ask how we'd call sound-like gravity waves in spacetime? Some sort of oscillating system of heavy stars can produce a periodic gravity wave that we'd call sound probably.
Higher octane means the gas has a better ability to resist knocking, which is spurious ignition not caused by the spark plug. Knocking can damage your engine if it happens often. Turbocharged cars have a higher tendency to knock, so they generally need high-octane gas. If you put low-octane in a turbocharged car, most modern engines will detect the knocking and detune the engine automatically to prevent damage, but that means you're not getting the power or efficiency the car was designed for.

So use high-octane in turbocharged cars and low octane for non-turbocharged cars. (If you use too high an octane in your car, it won't hurt anything but your wallet.)

If you're racing a turbo car you might need close to 100 octane, which cannot easily be bought but it can be made by adding toluene to your gas tank (google it).

Other than that check your owner's manual.
This isn't really a learning technique.

It's an analogy on learning. Every other day there's some blog post on HN about some analogy on some self improvement topic like learning, project management or complexity or whatever...

I'll tell you what learning isn't. Learning isn't coming up with new analogies for concepts you already completely understand over and over again.

I and pretty much everyone on this planet already knows what learning is, and unless you have a new learning technique, what is the point of comparing learning to a fractal? There's nothing new here.

I'm not trying to reprimand what this person wrote this but when you see some flavor of this on HN all the time it gets old.
Unnecessary because they can already force you to pass all monetary transactions through an app like WeChat and can track you all they want there.

And let's not pretend that Apple has shown any willingness to stand up to the Chinese government.
try https://github.com/gjtorikian/mathematical
>This is somewhat of a meta-comment but why is nutrition research so challenging and contentious even in 2020?

A substantial long term study, with many experimental subjects, is more costly to fund, and produces much less papers than 10 or 20 hastily done studies. The system optimizes for more papers and easier funding.

Plus, research/university ties with industry means the industry (glorified telemarketers) says jump and researchers say "how high". Bad results that promote a product/supplement/fad diet can be way more profitable than good research.
Maybe now's the time to ask Google to help me fund building out a fully usable Servo based browser! Let's build a truly user-centeric agent
Incredible. Given a (one-to-one) Julia function `f`, this package generates `~f`, the inverse of f. Clever use of automatic differentiation.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04617
Genuine question, what is the alternative in your view. All visual editors that I've ever used are much more cumbersome unless they take latex syntax.

Sure one could come up with some markup language that would have an easier syntax for relatively simple cases (see e.g. the post a bit further down), but to actually support the complex formulas that latex supports we would quickly end up with something very similar to latex.
9/11 certainly provided that argument with a lot more ammo, but the rhetoric has been around for ages. Remember the cold war and McCarthyism?
Well I can be the most technically skilled of my domain, and yet be a total bastard that would bring nothing but trouble in whatever team I would join.

Thus said, a call to previous employers should do the trick.
The idea of 1080p HD or even 4K webcams is silly when most videoconferencing software/apps limits to 320p or 720p.

Google Meet, for example, does not even support 1080p.
What is a great question. A good one gets a scoff and raises your chin.
That depends on the quality of your comment.
I can totally relate. I have been working on a similar codebase (6k modules), once built with Grunt and then migrated to Webpack. It has proven to be a mature tool.
>towards people with genetic obesity

All 10 of them? That's fine then, because for the rest of 99% of the obese population it's fine...
Google and Microsoft Engineers on the Open Web and Business Interests
400 TB is within everyone's grasp nowadays. My HDD is 6 TB and costed me $80. Granted is 5400 rpm, hence the low price but buy 67 of them and it costs only $5360. I mean I pay more rent in 12 months.
What a gem, thank you for sharing.
If law enforcement are this inept and incompetent, why should they be given easy-to-abuse access to private communication?

Especially given we know that those with access regularly use it to spy on ex-girlfriends and other innocent civilians.
Appreciate your perspective, and thanks so kindly for your post. As a classically trained vocalist, that perspective makes me feel you are not the kind of person who I would like to work with; or a person I could

When I produce my own music, I have the privilege of treating my own vocals as...somewhat 'just another instrument' is a blessing and a curse. I often end up doing anywhere from 30-50 takes for a verse, and 'Kubricking' myself like that is just part of my process that I have the luxury and privilege of going through because I live the studio I also produce other artists out of.

I can get much more into their stories and narratives by treating them as a little bit higher in focus than the rest of the track.

This is totally spoken out of personal experience and in total respect for what you do. Just saying that I really make a specific effort to treat vocalists as the real people they are since most of the other instruments in my track are often electronic.
I'm fascinated by this topic. Do you have any writeups you'd recommend for further reading?
I live my life assuming everything already has a backdoor and the article title is misleading the populace. Sure, the Five Eyes and Japan might be asking for a backdoor but I postulate the chance they don't already have access to all information they desire is zero. At this point everything is just meant to wear everyone down and increase tolerance until the day "government has access to everything" doesn't matter to the populace.

Secondly, I think people are really naive to consider any justification for catching bad guys. All funding should be going into making the desire "to be a bad guy" zero. That's not going to be done by fear but instead by making a life as "not a bad guy" more attractive. Currently people are living unattractive lives while following the law and society should be making that unattractiveness go away.
What has led you to believe that evolution is not itself continuously evolving in each lineage? What do you imagine DNA is for? What do you imagine sex is for? Do you imagine that sexual reproduction always existed, or that it has had no effect on the lineages where it occurs, or their relative prevalence? How do you imagine those lineages became so prevalent, among multicellular organisms?
I should clarify (I'm aware that you said you don't have an alternative). My question is of what type/form the alternative should take.
In Australia, we have multiple stores that advertise free returns and include a return shipping bag. The whole idea is that you can return things that don't fit.

I'd assume similar services exist in other places, and the clothes may be sent to multiple customers.
Is that still true if the size_t parameter to the madvise call is less than the entire file size? I would think that madvise hints could be issued at page granularity and not affect the entire mapping as originally allocated.
looks like someone is sponsoring it:

https://mathml.igalia.com/
> but it also provides information about their business that they may prefer to not share

On the other hand, it's probably not a good idea to be kept in the dark regarding how major sectors of the economy function, with only the word of corporate PR departments to go on that everything is fine.
We'd know by merely looking at the network tab in the web inspector.
The Anti-Social Novelist
It is because TeX provides the only acceptable output quality right now; also, TeX is like the C of math type setting. So whatever your improved solution is, it will have to include TeX at least partially, like MathJax or KaTeX.

It is what you get when you have a genius like Knuth taking math typesetting seriously. To get something better, you need somebody similar sitting down and take another serious stab at it.
I don't think that matters as much as Chrome's market share, and the way they assert control in order to do things like disable ad blocking plugins.
> Another interesting question is, what is the economic impact of those high risk people not being able to leave their homes? What happens to the schools and workplaces where they normally serve?

Exactly. This is something I've pondered in thinking through some of these proposals - if one wanted to pursue these policies and actually protect high risk folks, that alone would likely have significant impacts.

E.g. KFF estimated that a quarter of workers are at high risk of severe illness with Covid - https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/almost-... - of course, some of these folks will be in jobs amenable to work from home. But, for the rest of them? That's a lot of the workforce either a) temporarily leaving the workforce (oh hello, economic consequences) or b) staying in, and accepting the increased risk from community spread (oh hello, more death).

> That is a rather coy statement. They don't even give us a clue how that could actually work.

Yep, lots of hand waving in that one. It's hard to take this declaration with any seriousness given the lack of substance.
The problem is that mathematical notation itself is insanely complex and very nuanced, so any attempt to replicate it digitally will also be insanely complex.

A better solution IMO is an alternate mathematical notation which can be simple and unambiguous not only for humans, but also computers. Something like apl - https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
> "While it remains to be seen whether transplantation from very young donors can restore cognitive function in aged recipients, the findings demonstrate that age-related shifts in the gut microbiome can alter components of the central nervous system."

Looking forward to future results testing the other direction.
The challenge lies in moving the water, not in building a container to store it.

> You could even truck it in from a thousand miles away without really impacting the cost very much.

Lets' do the math. Trucking costs ~$.15 per short ton per mile as per Google. So shipping 270 tons over 1,000 miles works out to $40,000. And you're using the thermal energy density of hydrogen, not the electrical energy density - as in, accounting for inefficiency of electricity generation. 1 GWh thermal is typically 500 MWh electrical for both fuel cells and turbines. The actual cost would be double that, given that most systems are 40-60% efficient. So if by "without really impacting the cost vey much" you mean "increasing the cost by a factor of 5-9x", then sure. Moving large amounts of water is energy intensive, most infrastructure built to move water relies on gravity to move water from alpine reservoirs to lowlands. And unless you're capturing the output of whatever you're using to transform hydrogen back into electricity, then this is a recurring cost not a capital cost. This is easier to do for some implementations, like electrochemical cells, but much harder for gas turbines.
five eyes is exactly what you would call the secret evil organization in a super robot anime
If it undermines people's trust in Facebook's privacy, I'm for it. We need general adoption of strong open source secure messaging, and Facebook/WhatsApp stands in the way of this by being "good enough".

If anything, this sort of announcement might just as well be a false flag tactic: look how secure Facebook is, 5-eyes is pleading for them to be less secure.

[/tinfoil hat]
> Who said Microsoft is getting an "exclusive license"? The OpenAI blog post doesn't. It's licensed to Microsoft now, and presumably to other companies in future (to not do so would be leaving money on the table).

It's right there in the article, including a link to Microsoft's announcement, which says, among other things:

"Today, I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft is teaming up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 [...]"

I'm pretty sure that when Microsoft claims they have an exclusive license to some IP, they actually do.
What amazed me the most was how both people put themselves as huge supporters of the open web, MathML, and the distressed pudding of mom. At the same time the open web they define as only the part of the web that aligns with their business interests and "screw you" if accessibility for example does not return enough on investment. This is the reason why I can't force myself to like neither of the two companies.

* https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Distressed_Pudding
Yup. That's why the most environmental move you can do is just to buy and consume less stuff.
This doesn't sound very practical advice to me. It seems to be saying: Do a bit of breadth-first mixed with some depth-first. But whatever you do don't do only depth-first.

But maybe that is an important point. Don't dig too much into details try to get the overall picture so you can decide what you should focus on most.
What rules? It's not like any government out there rises every single citizen or has into a fully qualified lawyer.

People generally go with the foggy model of what seem the most in accordance with values they lously acquired by observing there own neighborhood.
apple creates a cool new design every 3 years like clockwork. iphone 4, iphone 6, iphone x, iphone 12 mini.
Only if you're the targeted person. Not everyone's text has to be forwarded. Not everyone has to get the same code either, so you'd have to check it every time.
I don't really, I experienced it first-hand. This article seems okay though : https://lithub.com/from-anon-to-alt-right-the-dangerous-tric...
Soldiers of fortune were historically frowned upon to peer pressure people to fight for 'honor' rather than pay. The same is true today. You can read ancient greek texts griping about dishonorable mercenaries.
Inverse WSB, by the time people on WSB are talking about the trade, its too late and better to take the opposite side. Happened with SLV, and TSLA battery day. Most times good plays or ideas that are posted before the fact get ridiculed and don't get traction until after they played out.
So one day it might be possible to literally have shit for brains.
You are way over complicating this in avoiding just googling the actual definition of sound in a physics context. It's acoustic waves in a medium. Acoustic waves are adiobatic compression/rarefaction waves.

All your examples are just sound. There's no difference if the medium is all gas, all tennis balls, or a mixture of both along with some very confused corgis.

The medium, and whatever objects it exists as, are not sound itself. The notional particles of sound waves are called phonons.

Propagation of transverse waves in the electromagnetic field is what we call light, radio, and other electromagnetic radiation. There's also constraints of symmetry for how the electric and magnetic portions of the field relate to each other. The notional particles of these waves are photons.

To address your last point, it would help to stop thinking of waves as platonic objects with their own independent existence as objects, and instead see them as patterns of activity/interaction within ongoing dynamic systems.

All of your examples are simply sound. There's no confusion in this. And yes the definition of sound still requires a medium.
Car designs too. Companies just want stuff that is easy to move at low risk... only the luxury companies take risks because nobody is going to buy a $200K car that looks like a turd.
> I had to pick a thing to make Google give up, it would probably be YouTube and not Chrome.

Most people don't realize WHY google started to build their own web browser in the first place. It was actually because of google docs. Google wanted to dominate the office software sector, and Microsoft didn't let them on Windows. Therefore Google had to change the platform - to the web.

Regarding ad networks: google analytics is used among around 84.1% of websites. If that is not a monopoly, then I don't know what is. The rest is like a couple of pedestrians on the street that don't have a car already.

I mean, you cannot justify that this should be allowed. Not a single country on the planet should have access to THAT much data, and much less a single company without any moral obligations because they don't even pay taxes in the countries they are operating in.
Their return policy is designed to make you buy things without thinking too hard about it or worrying about the quality - the "ah who cares, if it sucks I can just return it" mentality. That strategy means that you buy things you don't need, causing a TON of environmental externalities. So, yeah, they'd have more fraud - maybe their return policy isn't compatible with the environment. Maybe their profit margins are not compatible with the environment. Maybe... just maybe... their entire business model isn't compatible.
Good Intentions, Bad Inventions: Myths of Healthy Tech [pdf]
How to open a pineapple with bare hands
All the parties declined to comment. How can forbes report on this if no one is willing to say it's happening?
Very philosophical, but that’s not how it works in practice.
A mercenary is simply a soldier for hire. They can still be choosy who they do business with. I'd say a group like Blackwater is a proper mercenary organization rather than Northrup Grumman, however.