skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that if you reply factually and ignore the abuse that people will often come back with "sorry for my rudeness earlier, I had a bad day" or some variant thereof, completely unprompted. Even without apology I think the rare rudeness is fine, even though I really dislike it. No one is perfect and we got to accept that.

The real problem is usually the small group of customers who are consistently abusive and excessively demanding and will fly off the handle every other week over some small thing.
Netflix can only discriminate because we have attestation in the first place. This is not a security mechanism anymore.
Turgot Map of Paris (1730)
Err chiplets not chipsets
> Very few people would find their way out of the corporate walled gardens and into the free information superhighway.

Their revealed preference is that they don’t want a free information superhighway.
that is actually insanely cool!
The link to Yoav Weiss's blog is great.

--- start quote ---

So, you don't like a web platform proposal

...you may feel that your insights and experience can be valuable to help steer the platform from making what you're sure is a huge mistake. That's great!! Getting involved in web platform discussions is essential to ensure it's built for and by everyone.

...

In cases where controversial browser proposals (or lack of adoption for features folks want, which is a related, but different, subject), it's not uncommon to see issues with dozens or even hundreds of comments from presumably well-intentioned folks, trying to influence the team working on the feature to change their minds.

In the many years I've been working on the web platform, I've yet to see this work. Not even once.

--- end quote ---

"We do so love for everyone to join the discussion. It also never influences our decisions, not once"
> A lot of that surplus population couldn't live off the land, since it was already at capacity in most of the Western Europe, so they moved to cities, hoping to find a living there.

Weren't inclosure acts a big reason why people moved to the cities, at least in England?
Subpar on what? That’s the important part. For my non-techie family, it seems to do everything they need WHILST saving a lot of battery life. If that’s the criteria, it’s a great browser.

I’d never use it due to lack of uBlock Origin and good dev tools, but it’s hard to argue with the speed and battery efficiency on macOS.
I do long for the old web, sometimes I think it's just best to build a new one. But the costs are astronomical.
Brave runs on Chromium; I am sure if WEI helped some crypto scheme for attention token it would be embraced there. But not as relevant as this relates to the "on by default" nature of these tools to validate web viewers.
This is the same argument I've heard before. You give a narrow definition for front running and declare there is no front running by your specific and out dated definition that you set.

What's missing is you actually confronting the problem of people seeing orders and buying based on those orders before the original orders go through. What is your term for that? Playing a game of definitions is a diversion from actually talking about the problem.
> No one has paid for a browser in almost 3 decades and even then few did.

Considering NCSA Mosaic’s initial release was just 30 years ago this year and it’s considered the first browser, think you might be using a bit of hyperbole there? Twenty years would’ve been more accurate.
I don't have a mechanism to "approve you". We don't have any clue who people are and so even if I wanted to "approve you" I couldn't.
Google Search is notably absent in your list.

If this proposal becomes standard in Chrome, You can be sure Microsoft and Apple will follow Google's lead with the same or their own similar implementations.

See Microsoft Pluton and Apple's Private Access Tokens. Or read this article which provides an excellent overview of these developments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32282305

Make no mistake. If this becomes standard on Chrome, this is going to be standard on the web.
Also worth noting that this locks reactions (thumbs up, hearts, etc.) - providing plausible deniability that "only a small number of people raised concerns about specificTopicX." Journalists should be more aware of this!

On a separate note, for journalists and others who wish to communicate with the spec's author directly, his public website (which lists a personal email) is one of the other repos on the Github profile under which the specification was published. It's painfully absurd that he wrote this sentence in 2022 [0]:

> I decided to make this an app in the end. This is where my costs started wracking up. I had to pay for a second hand macbook pro to build an iOS app. Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app.

[0] https://benwiser.com/blog/I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-...
See also

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconducto...

Given there have been already around 10-20 claims of room-temperature superconductivity in the past which turned out to be wrong or useless, bayesian reason would imply that this has a maximum of 10% probability that it is true.
I had forgotten that it was a fast linker:

> Mold 2.0.0 is a new major release of our high-speed linker. With this release, we've transitioned our license from AGPL to MIT, aiming to expand the user base of our linker. This was not an easy decision, as those who have been following our progress know that we've been attempting to monetize our product through an AGPL/commercial license dual-licensing scheme. Unfortunately, this approach didn't meet our expectations. The license change represents our acceptance of this reality. We don't want to persist with a strategy that didn't work well.
I thought this post was going to be about tree (species) maps that you see in parks sometimes: https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/03/T...

These are awesome too.
It is not broken. They are punishing you for not wanting to be tracked, profiled and manipulated.
I use firefox for everything. The only site I know that doesn’t work is an internal app at my work that was written in FileMaker pro. I just use Edge/Safari for that one.
Wanting explanation for this is exactly what I didn't understand.
I mean if root can do anything then such system is not "trusted" from corporations point of view. Therefore, it won't be able to pass the attestation or play DRM content.
> The infamous vapourware Glaze3D from Bitboys (ex-demosceners!)

I still remember the grandiose claims of Glaze 3D and its 16 or 32MB of EDRAM. I can even recall the HDR renderings of those dusty wild west town scenes from the demo in the PC Gamer article and other media outlets. They did receive funding but I don't think hardware was ever tapped out or prototyped and all the renderings were software.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010118210900/http://www.bitboy...
I've been holding on to my Firefox installation after switching back around ~2016 or so. I was on the Chrome bandwagon when they were the upstart (still have the comic from the launch!) but it didn't take long to see how dangerous things were getting with monoculture.

If you want to help, push back on all the anti-Firefox rhetoric that amplifies every little misstep that they take. Firefox is so much better from a user-respect perspective and the vitriol over little things (a couple of anonymous, tracking-free sponsored links on a new tab page?) are losing the plot.
That's eliminating the temptation forcefully, not training to ignore it.
Rewind.ai now available for iPhone
For the tech illiterate recommend Safari. For tech people, appeal to their privileged position and the importance of defending the web by choosing any other browser (or Safari).

Both users can keep Chrome installed as a fallback - that will help with convincing too.
There does need to be some way for ordinary users to pay something to somewhere in a single convenient way, voluntarily and in voluntary amounts, that somehow ends up being pooled and distributed to or otherwise benefitting all the 37,000 developers and projects whos free work they use all day every day.

This isn't it.

I donate a little to the EFF, monthly automatic, and a few other things irregularly as I feel particular gratitude. It leaves a million people unaccounted for, but all you can do today is pick a few things that matter to you and let others get the others.

And/or pay back/forward by contributing a little work of your own to the commons which I also do, but you can't expect most to do that, and I don't claim mine is valuable. Actually come to think of that, the reason I work on the things I work on is mostly because I just want to, so maybe most of those million are fine and there's no problem. But come to me with any kind of demand, well, I guess that's when paying enters the chat.
Also Cowspiracy, Dominion, Blackfish, The Game Changers, What the Health, Forks over knives ...
Don't worry, Gmail is breaking email too and the CTO will never see your non-google email.
I do think it's important to be aware of our emotions when it comes to money and investing. I've realized that I won't be comfortable enduring drawdowns much more than 20% and so I've found alternative strategies that let me sleep at night.
I have had a couple of banking websites, I want to say wellsfargo corporate card login in, as well as video conference sites.
The amount of people here trying to tell me that Lina Khan is an incompetent fail-upwards bureaucrat would seem to agree with that.

I'm going to continue shouting into the void until the void realizes that independent and distributed ownership is a necessary precondition for libertarian forms of governance. Authoritarianism and monopolies go hand in hand. If you don't understand this, then you aren't a freedom fighter, you're an antipope.
Why do you think they don't have consensus or approval from all the people that matter? This is far too big for that. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cloudflare, etc, are all working together on this. Governments will like it for "security", and 99% of users won't care.
I know people hate Subscriptions but honestly I quite like them. I can pay for one month usually not very high price to use software when I need it. Problem is to be solved by developers, they should give more often option to buy lifetime license, or allow you to use software for lifetime after you payed for 1 year of subscription (without updates). It’s just not profitable enough I believe. Maybe we will have appropriate laws in the future - that’s the solution I would like to see
"Order by" is a much better name, by the way. I'm permanently slightly annoyed by the fact that in programming it's a custom to call ordering "sorting" for some unimaginable reason.
The CEO of Palantir just published an open letter calling for a Manhattan Project for superintelligent AI warfare.

https://archive.is/KSOv4
I use Firefox as a daily driver. And I never encounter these sites. Perhaps we are not surfin on the same pages? Do you have a list of these pages?
Amazon retail and logistics were plenty sustainable before AWS profits came along.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/profit...

https://dazeinfo.com/2019/11/06/amazon-net-income-by-year-gr...

Even Walmart and the other retailers have the same 2% to 5% profit margins for their entire existence, without selling high margin web services.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/net-pr...
For context, this is a 2022 blog post by the author of the Google Web Environment Integrity spec (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity - overview at https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environmen...).

A choice quote from the post:

> I decided to make this an app in the end. This is where my costs started wracking up. I had to pay for a second hand macbook pro to build an iOS app. Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app.
A cynic might observe that the tech sector - and US big tech in particular - has just seen the biggest round of layoffs that many of the developers in that market will remember. Many of those same developers might have been thinking even 18 months ago that their extremely high compensation was guaranteed because finding another extremely well compensated job was easy. Now they know better and I'm sure a lot of people are scared. Seems like a good time for management to push bad ideas that their remaining employees might not like.
They rapidly got up to liquid nitrogen temperatures so when I was in high school we would go to the welding supply shop, bring back liquid nitrogen to the lab, and do the Meissner effect demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRLvVkkq5GE

Liquid nitrogen is very easy to handle (ordinary thermos), liquid helium is much more expensive and harder. WHen I was in grad school the one required class was the Physics 510 lab and for that I did an experiment that involved second sound in superfluid helium and that involved cooling stuff down with liquid nitrogen first, then rolling up a huge dewar full of liquid helium, attaching a vacuum pump to get the temperature down to 2K, etc. For all that trouble you get to see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNpKCYZFfDU

That said, it was a long time before really good superconducting tape for fusion reactor magnets and stuff like that became available.
Karpathy removes llama licence from llama2.c
Yes. I was referencing Wilson. Thanks!
Considering the amount of times I have been told that I can refactor an MVP solution later and also the amount of times that has not happened, I guess this is true.
If I spend time on work that provides value to others, I would like it to be able to pay my living costs so I can keep doing that work that I enjoy.
It’s ironic that you say the headline is incorrect, when your replacement headline is the incorrect one. The users are complaining because they’ve been locked out of their netlify account, not their “netlify support” like you stated.

These people aren’t being indignant, just frustrated. You can’t criticize them for expecting help from a support forum either, since apparently that’s the only place where Netlify expects free users to get support.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2023: Official Livestream [video]
We use 38999 series 1 at work for lots of things but mostly for I/O panels on thermal vacuum chambers. Offers up to 61 pins and they are extremely robust which is good for connectors that are going to get a lot of mating cycles. We typically don't use them on the products since they are so large and heavy.
Software has no marginal cost. You can make something that's used by untold millions of people. Even if many people pirate enough people won't for you to recoup your development cost and then some.

Software is easier to produce, sell, and distribute than any physical product. You don't have to worry about warehouses filled with unsold inventory. You don't have to worry about quality control and returns. It still blows my mind how much easier it is to run a business that deals with bytes instead of atoms. The OP talks about software having no copy protection, but Amazon sells DVD players and cordless drills for $30. Imagine for a second how hard it is to compete with that. Competing with Google or Microsoft or some startup is a walk in the park in comparison.

In software the hard part is making an excellent product. And let's face it, that's where most people fail. It has nothing to do with monetization.
> Google needs to be broken up.

To make it explicit: the only way this happens is by Americans voting for it. The FTC has been more active on anti-trust issues in the past two years than at any time in the past 30. That's a direct result of the 2020 election. Elections matter.
> this hold-back feature will be quietly disabled at some point in the future.

Will it though? Googles main reason for WEI I assume is to combat ad-fraud. Ie. to prevent someone making a bot farm to click ads to earn money from advertising or exhaust competitors ad budgets or manipulate search engine user ranking signals.

With WEI, all ad clicks without WEI could just be ignored (ie. not billed to advertisers, ignored when calculating statistics and signals). If 10% of clients have WEI 'cloaking', you just inflate the final advertising bill by 10% to account for those users - the end result is the same as billing for all real users and no bots.

WEI still achieves all of Googles goals even with cloaking.
Evolution is not necessarily slow. The Russian silver fox domestication experiment produced massive personality changes and even physiological changes in only 20 generations.

As for humans, current scientific consensus is that 5000 years ago virtually no human adult could digest milk, and now lactose tolerance is prevalent in like 95% of European-descended people.

And none of the above would appear in a visual inspection of a skeleton.

I figure the kind of neurological and digestive adaptations to being perma-buzzed might be similar.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this is a big deal IMO. We're here because Chrome has been the better product for a long time. Firefox not doing things people want well enough will hurt its adoption, which will impact its capacity to influence the Web.

Add to Mozilla's perceived not-very-good management and you have a death spiral on your hands, and more power to Google and Apple to shape the Web towards their interests.

FWIW, first-class profiles support matters a lot:
https://medium.com/sort-of-like-a-tech-diary/profiles-the-on...
I suppose this is more important.

When the usage metrics drop for Chrome based browsers they would need to start respecting other users, instead of just ignoring them.

Currently they can just ignore the users and continue as they do. As the rest would not hint a dent on their bottom line.
> I've never paid for any of the work that went into Ubuntu, Python or Java (I use Corretto) or MySQL or C.

You’ve almost certainly paid for them, just not directly. Some share of the cost in the supply chain that delivers you goods and services will inevitably end up with the large enterprises who sponsor or develop those projects.
Yes you might be right. Also the hacker culture has always been centered around pseudonyms and fake identities. My quest might be a bit quixotic in this day and age.

Thanks for the level headed conversation
It will be annoying if bank sites and other companies that are hard to avoid drop Firefox support (I mean I can switch banks I guess but it is a long term customer relationship, I don’t really want to).

Most websites aren’t bank websites. If a website doesn’t support Firefox, leave. If a website doesn’t support good old HTML, it is probably made by some kind of dummy who is trying to replace lack of content with glitz, this sort of person shouldn’t be listened to.
ok, how?
Soon, websites will require kernel access to make sure you don't have cheats installed. (Sarcasm, obviously)
> Culture changes super slow and we need to accept this.

Would you be as accepting to a wife-beater, child abuser, slaver, homophobe, etc ?

> The meat eating culture is so ingrained some people literally don't see this option, when it is the easiest and most obvious solution.

How is this shaming?
These types of comparisons aren't "fair". As in most fields of engineering, programming languages/databases/etc. are about tradeoffs, and benchmarks aren't even more tricky.

From the blog:

> If you don’t have time: Rust can run much faster, but so can the other languages, and it turns out that the Java implementation might run faster than the Rust fastest implementation, according to the new benchmarks I’ve run after many Rust developers came to assist in making Rust faster. Common Lisp may have fallen behind, but that’s likely just because it was not nearly as optimized as the Java and Rust implementations were.

The reason PHP, Ruby, Python, bash, etc. are popular are because of developer productivity, not performance.

Also, it's a false dichotomy. Java uses `zlib` for its GZIP*Streams for performance reasons, and if there was a nice Rust library I wanted to use, I would just build a shared library and call it from Java, just like Java internally uses for `zlib`.

Additionally, there's a fairly large difference in performance between C compilers. See clang, gcc, icc, etc., and the 100+ different options you can use when compiling something.

It's not even close to "apples vs oranges", it's like more "apples vs fire trucks". :-P
DNA structure coated with glass: a low density but strong material
I also recommend Boom. A very thorough overview of the last century of art dealing.
You and GP both can be right depending on definition used for “open source”.
With cheap fusion power we can convert CO2 back into kerosene/fuel, and use it as energy storage.

It would be lovely ironic if in the future we all drove ICE cars, but just fuelled by clean and carbon-neutral gasoline.
I don't mind subscriptions if they deliver consistent value and if I can cancel them easily when I want.

A lot of hatred of subscriptions comes from hard-to-cancel dark patterns that should be illegal.
Retail is a low single digit profit margin business, as evidenced by many publicly listed retailers financial reports going back decades.

Scalable software is a high profit margin business.

AWS is not subsidizing Amazon retail and logistics. AWS and Amazon video and other digital products is why Amazon is worth $1.3T while Walmart is worth $428B. The profits are in the digital products.
I'm no physicist and I won't pretend that I understand any of those words, so this will probably not make any sense.

But I'm curious how particle decay would be like for a particle with a de Broglie wavelength of several lightyears, and how would that be affected by the speed of causality.

(EDIT: Or even a few light-minutes (like from Earth to Sun) or whatever distance where we no longer have the luxury of "things looking instantaneous".)
Do local GPUs make sense? For the same price, can't you got a full years worth of cloud gpu time?
I don't think you understand what a business is. Google pays Firefox a lot of money to be the default search which means there is a lot of money in browsers. Google Search conceptually pays Google Chrome to be the default Search engine on Chrome. Except since they're both under the same company they will never take an outside offer which is why it's a monopoly. No different from any other vertically integrated company.
Meanwhile, Google pays Apple $15B+:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...

They have no motivation to "turn off the money faucet" since the payment is effectively lead generation -- bringing eyeballs to their ads that pay them more.
Could be an epic troll on Google's part
There is the OSS vs FOSS distinction which may have been unwittingly invoked. Certainly there is nothing “free” about Chromium except its price. Google is not about to switch to a fork for Chrome and any changes to Chromium which are not approved by Google are unlikely to be in any release builds.