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Oh that’s cool, I didn’t realize pbrt-next was that much leaner. Yeah I was asking a nonsense question, but just tongue-in-cheek trying to hint that we shouldn’t compare PBRT run times to Chris’ project to render Moana on a 2070, they’re solving different problems. Chris’ renderer is also brand new and hasn’t had a chance to evolve the way PBRT did. But all that said, it’s very impressive IMO to render the whole scene with (cpu)Ptex using such a small GPU without it taking far longer. I happen to know for a fact that it’s possible to render Moana much faster than cpu-pbrt if you have access to one of the 48 GB models and don’t need to use out-of-core techniques.
> until you realize nothing rhymes with Pickachu

Note: "Satoshi", which is Ash's name in the original Japanese, rhymes with "Pika-Pi", which is why Pikachu says "Pika-Pi" so much.

Each time "Pika-Pi" pops out in the anime, its Pikachu calling out Satoshi / Ash's name. (Sa-To-Shi).

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Some things are lost in translation. Calling Satoshi "Ash" in the American version, but keeping Pikachu's original dub, prevents the American Audience from seeing the level of thought put into this.

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I think you can similarly force rhymes and/or common syllables and/or intonations between Pokemon. There's over 900 of them now, surely there's a song to make some rhymes out of. (IE: Pokerap style)
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I think they buy whatever their suppliers can get a hold of. They've said that they would buy HGST only, but they are too expensive.
Are you using the development build? FF currenly ignores your "allow unsigned addons" setting.
> a very large majority of the time

On the other other hand, most vague and fabricated statistics about anecdotal, speculative or subjective topics tend to have very little weight when making a point...
Having seen the source code for web browsers, I'm 100% willing to believe it's a programming error.

The likeliest point of introduction is where Google added account login to the browser itself. At that point, either ambiguity of specification or failure to test as though the user thinks Google is a privacy-hostile agency (while using a browser that allows them to login to Google) could have resulted in someone adding a special case to refrain from throwing the credentials away that keep the browser logged in that inadvertantly failed to throw the credentials away that keep a session logged in.
its so they can have some planned obsolescence
Yes, by around half.

HGSTs are in short supply states-side right now and in high demand. Toshibas are also in limited supply here (at least the desirable helium-filled ones) and are about 2/3 between the Seagates and HGSTs.

Also in their product, drive failure is okay!
> banks, telecom, and probably oil, and defense industry companies

None of these, with the possible exception of telecom, are monopolies or engaging in specific anti-competitive behavior. I agree that the pattern of consolidation there is bad, but I fail to see

a. how this announcement precludes any other lawsuits against the companies you're mentioning
b. why the fact that other industries also ought to be broken up has any bearing on whether Google has engaged in anti-competitive behavior?
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You could have linked it yourself to refute what I said, then. But you didn't. You didn't waste any time insulting someone, though.
The "This could be built in a week-end" and "Why don't you just [something that only 1/1000 can do and takes so much time]".

See also: https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial
Sure, and the reason Google pays is because people use Firefox.
Apparently when war starts iPhones will be more important than oil, steel, jets, and ships. Or does China build those for the US military as well?

Also, ICBMs fly both ways. But while nobody decides to press the "End Game" button, the US with its self sufficient continent can weather more punches than any other country in any conceivable conventional war scenario.
The US has an arguably overbuilt military supply chain. But in practice modern military hardware is both expensive and slow. The destructive capacity of modern great powers effectively limits the timeline of any large war to either hours(nuclear bombardment) or weeks ( precision bombing of all military and industrial targets )

The real loss is that industrial enterprises employ a lot of people who are exposed to hard problems. I'm skeptical that the current set of "design"/"marketing" only hardware businesses will last much longer than the international trade pacts that support US patent law.
That's amazing. I can't imagine the experience you must have reading through HN comments with a screen reader. Love to hear about it.
As someone who makes startups and invests sometimes, I recommend you remove "Wrote 90% of code being a part-time cofounder." That would be a red flag.
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LibreWolf is how Firefox should be......private

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Migrating from Exadata to a Scale-Out HTAP Database for Near Real-Time Analytics
Goodheart's Law says that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Generally, that's because you start optimizing around improving the measurement rather than the conditions the measurement is supposed to depict. In other words, you start cramming for the test, rather than learning the subject.

Half serious, half modest proposal: would it be useful for the BLS or OECD, or whoever, to periodically and unexpectedly change how unemployment is measured and calculated, in order to minimize the tendency observed in Goodheart's Law?
Watch Elon implement this as an OTA update to Starlink without breaking a sweat, while NASA burns billions just to prototype a model...
This is true, but I think the real benefit of the “Big Data” paradigm (scare quotes included) was the spreading the idea that you should actually measure things, and then make a decision. You’d think this was obvious, but apparently it wasn’t. (Think back to the book Lean Startup, whose premise is, “A/B test hypotheses.”) Similarly, the “AI Revolution”, could be boiled down to, “run a regression.”
RIP Zune
I've found one way to conquer fear and develop perseverance is to just (gradually) go thru enough hard things and learn to be okay w/ discomfort.

I've never been as active as I wanted in my young years due to weak health, and recently started engaging in outdoor activities I always wanted to do (long-distance hiking, climbing, scuba diving), mostly because I don't enjoy hitting the gym and looking at a wall, but I didn't anticipate the benefit it would have in my psyche.

Now, when faced w/ hardships of life or random sources of stressors, I can relate back to some past experience and think "hey, I did that crazy thing, of course I can handle this other thing here". I don't know if this psychological phenomena has a name, I would only describe as "developing thick skin". I think it also happens naturally to individuals who had a hard upbringing and are hard working nonetheless. Maybe there's some idea to explore here.
As someone who works on Chrome at google and know people working on fixing it.... it really is kinda a perfect storm bug but you obviously don't have to believe me.
You're definitely gaining even more instability than with Chrome. And by that, I mean, insane random changes.

Just look at, for example, the recent madness with Firefox on Android. They effectively pushed a beta about 6 weeks ago, removed tonnes of features, made many menu items difficult to navigate to, removed compatibility with almost all add-ons, it's slower, it crashes for many constantly, it's just a plain, simple mess.

They had 4.5 stars at one point. They now have 3.9 stars:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...

Do you know how hard you have to work, to drag something down from 4.5, to 3.9, in a month, with almost 4M users?

I honestly don't think they could do worse, if it was intentional sabotage by some hostile insider.

And it's endless garbage like this from Firefox.

What firefox sees:

"OMG! Chrome is gaining ground! Quick, turf everything that is unique on our platform, that is different from Chrome. We must be just like them"

What outsiders see:

"Great, everything I cared about, unique to firefox is now gone. Plus it's slower, buggier, and they keep changing everything around on every single release. Great. Time to move on."

You don't compete with the giant, by being the giant. You etch out a unique market.

Meanwhile, Firefox did the precise opposite, and removed their uniqueness.

They aren't long for this world.
> Why?

Because people want to use their browser to browse. They don't want to be advertised to while they're trying to work or otherwise get on with their hectic lives.

They also don't want to hear about silly TV shows while they're browsing.

All things Mozilla needs to learn.
A lot of interesting things happen, incentive-wise, when operating at massive scale. Doing something obviously unethical but "mostly-harmless" might only be worth fractions of a cent. But spread across billions of interactions the the benefit (and the harm) adds up quickly. This is the core issue of the problem with modern day mega-corporations.
No, you're right, that was Uber's plan at one point. They did hire Anthony Levandowski.
There’s limited staffing and the government will only be able to put its best lawyers on some cases.

Trying to bag multiple tech companies seems like a recipe for failure.
> Circumventing otherwise strict security rules for their own domains is shady in its own right.

In most fights between adding a user feature and protecting user privacy, if the feature cannot be added otherwise, feature wins. It's only "shady" if you're already assuming the feature vendor is a hostile actor.

The consistent Chrome experience enabled by logging the browser in is hells useful (especially in this era of mobile device + desktop device; no more having to remember if I bookmarked that article on my phone or my desktop or my work PC, etc.).
Yes sure. But with Russia it would be different. Mind the Poseidon torpedoes.
Can you share their pricing?
I am definitely finding Seagates the cheapest option at Microcenter, generally $5-$10 cheaper. Can't say I'm proud of cheaping out on storage, but that's my current price-point and haven't yet made the leap to trying to set up a properly-RAIDed NAS.
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Finally! Break Google up until no single company has more than 30% of the search, mobile OS, maps, or browser market. Dozens of pieces, if necessary.
A deeply flawed lawsuit that would do nothing to help consumers
> Twitter plays a central role in how we communicate and how news is spread.

The fact a government agency has said this in an official report is saddening.
5G base station/terminal power usage isn't very optimized yet.
This looks great to be honest to build collaborative slide decks.

But the one thing I’m seeing in recent times is that every product is building their own communication layer especially for video/audio instead of letting users default to a catch-all solutions like Slack or Teams or any other similar software. Saw a similar app for collaborative coding with their own audio/video recently.

Interesting development. Not sure if everyone is building this from ground up or there is a communication as a service product/api which they leverage on. (Chime? Twilio?)
The price gap of high-capacity Enterprise drives is in the hundreds (as in multiple) of dollars between the two brands.
Thank you. There is also a small Python app to kick off archival requests if the CLI is more your thing (I find it helpful when I need to generate a list of URLs and then pipe that list to savepagenow with a sleep in between runs to be gentle on the Wayback API).

https://github.com/pastpages/savepagenow
Why is Chrome your default on mobile? The web has become nearly unbrowseable on mobile without an AdBlocker and that's the single greatest advantage Firefox has over chrome on mobile.
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I would be fine with the notice if it supported the machine that I am on. Come on Mozilla, you know what OS I'm running, don't advertise "coming soon" to me.
Not sure why you're seeing that, a tab shouldn't be reloaded until you click on it the first time in the reloaded session, just retested here to confirm that is the case.
> from 90% of engineers

That's about the right ratio to expect, since less than 10% of browser sessions appear to be Firefox on average.

The major difference between this era and the IE6 era is that Microsoft wasn't willing to play ball with standards. With few exceptions, Mozilla and Google are implementing to the same standards and specifications; problem is, Chrome's a better implementation, for speed and stability, in the average case and the corner case.

They have both more resources to throw at the problem and more access to data to proactively discover issues.

It is, unfortunately, a situation where the playing field is "fair" (in the sense that there's a uniform standard) and one player is just trouncing the alternative.
Not everyone can just learn on their own, and if your parents aren't real great at math or law or teaching, you really need school.
Are reddit's Elon worshippers leaking to HN?
`__proto__` doesn't necessarily equal `.prototype`.

var foo = Object.create(null)
//now foo.prototype and foo.__proto__ are both undefined
foo.prototype = {abc:123}
//foo.__proto__ is still undefined. Need to use Object.setPrototypeOf()

In older JS code, I've seen people trying to abuse prototypes. One result in this kind of thing is often retaining references to those hidden `__proto__` leading to memory leaks.

Also, `__proto__` is deprecated. If you're writing JS, you should be using `.getPrototypeOf()` instead.

> Could you please expand this part? "Primitive" has specific meaning in JavaScript.

var fn = function () {}
fn.bar = "abc"

Object.keys(fn) //=> ["bar"]

//likewise
(1).__proto__ === Number.prototype //=> true

JS is torn on the idea of whether something is primitive or an object. You see this (for example) in Typescript with the primitive number being different from the Number type which represents a number object. To get at the primitive, you must actually call `.valueOf()` which returns the primitive in question. Meanwhile, you can attach your own properties to the function object -- a fact exploited by many, many libraries including modern ones like React. You can also add your own `.valueOf()` to allow your code to better interact with JS operators, but I believe that to pretty much always be a bad practice.
Same! Containers and Pop-Out video are the killer features too IMHO
I think the point was that they were able to adapt and evolve because Microsoft's ability to force IE on users was constrained by the antitrust action. It's possible that without antitrust Mozilla might have died on the vine.
I think they're going to go after FB and Twitter (and YouTube?) with a Section 230 case/argument.
> In most fights between adding a user feature and protecting user privacy, if the feature cannot be added otherwise, feature wins.

/Not/ protecting user privacy is always shady, regardless of who the actor is. When done knowingly, it's almost always hostile.
I could definitely be wrong, but my understanding is that when unemployment benefits run out, so does one's status as unemployed, since they've lost the point of contact that enables them to ask those questions.

At least twice in the last decade, he's been unemployed so long his benefits ran out. Perhaps the label in that case isn't "retired," but he wasn't counted as unemployed, either.
That feels like you're asking about a different system, based on centralized authorities like HN or Reddit. Matrix is decentralized by design, similar to IRC, so you'd have to pay off a _lot_ of people to buy your way into every server's good side. Because no sane server is going to accept the trust list of any other server it interfaces with just because it happens to also be a Matrix instance.
> That's not really evidence of Google blocking competition. That's evidence of phone manufacturers using their power in one market (phone sales) to extract cash out of another (search/ads).

No, I think it is a pretty clear example of rent-seeking on Google's behalf.

> phone manufacturers using their power in one market

Who has more market power - the disparate group of phone vendors who are legally barred from coordinating on things like this or the single actor that controls the only operating system package tenable for those phone vendors to use?
i seem to remember in the past they said price and ease of procurement
Journalism: Share your data, cite your sources, sign your name.

Once we have verified speech, someone will eventually think to keep score. citeseer, pagerank, arvix for journalism.

In other words, like with peer review in science, let the peanut gallery determine truthiness.
Wikipedia only accepts freely-licensed content (for example, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA; it must allow commercial use). People who are creating professional-quality video are not giving it away for free. Video takes a non-trivial amount of effort to script, record, create imagery for, and edit. That's on top of obtaining equipment like a camera, mic, computer for editing, etc. Sure everyone has a smartphone these days, but I think you were implying more than shaky badly-framed vertical video. If you'd like to see more videos on Wikipedia, the best place to start is by contributing yourself. I've done the same for photographs of local things in my area.
Can you expand on why it's sad? As someone who doesn't have a twitter account or participate much in social networking sites, it still seems like a true statement at face value for a large part of the population.
I like it, but +66 is Thailand already.

It would probably get one of the available +87x or +88x codes. If they aren't just going to issue numbers from the home country.
20 years in, nobody cares much about whether you have your degree as long as your work history tells a tale of solid accomplishment and career progression.

You mention sysadmin, networking, and security as areas you want to know more about.
Much as I am in favor of degrees, it's unlikely a CS degree will help you in those areas much since they involve practical knowledge rather than theory. Possibly an IT degree would be a benefit but even that is a bit of a stretch.
I would have but since they fired the devtools and mdn team, it's only a matter of time until firefox becomes totally irrelevant.
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Not sure right now but maybe we can count only paid user signup over free account or views.
The data is not external. It is based on NLP analysis of free text of reviews by current and former employees. The data is not based on corporate comms or PR.

About half of reviews are from former employees. Former employees' assessment of values correlates, on average, above 0.8 with current emplooyees' assessment of the same values.

Interesting how you feel entitled to dismiss as "nonsense" and "fluff" without any understanding of underlying methodology or data.
TV has been there as a main parenting tool from at least the 80s.
Unless your parents were mixing alcohol with your milk, you had better skills than this current era one.
This is their public launch they are well underway for over a year. They are also the core creators of wunderlist.
"Greetings humans! Our vessel has arrived to destroy your planet! Please wait a few months though because this is the old model that takes a while to charge up, sorry about that..."
Could you explain why that would be a red flag?
i suspect its the later
Why is something like browser identity (which is NOT a w3 standardization) at all linked with session identity?
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I agree, I think crime fighting requires tools that operate at the user level.

So an infiltration bot: We have the technology today (gpt-3 level dialog) that could infiltrate criminal social networks, gather evidence, build credibility and power, and then help shut everything down.

The system itself cannot provide this, but an ai-human actor could.

Of course, this technology is scary: What I think is not a crime - like complaining about the government - is a crime in other places.
You're right, I was skim-reading it as a few thousands (and jumping to conclusions). Not sure what's going on with that dip.

Edit: It would be interesting to compare this to an up-to-date graph of US deaths (all kinds), if one exists.
I assumed it would be about the moon aliens protesting about the tower going in their backyard. NIMMBY: not in my moon back yard :)
this is a great question.
i’ve talked to quite a few people about this, and having some reference customers is super valuable. easy ways are to make a hypothesis about who at what type of company would really need your software, and then use LinkedIn, cold calls, emails, referrals to get through to them.

it is definitely important to go through this process, just because this is defining the market and gets you to a repeatable model of acquiring customers.
We do not assume that. Indeed we explicitly discuss why different companies could select different bundles of values.
Interestingly, this release fixes an undefined behavior bug in Rust code.

"CVE-2020-15254: Undefined behavior in bounded channel of crossbeam rust crate" marked as high.
How else should they monetize their service? Remove you from data brokers lists and then sell your data right back to them?
The VR revolution has been 5 minutes away for 8 years
Well done. That reminds me of one of those cell phone towers disguised as a tree I drive by quite often. It is in the middle of a very large, very flat plain. I don't think there is another tree within 10 miles of it.
I said this before, but I still believe Larry and Sergei removed themselves completely from the company because they couldn’t care less about the ad or cloud business per se. More so they might even view it as dirty. It’s a means to an end. Amass as much money (ad/cloud) as possible, get the best possible experts in CS/AI (so many phd’s) and gather every last bit of relevant information/data they can get.

It seems kind of obvious. Their goal is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful. What better way to achieve this than to somehow create an AGI/ASI. They are certainly the best placed org to do it.
Right. Thats why for twig app, I am more focusing in instagram channel where people likes to talk about foods, movies, music etc
The easiest way to protect user privacy is to never implement any features. Can't hack what isn't there.

Once we assume that's not the decision that'll be made (because obviously), the question becomes whether the feature can be implemented at all while respecting user privacy.

And if the answer is yes, we can expect it to happen.
How do I delete my FB shadow profile? Do I need to create an FB account first or what? How do I get onto sites that use ReCaptha (that's potentially anything behind CloudFlare BTW) without letting Google hoover up a bunch of identifying information? How do I delete the data that Google collects with ReCaptha?
Full-time today. But I get what you mean. I had a lot of doubt wether I should put it there or not.
What's the source of the general increase from 1960 to 2000? The trend away from couples having one member stay at home running the house toward having both members with outside employment?
999 is the emergency number in the UK and a few other places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999_(emergency_telephone_numbe...
But it look like it has zero impact on privacy. Like I don’t get it. This is a website being able to tell the browser, “hey I’m playing $Song” so it can show out-of-page media control buttons like you get on your lock screen. Where’s the issue?