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Yes, I switched to Edge a couple months back, and honestly love it. All Chrome extensions work on it (afaik, and I've tried a lot). And the dev tools are the same as the Chrome ones, which is a must for me.

Sure, it sucks that it's Microsoft. But Microsoft is less evil than Google, imo.

I recommend anyone on the fence with Chrome to give it a shot. You won't even realize you left Chrome after about 30 minutes of using it. Even though Brave and Edge are similar, for some reason I was never able to stick with Brave.
Sports in USA have a lot of monopolies which affect it's captive users much greater than google/fb/amazon prob

From MMA/WWE to Varsity/Gimnastics
Now any ding dong on the web can present their information as if they are experts and it gets mixed in with legit info.
> if you can't even be assed to type your name properly, why should I bother with your 50 page paper?

There has to be line somewhere though...
In addition to most violations of antitrust law being from companies that do not have monopolies, it goes the other way too. You can have an actual monopoly without violating antitrust law.

If you got the monopoly without doing anti-competitive behavior, such as by simple having a better product or by getting lucky and having competitors that all made stupid mistakes that sunk them, your monopoly may be legal.
Hi there, founder of Pitch here.

That’s a perfectly valid question, and I don’t think you’ll be the last to ask it. Throughout our beta, we learned that people creating presentations for work end up using more than one tool to get the result they want. Slides for collaboration, Keynote for design, PowerPoint for charts, etc. Sure, Google Slides can be good enough — but it’s rare that people tell us it’s great.

We want to be great.

We’re obviously still early in our journey, but there are a few areas where we already provide a lot of value compared to the status quo:

* Pitch promotes speed and consistency. Honestly, you should be able to build a deck 10x faster than before. Part of this is due to our template gallery — we already have 40 beautiful, business-ready templates and are shipping more each month. We also have presentation styles, which effectively serve as CSS for slides. That means you can set up your brand style and reskin our templates to look like yours.

* There’s no learning curve. Anyone can get up to speed quite quickly without having to wrestle with a complicated ribbon or series of menus. We’ve worked to make our editor intuitive enough for non-designers, but powerful enough for pros.

* Pitch connects to other popular services. Today we support Unsplash, Giphy, Loom, Google Analytics, and more. And next year we want to start opening up Pitch to other developers so that you can bring live data directly into Pitch.

It's still early days for Pitch. Our broader vision is much bigger than what you see on our site (more emphasis on video, AI-driven design, and data — I go into it a bit more here: https://www.protocol.com/pitch-app-slide-decks.) PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides have decades on us, so we don’t expect to surpass them overnight.

I hope you’ll still take the time to give Pitch a try and let us know your thoughts — and hopefully in a few months what sets us apart will be even clearer.

It sounds like you might have some idea of what a killer feature for presentation software might be. I’d love to hear your thoughts. You can find my email address in my profile.

Thanks,
Christian
I agree. Even today I would be very reluctant to use the term "multimedia" because it sounds very dusty and boring to me. I would use "audiovisual" or something else in its place.

Though it's not really necessary to call this out anymore, seeing as virtually every corner of computing is capable of a whizz-bang multimedia experience and has been for a long time.
Damn good idea btw. I can immediately grasp how you could make money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838237
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Regarding your edit

> Unless granted by a government, monopolies don't exist in free markets.

You made that claim, it's your responsibility to prove it first, not everyone else's to disprove it after you've made a flat, unsubstantiated claim.

What is your definition of "monopoly" and "free market"?

If I define "free market" as any market which is incapable of forming a monopoly, then yes, your statement is trivially true. But it naturally dis-includes a wide variety of markets that actually exist and may actually have monopolies.
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I'm dumbfounded. Of all the things in the tech world they chose Google paying Apple, Samsung, et.al. to be the default search engine to sue over. 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).
Interesting that they appear to not be deploying WD drives?
Usually in my experience it's like any other jobbed out project -- all about the contractor and subs being overcommitted and unable to react.

I've had the good fortune to participate in projects where stuff really had to get done and cash was flowing. So a mixture of well-defined scopes, significant performance bonuses and non-performance penalties were implemented, and somehow the downstream contractors were magically able to respond to the unexpected.
YouTube is a monopoly. Arguably it's one of the largest social networks too. But for most video creators, YouTube is the only option to reach an audience. Bear in mind, even big movie and TV studios who operate their own video streaming platforms... where do the trailers all get posted? YouTube, where people can find them.

As someone who's not used Google services since 2016... it's still the one Google property I can't really escape, because nobody is posting their content anywhere else.
That is correct, but doesn't make calling foxconn a "taiwanese firm" accurate, unless one was doing so as a means of political criticism, i.e. "they might as well be a chinese firm for all the support they give to xi jinping."

I'm only careful to make the distinction because the ccp works to impress upon international website users that there's no difference between the countries.
Several times over the past five years I've tried to switch from Chrome to Firefox and found it to be too slow once all add-ons were included. For a few months I've been using Firefox full-time and I'm finally switched for good. I encourage others to give it a shot.
Now you're just being silly.
HGST is WD and their Enterprise tier now.
My work is related to homotopy type theory. There are mathematicians working in Agda and Lean (2, but also 3) as well, but it certainly is a niche field.
Looking at that unicode PR, It seems like the thought process is "we don't want to spend time fixing unicode security regressions until we have stabilized the rest of the language", the unicode library is totally broken rn, don't fix a minor part of the problem.
It may fall of deaf ears, but you should complain to the site owners that they are broken. If enough complaints come through (and others are likely to be complaining as most issues I see are not FF issues, the code is actually broken for everything except chrome), then they'll be forced to fix it, or get better developers.
Amiga stopped investing/improving their unique hardware chipset and PC's simply overcame that deficiency by sheer CPU power and improved graphics output standards (EGA->VGA).
Ask HN: Why does Zoom need calendar permissions?
I agreed to a Zoom meeting today and clicked the 'add to google calendar' button. I was surprised to see a permissions request to give Zoom write access to my whole calendar.

Why would they do this? .ics has been around for a good while and was really what I was expecting. But sure, Zoom, go ahead and have my calendar so you can add this one event on one day for one hour.
> A modern topic-exploration tool based on Wikipedia, Wikidata, Open Library, GBIF and other information sources.

I find Wikipedia is increasingly relying upon meta-circular authority. Ie, a Wiki article will cite an expert who cites another expert who cites Wikipedia, and so ultimately the Wikipedia article is using itself as an authoritative source.

Or the authority is fragile. Ie, the wiki article will cite a trusted source who in turn cites some Tweets as their authoritative source.

Or the authority is broken. Ie, the wiki article will cite a trusted source who cites sources that are no longer present on the Internet, and so Wikipedia's broken link discovery fails.

Is it possible not to rely upon Wikipedia as a primary source for your articles?
How are customers discrete? I own both android and iOS devices.
Thx. Probably, you know some company that could benefit from our solution?
I was just referring to the 'Subscription service vs One-time purchase' model. If you want to make a single presentation in a year, perhaps, not considering any differences, you are better of buying templates on Themeforest. But the convenience, cost-effectiveness of such a service, i can certainly see value
Ask HN: Is G2 Crowd just another Glassdoor?
I was able to dig up an old HN post claiming it to be a scam, but curious to hear an up to date answer as well.

Glassdoor was recently in the spotlight here, so figured I would strike while that iron is hot.
> A person could whip up G level search engine, mail, and maybe even youtube equivalent

Hi Dunning, meet Kruger.
I started to suspect a AWS / Retail split up, a voluntar one, as far back as 2017. I also assumed that the stock price of 1,000 $ at that time reflected that already. I guess I got that very, very wrong.

It is absolutely true so, that AWS is Amazon's cash cow making all the rest possible. And the rest is driving Amazon's cashflow. Pretty neat set-up, if you ask me.
I also think that engineering concerns can dictate or at least strongly influence language design. It can still lead to innovation though, like in the way Zig handles async/await, and how it will try to handle recursion.

It is just innovation mostly guided by practical engineering concerns. In this case: How to avoid requiring expensive heap allocation for async tasks, and how to be sure you don't crash from a stack overflow due to unexpected input for example.

I suspect that the excellent Zig comptime support is made possible by intentionally going for a pretty unambitious type system. Otherwise how could you soundly let arbitrary code generate a type? A fancy type system that wants to reason about that will fail, or at least cause the whole language to revolve around making that work.

I think you are right that it would be very hard for a language to innovate both here, and in the traditional PL-teoretical way.
Wow, have you read the RationalWiki entry for Quillette? Just that entry is a good example of how the intolerance of the identity politics movement is spreading into domains that a rational society should be protecting. Read the articles in Quillette that I linked to by Colin Wright -- he was (before his career was ended by identity politics people) very obviously just an evolutionary biologist, not some sort of right wing nutcase!

Compare the Quillette entry with their stated purpose:

Our purpose here at RationalWiki includes:

Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
Documenting the full range of crank ideas;
Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism;
Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.
Does not FF get most of its revenue from Google?
> Restoring a session is 17% quicker, meaning you can more quickly pick up where you left off

I actually wouldn't mind if they throttled this a bit. I keep a tab or two (dozen) open to Hacker News posts I haven't gotten around to reading yet. I dread restarting the browser, as several tabs inevitably end up displaying the "Sorry, we're not able to serve your requests this quickly" page.
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The original blog post, which describes the situation better than the Guardian's breathless reporting:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-google.html
> Any programmer would know

On the other hand, a very large majority of the time that a programmer speculates on the internet about something that's obviously true about code I've written or am otherwise privy to, they're wrong
Table 1 (Lifetime Annualized Failure Rates) and Table 4 (Annualized Failure Rates for Q3) should be swapped, I believe.
> Can you grow semiconductors on corn plants?

Intel has 4 fabs in the US

Global Foundries has 3
It is deeply political! It was filed by the Trump administration's DOJ and 11 states -- and the attorney general of each of those 11 is a Republican.

However...

There's also (supposedly) another lawsuit by a bunch of Democratic states that is in the works (and, of course, several lawmakers from both parties are also on board the "break up Google (and other big tech companies)" train).

If (i.e., when) that happens, the lawsuits will likely be consolidated.
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Does that mean any website with a flexbox will be 20% faster? Or that any paint time on a flexbox element will be 20% faster?
the smaller electronic device is, the higher the precision you need. For such a compact device such as iPhone, the precision is not enough to automate the production yet. For self-driving/flying, there is always some lee-way. The demand of lowering error variance is low.
Ask HN: Who is making money with HTML5 Games?
I run a blog and gaming site focused on web games. We would like to interview some HTML5 developers about their cash flow situations.
Unless they gobble up the entire supply chain.
Both Uber and Lyft have stated they would pull out of California if they could not operate w/ contractor drivers. Any competitor left over would have to follow the taxi model, until Uber made changes to its platform to be able to come back.

This already sort of happened in Austin. Uber left, then a few years later it came back. When it did, everyone went back to Uber and a lot of the competitors flopped.
I don’t get why they keep buying seagates when every report they do shows they have higher fail rates?

Are they just cheaper?
How so?

I mean, Amazon definitely has issues, but apart from some incredibly good acquisitions and sharp business practices, I don't see the anti-trust case against Facebook.

Full disclosure: I own one share of FB.
I worked at MS in the Multimedia group working on things like sound-card and CD-ROM drivers, "MMSDK" tools, etc., and the venerable (lol) Radio Shack VIS, which had a version if Encarta.
FWIR, most of the animations used Marcromind Director -- I remember working on the code that loaded these files to optimize it for CD-ROM loading, because the code would just seek all over the place rather than load into RAM and access from there.
There is no excuse, in my opinion. The PR would have taken a step in a safer direction, even if the entirety of it is scrapped at a later date. It wouldn't have broken anything else in the codebase, and it was a completed, merge-able change.

Again, the frustration wasn't just from the PR alone - it was also the Discord flame war that ensued prior to the PR.
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my primary is Firefox, but i definitely prefer Chrome's devtools - especially for performance profiling, which i do a lot of.

chrome also renders UI interactions faster. maybe it's skia vs cairo? e.g. try mouse-dragging the ranging slider and compare the lag between chrome and ff:

https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/demos/zoom-ranger-grips.htm...
Probably did some stock photography gig back in the day and now it's come to bite him -- looks like an endorsement.
Would you pay a small fee, say 20 Euro, a year for a Firefox version which guarantees no-ads or pocket? If enough people feel like that they might consider it.

Meanwhile something has got to pay for the bills. I don't think advertising for their own VPN service is too bad.
Does Firefox work on all the sites you visit, or do you have to keep a "side-piece" browser to do things like log into your bank account or use Google Docs?
I really appreciate how Backblaze is always so consistent in these reports. Quality and disciplined reporting like this is appreciated, and I always find them very interesting.

Side note, does Backblaze not run any enterprise or datacenter SSDs?
HGST is effectively a brand name of WD at this point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
Mozilla has been in the browser business way before Chrome yet it seems like an inferior product. Perhaps not anymore, but my question is: What contributes to a company coming in and building a better product than a market leader? I don't think the engineers are more talented. Maybe management is more competent, or the vision is better?
The way PG handles this is better than SQL Server was back when I used that primarily (2008r2). The compression is not as amazing as it could be, but it is quite helpful regardless. It'll be nice when the work on the "pluggable compression" [1] (or similar) is committed, allowing the use of better compression algorithms like zstd.

[1]. https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2019/sessions/sessi...
I don't disagree with the point on overconfidence but it is a bit exhausting to be surrounded by 10,000+ overconfident CEOs of 3 person companies in Silicon Valley, most of whom will never succeed. It contributes to a culture that can be toxic and alienating for other personality types. Maybe that is the price we pay for innovation.
Who is going to crawl all posted links? Also, HTML keeps changing. Unnecessary (and very bad) way to check.
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836520
There actually are two methods of interactivity on Wikipedia right now, the Graph extension [0] and Kartographer. [1] With the first you can create charts, timelines, and histograms, based on Vega. With the second, you can add points on maps (with images), have shapes, and outlines, from OpenStreetMap. Unfortunately, both aren't used as much as they should because most are comfortable using other tools and baking things into PNGs, and these weren't advertised that heavily.

[0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo

[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer
Atm this reads like a shopping list, _but_ if it goes ahead, and even if it doesn’t fully deliver, I think this could be the impulse that Python needs to remain relevant in scientific programming.

Clearly it is the leader right now by a long way, but Julia is growing really fast.
I noticed the same thing. COVID and at-home-Zoom schooling has been an eye opener about the curriculum for my seven year old. When I have a work break, I occasionally sit in her learning area and watch. She's so bored as they again and again go over subjects she already mastered last year. She learned how to open another window and tile them, so now she does her entire slate of homework in parallel on the side while the class re-does single-digit addition because a few kids still don't know it.

Not sure how much of this are special challenges specific to remote learning and Zoom and how much of it is just that the curriculum has to be tailored towards the slowest learners.
You can totally do unsigned add-ons in Firefox, I'm using an add-on right now that I developed and didn't feel like bothering to upload to AMO.
What happens to our data when Google is broken up into small companies?
Ah yes it's that time of year for me to check up on how my lame photos are stored. Looking good chaps
Why? It's 'their' product and fits within Mozilla's ambitions for the product, namely making the user central to the online privacy debate.

If I paid for Firefox, I'd perhaps be a little irked, but given I've never given Firefox a penny, I'm happy for them to try and get me to spend money on their things (even though as a Euro, I can't yet - I think the VPN's US only?).

If anyone from Firefox is reading this - please hurry up and allow me to pay for your product. I'd dearly like to!

- ed: typos
The commit that did this ~4 years ago was very much in the open, and had rationale in the commit message.

I think it's pretty sad that nobody here has linked to it... It's as if the people who care about this stuff aren't the same ones who write and review code for a living...
> MediaSession API has been enabled by default which allows web authors to provide custom behaviors for standard media playback interactions, giving them more options than ever.

/me checks what is this... then, from the draft (https://w3c.github.io/mediasession/#security-privacy-conside...):

> The API introduced in this specification has very low impact with regards to security and privacy.

Ok... my concept of privacy, may not be the same as your concept of privacy...
I must be one of the few who miss paper encyclopedia, mourn Encyclopædia Universalis (French version of the Britannica) and "Tout l'Univers".
I think tesla is scaling up pretty well, considering.

It's almost like a chip company launching at this point and building its own fab.

So, Tesla just will not be able to scale up like a a software company or a company like apple that doesn't own a fab.
Why is it removing integrity?
NHS (and Europe healthcare in general) is not socialism.
It's part of a social democracy. But I see your point.

Having experienced healthcare in a few European countries (including the NHS), and having several doctor relatives, I don't think it's a good deal.
The cost of healthcare is really high, you pay a lot of taxes, the hospitals are subpar quality, you have to queue / wait for hours / days / weeks / months and the service provided is rationed. The government decide which tests you get to do according to their playbook.
Basically if you want something done quickly you need to pay - but you're already paying for public health in taxes.
My doctor relatives are often skeptical of the the government provided guidelines on how to treat people, but they still follow them because if you don't you'll be liable for whatever happens.

The most recent and incredible case is the use of corticosteroids for covid patients. My doctor relative and colleagues wanted to use them in some cases but they were told not to and to follow the guidelines. Now that corticosteroids are being recommended, they've been told to don't talk to the newspapers, because they fear people thinking it was a state sanctioned mass murder.

Some more examples of how public health care sucks in everyday life:

- I had an unbearable stomach pain and after self diagnosing myself a range of potential issues (some of which needed tests to be proven) I went to the hospital. At the time I was switching jobs so I didn't have private insurance setup.
After waiting for 4hrs the doctor told me that because I was under 40 I wouldn't get any tests done and she told me to go and buy some stomach medicines.
The pain was unbearable, so I setup my private insurance, did some test and I ended up having a stomach ulcer which needed surgical treatment. So much for public health care, I could have died.

- My wife replaced teeth fillings via NHS (it's "free" for new moms), we thought it was something simple enough that we wouldn't have problems. So we waited for months for an appointment and got it done. After a couple of weeks the filling fell off - and the same thing repeated three times. Eventually we went back to our usual dentist and she didn't have problems with her new filling.
I happily switched to Firefox Quantum when it first came out, but have periodically switched back to Chrome because Chrome feels faster and snappier. Not sure why that might be the case. I'm using the latest MacOS X with the same set of extensions/add-ons in both browsers.