skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Brave is based on Chromium, it lacks some of the privacy centric features that are found in Gecko browsers. 1st party isolation,tracker blocking, containers, anti fingerprinting measures and SNI encryption are some things I can think of right now (maybe chrome as caught up now?)

What? One of the main points of the project is to build a browser with a whole bunch of tinfoil like tracker blocking and anti fingerprinting measures. They wrote their own built-in adblocker with Rust so it won't get fucked by Manifest v3 since it's part of the browser. They're the only Chromium browser that does CNAME uncloaking, something that uBlock Origin can only do on Firefox.

Containers are unique to Firefox, Chromium browsers handle that via separate user profiles.
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That's not true: Their customers most definitely want to have contact outside of their platorm. Phone calls, googling, navigating, gaming, chat apps, social media, web browsing.

If it were true, you would be restricted to facetiming only with other apple users, only make phone calls to other Apple users, only visit 'the Apple internet' with their Safari browser. Whatsapp? Youtube? Facebook? Instagram? Epic? No no, those are not owned by Apple, and not part of their 'platform'.

Suddenly the 'customer relationship' isn't all that clear, hence the national watchdogs looking into anti-competitive behavior.
I think the point is that these are not well-aligned couples. They barely see each other for 40 years and then they're stuck together 24/7.

This article is specifically about the way this affects the wife. I don't know if there's a related article about the husband's experience, but the male perspective isn't particularly relevant to this article.
Indeed, I didn't know about the ping attribute. However, you will see they still do click tracking on the google image results for example.
And if you check this article from 2013, you will see that they had it back then (I'm not sure when they removed it): https://chainsawonatireswing.com/2013/03/20/how-to-disable-g...
You would think in well aligned couples this would be the opportunity to go and tour the world together or get divorced a find new partners.

Well, the latter certainly does happen, a lot. The world is a different place from when our grandparents were young. Nowadays, people tend to keep their options open, and when divorce happens it's usually the women (especially in black communities) that initiate the divorce because they think they can "do better". Doesn't help that family courts still financially and emotionally rape the man since women see this as incentive for divorce.
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People keep talking about OS/2 in the past tense. It is still very much alive. It never really died. There are still a lot of mission critical apps out there that are still running on OS/2. OS/2 is still being supported and getting modern updates except it is not known as OS/2 anymore. It is now called ArcaOS.
Safety nets are for emergencies - by definition. If you are relying on them, you are having an emergency, by your own choice. Hard not to call that a poor one.

You're trying to run a company while making less than a single experienced engineer. If you even can't pay yourself that much, what exactly have you been doing with your investors' money?
From the video: "It was a mix of racism and creativity"

That sums up the WoW Classic (and I'm sure many other gaming communities) a little too perfectly.
It's not a Ponzi. It's a speculative asset and one that people are buying hard into, some because they think they can avoid being the bigger sucker and some because they genuinely believe it will be useful in the future either as a store of value against inflation or a possible usable currency (right now I somewhat believe that certain properties of certain crypto currencies fundamentally make them bad in the long term). However, a Ponzi is very different from a speculative bubble.

Silver or gold in a speculative bubble behaves just the same as crypto right now but they are not Ponzi schemes. They are simply a property of how markets work when speculation gets over energized
I would love for them to go NPR style on ads. If you listen to an NPR radio station (at least here in my area), basically anyone can run a radio ad, but it has to be about 10 seconds max and it is delivered by the on-air personality. "Npr would like to thank Bob's Hot Dogs, Bobs hot dogs deliver an excellent dog at an excellent price, find out more at bobdogs.com"

Replace the brand there with yours and that's what you get. No contextual bs, no crazy logos or statements, just a simple word from a sponsor.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
"A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.[1] The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds. A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are purported to own."

So, no it is not a Ponzi scheme. It might be something similar to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
In case you are interested in a real answer:

This doesn't change my opinion of them in any way. Although I think ads are cancer, I think it's much worse for Firefox to stay dependent on Google for their entire revenue. I want them to experiment with finding ways to make money off their browser. I want them to keep existing long-term and that's only possible if you have money.

Would I like Firefox to have no ads at all? Yes. But I believe it's better for Firefox to have ads than to be dependent on Google's money.
Talkin' out of my ass here, but is this an artifact of the parameter having to fit in the same instruction word as the opcode ('cause RISC) and because the register is the size of a word (which is partially used by the opcode now), you can't actually load a whole register with an immediate in one go?
Ugh, please not this again. Considering the alternatives, WGSL is fine. It could have been much worse (e.g. Apple jumping ship and doing their own thing just because they have a problem with Khronos), and not requiring web apps like shadertoy to download and run a shader compiler WASM blob is also a good thing. WebGPU also needs to cover other scenarios than games.
Maybe usernames in general should require a higher entropy than words in a dictionary :D
It's a lot of money for a person, depending on where they live. But for a business it's definitely not.
I think there are some additional factors that contribute to the adoption and popularity of a new programming language:

1. Funding or sponsorship for the language

Would Rust or Go have enjoyed their popularity without the support of Mozilla and Google? One of the reasons developers are drawn to those languages is their association with Mozilla and Google. (Although Rust is independent of Mozilla, its long association with Mozilla is what initially drew developer interest.)

Without a generous benefactor, open source languages have to scrape funding together piecemeal from different sources - just look at Nim and Crystal.

2. A "Batteries included" standard library

Or at least a sufficiently rich library that lets developers create a wide range of applications. This is tied to point 1 above: developers are needed to help fill out the standard library - feasible with funding, slow to achieve without.

3. Documentation, examples and tutorials

Developers underestimate how important this is for people new to the language. While some developers will patiently work through a problem with incomplete documentation or guides, many more will simply give up in frustration and abandon the language.

Once again, it comes down to funding. Rust and Go have had (or still have) dedicated staff writing documentation for the language. This is a luxury that other languages like Nim or Crystal cannot fund or afford.

4. Building a community

Zig is some time away from a 1.0 release but already has a VP of community, and Crystal are planning to hire a Community Manager. This is an acknowledgement of the importance of growing the developer community in each language - a dedicated person helps promote and evangelise the language.

A programming language can survive without meeting any of the factors above. But can it thrive or gain traction?
>Local government is partly elected, and beholden to its citizens. The independent account manager is neither.

but the police chief is still beholden to its citizens? I'm still not clear on how the pipeline company being forced to fund them makes them beholden to the pipeline company. Suppose the pipeline company was forced to pay me $10k/month. Does that mean I'll be beholden to them? If rather than wiring the money directly to my account, they wire it to a shell company, and the shell company wires it to me, does that make me beholden to the shell company? Would you support the pipeline company funding the police anonymously using cash?

>Furthermore, the article states that the company pays for overtime and such

that's actually the more reasonable concern here, if you assume that more time on patrol = more protesters beaten up and/or civil rights violated. However, if that's actually the case my I'd be more concerned about why that's the way in the first place.
Python type checking (type annotation, mypy) should at least partially solve the problem of maintaining complex Python systems. Though it doesn't help with performance.
It seems that this pay-cut is for the benefit of the investors - who I doubt will appreciate it as much as he expects. He could take deferred payment, use it to negotiate a bigger stake.
So, let’s be clear that to focus on how to get social media content for podcasters spreading more quickly, he made a move to grab interest of a population.

This is manipulative and, because of his savings, ultimately meaningless.

Worse than, by dropping his salary for multiple years, then (most likely) getting the difference in a bonus or equity, he is able to escape being taxed, leading to a net profit.
>like writing a check to Wikimedia and then blogging about how the reason that there are no overlays nagging you for funding this year is because Mozilla decided to foot the bill and so you're welcome—way more effective than _anything_ the marketing department has done to date

I doubt wikimedia would agree to that, since their schtick is that it's user funded and thus a neutral actor
Well... That's the same amount of money you have to give to Google, Microsoft and Amazon if you want to use their services.
Google and Apple both take 15% if you make less than 1.000.000$/year.
Again - As a user I also don't have a problem with the AppStore monopoly because
1. When I bought the device I knew that I can only use the apps that are available on the AppStore
2. Every time I open the Microsoft Store I'm thankful that the guidelines on iOS are so strict
3. Freedom to install everything you ""want"" has at least the same amount of bad use cases than good ones (usually it's mostly used for modding or piracy).
This is too stupid to be true. For a 6-hour outage to significantly increase the ad frequency (and lower the conversion rate) you should pressure the system to recover the outage in a day or two; do they really need it? We're not even at the end of the month...
The reason that the economy is defined in terms of transactions that involve an exchange of money is that such transactions can be quantified objectively. If no money is exchanged, then assigning a valuation to an activity is pure speculation. Of course, this doesn't stop bureaucratic number-crunchers from attempting to do so anyway (e.g. the inclusion of "owner-occupied implied rent" in CPI calculations) but it's not hard to see the slippery slope it creates. Assigning a name to something ("emotional labour") doesn't mean that it somehow becomes quantifiable in any tractable or objective manner.
There are lots of ripgrep recommendations in the comments, but an interesting alternative to grep specifically for code browsing might be weggli by my teammate Felix!

https://github.com/googleprojectzero/weggli
Hmm, over two years you're putting in an additional $172k plus all of the time and effort cofounding a startup entails, plus the opportunity cost of doing a startup vs collecting regular tech company wages working a 9-5. Is your investment properly acknowledged in terms of equity?

You're also sending a signal to your investors that your time is not worth much, and a signal to your employees that they can also expect scant wages and personal sacrifices.

It sounds like a bad deal, one I personally would not agree to, let alone writing about it publicly.

It is quite likely that after let's say 6 months of gruelling work you will start to burn out, start to feel undervalued, become difficult to work with and end up getting fired as a result. If things are this tight you should probably raise more money instead.
The Japanese version can assume some knowledge about the functioning of Japanese business life on the part of the reader which the English article must explain before the actual phenomenon can be explained understandably.
> Now they give syndromes for every problem happening under the sun?

Only in the western world.
I’m a major skeptic of the space, and even I haven’t actually heard anything shady about the Gemini dollar. Which is why I suspect nobody is uses it, but I digress.
Having had an app in the top #10 for a year or so, I can say this is very important, and very difficult with the current model.

Them contacting you isn't the issue though, you can put that in the app - but if you want to contact them because you messed something up, much harder.

Another annoyance is refunds. Sometimes you just want to refund someone. Maybe because you messed up somehow, or just to be nice. All you can do is send them to beg apple for one which makes for crap customer service.
That's absolutely not true. I've lived in Japan and had Japanese girlfriends. They are super westernized and can travel if they want to. But you can substitute "travel" for any other activity including participating in "robot sumo" or golfing. If an older couple want to make their twilight years good then they absolutely can. But if you read the article it seems...quite different.

Change IS hard. But my original point is that this change is hard also for men and this is not addressed in the article -- its very one sided.
It's not a "Miracle Drug" it's a "Wonder Drug"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC30437 (title: Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective)

Some Quotes:

>(Ivermectin) has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world.

>There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people.

Contrary to popular belief, Ivermectin is not just a "horse dewormer" but has antiviral properties:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7564151/ (general antiviral)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6277121/ (dengue)
In case anyone wants to read more on the subject, here is a recent study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8021876/

> Conclusion

> The results suggest the limited relevance of the “retired husband syndrome” among middle-aged Japanese couples. The effects of a husband’s retirement on the wife’s mental health depended heavily on her prior behavior.
WASM is a nice 'assembly' language to play with.
At some point I suspect that they’re going to be exposed as holding billions of dollars in ultra-high-risk junk Chinese ABCP. Even before the current economic and political climate, that stuff was toxic — you can buy dodgy SCP for about a penny on the dollar given how poorly regulated the China commercial debt market is.
Conversely, the more people pay you, the more entitled you are.
I approve of this traditional usage of the term "literally". It's literally correct, but possibly too late - they've been burning bridges for five years.
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I think they used the well-established and well-researched personality methodology called OCEAN. This has been well documented as being able to identify the big five traits (OPENNESS, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, EXTRAVERSION, AGREEABLENESS, NEUROTICISM) and its sub traits.

This framework was then used by Aleksandr Kogan to profile and harvest facebook users - who then sold it to Cambridge Analytica..etc. By relying somewhat on self-selection Aleksandr's firm was able to profile facebook users. Since there was no second-guessing by the subject of the test as what a "question might say about them" I think it was pretty robust methodology. And then when you look at the impact of his work, you can see it was effective.

Not sure there is any snake oil to be found here.
Previous discussion:

> Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time (u-tokyo.ac.jp)

> 664 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 125 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874497
I don't think I understand your point. Are those ads, or just entity search? Or are you saying you don't think that the distinction between paid autocomplete results and rich autocomplete results are meaningful?
I suggest reading about the principles of ethics in psychological experimentation[1]. Informed consent is an important one.

[1] https://www.simplypsychology.org/Ethics.html
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It is both. I do get more equity, but I already had a big chunk before. The reason for the reduction was motivation.
Oh that's awesome! I still have my TI-89 - maybe I should find some weekend time to do some projects on it... that sounds like a fun one!
"growing"

Expected video to show process of atoms slowly forming together or something to shape my mental model.

What I got was a full-formed grid of little atom things that just seemed to spring into existence between two frames.

It's still cool. But I am not less confused.
It's actually an interesting thought experiment to try to figure out what would (will?) happen when all this comes crashing down.

I am an extreme skeptic on all things crypto, I don't hold any and I think it's basically a gambling fad. But, with that said, I grudgingly recognize that it now has some powerful establishment interests behind it and things that have that tend to defy the laws of gravity, often forever. So I have no idea what will happen.

But it's interesting to contemplate scenarios. One obvious one might be that crypto values would be highly correlated to the values of specific stocks that are in favor by crypto enthusiasts (aka "meme stocks" or maybe Tesla, etc) and that if there's a full on crypto crash those specific stocks will be annihilated by margin calls, since it's the same set of retail investors.

That's one hypothesis, I'm sure there's many other interesting ones.
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I don't think I ever listened to this on a computer with a good sound card. I don't remember it ever sounding so good.
Black holes, FTL, cyclic cosmology
This isn't limited merely to Japan - just about everyone I know who's retired (either per force (eg due to injury or aging-out of their job), or by choice) HAS to go out and do something ... or they go [sometimes literally] crazy
Well, it's about a yearly developer salary where that founder lives - so not really "a lot of money" for them there, just the expected amount (and FAANGs do better, as do developers in New York working for finance).

Whereas his new salary is closer to a burger flipping salary, and actually less.
I think the main difference between OS kernel and browser is the former can decide what they need to support, but the latter need to be compatible in order to render existing website. IMO, Building a new browser is more similar to building a Windows-compatible operating system.
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I know it's just from this year, but January feels like a long time ago.
I don't understand how Tether has survived this long. Bitfinex and Tether sure look transparently like a fraud, all the way back to the "no really we have $1 in the bank for every Tether but you can't audit us" days. And yet it continues to occupy its role as the underpinning of most cryptocurrency markets. Why hasn't it blown up yet? My best guess is that it's useful to everyone taking in money from new retail investors. Also there's no clear financial incentive for blowing it up; there's no way to easily short Tether, for instance.

This article talks about the way Tether is loaning out what reserves they have. The Economist looked at this phenomenon and found Tether has a 383-to-1 leverage. That's going to be a complete disaster the moment there's a major blip in the economy. Say, a major Chinese real estate company going broke. Or interest rates in the West finally going up and causing a market correction. Maybe that's what will blow it up.

The good news is the Economist also thinks the inevitable cryptocurrency disaster will be bad but won't destroy world economies. " its holders would lose hundreds of billions of dollars but that the fallout would be manageable." I sure hope that happens before this tower of unregulated investments gets so big that when it falls over it crushes the real economy.

But don't worry folks, this is all good for Bitcoin.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-...
Does crypto do anything but cause troubles? If it's not actively destroying the environment, then it's endangering financial stability.

How does the government not step in here?
semiconductors also employ people in surrounding industries... like software developers, microwave salespeople, (these days) mechanics, specialized clean room equipment procurement. You've moved the goalpost, but here we go, i'll bite:

Intel revenue 2020: 77.87 billion [1]

Now, granted, just because intel has a plant in the UK doesn't move all that revenue over to the UK all of a sudden, they have 8 fab plants [3], so each fab plant comes in at just under 10 billion USD (assuming they're all equal (and equal contributors to revenue), which i don't know and wouldn't expect to be), some countries have more than one fab plant too.

but, we'll also filter to the film industry in the UK, we'll even take the best year, giving us 4 billion GBP in 2004 [2]

(keep in mind GBP and USD here, and VEEEERY rough mathematics and assumptions)

So even on the best day - your ENTIRE (maybe even both, i can't even be bothered to calculate) cited industry/industries in the UK is smaller in revenue than one fab plant that you missed out on.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/297182/film-industry-rev...
[3]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

edit: minor fixes
Is there a link to just the video anywhere?
Ah, the old, now-deleted (and much-refuted) reddit post [0], I assume?

[0] https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22270#p16867...