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> are different browsers not allowed to be different?

The web (and open standardisation in general) has pioneered an ecosystem where the primary differentiation between browser is in user-facing UX & features (and ancillary factors such as performance, etc.), rather than developer-facing web-tech support.

This is quite different to a lot of other commercial "competitive" spaces as it substitutes vendor lock-in on patents & trade-secrets for actual innovation in the user-facing space. It's not all rosy: competing browsers still stray from this on the regular, but the ideal is one of the primary selling points of the web as a platform.

Browsers differentiating themselves on user features while maintaining cross-competitor consistency on web standards is the dream that differentiates the web, so seeing its erosion is something to call out.

> Like if Firefox didn't want to implement WebUSB, Safari didn't want to implement WebPush, or Lynx didn't want to implement Canvas is that outrageous?

What's particularly different here is that this isn't about the addition of a feature. The ticket opened is about adding XPath2 support but the quoted line is about removing existing XML support.

This may sound a bit like I'm supporting Microsoft's old "don't break the web" adage, but the big difference here is MS was reluctant to remove features competitors didn't have for fear of breaking IE-only websites (that had relied on them due to IE's dominance). This is about Chrome removing standardised features that browsers, servers, and applications of all varieties have supported interoperably for decades.
"If it wasn't Facebook it would be another company"

"Facebook isn't the problem, human beings are the problem, and they just expose it"
SelectStar is another great example of virtual data pedagogy

https://selectstarsql.com/

I’ve recently become interested in switching from DevOps to DBA/DataOps and these two sites, plus a few classes on coursera have been amazing finds. I hope they help others who may come across these posts
That's what OP originally did as well.
On that point, I completely agree.
What do I need to build an application ?
> What's the law on this?

Your understanding is correct, at least in general. If the tenant moves out and stops paying rent, the landlord has a claim for breach of contract. The landlord, however, must try to mitigate his damages by renting the property to someone else. The breaching tenant will be liable for vacancy costs as well as costs of finding a new tenant. If fair market value has gone down and the landlord can’t find a new tenant at the old rate, then the breaching tenant will be liable for the difference in the remainder of the lease term.

There may be statutory exceptions that allow a tenant to break a lease without liability in some circumstances. They’re things like military service, domestic violence, unsafe property, or landlord harassment. See this article for more info for California: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/tenants-right-break-...
Run ad blockers and skip the single 'play this game' pitch. It isn't hard.
Fictional light sabers were also insanely dangerous, so this is true to television. It's just that the movies didn't show saber mishaps.
Not everyone follows that strategy! I certainly never have.
Ahrefs blog is pretty solid. Also Backlinko (Brian Dean), or anything by Nick Eubanks.
Unicode doesn't magically make this stuff go away, much less any specific encoding of it. A glyph can consist of multiple codepoints, and then those can sometimes be standardized to other codepoints. For instance, Unicode has codepoint U+00C4 for an A with a diaeresis (aka umlaut). But it also has codepoints U+0041 U+0308 for an A with a combining diaeresis, which should then map to the combined U+00C4 for font rendering.
Ok, so why not a bicameral system where the Senate also has proportional representation while keeping 6 year terms? There wouldn't have to be a 1:1 ratio of senators to representatives. Maybe there would be something like 1 senator/2 representatives?

Or, if we kept the same 2 senators/state maybe we split high population states into smaller states so that we don't have huge gap between number or residents/senator?

Personally, I think we should probably move in the unicameral direction. I don't think that "fast-changing" adaptability is a negative in this modern world.
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Do you think a phobia of cats is caused by cats?

You have to realize that virus-causes-death and lockdown-causes-anxiety attacks are two different kinds of "cause". I mean, on some level they're both just cells malfunctioning, eh? But these two orders of causality are not the same.

> you can't just treat mental health issues with a beer.

First of all, yes you jolly well can.

Second, the cure for anxiety attacks may not be beer but it surely is not "break quarantine". That just transfers the anxiety onto the vulnerable. It's a B.S. argument founded in myopic selfishness.
Flashback to a utility that only existed as a binary, but was key to some prod processes. Even better - by the time I met it, said utility crashed on a SEGV after it accomplished it's task. So SOP became - ok, xxx crashed, we're good to proceed.
It's mostly hobbyist Plan 9 software development. There is some shared disk storage and people upload code they are working on for other people to test and help with, so it is an active workspace for Plan 9 development. There is also a lot of general discussion of computer related topics in the chat, sometimes with a rather abstract mathematical focus on limits of computation and dependent type theories and the logic of infinity, with only a vague connection to existing Plan 9 software - far out brainstorming.
Why should I let your facts get in the way of my beliefs?
The way you talk to your co-workers on slack is wrong
I'm typing this from a legacy browser (first released 18 years ago) running on a legacy OS (first released 29 years ago, a rehash of a design from 50+ years), and will switch to my legacy editor (first released 44 years ago) to continue work.
I often read backlinko.com and ahrefs.com
Not sure how widely held this view is, but for me the main appeal to bootstrapping is that I don't have to wait until the company is acquired or until I IPO to feel like I've "made it".

I would feel like I've made it if I can make the same salary I would otherwise make as a developer building something I actually care about AND possess a degree of ownership over it that feels more real. Everything else from that point is just bonus.

Being involved in a VC-backed startup probably makes way more sense if you really, really like wealth and money. It's probably the rational course of action. I don't want a ton of money though, nor be wholly guided by what's rational or logical. I just want to really live.
Or "brass tacks" < "facts".
"If you don't have problems which made you look at big data solutions, don't look for them."

Why do you assume they don't have or aren't dealing with such problems?
Perhaps it is my paranoia, but I worry that someone could create a lookalike to my account and misrepresent me. So I leave my real account there and simply don't mess with it. Occasionally I post that people should reach me by email.
The Case Against Low Priority Alerts
Vtable and vtable pointer is under the hood.
That's a good question! The new V4 platform https://batch.openaddresses.io/data outputs data as line delimited GeoJSONs, but haven't gotten time to test throughput in any common tools other than jq
In case anyone's wondering, Lionels -> Lionel Blair (a British entertainer of the 1970/80s) -> flairs

I used to row with a Cockney. He had a few good sayings. One of my favourites was "Woah, that got the strawberry goin'" (strawberry -> strawberry tart -> heart) which was visually appealing too.
Who are you talking about? Tech workers or people who don’t work in tech?

Everyone I know in the service industry left. I doubt they ever come back. COVID was the nail in the coffin for most bars, restaurants, and clubs in SF that were already struggling. The city isn’t going to be the same after this.
> The US is a country that likes to brag about democracy and likes to "bring democracy to others" while having a poor implementation of it themselves.

I'm a lifelong American. I know my perspective is limited, but here's my perception:

- Politicians at the national level often brag in the manner you describe. (I could believe it's become less common in the last 10-20 years, but I haven't paid careful attention.)

- Almost no private citizen (in my circles, at least) thinks in those terms, or at least they don't openly speak that way. The most prevalent form of nationalism that I see amongst Americans is the feeling that various groups are unfairly disadvantaged by our national leadership's tolerance of bad trade deals with China, or (less often) failure to protect American workers from having to compete with illegal immigrants for jobs.

- Also, my impression is that a large majority of Americans hold our Congress and (often) Executive branches in very low regard.
This explanation seems like it can't be correct and must be a simplification as well. If this was measurable in a way that's described here you'd be able to transmit information.

I always imagined the two "marbles" as possibly being two similar but differing clocks instead. The clocks will align more or less often depending on how similarly they're set and how fast each run. With this analogy you can come up with any distribution that fits your fancy.

Its probably a silly analogy but it lets me cling my notions of no spooky action.
Radiation burn is what it is. Don't try to get an actual tan this way. Edit: parent knows this of course. Not every one does.
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> I'm not in a position to remove or not remove an API - I just use it, and the only thing I'm saying there is to _consider_ backwards compatibility.

There is no backwards compatibility for a feature that was released just a few days ago and that had been behind a flag prior to the release.

> If the feature is changed, change the name so existing sites don't break. You're extrapolating far too much from that

There's nothing to extrapolate. These are facts.

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Also, note: "Rich Harris and other persistent web component haters". This is the continuous incessant vitriol that spews out of Google. Coupled with Chrome playing increasingly dirty, no wonder people feel resentment towards Google and its representatives.
This article pretty much sums up why static site generators are such a pain in the ass.

If you're just starting in your static site journey after moving away from something like Wordpress, you'll probably feel like you discovered the holy grail for a while. Yes, Netlify is amazing at first, and yes, it's a pleasure to build sites without fighting a wonky old-school PHP CMS.

However, this will wear thin after you start to care about creating regular content and the nuances of SEO (as the person who wrote this article discovered). I've gotten SSG fatigue over the last couple of years and have completely switched over to building marketing sites and blogs in Webflow.

No worries about build process, no setting up SEO from scratch every time, no wiring up a wonky headless CMS and building rigid content models, no writing blog posts in VScode and then forgetting how I set up my front matter, no PITA trying to set up a new section on your site and then realizing it breaks your headless CMS wiring, Etc. etc.
> It's known that genetically the Japanese population was seeded by Korean settlers which largely displaced the native Ainu populations

It's even more complicated than that. In addition to the Ainu there were the Jomon people, a non-agricultural but nonetheless settled society who are believed to be the first people in the world to use pottery - which is surprising for a non-agricultural people.

They might in turn have been an offshoot of the first migration of modern humans out of Africa along the south coast of Asia, whose haplotypes [1] occur today at some of the highest frequences in Japan and as far north as Mongolia and as far south as Australia. Some sub-branches spread west all the way to the edge of Europe.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_M_(mtDNA)
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2016 was when we saw the impact of eliminating certain oversight portions the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which happened in 2012/2013. After the 2013 court decision, you saw a resurgence in voter disenfranchisement efforts. So it probably has nothing to do with Trump, but with the consequences of dropping the ability to enforce critical parts of the VRA.
Unicameral systems seem to prevent beneficial compromises. I’d personally hate to see the country gyrate between policy extremes as the composition of that singular body changed.

Even when going extremely “my way”, as an engineer I’d hate it.

I find a lot of people spend time thinking “how much more progress could we make if we didn’t have to compromise with those assholes?”

Far fewer think “how much more damage could those assholes do if they didn’t have to compromise with us?”
Unless they disagree. Then they “standardize” both ways and the rest of us just have to cope.
There's a couple source separation algorithms that do a pretty good job splitting the audio into single instrument tracks (I tried open_unmix) -- I'm struggling to transform the single instrument audio into frequencies or notes from that one instrument track.
What is the C constant?
I think the statistical methods would be better compared to a sat solver like Z3. Prolog gives you more flexibility, but it isn't going to be able to use the advanced search techniques that Z3 can take advantage of. Optimizers like Optaplanner are in sort of the same family as Z3, but they often trade being better at optimization for the ability to quickly find solutions, particularly if the number of solutions is small.
The 8 had 1821 mAh and the 7 had 1960 mAh battery
The problem is people having a positive experience by becoming angrier and angrier. They're having a great day on Facebook. Then they go out and make other people's lives worse, because the information they're acting on is faulty.

It's not a majority of Facebook users, but it has an impact on a majority of people, or at least a very large minority.
All: some comments are finding fault with the article and the author in ways that aren't in the intended spirit of HN. When someone made a mistake or didn't find the best answer, it's great to explain why and supply correct information, but please avoid mixing in putdowns, and if your comment is just a putdown, please don't post.

Otherwise we end up with basically this: Person 1: "I am very smart." Person 2:" Rubbish. It is I who am very smart." That is not interesting, regardless of who is smarter. Worse, it all-too-easily turns a community like HN into an unfriendly place.

When in doubt, simply remember that the intended spirit is curious conversation, and then your comments will naturally contain interesting details and insights without the other stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I always find the claim that dialects in China vary so much that people cannot understand each other very western-centric. As a native speaker, there are shockingly few dialects that are completely incomprehensible. Someone from Shanghai will be able to speak to someone in Chengdu with their own dialect, just slower.
Figure 2.2: Energy cost of different operations on 32-bit values in a leading 45nm foundry process

https://people.csail.mit.edu/jrk/jrkthesis.pdf (Page 21)
> There is a style to some videos that some of just just find annoying and a real turnoff. Literally.

Maybe because we reward this style with views, engagement and ultimately money.
Well, Thunderbolt is basically PCIe x4 in a nice little cable. And PCIe has very wide access to the system.
As someone who also has never lived in SV, I'd imagine that, if the majority of these people leaving are young, active, relatively wealthy individuals, that they would move to areas where they can advantage of that position. A lot of people in that demographic are probably relatively active and might have would want to move somewhere with access to lots of outdoor activities. My guesses would be: SLC, Denver, Phoenix.

Disclaimer: I'm from the Denver metro so am obviously biased here. Also please don't move here because housing is expensive enough ;)
Same applies to any other programming language of the same age.

Or do you think that Fortran 2018, C17, C# 9, Java 15, Python 3.9, COBOL 2014, Ada 2014,... are any different?
> Your response on definitions actually supports my point on the matter

I'm afraid I failed to understand your point, then. I don't have a problem with what you said there.

> using the word "intelligence" is misleading. I do not, however, think this misuse has any serious consequences

This is where I fundamentally differ. Its misuse implies a connection between a formal model (algorithm expressed in a computational model) and a philosophical concept (intelligence) that's dubious at best. On a conceptual level, this makes it harder to reason clearly about those fundamentally mathematical and abstract concepts, and on a concrete level, it misleads the public at large, implying that certain goals have been reached when that's plainly untrue. That's pretty "serious" in my book.

> Then that is an unfortunate choice of proxy, unless, perhaps, you intended to imply that it is a priori impossible for intelligence to be created by running x86 machine code.

Again, I'm afraid I don't understand your objection. It's widely accepted that all reasonable computational models are equivalent. Citing x86 was colorful language, it has clearly no bearing on the point at large. Machine Learning algorithms are clearly computable, which means they are expressible as Turing machines, terms of a classical untyped lambda calculus, Python scripts, C++ template metaprograms, or anything else. They are literally just programs.

> At least since Newton, mathematical models have proved very useful in discerning "truths about the world." Are we to just assume they will not work for the biological phenomena of intelligence and consciousness?

I certainly believe mathematical models to be useful, you would be hard pressed to say otherwise.
The ontological status of scientific theories is however at the very least a debatable topic. One needs not believe Newtonian mechanics is ontologically true, it's a tenable position to claim it's just a model, and we accept that model because it's useful.

Specifically, one could easily argue that Newtonian mechanics is false, because, for example, it fails to accurately predict Mercury's orbit.

Similarly, one needs not believe ML is anything more than relatively simple math to find it useful.
I don't get the relevance. Is this article an overreaction?
Thank you for web-confluence, I've got similar question this May, researched with BrowserStack too [1].

I like XML, XHTML, XPath, XSLT. But I don't understand your argument. Maybe it would look better with a list of harmful Chrome only APIs standardized by WHATWG. Even then it is not a reason to follow bad example.

[1] http://dom-report.herokuapp.com/
Sorry, I don't follow. Why would anything be getting faster if we are talking about hypothetically utilising (just) the power-saving gains from newer nodes?
"extreme late binding of all things?"
> Update: Oct. 11, 2020, 8:40 p.m. ET
The New York Times Guild moments ago deleted its tweet denouncing Stephens and the paper, and then posted this [tweet by Nyt guild saying the deleted tweet was tweeted in error]
Biblical? It's a lot older than any English bible; scoring (reckoning in base 20) just happened to be something were very familiar with at the time the Tyndale and later King James bibles were translated. Children's games in parts of England still use Celtic-derived "sheep scoring" numbers.
They can probably infer it as accurately as asking people. The inference isn't always accurate, but people don't always tell the truth, either.
So there’s an argument that the future deployment model is actually Kubernetes Operators, which means you could have test code that deploys and sets up AWS APIs... thus if your code responds to the trigger, it’s up to another bit of code to make sure the trigger is installed and works as expected against AWS APIs?

And yes, I think the problem here are APIs you use in multiple places but can’t easily run yourself in a production-friendly way. Until AWS builds and supports Docker containers to run their APIs locally, I don’t see how this improves... end to end testing of AWS requires AWS? ;-)
I usually agree, but in this case maybe the author needs to hear exactly that. At least the author might the want to stop boasting about these things (and save his future career etc).
Sounds more like guilds and trade unions are to blame than any boogie man economical philosophy. Professions, and the consequent domain narrowing of thought, arose from trade protectionism, not capitalism, but good luck convincing a carpenter or therapist that their having chosen a career has made them duller. Maybe the boogie man is in fact easier to blame. Sorta how the HNCDF is super easy to blame for articles on economic philosophy being flagged on a forum not dedicated to advertising one's economic philosophy newsletter.
I would hope it would be even more reasonable to expect Hans de Zwart to get it right!
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>...a real turnoff. Literally.

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the machine learning on A14 is still slower than Qualcomm and Samsung chips [0]

Android smartphones are smarter than iPhone technically by the article's common sense

[0] https://youtu.be/F_IsBD6E3O4
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That sounds similar to English and German. There are a few words that are still somewhat connected, like water / wasser, but knowing one gives little insight into the other.
Same reasons no attention is paid to things like the clear conspiracy to assassinate JFK or the bizarre developments in U.S. intelligence gathering in the leadup to 9/11: controlled media, compromised politicians, mass psychological defense mechanisms on the part of the people.

Everyone who could call significant attention to this issue knows it would be career suicide at best.
I’m afraid that you misunderstand the chronology. The development of the writing system in Japan postdates the Yayoi immigration by several centuries at least. The original immigrants from mainland Asia brought no writing system with them. Japanese writing is the result of later adoption of Chinese writing by Japan’s learned elites. Any introduction to Old Japanese orthography will explain how this happened.