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Acrobat PDF rendering engine added to Microsoft Edge
They have everything – except the culture to deliver, imo.
> (1) Unlearn the "large team workflow mindset"

That's how Darth started.
This is the first clear and concise explanation I've read about why a number as "simple" as 0.1 is imprecise as a float. Thanks!
Spectacular. Also, if you are a Lord, the resolution is 1080p, from there it gets scaled up so Viscount, Earl etc up to you have to be a Duke or minor royal to get 4k.

Audio could be auto dubbed into received pronunciation and any food onscreen automatically replaced by deepfaked cucumber sandwiches.
I mean, they basically said as much when they bought it. They didn't buy it for the product, they bought it for all the folks who bring a wealth of cryptography knowledge. This was also around the time that Zoom had a LOT of bad PR around privacy and spying on users, IIRC.

That said, Zoom is the reason the lights are still on, even if not a lot of work is being done on the product. Keybase never really had a solid marketable product to begin with, so I honestly don't see it going down another way. They seemed to be entirely set up to get acquired at some point, regardless who or what their plans were.
>The same reason that stopped everyone else that tried, the mobile os market is mature and not enough people want or care about another mobile os to make it worth the effort.

The point is that they have one now. SteamOS is 10 years old at this point. They've undoubtedly dumped millions into it already, and done most of the wireless networking, battery performance, and UI work needed for Steam Deck. It's a pretty short leap for a company like Valve to add a 5G modem and miniaturize the form factor from there.
I don't know that end-users really care about having a GPT-written paragraph accompanying their search results.

For 90% of my searches I don't want any search results. I want a definitive, authoritative answer to a question. In the olden days of the web I had to figure out what to search to give me a website that would give me that answer as the first result, and in the mid-90s that was really hard because search was bad. In the late 90s when Google launched it got much easier, especially for things where there was a network of websites about a thing that all pointed to a canonical authority. PageRank found that authority source. Life was good.

Over the next 20 years the war between Google and SEO spammers meant finding things got a bit harder. Along with that Google's proliferation of adverts on their search result pages meant it actually became harder to even find the website link I wanted in the page itself. Fortunately Google also started putting knowledge graph things in the results and the sidebar which made life less painful.

I think we're due another shake-up, and Bing-GPT might be it. If they show me a simple paragraph of readable text that explains the answer to what I've searched for then that would improve most of my searches. It'd be like Google's knowledge graph box but for everything.
Well, I think it is more challenging than that. Even if the author writes the piece himself, most professional writing is subject to editing, which can substantially change the finished product. The one thing we can be reasonably, if not entirely, certain of is that the piece is one the author is comfortable endorsing as his own.
With all those superhero movies I had impression that there is hardly anything for adults.
They are completely different letters. You'd be misspelling it.
This is a good piece, with the author consciously examining their own biases and assumptions. I do think underdiagnosis is an issue; when I sought mental health treatment in an earlier period, there was a veritable line of people telling me I couldn't be mentally ill because my clothes were clean and my sentences coherent.

I think the author errs in not projecting his data far back enough into the past and looking for correlations with previous rises or falls. I agree that social media is probably a main driver; the ability to receive mass communication at scale is not something the brain evolved for, and there's a lot of maladaptive online behavior that doesn't show in these statistics but is nonetheless problematic. I'm honestly appalled by the pervasive tendency to rely on repetition of cliches in favor of original communication, for example.

But I think there are other factors in play, like the 24-7 news cycle and deep political polarizations, both of which have a huge impact on adult behavior and create an unhealthy psychological environment in which kids have to operate.
Faolan-Rad and I (fire) are working in that area https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/72883 "LibGodot is a system to allows Godot to be compiled as a library and connected into it using GDExtensions by giving a function pointer to the entry point of a GDExtension implementation"
Adjusted for inflation, and considering pent up demand from closed theaters in 2020 and 2021, it's not quite as impressive.

And both of 2022's winners were sequels (2009 and 1986), suggesting that this is milking the last and the new generation of creators aren't bringing in comparable audiences.

Who is the new Lucas, Spielberg, Cameron, Nolan?

And where is the midmarket depth? (Streaming)

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-...
That's almost certainly a rights issue. Even if legal, movie studios probably wouldn't be happy about not getting a cut of the action and would stop releasing movies to that theater. Which is too bad because it seems like there could be a system where you can select from a studio's library of past releases and pay a fee for viewing. Just like their opposition to VCRs which ended up greatly improving their bottom line instead of killing them off like "the Boston Strangler", Hollywood can be very myopic about current versus new revenue streams.
Totally agree. After spending tons of time trying to find a reputable supplier the answer ended up being either:

1) I need to befriend a local beekeeper
2) I need to pick up beekeeping

You may think, that's too much work but really the honey you're buying at the store stands a really good chance of simply being sugar with only a trace of honey. Not good for you.
Great! Now do a JOIN in a database with Türkiye in one column and Turkiye in another.

It's a problem with well-known solutions. That's not the same as a solved problem.

It will be a solved problem when processing a log file in /var/log with Python (or any other tool of choice), it works automatically.
> sperm counts and testosterone is down (for better or worse)

Sorry to nitpick but why did you qualify it “for better or worse”? It struck me as misandry. The implication being that masculine traits are bad and perhaps low sperm and testosterone is a good thing!
We grown-ups are who the kids follow. If you don't take your kids to the movies, theater shows (my 7-yr-old saw here first opera last month, a kids-version. she's decades ahead of me) or concerts then they won't keep the industry alive as teenagers and adults.
Matt Damon has a great explanation of why the movie industry has shifted the way it has. It has a lot to do with the loss of DVD sales covering much of the cost of movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6K2IxC9O8
> why are more people […] spending more money to do so) than ever before

Because everyone forgets to adjust for inflation.
Firefox has deprecated support for FTP, RSS feeds. Web extensions using manifest version 2 are being deprecated in Chrome, removing substantial capabilities. Whether these features are "close to vital" is debatable but certainly some functionality that used to be ubiquitous are being removed.
Passive voice: it's a tool[0]. And in some scenarios, more preferable to active (as you correctly mentioned). Not only does it depend on genre (e.g. scientific writing), but on the writer's intent and how they want the reader to interpret the text.

It boils down to who's the subject/agent of the story, what you are trying to convey, and what you are trying to "stress" or emphasize. You, as the writer, get to control 1) who's story it is and 2) what should be emphasized.

For example:

- I wrote this software program
- This software program was written by me

It would be silly to say that sentence one is better because its written in the active voice. What we need is context. If we want to tell a story through the lens of the software program itself and emphasize it being written by me (i.e. "I"), then I would argue the second sentence does a better job. Passive wins. In contrast, if we want to write a story about the perspective from me (i.e. "I") and emphasize the software program (which is in the "stress" position), then then the first sentence takes the cake. Active wins.

[0]: https://georgegopen.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Why-the-P...
USA - "Hello, my name is the US of A."

Everybody - "Welcome, US of A."

USA - "Today I haven't orchestrated a coup in (checks paper)[0] ... six years?"

*applause*

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
He's generally overrated but Taxi Driver is not good cinema, it's great cinema.
Not sure, why you're down-voted. I wished people who disagree would do so in writing, rather with a single button-click.

Perhaps it would help to state why you think the Turing test isn't good. I think, while it has some charm and poses a considerable challenge to the industry, it is unsuitable in meeting its goal. Turing underestimated how easily humans are being fooled.
As well as guntubers. You're not allowed to show assembly, or even disassembly, of firearms really anymore. Who needs to amend the Constitution when the institutions can simply erase knowledge and experience on exercising the rights therein.
You are right. My brain decided to forget that existed!
Please enlighten us then.
Because it's a nationalistic thing to insist that all languages spell your country's name in the script and spelling of the source language. It's a stupid move by the Erdogan government to get people to stop thinking about türkiye birds when they think of the Turkey country. Other countries get by just fine.

Germany, Alemania, Deutschland.

Mexico, Messico, Méjico.

Japan, Nippon, 日本.

China, Zhōngguó, 中国.

Every country gets by getting called different things in different languages. But Turkey insisting on the spelling just because they don't want to be associated to türkiye birds, where the birds are literally named after the country, is a silly move designed to stir nationalistic pride for their near totalitarian government.
They switched suppliers for the fan, apparently their previous one was much worse and the fans were much louder and annoying.
I'm sensing that engineering compromises are what you'd call work, not fun? You may be asking for elegant cross platform tooling that may not exist because of the compromises it would require to hit a common denominator. I would pick my favorite platform and make something uncompromising using its strengths.
My experience with chatgpt is that it is essentially a misinformation generator. It manages to bullshit with incredible confidence.
I think the user choice doesn't really matter here. Web devs want 99% of people to be able to use their stuff, so they develop for the least shared functionality and companies/apps/services that _need_ functionality just don't exist or else the companies that want to do it give up after creating mobile apps (linux users, and sometimes even desktop users are out of luck).
Edge removes or replaces more than 50 Chromium services with Microsoft alternatives:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-is-microsofts-chromium-bas...
Smartphones + Social Media
Avengers appears to be past its peak, like Harry Potter before it and Star Wars. Is there a new generation coming up?
Related: biochar as a soil amendment

https://biochar-international.org/biochar/
This will only happen if Microsoft also pushes game developers towards ARM64.

You're talking about Rosetta but Rosetta is a transition period. If the Steam Deck is the only device to run on ARM64, and game developers keep providing only x86 builds, the drawbacks of ARM will outweight the benefits.
To be clear, that's a tremendous concern, but it doesn't have any connection to crypto. The reason that the money in your bank account can't expire is because if a private bank tried to do that, it would trigger a bank run - everyone would withdraw their funds as paper, or transfer them to a different bank. The reason the CBDC is different is because there cannot be a run on a central bank as the issuer of currency, and it alone can assert that its unit of account is a legal replacement for paper banknotes. So it can establish policies like an 'expiry date' for deposited funds, which a private bank could not (at least, not until the central bank does first).

Banks certainly can limit where you spend your money though - again, with the exception of cash withdrawals.
I use the free Resilio Sync tier to keep a shared fold in sync between several servers. It's worked incredibly well for the last decade, no issues at all.

You configure a secret token and all servers which know the token automatically sync via BitTorrent. You don't need to manage lists of server IDs like with syncthing, it's completely peer-to-peer.
Completely agree books keep me sane from digital overload.
> Children are not idiots and they do not need things dumbing down for them.

No but if the next door app is shinier and more colorful they will go for it over your grey buttons, and you will lose business.
So 2 years after Instagram was created, and a few years after touchscreen cell phones became commodity devices.
That's his thing. When challenged he googles stuff that has a title that sounds like it backs his opinion. The ensuing debate about the article body being contradictory to his point moves the argument away from his point being poor and toward one of source legitimacy. It's a common rhetorical tactic. Were he not perpetually arguing for whatever is in fashion at any time he'd have been banned long ago for instigating flame wars.
What was the old rallying call? It's their platform they can moderate their content at their pleasure. "When companies do it, it's not censorship" ...etc...
Home-Buying Companies Stuck with Hundreds of Houses as Demand Slows
Given how vast the modern web specifications are, you could really be 99% compliant but provide a pretty mediocre experience to your users, or vice versa.

For example, I use Firefox as my main browser, and the lack of e.g. proper WebAuthN support on macOS has a much, much higher impact to me (and is making me consider switching), whereas I couldn't care less about e.g. WebUSB (which I do occasionally use, but I'm fine switching to Chrome for that use case).

To get an accurate picture, you'd have to somehow weigh all of these various standards and features in a way that not only accurately presents actual users, but also their relative importance (i.e. do websites trying to use something fail gracefully, or do I effectively have to use another browser to get achieve what I'm there for).
Maybe the people who were supposed to be running the event got laid off xD
I'm not sure pent-up demand is really a reasonable expectation in this case. People couldn't go to the cinema for a while so they watched things via streaming. It's not like when cinemas were open again they were going to rush in and gorge themselves on overpriced popcorn.
Difference between me stopping you from wearing shoes in my house, and me stopping you from wearing shoes in yours.
Yes but I think they're correct a lot more often than ChatGPT. And they give the source!
I wonder if Google is going to be as successful as Intel selling their "turn around" story when their monopoly was threatened by AMD. Intel managed to make media run with it even though it was based on nothing and turned out to be nothing.

It might not be as simple this time as people don't understand CPUs well but everyone can see that ChatGPT is something new and special while Google search is deteriorating every year.
I think if you do a moving average that the trend would adhere more to 2012 being the inflection point. I'm basing that on just noticing that in US Teens, Suicides (Ages 10-14) chart the there was a decent amount of fluctuation in the leading years.

As for why these trends exist, one of the interesting things is that these are present in all of the anglosphere. Can we think of another explanation? What else has changed on a global scale in the last couple of decades?
Note that in this case radiation is definitely incoherent. This rule applies to incoherent isotropic emission.

The coherent case is similar I believe, but because for an antenna (emitter) the field is usually tangent to the surface, you get some additional trigonometric factors (not purely solid angle). But by my calculations it's still 1/r^2.
> “It should be for the industry,” he said, “and not for the consumers.”

It arguably already is, always has been, and that's why it's in decline. The demographics of the Academy put the voting members out of touch with the public in a way that makes the award winners a big list of head-scratchers. I was shook when Everything Everywhere All at Once got a bunch of nominations though, maybe there's hope for this thing.
Rather misanthropy?
"Impact on tech" doesn't just mean "impact on Silicon Valley". Framasoft has been plenty influential in Europe, and a decent chunk of that has been because they're not just another anglophonic "international" (United States) software house.
Unfortunately, most of those superhero movies have adult content smushed into them. It rarely adds much to the story but does limit the lower age range of the potential audience. Seems like they're mainly aimed at horny teenagers and adults who still act like horny teens.
> I would think that, nowadays, every child would learn that calculators do not always produce exact answers almost in kindergarten.

such a strange comment to make. the number of people that would ever bump into this situation is so small. like the difference of .1 + .2 = .3 and .30000000000000004

i just used my iPhone to do (√2)² and it displayed 2 as the result. same for 3 x 1/3 to receive an answer of 1. i can only assume that the default android calculator app would behave the same. between those 2 apps, we've probably covered the default calculator for the majority of people.

gotta break out of the HN is the world shell, and realize the majority of people do not suffer the same issues you might deal with on a daily basis.
Telemetry in open source exists for a long time. Debian has the popcon package that can be installed and reports weekly usage of the software packages. The telemetry data are published in the open. The Debian popcon FAQ could be used as guideline for other telemetry needs.
https://popcon.debian.org/
> This suggests to me that Google is finally getting disrupted and are scrambling of desperation because of the release of ChatGPT.

Even if Google is not getting disrupted, this suggested that Google is finally at the stage where its culture is hindering its progress and causing subpar performance. I hope I'm wrong, though. Google is such an admirable company. Its search engine has forever changed the world. The launch of Gmail with its 1GB inbox was a game-changer that shocked competitors, and Yahoo! played catch-up for over two years. Google Maps revolutionized the world of electronic maps and started a movement frontend development, as Google showed the world its amazing application of AJAX. Chrome dethroned Internet Explorer and Firefox to become a dominant browser, and the company's three seminal systems papers (GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable) spawned a multi-billion-dollar industry. Additionally, Google's advances in machine learning just keeps pushing the industry forward. The list can go on...
Still getting it wrong...i wont do a random trial just because someone offered it
I suppose it's the frontier spirit that makes you say "it's -30°F, you put on a jacket and get under a blanket".

I'm pretty sure civilization would end over here if Germany had temperatures where F and C come close and heating failed.
That's not always the right thing to do.

I'm from a language where you'll never get it right, and most people are pragmatic and don't care about names being the way our mothers do. That's a very Western thing.

Forcing us to try to teach you our language, or half-way butcherings, are considered obnoxious. Go with the English pronunciation. Do anything half-reasonable-sounding, and it's okay too. Don't visibly struggle each time you try to say my name.

For my name specifically, there's also an uncanny valley phenomenon. My name pronounced obviously wrong by an American doesn't raise flags. Americans mispronouncing my native name sounds horribly wrong.
How does that work re: the Steamdeck which is running Linux or other game consoles?
Reminds me of the 'small business' tag on some Amazon sellers. Technically true, but they're usually just reselling stuff from Alibaba.
I think some people tried that once…
When experts do chime in, they're blasted as shills. Have fun finding someone who is truly an expert yet has no connection to the industry that uses the technology.
> a small proportion of uses might result in a disproportionate amount of bugs.

This is what concerns me. Sure, using decimal floating point solves 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3 (which I can't imagine ever writing in real code). But if you get used to that, then you start to expect 0.1*x + 0.2*x to be 0.3*x, and depending what x is this may or may not be true. Maybe it works for all of your test cases (because your test cases are things like 2 and 10^-4), but then you accept some user input and start getting weird bugs (or infinite loops). There is no good solution besides expecting and preparing for rounding error.
In case it isn’t obvious, the lesson here is that passive voice can be used to place the important thing first in a sentence.
All the things he cites are lagging indicators. Self-harm and suicide typically follow long, long battles with mental health issues; they're not the first thing that happens, or even close. Diagnoses are also typically far from immediate; having depression and being diagnosed with depression are two very different things. (And without increased awareness, many people never get care and are never diagnosed.)

As such, the inflection point, if there is one, is likely much earlier than 2012.
A smartphone does nothing what a desktop computer (with ubiquitous root access) doesn't and apocalypse still hasn't happened.

Your literal argument was used for game consoles as well (Oh egads, what will happen if we allow freedom to infest our DRM protected systems?!) until Valve proved everyone wrong.

Maybe instead of spewing the same corporate profiteering arguments here, perhaps think on how we could design our software for freedom AND security and whether defending megacorp monopolies is worth the small improvement in security you're getting in return?
> What makes you think so?

Experience. We've also basically seen in it in the pandemia all over the world happening in the last years. Though, this was a bit of an extreme situation for everyone.

> In my experience exposure to more viewpoints, even flawed ones, increases understanding and helps critical thinking.

Simple exposure is only helpful if the people are able to handle it, and willing to invest the time, and the one delivering it has no bad intention. The ones where it will not work, are left as the victims of this strategy. Maybe they will find their way after a long painful process. But then the harm is done.
Seconded. I hope they're working on one.
well, we see where that ends by looking at 4chan. Why are you posting here and not there?
Maybe not officially, as I mentioned, but it does seem to have been available at least for one minor version: https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/06/ios-14-2-brings-jit-compilati...

Might have been a bug; might have been a feature available earlier than planned.
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