skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google broke itself up in 2015. What are you even asking for here?

No, it didn't, it restructured itself into Alphabet, with many subsidiaries. But, all the core businesses are still under that umbrella organization, with most web-related businesses remaining inside the current Google entity.

A forced divestment of the browser business might help. Same for the productivity products.
It did help that everyone was in agreement that https is a good thing (TM) though. Browser vendors as well as web developers.
- 1833: Britain forbids slaves in its colonies

Sure, England had a ruling that slavery was illegal in England... but there was no push to interdict slavery elsewhere in the empire (not even Scotland and Ireland, IIRC), especially the colonies. And do recall that some individual Caribbean islands had more slaves than all of British North America.

That's in fact why the British Caribbean didn't revolt during the American Revolution: they were like "what, revolt and risk dealing with a slave revolt without backup from the British Army?"
https://marketplace.walmart.com/twoday-and-threeday-delivery...

Walmart+ is close. But prime shipping is not that big of a competitive moat. I order from all the other retailers all the time, and stuff comes in 2 to 3 days also.
Only because it's a different country using English!

Before Austria joined the EU (in 1995) there used to be significant differences in the rules on food labelling between Austria and Germany, to the extent that sometimes a product would have two separate lists of ingredients, one for Austria and one for Germany. The same may now happen with Ireland and the UK, and perhaps the term "alcohol-free" is already being used differently. See https://www.ibec.ie/drinksireland/-/media/documents/drinks-i...
Sears, JCPenney, and Bed Bath & Beyond are, to the best of my understanding, victims of vulture capitalism. Sure, Amazon didn't help, but they would've been in decent shape if Wall Street hadn't swooped in, drained them dry, and discarded the desiccated husks.
> For obvious reason, AMD and Intel prioritize driver bugs which affect modern videogames sold in many million copies, compared to the bugs which only affect a few people working on HPC, AI or other niche GPGPU applications.

If people could develop AI stuff on consumer cards, they'd buy a ton of server-grade cards, or rent them via the usual hyperscalers or dedicated platforms for the actual work.

This entire, multi-million dollar (per training session) market is all firmly in the hands of nVIDIA at the moment, and unless AMD seriously improves their offering that won't change. nVIDIA got to the point they are because they focused on getting developers up to speed very fast and cheap, and so the developers asked their employers to get them the stuff they were already used to.
Yeah, I was surprised too when I started adding planks to my routine to improve core stability when climbing.

Progress also is painfully slow (for me at least), currently wondering how I can improve it.
Nothing crazy ;-) Actually I'm just playing with plasma electron sources for heating/welding/melting.
There’s a sense in which women specifically are more inclined to abundance. There’s an accurate stereotype of a single man’s apartment: there may be a single chair, a TV, a mattress on the floor, and not much else. I’ve always gotten the impression that this sort of scenario is uncomfortable to women on a very fundamental and intuitive level. Anecdotally, I actually just had a fight with a female friend. Her roommate recently moved out, and I kept commenting how much I liked her bare and open apartment. I hadn’t realized it, but she felt the opposite: that her bare apartment was embarrassing to the point where she was uncomfortable even having people over.
Are there any reports on the results of NHTSA investigations instead of just saying they've been started?

Doesn't seem that bad really, 2 FSD reports, first one FSD braked suddenly, maybe, no results from investigation it seems so far. And people driving incorrectly behind them were too close and couldn't brake on time. If only all the cars had FSD and not humans.

And the other FSD report was about driving into a junction where the car they thought was going to hit them had already stopped to let them go, and beeping to warn it was getting close to a cyclist. That's why it's still beta and warns you every time to be aware and it will do stupid things. So far in 300 million miles driven, it's apparently hit 0 people. So that's way better than humans, who kill someone every 100 million miles.
Exploring the Power of CSS Grid
It's faster. The same old justification that was used to switch to Chrome can now be used for Firefox.
Quantum mechanics, at least, seems to indicate that certain things happen if not for "no reason" then at least not for any reason that we can discern in any sort of way.

But beyond that I think your comment misses the larger point: it's exceedingly rare for something to happen for "a reason", most things, even in a deterministic universe, happen due to the combination of multiple factors. Sometimes we can model the cause and effect in simple terms with some success, but in other situations (e.g. wheather forecasts) we deal with nonlinear and chaotic systems that we can't really predict very well.
I’m sure they are all going to block iOS users from using their services.
Nixpkgs pkgsCross is the first time cross compiling to musl has been convenient enough for me to try it.

In repl IIRC:

:build pkgs.hello
:build pkgs.pkgsCross.musl.hello
The article refers to a large scale Turing test which has been done (and in which the Turing was passed, though barely). Not in the article, but what turned out to be the most reliable way to test if you are talking to an LLM is to ask it to provide you with instructions to build a bomb. The LLM would instantly reveal itself.
>(69%) favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050

Sounds great until you try and encourage any of these midwits to commute by bicycle, cut down on meat, or localize their vacations. Then the excuses and blame shifting begins.

Climate change is not news. We've all had our entire lives to make sensible lifestyle choices in this regard, but the practical intention just isn't there in any meaningful capacity, neither as individuals or as a group. Until it is, consider me a doomer.
After many years, I’ve come to the same conclusions and can heartily recommend these suggestions!

Another similar suggestion I’d add is make a settings module with a base collection of configuration (i.e. myproject/settings/common.py) that other deployment-specific dev.py & prod.py import from.

Basically, don’t forget that Django projects are always Python modules too, so go ahead and use those language features too.
May their names reach eternal infamy on Wikipedia.

The Open Web. Creators: TBL et al, Destroyed-By: Google et al.
It's good to talk about things but it's not good to parrot things you can't understand.
> Kids these days rarely have patience for this sort of thing, at least my kid doesn't.

It's not just your kid, I know some long-time K-12 teachers and they would agree with you, to say the least. This is something they've been complaining about since before covid.
Bacon is high on the list of pleasure inducing foods. Youi're going to have to share evidence to be convincing here.
I considered myself normal functioning, but after reading the landing page I think a few braincells just hanged themselves
Do you have a tutorial for more detailed example of what you wrote?
This is the bait to make it sound reasonable. Of course this hold-back feature will be quietly disabled at some point in the future. The whole proposal is full of weaselly half truths and misrepresentation about their real plans
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b28994...

Here.
I think there are a lot of parallels with what Reddit did.

Reddit wanted to control how users consumed content on their site. To control the experience (i.e. monetize with ads), they had to shut down third-party clients, since those could remove ads.

Google appears to be doing the same thing, but for the entire web. WEI is a way for sites that want to monetize with Google ads to prevent folks from accessing their site unless they can cryptographically assure that the user's browser will follow all the rules Google sets. We don't yet know exactly what all those rules will be, but it isn't hard to guess that they'll be along the lines of whatever makes Google the most money.

This applies to desktop browsers, but also affects automated tools like wget and curl. It could kill web scraping altogether.
"Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494
> First, who said anything about profit? That isn't even part of the definition of monopoly.

The commenter is responded to compared Amazon to the other big tech companies. Profit margin is an indicator of how much control a business has over its market. You cannot earn high profit margins if your customers can go somewhere else if you increase your prices, which means low profit margins means competitors exist.

Shipping logistics is not a huge thing. UPS/FedEx/USPS do what Amazon’s logistics do. All the other retailers also have warehouses (including their stores) all over the US. You might have to wait 1 or 2 or 3 days longer to receive the item, but it is not huge.

I would guess book stores would have gone out of business anyway, due to the ease of shipping books and the lack of urgency of people needing them. Little reason to pay all the capital and labor costs of running a book store if book buyers do not mind buying online. And of course, ebooks came along anyway.

The big competitive advantage Amazon had in earlier years was they did not have to collect sales tax from customers in most states, and they arbitraged that into gaining market share and allowing them to invest in their logistics and expand without incurring heavy losses. But that has been gone for 5 years since the South Dakota v Wayfair ruling in mid 2018.
I guess they could un-cherrypick this 'feature', but that doesn't mitigate google or publishers requiring a response from this API, in order to serve a request.
Careful, with the right arguments from Google the EU might just make this mandatory in the name of "security".
The heart of the article appears to be about BlueOrigin, which has the same owner as the WaPo (the article does note this in fairness)
And yet, you are probably somewhere in Google's databases.
I use ad blockers on Youtube myself but I have no illusions that this will keep working forever. Youtube knows damn well who's using adblock, they've they subtracted adblocked views from their creators' ad payout for years.

They don't need the extra adblock detection, they need to validate that a human is watching the ads that do come up. You, as a user with an adblocker, are not YouTube's customer (unless you're paying for Premium, in which case you don't need standard adblock); their advertisers are.

I don't think adblock is such an immediate concern just yet. If they want to cut down on adblock usage, they can just restrict adblock users to a limited amount of videos per day, or limit them to 480p, or pull all kinds of other stunts. Premium exclusive higher bitrate streams seem to be slowly rolling out, but I suspect that's just the first step.

What Google desperately needs is proving to their real customers that they're not scamming them out of advertiser money. An ad not playing isn't costing them much, but an ad playing in a scraper's virtual browser window is a liability.
Worse: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, because a new administration came in that was actively hostile to the basic idea of antitrust.
We all choose what investment strategy to follow. I have chosen other strategies that have smaller drawdowns.

In the case where I have to tap into my retirement account because of unlucky life circumstances, I'm happier that I'm selling something I bought for 100 at 75 vs having to sell it at 50 (hypothetically).
I am of the idea that software should be free, but software development should be for profit.
And what happens when website owners decide supporting Firefox is not worth it?
I am a bit confused. This sounds a bit stupid. If this is DRM for web content, then what would non chrome browsers like FF for web pages that ask for such authentication? Refusing to work with other browsers than chrome seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

[1]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...
Hello, fellow emotional trader. You would benefit from Set and Forget, heed my words.
How about teaching kids self control and concentration?
You should add "democratic mode" - every button push counts as a vote for that control. An election is held every X frames.
> I was watching a video about nesting in CSS and how it's just in Chrome

Nested CSS is supported in the latest version of all major browsers.

https://caniuse.com/css-nesting
Besides being sick of subscriptions for every small thing, I'm not sure I understand the premise here:

"Pay to download or for other services: Not worth it; users can find the software somewhere else and they don't need your other services."

So users won't pay a one-time fee, but instead they will pay a subscription to get that one software they need? They won't "find the software somewhere else" if it's behind a subscription, but will do so if it's behind a single payment?
iOS already implemented this stuff
Why Not Have an EV Charging Service That Comes to You?
The New York Tech Sector
> Google's open source projects are open in name only.

The link at the top of the page is pointing to the GitHub repo, where you can see literally over a million contributions from thousands of people working at hundreds of companies: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commits/main

I've worked on both Chrome and Android (Chromium and AOSP) professionally, and never worked at Google.
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I think you may loose access to extreme wealth. Not to the family and, by extent, the good life it provides. People aren't expelled or disinherited when families are having profit issues.
That’s a silly proposal that will eventually be turned off as it causes issues. Users will complain that sometime websites are broken for no reason and the first proposed fix would be to turn the failure probability to zero. Then the zero failure setting will become the default.
What browser “business”? Chrome makes no money. Don’t you think they are going to fund themselves the same way that Firefox does - via Google ads?

No one has paid for a browser in almost 3 decades and even then few did.
Ask HN: Made a Chess Game with 1k+ Moves from Best Games. Feedback/Improvements?
Hello!
I'm a passionate chess enthusiast. I couldn’t find a platform that showcases and allows one to learn the best moves ever played in international matches. I wanted to create a game that does this while being enjoyable, swift, and competitive. Took sometime, but now my game is out on both iOS and Android.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superhugestudios.chessblitz.chessgame.friends.chess

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/chess-blitz-multiplayer/id6446757472

As this is my debut project, I'd greatly appreciate suggestions on how I can enhance and make the game better. What features would you like to be added?

Currently, I am using a AI bot to play as the opponent whenever there's a low concurrency, and also added a feature to invite friends to play against. I made a custom algorithm to calculate the ELO scores of the player based on how one plays, and place a puzzle into a particular ELO bucket as well.

I am also looking for people to help maintain a site I built, The Times of Chess (https://thetimesofchess.com/), to populate strategies and best stories around Chess.

Would love to hear from you and get your feedback! If you'd like to join me in developing this game further, do let me know! :)
You mean Brave
It looks like they do not care if they have consensus or approval for WEI, they are implementing it regardless.

Wherever you live, you should contact your government representatives and regulators and put a spotlight on this issue for what it is--monopoly abuse of power.

Grassroots efforts are great and it is good to let your friends, family, and associates know what they are doing and why it is wrong. However, government regulation of this abuse is needed to stop it by force of law.
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It really does feel like something is fundamentally wrong when we're trending towards getting our video and audio content via online streaming but the streaming services are trending towards being gatekeepers more than facilitators.

The temporary nature of any licensing deals behind these services and the resulting lack of reliable long-term access to content have become more and more obvious.

Increasingly the streaming services seem to be so paranoid about piracy that they are blocking "unapproved" players from getting the highest quality versions of the content - as if anyone who wants to pirate any blockbuster movie can't already find a way to get it in 4K somewhere else if they really want to. Meanwhile you can't watch your 4K movie on a service you're literally paying to provide that movie. IIRC Amazon Prime Video still won't even let you have HD content if you're on Linux.

It feels like the commercial incentives for tech firms to create walled gardens and a culture of never owning anything permanently are going largely unchecked and by now the governments who are supposed to act in the interests of their people should really be stepping in with regulation to counter those negative trends.
>Wouldn't you hire someone that puts that in their resume?

To most employers, that would read as "prone to insubordination", and be an immediate red flag. Because each and every one of them will inevitably ask you to do something at some point that will be fucked up.
I think you have the right to have a human behind every healthcare decision, similar to the right to confront your accuser in court.
And what guarantees do you have that the probabilistic failure rate won't be turned to 0 at some point in the future?

Except for Google's pinky swear, I mean.
In that case can I please have my 1st gen Nest Hub back on the pre-Fuchsia OS please? Ever since the "upgrade" it's been more laggy and requires semi-regular power cycles, as if there's a memory leak somewhere.
Good idea! Adding that to my to-do list.
I don't think of myself as someone who can walk on grass, carpet, dirt, and tile, I just think of myself as someone who can walk.
Which is why we set standards for animal treatment and heavily fine those who break them so it is not maximally profitable. Happy, well fed, cared for animals are the tastiest and healthiest option. The well being of the animal directly translates to the quality of its meat.
That is a part of what long distance running and cycling training accomplishes: shifting your consumption to a higher mix of fats vs glycogen at the same intensity level. (To avoid the pedantic "buts" here, yes, your body is still consuming a lot of glycogen when you're running a marathon, but it's also using fats at a much higher % than it would in a 400m).
So many sites don't work correctly in Firefox. Chrome is the new IE6.
It won't do anything. You don't think they've anticipated random angry outbursts going into this? Plus, the people you're harassing are simply implementing a policy that they don't have the power to change.

The only pressure that Google has been shown to consistently respond to is political. Get a couple of senators (... of the right party) to send them a mild rebuke and they will indeed retreat a little (... and try something else later). But that's a lot harder than posting angry comments until the next piece of outrageous news comes along, isn't it?
Makes one wonder. Fuel is measurable, not only via fuel sensors, but as inertia expected vs inertia actual by laser gyro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope).
There must have been some pretty deviant values on that screen. Unless the system just "calibrated" those deviances away..
Mandatory plug: my personal website with a FastAPI stack

https://arcadia-astrology.com/en/

And yeah i do believe in it. Not the basic ones with newspaper horoscope but the full analysis of the 12 planets and hous placement.

Why ? I've seen a few people including myself being able to tell to SEVERAL PEOPLE "no you're not born at that hour" and after verifyg, these people indeed were born 1 hour later of earlier.

Is it weird and not really that planets impact people ? Yes but I do believe there's enough room in science and especially in quantum mechanics to allow for that kind of non verifiable forces to take place. Another real question is "why not" ? Basic answer is that it allows us to not just be a simple animals, but influenced by 12 "archetypes" / "primordial forces"

How can I use it ? YOu don't NEED it in life. The best consequence of believing in astrology is a good philosophy of life, not actually getting rich or something like this.

What's next. The best would be to be able to prove it. And it's possible ! take a trained astrologer, ask him to find which chart correspond to who. ON a long enough sample the probability it works is good enough.

Roast me
Yes, software is just a tool. For me, it's better if I own my tools rather than renting it.
And of course you can also charge for access depending on client. There is not a single advantage for the user in the long run.
The precise word for this is a "snowclone":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
The web stopped being open when W3C accepted EME. Now that effectively Google IS the web, they don't even have fake attempting to convince anybody and will just turn the web into another proprietary technology.
Ha, die Streuner were the original inspiration for me to write my own dumb and small music streaming service. Seeing them mentioned here might just give me the motivation to pick that project up again.
Apple makes money by selling goods and services. Google is in the business of targeted advertising. So they have diametrically opposed incentives wrt privacy.
Because these things are addictive? You can say the same for drugs, alcohol, and most people that consume those are adults, how can you expect kids to do what adults can't? You see 90% of people in the buses, trains looking their phones like idiots (including me). It is very difficult because it creates addiction.
> Why not put yourself in the middle and offer a subscription to "1Sub.dev" and give users the same benefits?

That's simple, decentralized networks are better than platforms and this thing has no need for centralization
> But wall squats and planking led to larger falls than aerobic exercise.

Slightly unfortunate wording
Official docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/sysrq.htm...
Yes, but this will be an uphill battle. Every campaign must be financed, so every politician must effectively be vetted by monied interests. The same monied interests that we see here on a strategic offensive against the rest of us. Regulators will tend to be sympathetic to them, not us, until things get really bad.

Is EFF still the place to send money?
All of the major tech companies are in on this. Google and Apple already deployed it for their phone and desktop platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, ChromeOS, all support attestation already). Microsoft is getting there with Windows 11, and all new devices shipping since ~2015 have the hardware support. Google is now closing the gap on desktop browsers.

Soon the percentage of people supporting it will be high enough to make it mandatory - the last 5% can just get a new device or something like that. They'll do it when their bank website tells them so.

The day Cloudflare flips the switch to require it for all connections is the day the open web dies.