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Thank you for sharing your story, may the end come peacefully with family at your side, wishing you a safe journey to where we all must go someday to be reunited. My heartfelt condolences brother.
Chrome is a complicated case in general because Google poured money into promoting Chrome and had some of the most popular sites on the web promoting it heavily and actively sabotaged Firefox at several key points. I respect a lot of the Chrome team’s early work but it’s very hard for me to see that as a story about fair competition alone.
With internal infosec, secinfra teams, compliance, and serious business contracts.
Personally, I'm not interested in that conversation, any more than I'm interested in suddenly lurking in a random subreddit. It's a community I'm not a part of and which doesn't interest me. If you took a dump on a canvas and hung it on a gallery to make fun of a guy who said no one would ever do that, well I'm glad you had fun and all, but it's still shit on a wall.

I won't deny that in some cases works can be interested because of their context, but generally speaking, to me, a piece has to stand on its own regardless of who made it or when or how. Mozart's scat letters don't become good by virtue of having been written by him (although they do become funnier).
Hello ;)
I use Orion exclusively because Kagi is the default search engine. It does have a few more bugs than chrome / safari, but they're well worth putting up with to get native Kagi support. Thank you.

It's interesting though - what is Apple's vested interest in only having native support for certain search engines? I now no longer use their browser because of this - I would think that is _some_ kind of loss for them. Maybe not, since I'm on macOS anyway.
The finance sites that hit my feet are talking about the the Yen carry trade
In Memory of Niall Crosby (Founder AG Grid)
> So what's going to happen?

Apple might make their own search engine. Apple has a team that's been creating a next-generation search engine codenamed Pegasus under John Giannandrea. They already have search engines for App Store, Maps, Apple TV and News and Spotlight.

Apple web search development worked as bargaining chip in pricing negotiations with Google. Google paid them $20 billion per year to not compete as much as keeping other competitors away.
Tell me you live in a tech bubble without telling me you live in a tech bubble.
Hey! I am Josh! and I in this reddit post I explain how we made sales and worked biggest companies. I believe this story will inspire young SaaS makers and it will be valuable lesson for them
You're right, and there are probably also many opportunities to invent new tools and techniques and pursue entrepreneurship, for those so inclined.
Raison*
If you and I, a couple of presumed nobodies, agree to have our respective companies work together exclusively on a thing and maybe trade some money and services, then that's something that can usually be legally just fine.

But if you or I are operate a monopoly (whether a natural monopoly or an artificial monopoly) and we make the same kind of exclusive deal, then: That may not be fine. We have laws (like the Sherman Act) that can restrict this sort of thing only if a monopoly becomes involved.

And to be clear: It's generally OK to have a monopoly (good fuckin' job, mate! you totally own your market! all the spoils for you!). But it's generally not OK to use that monopoly status in an anticompetitive way.
There's a lot of predatory practices in games, but shutting down an unpopular game is not one of them. We mostly lost the lootbox war, so I don't see this law getting much more sympathy.
This would have been fine if Google was not a monopoly. The key part of the ruling is that judge agrees Google is a monopoly. And it's behavior is maintaining the monopoly illegally.

Because it's a monopoly, and paying over the odds for these placements, it does not allow for a competitive marketplace. These payments create significant barriers to entry for other companies to even try and increase their market share given all the frictionless access points are blocked by Google not because of superior product but payments. These payments from a monopoly have a disproportionate impact on the market by limiting opportunities for everyone else in a significant manner.

(Kind of, in a competitive market, a company can block 1-2 pathways. Here google pretty much blocked every entry point.)
Interesting idea. May not necessarily be an issue but how do you ensure bad actors don't use this kind of information for things like surveillance or other nefarious acts?
Breaks Safari on mobile as soon as the top video loads. At least the back button works but scrolling or any other gesture doesn't...
No, absolutely not -- that says nothing whatsoever about making the default difficult to change.

It's just about what the default is.
> Our system makes it impossible to lose control of the airplane

Thing in aviation is, that there are a couple of outside factors which might leed to a loss of control: bird strike and mid-air collision come to mind.
If I can live and work in a comfortable spacious house with a garden and no traffic nearby, why would I subject myself to renting a 1 square meter flat in an overly busy overly pricey city, just so I can slave my hours in an office?

We now have the ability to get big bucks and pay little rent for good housing, and not be stuck like sardines in traffic, and not having to listen to extroverts' incessant yapping.

Why does it make you mad? We nerds don't have the rights to happiness?
Yet another study that seems to be entirely conducted on college students, and yet somehow forgets to mention that fact.

As if choosing participants with the same age, background and social class wouldn't impact trust and small talk.
If only, as the picture illustrates, we can go back in time!
Additional context below that might be helpful for educational purposes.

https://evrim.zone/blog/knowledge/iso_20022_pain_001

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36810744
"... But as the popularity of remote observing from home cuts into observatories’ customer bases, the practice has waned...."

Echoes of the impact of wfh on restaurants near offices here. I suppose it's much nicer to not have to schlep yourself out to the middle of nowhere but something is lost.
> Palomar Observatory in Southern California, home to the famous
200-inch Hale Telescope — the “Big Eye” — has closed the kitchen
that served elegant sit-down meals to astronomers during their
observing runs.

A real life Milliways! [0]

[0] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Milliways
All of these things are problems that weaken trust in the system.

Widespread absentee ballots are bad, early voting is bad, gerrymandering is bad, lack of voter ID checking is bad, non-secret voting is bad. I'd like to see them all done away with.
The entire concept of making a living off recordings/reproductions didn't really start until the invention of the printing press which allowed for mass reproductions.

Prior to that anyone with enough time on their hands and skills could legally reproduce any text, music, painting, etc for profit. Artist where largely compensated for performances or for original artwork. There was more relative demand for live performances because of the lack of other available entertainment options.

Now the primary issue with being a successful artist is the attention economy is incredibly competitive, and the barriers to entry are incredibly low.
I've made some CMYK (e.g. inkjet) prints that were inspired by Warhol and anime fan art. I took a class in silkscreen printing and I'm probably going to be taking one in block printing soon. If I was going to get better at silkscreening an obvious idea is to do something more or less Warhol-inspired.

My understanding is that there is an interesting universe of fakes, for instance Warhol would make some screens and send them off to get printed, he would authorize, say, 100 prints and sign and number those, but the printers would hold on to the screens and make more that weren't signed.
> 1. If I have to get back to this project several months in the future, it might be a lot of trouble to bring the fork up-to-date.

What's the trouble? What compells you to "bring the fork up-to-date"?

> The fork might not have new features, security updates, compatibility upgrades that I want.

I really don't understand what point you think you're making. The scenario you're discussing is either a) contribute a patch to an existing project, or b) write your own from scratch. Does scenario b) magically introduces feature and maintenance work on your alternative implementation?

> 2. I think it is in bad taste to submit PR without intention of getting it merged (...)

Why are you even considering this a scenario?
I just want to say I love what you are doing, you are solving a problem close to my heart. This is the sort of hard tech company that YC (and SV) should invest more in, not silly SaaS and ChatGPT wrappers. That being said, after fly by wire, would you be interested in tackling the GA engine economics problem? They are closely linked. If you solve that, the TAM for your product expands massively, and your exit opportunities are no longer limited to just being acquihired by Garmin.

https://airfactsjournal.com/2022/10/the-20-hour-cessna-172-e...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34728405
They didn't mention LIGO data correlating or refuting this work. Is that because LIGO is at different frequencies from the PTA so it's not useful here?
They provide those numbers too. Memory bandwidth is at whooping 80 TBs/second.
I had trouble finishing (I didn't) that article, it was a little too long winded and a little hysterical for me.

Oddly enough, there's a ton of De Cecco and Bucatini at my local grocery store.... conspiracy over?
I don't understand why one wouldn't see inaction on climate change as part and parcel of world-scope corruption and everpresent dog-eat-dog mentality.
I really don't see what's in it for them to brag about a non-existent feature that's not in their commercial interest when its non-implementation can be turned into a stick to beat them with, so I believe they have something, yes. I don't necessarily believe the 99.9%, but with that proviso I'll take your bet.
> but more importantly, why should we care?

Because money talks, and CDPR has lots of Witcher/Cyberpunk money.

Yes, we are in 2024 an oligarchy of ceo's facading like a (republic) democracy. Wholesomeness was never in the equation. If you have any benevolent dictators, you may as well use them.
If you're on macOS, I cannot recomment enough StopTheMadness.

https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
Ask HN: Have you experienced burn in with your OLED monitor?
Does OLED work for programming? If so, do you have QD-OLED or WOLED? I'm trying to determine if burn in is a real issue if you use the monitor for professional use and not just movies/gaming.

Mainly looking at WOLED since those have variable refresh rate (4k@240hz/1080p@480hz).
It’s obviously not practical except for small data, for many obvious reasons.

You may expect tools such as restic or Borg or rclone should use Age. But they don’t, because they need their own file formats.

Restic is excellent. I can’t recommend it enough.
> with the only conceivable usecase being poorly designed and implemented test fxtures.

Reproducible pseudo-randomness is a necessity with fuzz testing. It is not a poor design approach when it is actually useful.
you miss the point. if your work can be automated, you can be replaced, and the nature of your work becomes irrelevant - as it can be automated.

> but there is more to it than code

who said code?
This whole argument reminds me of something. Found it. (Can't believe that was only 2 months ago.)

You'll regret using natural keys https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580549 (554 comments)
That's false.

Google paid Apple to be the default.

There is no reporting whatsoever that there is any other payment to be in the list of alternatives. There is no evidence that Microsoft pays Apple to include Bing in the list of alternatives.

So nothing whatsoever like that was revealed in the case.
> If you take optimizing transportation options as a holistic problem, rather than focusing on any individual user who needs to travel those 50-500 km distances, more trains is a far more straightforward and efficient investment than flying cars, no?

maybe. But people are still tied to the trains schedule and don't have the "get in a go" freedom that they do with a car. I don't know the details of what it actually takes to build a train network but my intuition is telling that it's fundamentally more investment because of the land requirements.

> You need to build an entirely different traffic control system for that

probably true. but I think it'll take some time to get there and that gives us the opportunity to invest in that. The more modernized airplanes we have, the more opportunity we have to start creating a more automated ATC system that uses digital communication between the airplane and ATC, rather than the voice system we use today.

> But it is a problem that increases with the number of vehicles in the air.

We (as an industry) have gotten pretty good at knowing how to build an airplane so that parts don't fall off (this is a facetious example, I'm really referring to general system reliability) that revolves around rigorous production standard, and those we definitely must continue to follow.

> Building good passenger rail (no need for actual HSR) is a solved problem with proven solutions

True, but even those solutions are starting to become outdated. Rail also has a very high safety bar because of the consequence of failure, so developing a new rail network is really hard too.

> How many decades will it take to actually develop a "production-ready"...

We expect that we will 10x the number of vehicles flying over the next 10 years, so N is ~10k, and M is 500km. In the US, we already have that infrastructure, and I suspect (based on not much but my own intuition) is that it'll take another 10 years to get that infrastructure updated to support every 3x (sqrt(10)) increase in N
Everything is arbitrary if you look at it hard enough. Why do we have to drive on the right side of the road? Arbitrary.

> So you’ve “protected” Americans from the competition of Italian producers who can’t pay to repackage.

Any food producer who wants to export to the US already has to pay for a US-specific label, including ingredient list and nutritional info. In fact, that would be true for almost any other country as well.

And that's a good thing. If you can't even bother to print a label that tells the buyers what it's made of, in a language they can read, forget about it.
New biomaterial regrows damaged cartilage in joints
The definitions mean whatever the judge says they mean.
> My point was about the bureaucracy of contributing back upstream.

There is no bureaucracy. Once you have your patch, you can post a PR. Click on a button, write a description, and you're done. That's it. Posting a PR is hardly the hard part of the process.
There's also the way a successful artist can legitimize a whole area, see

https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/dada/marcel-duchamp-an...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

for people like Warhol who expanded the range of "art" vs "not art".
> As for distinguishing between GET and POST requests, `content-length` in the request line effectively does, doesn't it? The only use a separate indicator would enable is zero-byte POST.

Perhaps I was unclear, because it is not quite what I meant. What I meant is GET requests with query strings vs POST requests. That is what Spartan does not. distinguish. It does distinguish POST requests from requests with no data, but it is not what I meant.

> Making requests ASCII seems like a good idea, too. It means old computers can support the full protocol without implementing Unicode.

Yes, I also think that it is a good idea. (However, implementing Unicode is not really necessary for a client to send requests anyways (which is the case even if the request is UTF-8, although specifying that requests are ASCII seems cleaner and better to me). The more important part is that the request does not use Unicode domain names and sends them in ASCII format instead, and that the server accepts this and does not expect Unicode requests.)

> One problem with HTTP/1.1 headers is that they are deceptively simple. Processing them correctly requires handling letter case, leading and trailing whitespace, duplicate field names, and fields that span multiple lines. (A line the starts with a space or tab continues the previous.)

I agree with this, they are the problems with the HTTP header format, and it is what I had thought too. However, there is also the consideration of, should you really need so many headers anyways?

> Since you support it anyway, I have mirrored the file at https://dbohdan.com/mirror/scorpion/zzo38computer.org/smallw...

I have added it to the list of mirrors at the bottom of the file.
> options between nothingness and a religious expectation of an afterlife.

May I ask what you consider some of those are? Honestly curious.-
if your best rebuttal is "well just stay positive" in a year of negatives, I'm not going to be very optimistic in the end. It just feels like people denying the reality around them.
You're talking about execution, while I'm talking about creation (composition). It is easier to, say, copy Guernica than to paint it having never seen it before. Easier in the sense that way, way more people can do the former than the latter.
We are operating on such a tiny sliver of the crust that worries about the core temperature are many orders of magnitude away from being a problem.

However, there are some side effects. Iceland heavily invested in geothermal power plants and as a result their natural geysers are dying out. This is also why the US doesn't run geothermal power plants in the Yellowstone caldera, because the danger to the tourism industry outweighs the potential gains, at least for now.
That's more the exception that proves the rule, though. Chrome originally came out when IE was still a steaming pile of garbage, and Google spent lots of marketing money promoting it as a better, faster alternative. (Something that Mozilla had been previously somewhat succeeding at, more or less, but they didn't have the same resources and eventually lost their gains and fell behind.)

These days Chrome just has so much mind-share that it overcomes the defaults on Windows. This is by no means a common outcome. This is anecdotal, but I know far more people who use Safari instead of Chrome on macOS than who use Edge instead of Chrome on Windows; Microsoft just has such a bad reputation when it comes to browsers that Chrome is able to get over that defaults hump on Windows. But a lot of people genuinely like Safari, and trust Apple in general, so the effect is (somewhat) lessened on macOS, even though IIRC Chrome still does have the lead in market share there. Just less of one, percentage-wise.
The original “deal” has Eric Slimy Schmidt vibes all over it
There's always the arm. Yeet?
For reference, I calculated that for the same per-day cost as I have in the US I could live in a five star hotel in Thailand. And when you factor in the cost of rent, international flights aren’t as expensive as you might think.

I see this less as how inexpensive things are elsewhere and more how excessively expensive they are in the US. In the Bay Area for example the housing stock is incredibly expensive but relatively low quality even compared with other US cities.
You seem to be conflating craftmanship and artistic merit. They are not the same thing. While it is perfectly valid to care only about craftsmanship, and many people do feel that way, that isn't a universal opinion. It is also an opinion that makes it difficult to have a meaningful conversation about many modern artists for whom craftsmanship simply wasn't the point of their work.
Interestingly I'm hosting my dad near Amsterdam for the week and to get from Sacramento to SFO (from where he flew to AMS) he... flew. Which I guess is logical, but seems insane to me when he lives close to Sacramento Amtrak which actually HAS good, regular service to SFO (via Bart, connecting at Richmond).

Even if you build the train some people won't give it a try, sadly. A lot of carbon was spewed in to the air to fly him and his suitcase over the capitol corridor tracks.
Yes, lowering all operating expenses by moving to more efficient engines and greener propulsion systems is on our roadmap as "the next problem"
Somehow we don't seem to face this problem when it comes to building roads.
Mississippi has been a reliable Republican voting block since the parties switched platforms in the 60-70’s.

So republicans don’t need to spend money there to get votes.

And even if democrats spent all that money there to ‘buy’ the vote - would it be enough to work, considering the socio-political aspects?

An argument could be made vis-a-vis gdp improvements. But are good roads good enough to drive major GDP improvements in Mississippi, considering other factors? Probably not.
> Apple will lose significant revenue from having Google as the default search engine and Google will no longer have to pay those billions.

there is also Android ecosystem, where DOJ may ask google to prompt user with Search Egnine selection dialog, and Google can easily lose some significant share of traffic to Bing/ChatGPT/etc.
Saddling kids with insane amounts of debt, education ("it's the good kind!") or otherwise, and then pricing housing out of reach for all but the luckiest of them isn't a great way to sustain a civilization.

Maybe that's the idea.
> everyone can find an extra $50-100 monthly to stash away for retirement. With compound interest over a 40+ year working career, this is not trivial money.

This amount of money is likely to pay for a couple of surgeries (assuming no other complications or chronic illnesses eating your savings before then) past the age of 50, given how expensive health care is.

It's not a significant amount of money to let you retire in any kind of comfort. Maybe just not starve.

No amount of financial prudence is going to change the math for you if your set of skills caps out at $20/hour on the employment market.
> It's not at all clear how this messaging fits with his financial interests

Why assume that what he is doing must make sense? Past displays of very smart and logical behavior in no way guarantees future logical behavior.

There is even a name for the phenomenon where once a person is recognized for previous accomplishments of their intelligence, they might be more prone to go on flights of fancy: Nobel disease. [0]

> being universally hailed as correct appears to bolster the individual laureate's confirmation bias more than it does their skepticism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Firefox, for what - 20 years now?

You can make any search field on any web site your default search engine.
> It's awesome that after 3 years of this nonsense we're just happily escalating the conflict and imagining new ways to destroy urban areas and the civilian populations that live in them.

So the ethical answer is to what, roll over and let the Russians win? Wars are awful things. But to paraphrase Trotsky, you get to choose whether or not you're interested in war. But you don't get to choose whether or not war is interested in you.
If it causes enough in-fighting to turn people off, then I'd say the critiques are needed. There's already so much going against the law without the people themselves wondering if this would force their favorite MMO to shut down.
Thank you for all the work and sharing your journey.
Thanks for the approach to pointing the issue out.-
I meant changing it in Preferences though, and not a drop-down like it used to be. You can add completely new engines, change defaults, and even give them keywords for quick searches without any undocumented change.