skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IE4 is the first what I would call "recognizably modern" browser, because it's the first browser that has a concept of "reflow" accessible through Javascript. I recall writing some Javascript attached to a button that would add another row to a table, and that new row would have a button in it with attached Javascript that would add a new row. Yeah, it's not how you'd do it today, and I crashed the browser more than once trying to do this sort of thing, but it worked like you expect a browser to work today; a row was added to the table and the page reflowed around it.

Prior to that, nothing worked that way. What limited page modification there was after formatting couldn't ever cause a reflow, and you couldn't even do all the things that couldn't cause a reflow, either. Reflows were simply not a thing through Javascript. (Deferred image loading could cause reflows, and a few other special cases the browser would handle, but you didn't have generalized access to it.)

Netscape tried to compete but they clearly couldn't. They tried to build a "layer" concept, which was ultimate just several chunks of page that could be completely rewritten, but couldn't be reflowed as we'd use the term today. It was a weak concept that was very difficult to use for anything.

IIRC, Netscape qua Netscape never solved this. It was only after Firefox that it could compete. There was a long time where IE was really the only recognizably-modern browser.

It, too, fell behind, its internal architecture becoming simply too limiting. But there was a period of time where it was legitimately the best browser, no matter how anyone may have felt about it.
Is this really "mind blowing"? Knowing the competency of the average police department, I'd consider it more par for the course.
Cocaine is not expensive... it's the black market effect that makes its street price high.
There isn't a coup.

A controversial judiciary bill that was spearheaded by Netenyahu just passed in Israel despite massive opposition to it.

Also, to OP - nothing will work if Israeli ISPs and the Govt actually wanted to implement internal surveillance (which they in fact do in some limited manner).

That said, I doubt such a situation would arise.
> It looks you concede the fact that IE was clearly better in its 4.0-6.0 releases than its competition

Yes, but only because they cheated. They poisoned their opponents and claimed victory after they fell over. Just because the new releases showed steady improvements while Netscape was thrashing around in its death throes doesn’t mean they were “technically excellent” in any meaningful sense. And once it was clear that Netscape wasn’t going to be getting back up they completely stopped trying. That’s the bit I’m most annoyed about.
How they're implemented depends from site to site. But for many sites, they would need to be changed manually if Twitter changes its name and/or logo.
> But more detailed record-keeping may undermine financial apps’ usefulness. “If people know that there’s going to be a record every time they use Apple Pay, based on our theory, people actually will use it less compared to if Apple Pay doesn’t automatically track and record and remind them in the statement.”

This is so weird to me since I want to know how much I spend in any category. I’m annoyed only one of my linked Apple Pay cards reports transactions off Apple Pay (my AmEx).

The study specifically says it looked only at cases where “the payment method hadn’t been decided beforehand” but that strikes me as really weird. Everyone I know knows how they’re going to pay for a purchase before they walk into a store, mostly because walking into a store has become so intentional. You are either carrying (sufficient) cash on you or not. You either have enough credit on your card or not. And, honestly, for most people in the USA of my generation (so-called “millennials”) if there’s any thinking involved it might be “which card do I charge this to” and not “cash or credit?”

Also as with other studies making claims like these I immediately wonder about reproducibility.
More is Different by P. W. Anderson (1972)'arguing that “at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear” — that is, although, for example, chemistry is subject to the laws of physics, we cannot infer the field of chemistry from our knowledge of physics.'
The paper https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/ander...

Also its impact
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-022-00483-x
perfectly reasonable people eat at McDonalds and buy crisps and support a football team. if you sit down and think about them, they all fly in the face of reason too
"Overview of SHARD: A System for Highly Available Replicated Data" it's the first paper to introduce the concept of database sharding. It was published in 1988 by the Computer Corporation of America.

It is referenced hundreds of times in many classic papers.

But, here's the thing. It doesn't exist.

Everyone cites Sarin, DeWitt & Rosenb[e|u]rg's paper but none have ever seen it. I've emailed dozens of academics, libraries, and archives - none of them have a copy.

So it blows my mind that something so influential is, effectively, a myth.
can you recommend an instance with this type of content?
> It not only runs (included) ROM code from the HP-45, but also the HP-35 and the HP-80

I thought that ROM code is copyrighted and cannot be redistributed without permission. Maybe they got that permission from HP. The TI calculator emulators require a separate ROM dump from an actual physical calculator.
I've been very indifferent to the Elon love/hate stuff and don't really see the point in investing personal opinions on someone I'll never meet. I do have a strong annoyance for this change though.

This yet another company is trying to horn in and "claim" stuff that is fundamental to language. A company cannot own a letter, for goodness sake! It bothers me at how much common, everyday stuff that big brands are trying to steal from the lexicon. Meta, Apple, Sky, etc.

These are things that belong to the public. They don't exist for the sole purpose of some company to hawk its wares - the word does not exist solely for them to swoop in and claim it for their stupid VR-branded neckties.

Use your family name. Make up some goofy nonsense word. Make up a phony sounding "foreign" word if you have to (Starbucks cup sizes, etc.) I'm fine with all of that! Just don't call your company some everyday word like "Dog" or "L" whatever. That's ours.

It's not right that companies would take these very basic elements of language. It's cheesy, and lame, and tedious. If I remember correctly, Sony tried something like this with trying to trademark the word "blue" for Bluray. You don't get to own the word blue, for goodness sake! It's aggravating.
You're just wrapping hope and "everyone's special!" in a ball of fluffy, warm "lookit this!"

I'm sorry, but most people have nothing, even the tiniest exceptional thing, about them. There's no latent kingfu master, hidden in pandas.
Over the top is underrated. :)
I wish I could explain to people how GMail seemed damn close to magic when it came out.
My understanding is there is legislation being enacted which strips power from elected or appointed groups and places that power with the executive.

A soft coup through “patriot act” style legislation
I was addressing the question of why the issue itself might gain attention on HN, and be worthy of deeper investigation, particularly in light of a rather snarky "slow news day" sibling response to the OP.

Oracle deserves a very close watch, and I've strong suspicions that overreliance on Virtualbox will end in tears.

It's not a belief that the cause is malice, it's a suspicion that it could be, or might portend same.
Today they are, but it wasn’t always that way.

SpaceX only exists today because he somehow found enough money to launch one more time (his 4 launch attempt) which finally worked.

Even after that, people thought he would fail at landings rockets and also fail at reusing them. He upended the entire industry.

Tesla was considered bankrupt and a fraud so much that well-respected shortsellers gambled tons of money that it would go bankrupt.

The Boring company is still considered by many to not be a success despite raising nearly a billion dollars last year.

Solar City (now part of Tesla) was ridiculed for its battery approach to power grids, but that approach now is being emulated by numerous competitors.
Conch Republic
> * Footer updated to © 2023 X Corp.

The footer is this way for month already. And secondary resources like developer.twitter.com will likely stay inconsistent for a long time (probably forever).

I'm still kinda surprised they actually changed the well known bird logo. I would be even more surprised if they actually try to fully replace the name Twitter.
From what’s been rumoured about the Twitter code base those changes will need to be made across a dozen repos.
I had sales drones get me just for downloading VirtualBox as a whole from our IPs. They sent me an email, tagged High Importance even.

"My name is <name> and I am part of Oracle Open Source Linux & Virtualization team. I have got an internal notification from my team that you have shown interest in Oracle Virtual Box... I would like to schedule a time with you to discuss the use cases in your organization, our recent version 7 announcements, and how Oracle can assist you in getting the maximum value from this offering..."
I didn’t know that there was a bare metal implementation of python, thanks for the link. I doubt it can run pytorch though.
Remarkable publication, The Collector. Also about History and Philosophy.
In my opinion the healthiest approach is to not care. Life’s too short.

Almost everything else is more important than some rich brain parasite’s midlife crisis dressed up as 5-d chess. The brain parasite feeds on attention whether positive or negative.
It's essentially impossible. Confidence is often a situational measure.

"Is the sky blue?"

* Generally, yes. If you ask a 5 year old, the answer is yes.

* Is the sky blue right now? Maybe, maybe not. You need to look outside. Even then, you might have wild fire haze. Is it still blue? Is it orange? When does blue become orange?

* Is the sky blue in Blade Runner? Doesn't really seem like it.

-----

Further, who are you talking to? Is this trivia night where your best guess is better than no guess? Is this a scientific panel? Do you have alternative options? Do those alternative options align with your opinion? If you're wrong, how wrong are you?
The intended medium is the video at the top of the page. The page itself is just a way for me to show all my sources clearly. See this link which I also posted below for details on the mechanism of genetic assimilation: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-018-0403-x

As I said in the video, the hypothesis for the finches is unproven. I simply wanted to show an interesting alternative theory that throws up some interesting questions.
No it has probably been a plan since the beginning. He wants to build an everything app like wechat.
> No matter how much you had, it would eat it. I remember being mocked for the number of tabs I would always have open, but secretly, they were just jealous that it was actually possible.

Confused about this comment. At all points during the history of even single-process Firefox, as far as I know, it could handle far more tabs than Chrome, as in not even worth comparing. Chrome would start actively falling apart at 100 tabs. Firefox could eat up all of your memory with 20 tabs, but would only be marginally worse at 1000 tabs.

Firefox died because it systematically started eliminating all of its advantages over Chrome and imitating it in even superficial ways, and became openly user-hostile as it became completely financially dependent on Google. Imo it had only a little bit to do with Chrome's performance, which was often based on visually cheating and assuming that nobody needed more than 20 tabs, but also had tab isolation so the browser wasn't always hard crashing. Still, plenty of people are impressed by a quickly appearing unresponsive UI, plenty don't need more than 20 tabs, and hard crashes suck.

> For the tabs man, I needed those tabs.

I needed tree-style vertical tabs, so I was locked in because Chrome wasn't flexible enough to build them.
This is a great idea. I can only speak to NYC, but the data sources don't give good recommendations. Optimal routing for time in NYC is tricky though and relying on only mapping services and not a combination of walking, biking, buses, and subways leads to longer travel times than necessary.

For example, there are many parts of Brooklyn where no transit lines are directly connected and you have to go into Manhattan first, meaning if you took the train it would take 1+ hours, versus bus (30 minutes) or biking (15 minutes).
> Hiring them (especially a competent manager who will manage the operations) is just putting money on the table.

I love to shit on Musk as much as anyone but I dunno about this lol.

There's a lot of skill in hiring good technical people. IMO that "skill" basically just comes down to being a good technical person yourself so you can tell the difference. You can't hire an elite engineering team with hype, out of 100 applicants you'll get 2 good ones and 98 muppets that want to work at the trendy place and be seen to be doing so.

I've worked for like 5+ companies that were doing fine before some dipshit head of engineering hired a bunch of other dipshits and they took over and turned it into a big dipshit orgy hellbent on driving a perfectly good company straight into an iceberg. The person doing the hiring has a shitton of influence in how a business goes unless your business model can live with enterprise-grade average and you can just hire everyone. I can't see that being the case at Tesla or SpaceX...

I think Musk deserves some credit for Tesla and SpaceX. Doesn't stop him being a flog though.
If you don't know the answer to this question, perhaps you are speaking on a subject you know little about and should refrain from stirring the pot until you understand a bit more. The information is out there, I'm not going to hold your hand through a cursory Google search.
If I had a dollar for everyone that say this, I would have a lot more than the $20/year I am getting from my only two customers on my mastodon instance.
I take it to mean the creation account is from God's perspective not ours.

I don't have the slightest problem with modern science and it's reckoning of creation.

The universe started with light in both accounts.
> I’ve literally never heard anyone advocate your position until you did, just now

Many mathematicians concerned by typography use real boldface. For example: Terence Tao's blog, Donald Knuth, Paul Halmos (author of "how to write mathematics"), and the famous journal "Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS" which is the undisputed gold standard in mathematical typography. They use real boldface for the number sets N, Z, Q, T, R, C.

I've never seen a boldface R to mean a set different than the real numbers.
It’s pretty common for people to not like in-ear earbuds. Though I might suggest trying different tip sizes.
On the other hand, I can book keep all my electronic transactions thanks to the many Yodlee-powered sites whereas the effort it takes to do that for cash transactions is phenomenal.
I don't think Toyota has lost anything. I think they understand the mid-range market better than other care makers and are executing on a strategy that pushes most people's first EV purchase out into 2030, with hybrid and plugin-hybrids dominating until then. I think that's probably the right bet.

My basic thought on TSLA's long-term prospects and the EV market in general is that the legacy auto makers are patient, not sclerotic.

(Also, toyota has several EVs: the Toyota-badged BZ4X, the Subaru-badged Solterra, and the Lexus-badged RZ. Branding aside, those are all Toyota EVs.)
Twitter, erm I mean "X", only showed me the first post. Here's a better link:
https://nitter.net/tubetimeus/status/1671654843138854912

The author also has a mastodon account: https://mastodon.social/@tubetime
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that extensive testing and certification for aerospace/medical/military/etc. use can be replaced by 'just formatting' the cards?
So, is it just the logo? Or will the whole platform renamed to Twitter X, Twi-x or something like that? I mean he already has Space X, maybe he will now line them up for the giggles?
I've also been using Twitter more since he bought it. I've been enjoying the promotion of long form videos, long form post, revenue sharing, paid accounts and at least an attempt at being more politically centrist.
Related:

Search for software in Nix channels:

https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/

Use case: Search for old software in older Nix channels, e.g. earlier verison of binutils (bintools):

https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=nixos-18.09&pack...

Instructions for how to install/use this earlier version of bintools on NixOS:

https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?package=binutils&version...

For example, use an old binutils (2.23.1) in an ephemeral shell:

nix-shell -p binutils -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/23befca742f67494f44...

(In my opinion, a perfect complement for regular NixOS package search: https://search.nixos.org/packages)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/tw...
Exactly. The right wingers plan to annex the territories without giving the Palestinians citizenship. It was literally in their election platform!
I get that you're saying that when a team wins or loses, you clearly didn't have anything to do with it. So associations with an organization that just wants your money are as arbitrary as divination. However, as a Vikings fan I've experienced multiple times the feeling that "this might be our year" only to see everything taken away, charlie brown style. So the feeling of shared hopelessness is something I have in common with local Minnesotans. Maybe that's the irony: that I think the true meaning of being a Vikings fan is to suffer, accept Ragnarok and NOT believe in them.
I'm sure there's all sorts of comparisons you could make; the point remains the ethics team - whatever their merits as individuals and importance generally - were relatively unimportant compared to the engineers and scientists in this particular revolution, and describing them as having been sacked was misleading.
You are your brain.

Your mind is a part of your brain; a part that combines a spatial-temporal sense with a future-oriented simulating function.

Your brain is modelable – not only is it "a structure" in an abstract sense, it is an ordered physical structure made of molecules, and, both in whole and in part, it is reducible to a mathematical structure of highly limited complexity. "Qualia" consist of your mind's representations of external things, immediately derived from sensory input, wedded to that sense of being in space and time and the associations raised by that sense.

As your brain exists within a logical system -- a structure with a mathematical model which includes an evolution function -- your brain is also a logical system which evolves through time.

As for "nothing actually happens" -- the block universe hypothesis, which is strongly implied by relativity, fully accounts for this.

As an aside: I think that Tegmark is basically correct, but his hypothesis is not well defined and could use further explanation.
> so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish.

As far as I can tell, it's the domain of the company he co-founded (X.com), that merged with the company that became PayPal (Confinity), that led to him briefly being CEO before Thiel took over and pivoted to focus on the PayPal service.

2000 - 2017, X.com was property of PayPal.

Musk then buys it back in 2017... and then here we are.

Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal
'major supplier' is only true in the US, in the residential market, and effectively, his whole Solarcity presentation was a lie[0]. And obviously fake for anyone with limited knowledge of the market (I thought he had a new patent in the blocks but nothing of note). This is the moment I thought the success and fame was getting to him.

[0] https://youtu.be/4sfwDyiPTdU
Should HN limits the ability to comments only to paying visitors?
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]

Cosponsors:
- Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]

- Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

- Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]

- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]

- Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]

Call your senators and let them know you DO NOT SUPPORT THIS! It seems hokey and feels like it doesn't matter, but Senate staff really does keep track of this kind of stuff.
Do you really have to wonder? I think it's one of his episodes, just like the purchase of Twitter itself, where the too quickly decides on something and pushes it through.
Twitter is Musk's hobby. An expensive hobby, but nonetheless a hobby.
How strange - if I use my card it stings, I know I'll see it later (and I tend to tally up monthly expenses from CC statements). Cash in my wallet feels almost like free money by comparison.
Smart, but will it still work if one of the teams fail? And if you control for interdependencies, are the still independent teams?
Browser in any period is not a good business.

I don"t think any business has made money on building and supplying a browser.

So they have to get the money back from somewhere.

Google from getting you to use other google things and getting more advertising revenue.

MS by making you use Windows (yes IE was available for the Mac but I think that was to keep Apple afloat to stop anti-trust problems).

Apple first to get out of IE and then to get a browser on iOS and then not have to use Chrome and now get paid by Google to use its search engine. Possibly blocking Flash also was a reason.

Netscape - well that is the problem where do they get revenue - Google paying them to be the default search and probably to head off anti-trust.

Opera?

Vivaldi - from payments from search engines to use them and from clients why pay for bookmarks. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

I used OmniWeb on NeXT and OSX and did pay for that but they could not compete so not profitable.
> Also, did he make legal arrangements with that fan?

By uploading that logo to Twitter, the fan donated it for free:

> By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes the right for us to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, Retweet, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by us, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.

(https://twitter.com/en/tos)
Oh the Accessibility hawks at accounts like MathAbuse (https://twitter.com/MathAbuse) fighting Unicode 'fancy text' are gonna love this
Please elaborate. The amount of information provided is up to the creator of the diagram...
Thanks for sharing this. I've tried to get on with Grocy but it's UI really put me off, it felt very unintuitive, cluttered and a bit like an app that had long since outgrown the initial hacked together layout.