skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use Mac then you can consider Orion by Kagi (natively built with WebKit) which supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions (experimental).

(I personally use Firefox since I feel it's a much better browser (especially thanks to Firefox Multi-Account Containers), so can't comment on quality since I just tested it briefly.. but I do use Orion as my main browser on iOS where it's amazing.)
This is where I am heading. The article is motivating me to change that.
The actual image is almost impossible to see on the imgur page on mobile. Not a complaint against you in anyway, it just looks absurd. Massive Futurama add on top, some other promoted content below, and about 3% of the screen is the specific image for that page. Obviously because the picture height is only 30px.
> Microsoft Teams requires Microsoft Edge to run.

Where exactly did you get this idea?

It runs fine on both Chrome and Firefox on desktop, including voice, camera, screen sharing. They also have desktop apps, including a .deb for Linux (since it's ultimately just an Electron app).

Well, perhaps "runs fine" is not exactly the right word for what Teams does, but it's as awful on every platform at least.
> investor-friendly governance structure

This point is actually reasonable - a poorly governed company is a risk. Like if a single, unreadonable owner is prone to throwing hissy fits, ridking money in poorly thoigh out schemes and firing people because he woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Then thats a riskier investment.
Probably people who knew above average about the process and sourcing materials to realize you just had to throw some common stuff in a furnace but without being experts in material science.
Even then if it's tricky to do its most likely because the process is not well know/refined yet
No one is taking away your freedom. They're pointing out you're not helping by making the choice you've made. You're free to choose not to help.
The IE block model was better though, and everyone is using it today with box-sizing: border-box. I still maintain that the pragmatic and sensible thing to do was to just modify the standard – "best viewed in IE" was a self-inflicted wound.

Also remember the context: Netscape was just as gung-ho with standards as IE and everyone was kind of figuring out what did and didn't work on the fly. To just ossify a standard at some point just made no sense, and to keep bashing on IE for their better box model "because Micro$hit bad" made even less sense. Good standards respond to what's going on in reality.
Why does Taylor have to play Arthur like this, poor man will need burn cream after this blog post.
You can make it yourself - all the parts and boards are on GitHub (so also a group buy for assembled boards is an option). I couldn't find a BOM cost estimate though and I guess it'd be $1-200 from scratch, plus things like custom buttons.
Reminds me of https://archillect.com/tv
For a Mac M1 user who wants a lightweight browser, what would you recommend:

1. Safari (with this, I have trouble with some websites, particularly Google ones)

2. Firefox (good, but has been a memory hog in the past)

3. Brave (like that it's Chromium, but I worry about the odd features like crypto)

4. Edge (I just downloaded it. leaning toward this choice)
When I was in secondary school (UK), Casio's were readily available so they are what I have, the newest being an fx-85GT PLUS.
“It’s bad to call rescue workers pedophiles” is not a puritanical belief.

“It’s bad to promise and sell technology that does not exist” is not a puritanical belief.

“It’s bad to buy a company and then attempt to renege on its obligations to employees and service providers” is not a puritanical belief.

These aren’t fringe beliefs whatsoever.
Not anymore. Using the Windows Calculator for normal stuff and Casio keisan (https://keisan.casio.com/calculator) if I need high precision, which happens but not very often.
Proportional fonts draw attention to themselves and fail the criteria by being distracting.
100% successful elimination of all cancers too.
> That's also a good reason for others to drop support until licensing of these patents is clarified.

If that were true, then browsers should drop support for VP8, VP9 and indeed AV1 because the MPEG-LA is claiming ownership of patents covering those codecs.
One of the scariest short stories i've read all year.
One of those things an all powerful federal government fixes but Americans want their state rights.

There isn't a m² in my country that hasn't been bagged and tagged.
That would be pointless since the malware could just grab the new credentials.
No, the trick is less obvious. It's even more shocking that a hugely higher expectedly value upside (+100% , -60%) ((2x+.4x)/2 = 1.2x) is still losing long-term.
It’s humor.
If your feature actually has to perform texture lookups and stuff having effects outside the SM core (even if it just means flushing some cache lines), it will have some cost to run it in a float-blend kind of situation compared to simply "shutting it off" with a boolean and if().

The feature on/off case of conditionals is a bit special in that it shouldn't cause a big hit on perf as partial warps won't have to execute serially for each different if-condition within the warp - but this changed somewhere along Nvidias development and I'm not sure anymore how exactly diverging if's within a warp get hit (or not):

"Independent Thread Scheduling can lead to a rather different set of threads participating in the executed code than intended if the developer made assumptions about warp-synchronicity of previous hardware architectures. In particular, any warp-synchronous code (such as synchronization-free, intra-warp reductions) should be revisited to ensure compatibility with Volta and beyond."

On the other hand, if you have the "infrastructure" to do it, there is nothing wrong with having 10,000 of shaders I guess, they are small and the cost of switching between them should be minimal compared to the rendered triangles unless you have a bad engine doing bad sorting where you need a different shader for every tri you're rendering but that shouldn't happen...

As you note, benchmarking is the best, Nvidia Nsight is a really amazing free tool that is well worth the time to learn. I've done a lot of very low-level optimizations of CUDA code using it and learned a lot about how the SMs and caches work due to that, and managed to answer a lot of questions that pop up all the time in the process, like when to put stuff in the constant cache, when to use local shared memory etc. With Nsight you test the different versions and observe how it leads to cache misses or pure perf hits in many ways.
No.
I use GNU Units, because it will alert me if I screw up with units in my calculations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units
> SMS as a backup

Indeed. I once worked on a system where we had SMS as one of the "last resorts". When someone used SMS as recovery, we'd disable withdrawals and fundings (it was some sort of wallet) as well as severely limit their daily limits. Until the account was fully restored again using normal, secure methods (Mail, KYC, etc).

We were hit by a similar "attack" where our "let us call you to start recovery" was abused by putting a toll-number there, and our system would then call this toll-number and we'd get rediculous bills. But putting in limitations helped a lot, so we did this for SMS too.
Signed exchanges don't prove that that is the CURRENT content from the purpoted website while hiding the true (hosting) URL would give that impression.
You just don’t understand His genius. He works in mysterious ways. /s
* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://archive.is/i2vGD

* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://archive.is/2ihEV

* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://archive.is/S912x
There are no silly ideas!
what about pine phone?
I don't think it's supposed to be a "real" article about a real person, I think it's art (that speaks to some of our fears)

do you believe that something has to be purely "productive" to be deserving of space on the internet?
I think you are naive to think that crypto has no role to play in Brave browser. 66% of the tokens are given to the investors, and Brave is a for-profit, which obviously mean that investors will want a return in their investment someday. I'm curious to see how they'll do it, not saying it'll be toxic, but with all their crypto stuff they are starting off the wrong foot
And if they can't make it profitable, well the project will be dead anyways.
How is WebGPU in that regard?
How someone not intimately involved with the ecosystem would figure out all this is beyond me.

There’s probably a blog post somewhere, but Python.org isn’t super helpful when you’re trying to find the equivalent of `cargo run`.
My games, which are not using any special Chrome features, work horribly on Firefox and not at all on Safari. Until that is fixed no amount of bullying will make me switch. Not that it's a successful tactic to begin with.
This is a massive issue impacting us at CTM as well
A lot of science fiction has turned into science fact. Having this become science fact, just makes us extra silly goobers for ignoring the lessons in our own stories.
Pure irony that when you go to look at Tech Dirt, there’s first an intermediate page (maybe by cloudflare, maybe by some other provider) that first verifies your browser is secure.
Do you bet your entire portfolio every time in AoE2? That's required for those paradox. It doesn't apply when bet size is constant.
We use a combinaison of route that are are evaluated in real-time for their cost to conversion ratio.
Our customers have the option to choose only « direct routes » if needed but those strategies are use at scale by players like Facebook, TikTok or Google we’re just making sure our customer have all the options, visibility and control on their conversion rate/price tradeoff.
Another strategy that allows to lower cost significantly is the use of alternative channel when available and competitive : Google RBM, WhatsApp, Viber, line..
Last but not least we don’t do any margin on the sms price so we bill back exactly what we pay for and negotiate with aggregated volumes.
I'm thinking about more recent times. Internet Explorer has been dead for almost a decade now. Chrome did not kill it.

Chrome was however preinstalled on many PCs/laptops as part of the crapware package.

Also, yes, it came bundled with basically everything.
If this discovery is confirmed then someone will figure out how to do this safely, using robots or other kinds of machines to produce superconductor wires. The benefit derived would be simply too great to ignore it. Perhaps superconductors don't show up in your home but I can certainly imagine applications in optimising power grids.
> So make lots of noise politically about that.

How? I've seen similar ideas but the best they do is resonate really nicely in this echo chamber.
Why do you agree with something plainly wrong than you disproved?
Raising Capital as a Pseudonymous Founder
Coincidentally, yesterday I finished reading Zawinski's interview in Coders At Work, from Peter Seibel. Highly recommended!
No, but I never learned to use one well, even through calculus. I've always done my math leaving in the fractions/radicals/irrational numbers, so being confined to decimal output messes with me. I find I'm never sure if it's right. If someone needs a decimal answer from me, I can always just use a software app to convert my final answer to a decimal.

I don't have to do a lot of math in my daily life, but I'm more proficient working with fractions and doing arithmetic in my head than I am doing it on a calculator.
He refers to the objective fact that the rodent veterinary field is making great advances, while human medicine continues to stagnate, as the cross of the time has shown that rodent treatments hardly ever works in humans.

I suggest then, complete biological mappings of the human being (big words), the same way does exist ADN human mappings, for being able to run simulations in the same way the physics field is constantly doing.

I see a world, were one goes to the doctor, takes an ADN sample, and a biological map is correlated, were to see if the prescribed drugs interacts well or bad between them thanks to this mappings, at same time the research teams run simulations for to find quickly possible cures to the targeted sickness by isolating common patterns in different biological mappings (different human key ADN structures).
Had a chuckle at this excerpt:

"The guests feel struck with awe in that dining-room, and solemnly bolt their food as quickly as they can. You hear less noise in an American hotel dining-room containing five hundred people, than you do at a French table d’hôte accommodating fifty people, at a German one containing a dozen guests, or at a table where two Italians are dining tête-à-tête."

The author clearly has a ranking of how much each nationality speaks while eating :)
CDN? or REST DB?

Potato potato I guess
I would love to use Firefox, Brave, even Safari, but I'm quite literally locked into the Google eco-system. My work emails are G-Suite, so having chrome means I can sync data from sheets, slides, docs etc. I stupidly moved everything personal to a Gmail address too back in 2016 when things weren't looking so grim, and cloud only was a hype so I'm kind of locked into using chrome for personal use too as I can't get away from not having Google account sync functionality.

De-googling is incredibly hard. I've used my Gmail address for everything from government voting registration, to companies house, to services I can't even remember signing up for. At this stage, I'm kind of stuck. Bonus: I own an android phone and Google services are essential. Please don't preach to me about grapheneOS or whatever, they suck without the play store.
There’s too much crap on the internet now. So yes.
> If we end up applying those can-kicking tendencies to climate change scenarios

Not "if", "when".

And more precisely "when" starting 3 or 4 decades ago, and continuing right up to now and into the forseable future.
The thing they are doing right is being imposed upon people at every turn by every Google property, no?
I doubt the extinction of the human race via a runaway technological event will turn the planet into a wonderland paradise for the rest of the species that inhabit our planet.

The planet itself, being a rock, doesn't care, at all.
Hi Arthur
[Great read, thanks /samclemens!]

The menus are out of control!

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...
The 16th-century codebreaker who wrote secret messages on boiled eggs
>His first rather startling and brilliant contribution to the art of code-making was the ingenious means by which messages might be smuggled to prisoners via eggs. This might sound whimsical, but this was still the time of the Inquisition, and to be suspected of heresy could be hideously dangerous. Secret messages that made it past the most intensive searches could be life-saving for many prisoners kept in dungeons. But how to avoid this stringent security? The method: write the message, using alum or plant dye, onto the shell of an egg. When the egg is dry, hard-boil it and the message on the shell will disappear. The egg could then be taken into the prison in a package of food. When it arrived, all the recipient had to do was peel the shell and they would find the message there, indelibly soaked onto the boiled egg white.
An open-source key-logger
Firefox is working great for me on the M1, have not noticed any issues worth complaining about.
> They should not be involved in politics.

"Should we bail out the banks" was politics. BP has a massive oil spill, how much will they be fined, are they going to be fined more because they are a British and not American company? How much will fcrashes of Boeing Max cost Boeing? Imagine these crashing planes were from a Chinese company, what would the consequences for the company be ?

The big economic projections are inseperable from politics. Only a naive person will believe otherwise
My boss straight up told me a couple of juniors could do my job the other day
zcalc is basically just a better version of bc. There are probably even better CLI calculators out there, but zcalc has the same advantage as bc: you'll almost always have it available (if zsh is available anyway, which is always true for my usage).
WebMIDI is also a boon for anybody working with external audio gear on Linux, some companies like Novation went all in and provide web-based firmware updaters and configuration tools. For other gear I still need to boot up a Windows VM and fiddle with USB forwarding.

The permission prompt in Firefox is definitely sensible though (especially for SysEx), not sure if Chrome added that as well.
Humor with a serious message.
In the grand scale of thinks, Blink-based browsers are a little better than just using Chrome.

Of course, browsers with an alternative engine like Gecko or Webkit are preferable to keep the web open.
Funny, but there's nothing wrong with that if Arthur was/is happy (which isn't mentioned).
I do not make so many calculations nowadays.
When a computer is on, I have a xonsh and all the calculation power of Python.
When not, the simple calculator app that came with the cellphone is most of the time sufficient.

But I think when doing lots of or at least frequently scientific calculations, a good physical calculator has superior characteristics. Typing a 'sin'-Button is way faster than typing 's' 'i' 'n' on a keyboard, e.g.
Apple is paying the arbitrator because it's a requirement of arbitration.

Apple is happy to do this because even when the arbitrator decides they're in the wrong it'll 1) be much faster than court 2) be much less than a jury awards. There are pretty much 2 arbitrators in the US and so they can afford to lose a single client.

Its only uphill if you have an actually bad argument such as _just_ the statement "they broke our TOS.".
The Rise of Bronze Age Pervert
Does somebody work 35 years in same company, it is usually 2-5 years -> new company grind rather than working at same company.
These days browsers are good at following standards, but it's very important what's actually in the standards. There is potential for Google to use Chrome's market share to move the standards in a user hostile way.

Chromium being open source is good, but it's not everything.
Even if you split the search and ads divisions into two companies, what prevents them from entering into a partnership and keep doing whatever they do now?
Well the GPU for example AMD has been happy to work with the open source community. Sure the open driver still ships a giant blob iirc but it’s still better than nothing. Such an approach would be dope from Apple.

Of course they don’t have to. It would be nice if they did. I would argue they’d sell even more devices this way.
3. seems irrelevant and not sure why you worry
This is the dream imo. I love this kind of work
Storing data from open networks is like recording people who are yelling.
You are one of those people who will hold onto something intangible that makes them better than machines. But you could neither explain what it is nor prove it scientifically.
Up to 1 million / month = 667 YEARS to supply each citizen of this planet with one (1) RPi.

Read: some more world domination left to do :-)
The U.S. also has an “investment interest expense” deduction[1]. Normally this is used with margin interest, but if any other type of loan (e.g. credit card advance) is taken out specifically to invest in securities, interest on said loan becomes deductible investment interest as well.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf
That might work. Though you probably aren't going to be able to access the baseband processor without some blob.
actually terrifying. feels like the onion. let me laugh it off hahahaha
The things people do for "job security".
Pgvector: Fewer Dimensions Are Better
I can imagine how many native speakers and speaking club hosts will lose their jobs.
Really great app, love it!
I kinda feel like them removing ‘Don’t be evil’ from their motto was the canary in the coal mine.
“1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”
Does not seem particularly high right now, TBH.
it's a fable
I think it's quite inspiring rather than invoking fear. I would take a job like this any time.
There's plenty of low effort garbage on the internet that I would consider a waste way before this piece. Just the reactions of some other commenters making them rethink their career trajectory shows it has value.
If you change the equation slightly and place a fixed resource consumption requirement (take 1-10% of the initial amount to pay to flip a coin) on each person’s continuation, and then unevenly distribute the initial balance, it will become apparent that your ability to become “that guy” is dominantly determined by your initial balance.

In this version people do not end up at some small fraction of the initial balance but instead they go negative, i.e. exit the simulation to homelessness.

The ability to keep flipping the coin without starving is absolutely the primary determinant.
The crypto feature is a way to allow web content to be paid for, but it's super easy to turn off.

From my perspective it seems that the current FF CEO basically did a hostile takeover of Firefox, that involved maximising their personal wages. Firefox is absolutely for profit, the $millions the CEO takes is ridiculous. I read that they got a personal stipend from Google too, but I've not been able to confirm that. Maybe you're confusing them with the Mozilla Foundation. The way they structure things so you can't donate to engineering on Firefox is skeevy, far worse than a system designed to enable content owners to get paid.

I was a supporter/promoter of FF for 18 years, fwiw.
No disagreement from me here - if I had anything to say, Russia, North Korea, Iran, China and on the cybercrime side Turkey (a hotbed for scam callcenters targeting Germany) and India would be completely cut off from Internet and telephony networks.

It's time to hold bad actors accountable. Unfortunately, the cost of doing so would put way too much money at risk, I'd even see some of these escalating into outright war.
For ten years, I worked on codebases written in C++ without using any third party libraries (no, not even STL -- we needed faster, thread safe versions of strings and maps which were not available at the time; Boost? What's that?), its own custom messaging middleware built directly on sockets, its on distributed process management system built with unix syscalls (obviously). There was not a single line of HTML, Java etc. anywhere. It was a comfortable, high-paid life and I solved cutting edge problems (HFT, distributed, concurrent computing). In 2013, I forced myself to quit, start with a small company that paid me half the salary so that I could learn the web tech stack from the ground up. It was all to avoid this fate. I'd like to think I've succeeded.
There is something to be said for stability. Since our protagonist retired early, the pay must not have been bad. The glass is half full, or so I tell myself.
You're free to use Chrome and work in ad tech. It's a free world.

But the intended audience of my comment is the vast majority of people that dislike the direction Google is taking Chrome and the web at large, and do absolutely no effort for, quite frankly, inane reasons.
Exactly this. Guy had a comfortable stable job for years. Probably knew codebase and technology enough to have lots of time for family/friends/hobbies. More than this story scares me how HN reacted
> Westbrook believes he grapsed over 4% of the entire codebase

He's doing well