skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk, I didn't play the HL games until years after they came out. What was the new tech? I just remember it being a pretty meh shooter on rails type game. The gravity gun was cool I guess.
you can disable 3rd party cookies if you want:
chrome://settings/cookies
The statistical probability of gun violence affecting me is much lower than it has been historically. That is worth celebrating. And I have seen exactly no one in this thread dismiss the ongoing pain caused by the remainder as negligible. But--and this is the entire point--that amount of ongoing pain is less than it has been in the past. Definitely still real, but less of it than before.

Yes, we absolutely mourn those who are still affected by it, and we do what we can to prevent additional deaths.

But the idea that we should not be happy about our progress is absurd.
Two telecoms cables in Baltic Sea severed, raising suspicions of sabotage
Via sourcing from Wikipedia, https://web.archive.org/web/20110213025041/http://www.forbes... notes that digital downloads surpassed physical media in 2010, and ancillary comments also indicate that it's on a pretty steep growth path at that time (Valve was rocking 200% growth rates at that time).

Also, FWIW, Valve was regularly making ~one game a year, and only stopped that with the release of Dota 2 in 2013.
I believe Don C. Talayesva went to the colonist world, then came back to his village.

He wrote Sun Chief, an autobiography which is a fascinating, candid and surprisingly easy read. Higly recommend!

https://archive.org/details/sunchiefautobiog0000tala/page/n6...
My understanding is that google lets anyone freely use chromium, and chrome is just their flavour of chromium with google services integrated ontop of it. Microsoft took chromium and sprinkled ai-enhanced microsoft flavours on top to make edge, which doesn't look like a monopoly. Presumably, microsoft is able to use windows to push edge, and use edge to push bing. If chrome was sold and had the google integration removed I would switch to a vanilla chromium.

I see some argument for google paying firefox to be the default search engine, but is that worse than firefox not existing at all?

In terms of search engines, I think there's just a lack of good competition. The search engines I'm aware of are:

Google: Just works. The only problem is you need to add "reddit" to most searches to get actual real, human-written non-seospam text, but I doubt that's unique to just google.

Bing: I'm greeted with an uncomfortably flashy layout shift, a page full of american news and some popup about AI. They also cover up and censor for the CCP.

Kagi: Their website is literally broken right now and I can't even see the pricing or other pages. I tried safari, chrome, firefox and edge, the hamburger menu doesn't open. Ultimately though, nobody except the kind of audience on HN is going to pay for it. If I told anyone else about a search engine that costs $16/month to use, I'm sure they'd think i'm joking, irregardless of how good it may be.

Yandex: Good for the reverse image searching, but otherwise probably not good to use.

Most of this article is ads, and it's paywalled so I can only read the first couple sentences, so if this is addressed in it I apologise.
Mail Avenger: The Spam Extermination Project
Yeah the titles are pretty far in the keyword space (+Tesla +highest +fatal +rate +study -crash -safety -accident -auto)
Biden locks in $6.6B for TSMC chip factories, ensuring Trump can't rescind deal
Oh, that could be quite likely, copy cat crimes are a thing after all. I simply mean that people weren't harmlessly interacting before that is all, swatting didn't supplant relatively harmless pranks.
> There are many other better options out there otherwise, and they are all free.

For how long, though?

The trajectory for Firefox doesn’t look good at all (and it’s completely dependent on Google too).

Apple are doing their share of anticompetitive shenanigans with Safari on iOS, although the other way around.

Everything else is based on Chromium and therefore not contributing to any heterogeneity of implementations.
> Such cables don't just snap by themselves.

Your general points are valid, but undersea cables do fail for many reasons. A few moments of googling turns up industry failure statistics. Most are still due to human activity in some way (but unintentional, like an anchor drag) but plenty are due to the natural environment of the sea floor.
I don't know why comments here are so negative. I respect the fact that they realized they were not on their A game and were not going to be able to deliver a great, innovative game to the fans. Having been disappointed many times in the last decade or so with many half-finished disasters of a sequel (and not just in gaming!) I'm incredibly happy Valve did not cynically crank out a garbage Episode 3 to cash in, when they easily could have.

Of course, my #1 preference would be to have a mind-blowing, innovative, and narratively satisfying Episode 3, but my #2 preference is to not have a garbage sequel tacked on that would make me resent even HL2 and E1/E2
It seems to me that Android is developing at a faster rate than Chrome OS. I currently own a Chromebook Plus laptop that I use for my everyday tasks, but it feels kind of clunky. There’s plenty of software that doesn't work with it, even some web pages give me trouble. I feel that since Android is Google's main operating system, having a secondary operating system like Chrome OS creates challenges in the long term. It wouldn't surprise me if Google eventually decides to give up on Chrome OS, but I think it’s still too early to say for sure.
The whole reason for "privacy sandbox" is to still do user tracking, but do it in an anonymous way that they hope legislators won't go after. It's Google seeing the writing on the wall that legislation will soon ban third-party cookie tracking and fingerprinting and the like, so they need to be proactive and protect the ad tracking business.

A better name for it would have been something like "anonymous user tracking / data collection", but "privacy sandbox" is probably a good marketing term to fuzz what it's really doing. To a normal user it makes it sounds like Google is doing something good and protecting them, while it's really just "please opt in to our new more anonymized tracking technology while still allowing us to track you".
This is why I say it's a cultural problem, not a technical problem. In goland, changing API calls in minor versions is pretty much a sin. At least it's something you'd do .. carefully, probably with apologies. In node, it's extremely routine to re-pin to newer modules without worry.
No. Universities in Sweden are free to citizens (including EU/EEA citizens). That includes highly regarded universities such as Karolinska Institute (considered one of the top medical schools in Europe), Lund University, the University of Gothenburg, and so on.

In Scandinavia, student loans are taken to cover living expenses, not the cost of tuition. Private schools exist, but are not nearly as common as in the U.S.
I can promise someone that you will give me $100 too. But it doesn't create obligations on your end.

My employment contract says nothing about me needing to work at any company that Google decides I should work for.
OP, you've been accused of literally ripping off somebody's more popular repository and posing it as your own.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178413

You may wanna get ahead of this because the evidence is fairly damning. Failing to even give credit to the original project is a pretty gross move.
Every company does this though. They pay to be the exclusive or official XYZ of some company or event.

For example, Bud Light being the official drink of the NFL.

Or Coca-Cola being the exclusive drink that can be sold at the Olympics and many other sporting venues.
You can either use Mozilla accounts to do that for free and as easy as it is with Google accounts. Or if you are a power user and would like an adventure, you can selfhost sync and accounts servers yourself. Does chrome provide that ability?
>acknowledge how Russia really operates.

Enlighten us then. How would suggest Russia should be treated?
> how is it different to Apples integration with Safari?

It’s not, other than Google has a way larger market share (especially if you count Edge/Opera/Brave/etc.) and has been (ab)using that position to push web standards in a direction that favors their business and that other browser vendors have to follow to keep up.

If Safari had Chrome’s market share and was throwing their weight around like Google does and Microsoft did with IE, it’d be the same argument and I’d also personally support forcing them to divest it.
Someone linked to a kernel mailing list recently, I don't know if it was in a submission or in a comment.

The security issue with io_uring, as I understand it, is that it bypasses a lot of Linux's security auditing mechanisms. The problem is that, like with ioctl, if the kernel called out to a security subsystem with "here's something that the user wants to do with this file," the security subsystem would have to know what "something" means for every driver. Impossible; so do you allow most things? Deny them? If you choose the former, now there are gaping security holes. If you choose the latter, then enabling security will break too many things.
You realize calling someone a liar is extremely rude, right? Especially given that this is a purely personal opinion which you cannot possibly have evidence to disprove.
I really enjoyed this author's "Complex Text Handling in WebKit" series from a few years back. They're spread over several months on the blog, so here are the direct links to each part, if anyone is interested:

Part 1: Encoding Systems, Code Points, and Code Units <https://litherum.blogspot.com/2013/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 2: Fonts <https://litherum.blogspot.com/2013/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 3: Codepoint to Glyph Mapping <https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/02/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 4: Line Breaking <https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/04/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 5: Bidirectional Processing <https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 6: Run Layout <https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 7: Width Calculations <https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/11/complex-text-handling-...>
I ran into trouble because Open Topo does not report a stream the 7.5" series does. There's serious data quality issues that can make it not work for some applications.
That take would only make sense if Gabe Newell was running Valve like Bobby Kotick ran Activision, cancelling project left and right if they weren't lucractive. That's not how Valve appears to work: They do quite a few moonshots that don't have to pan out, and bonuses aren't about the revenue of your game.

See Half Life Alyx, or the hardware teams that did VR, or the steam deck: Not exactly people optimizing for revenue. Still, in Valve a new project needs to get people to choose to do it over alternatives, and it might be that in the current internal culture, they really lack a large enough group of people wanting to actually spend their day on a single player game. The fact that Valve is still such a small company probably makes all but the most popular ideas die pretty quickly, as one might need a pretty big percentage of the company to make a reasonable prototype.
> how is it different to Apples integration with Safari?

Apple hasn't been found to have a monopoly like Google has [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-search-engine-ve...
Are there any reputation mechanisms or github flagging systems to alert users to such scams?

It’s a pretty unethical behavior if what you describe is the full story and as a user of many open source projects how can one be aware of this type of behavior?
This is the typical comment of the Russian propaganda narrative, let's try to deconstruct this mystical thinking:

> I think there's a very high probability the bad actors here are the same that used Biden as a puppet to give Ukraine the greenlight to fire long range missile on to Russia.

So is more probable that: the President of the USA, Biden is a "puppet of bad actors" whom you allege are working hard to start WW3, so its probably the "bard actors" who severed the cables.

And it's less probable that Russians severed the cables, who happened to have:

- invaded and is committing genocide of a sovereign country of 40 million people, recognized by all UN members;

- threatened the world with nuclear war for almost 3 years;

- stated that Russia has no borders and that Russia needs territory to survive;

- threatened to disrupt Western infrastructure;

- sent ships to map sea cables;
I feel that some clarification is warranted, because the wording in your various replies can be misleading. Although the term "assassinated" is not invalid in this case, based on what you seem to imply, your arguments for why it should be preferred in this instance are moot. You might not be wrong, but maybe choose different arguments.

1. Abe was not in power at the time he was shot. He was giving a campaign speech in support of a running member of his party.

2. Abe was not specifically targeted for his political views or policies. He was a victim of convenience. That is, the real target was the Unification Church. An organization deeply entrenched in the Japanese political sphere and which the killer had a clear personal vendetta against. Abe was a visible public figure with ties to the UC. He was also more accessible to the shooter.

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

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

From the first link:

Abe's killing has been described as one of the most effective and successful political assassinations in recent history due to the backlash against the UC that it provoked. The Economist remarked that "... Yamagami's political violence has proved stunningly effective ... Political violence seldom fulfils so many of its perpetrator's aims." Writing for The Atlantic, Robert F. Worth described Yamagami as "among the most successful assassins in history."

The success spoken of here has nothing to do with Abe or his policies. It's rather about the subsequent rise in public awareness and purge of UC's members from Japanese politics.
> My employment contract says nothing about me needing to work at any company that Google decides I should work for

It probably also lets you quit with short notice.
I’m not surprised, though. They’re not exactly on the most solid ground with them preventing any engines other than their own WebKit for third-party browsers or even apps.
From what I can find, it's something like 99.999% of charge moves, but it varies from CCD to CCD and can cause artifacts in bigger ones if it's too low. I couldn't find a great indication of what affects it, other than defects in the crystal lattice causing charge trapping, which apparently tends to be an issue in aging telescopes, especially space ones like Hubble.
> Who would buy it

If the decision drags on into the new administration, then the answer is probably Elon Musk.
This wiki page on uBlock origin repository is a direct answer to your question.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Aren't these discussions the evidence? The fact that the author wrote a blog post and we are here discussing it. I might be missing the point of your question. This is everywhere around us in the development world. Anytime people compare react to htmx, redis to postgres, TDD vs BDD.

I'd like to point out I never called it a problem. I said that was a judgement call for you to make. We all have harmless biases.

But yeah, it can be a problem. If I have an engineer derailing my team because of his insistence for svelte, and can't read the room: ie can't take any of the context of the business, stack, domain, team, into his consideration, then yeah, it becomes a problem. Time is money

(svelte isn't a good example, it's not a best practice per se. s/svelte/TDD/)
Very well.

> Very nice way to say "AP isn't centralized enough".

You seem to be operating under the misconception that having large secondary indexing services in the system is the same thing as binding the system to single organizations. Anybody can run a relay or appview, same as anybody can run a PDS.

> What's your current timeline to start accepting incoming account migrations back into the bluesky hosted PDS? When will account migrations officially be a recommended operation? Source: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/ACCOUNT_MIGR...

When the software is sufficiently tested and implemented.

> First of all, self hosting an ActivityPub service is not prohibitively expensive, heck expensive just isn't even a word a would use at all.

This remains true only so long as the network remains under a certain size, and your posts never go viral.

> On the other hand, what's expensive is the cost of hosting the bluesky relay. What you're essentially doing is just taking on the burden/cost of data processing and hiding it from the end user.

We're keeping the most valuable part of the system -- account ownership -- from having its costs bundled with application ops. It's important that there are hundreds of thousands of account hosts. It's only important that there are 5 to 10 microblogging applications, and that users can switch between them as they come and go.

In fact, I would argue that binding user accounts to individual application instances & their governance like AP does is a massive mistake. It's much more important that you guarantee users' continuity of identity as apps come and go.
There was an effort to revive the Shakespearean pronunciation by David Crystal. You can see YouTube videos of David and his son Ben talking about it and reciting parts of Shakespeare to highlight the jokes and word play.
but actually implementing/enforcing them might be a whole other can of worms!

Are you assuming out lawyering Google, OpenAI, etc. is only a can of worms?

A license is only as good as your legal wherewithal to enforce it. Good luck.
The entire point of Privacy Sandbox is to get away from tracking individuals and allow ad targeting of anonymous cohorts (interest groups) instead.

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/private-advert...
It doesn't seem like it should be that difficult to understand. Everyone shares your #1 preference (obviously), but for many people their #2 preference would've been to get any ending at all even if it wasn't perfect. I didn't play the Half-Life series but I tend to agree with those people. A story not having an ending taints the entire affair such that I would rather have never started it at all. A mediocre, or even bad, ending is far better than nothing.
With all due respect. I used to think that only Boomers and anonymous Youtube edge lords repeated the "if you have nothing to worry about, comply!" nonsense.

You surprised me today.
This is exactly an issue I ran into, though I never bothered to look for a solution. Found your post just by casually browsing HN and it solved my problem! Great work, and nice design too. Reminds me of GH’s design.

What are your plans with this project?
You can probably get denser packing (at least in theory), if you allow rotation. It's just ugly:

https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
It's always nice to meet a fellow neverChrome.
Mainly because your here and replying, I looked at self hosting the PDS and bounced off because there wasn't really any documentation on day 2 ops. How do I do backups/disaster recovery? What data is stored here and what happens if it's lost? What kind of traffic should I expect to see? What are the risks around updates?

I can probably figure this stuff out by learning the protocol, but I wish the documentation around hosting was deeper than "run this script to install it, run this other one to update"
2) consumers cannot use products like Safari as their exclusive web browser. The web has decided that Chrome is the only browser worth supporting and the world needs to keep Chrome at-the-ready for when the alternative browser eventually breaks.

For example, Chrome has replaced IE as the corporate browser, due to the integrations with Workspace accounts and Authentication mechanisms. In order to use the fingerID on my/employer's macbook pro, I have to give my employer root/sync access to Google Chrome.
This feels like a feel good headline for DoJ that doesn't materially impact the Search/Ads ecosystem nor improve things for the end consumer.

Chromium exists - literally as a baseline for several other corporations to build a browser.

If you wanted to do something meaningful - you must separate search and ads, everything else is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The headline seems misleading, then.

rclone can work with AWS' different offerings, some of which at least partially address this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-express-one-z...
This would be outrageously bad for the web.

Right now a healthy web ecosystem is Google's existential hedge, against all the closed platforms of the world coming to devour the web and Google's business.

Getting rid of Google as a patron for the web would be one of the most harmful damaging & awful things the DOJ could do this world. Strongly opposed, what a godforsaken heinous crime against humanity to consider leaving no one funding the web at scale.
Or the triumphant return of Yahoo!? (hypothetical, not interrobang)
As much as I find Chrome’s ownership and market share problematic, that doesn’t seem fair.

What exactly do things like WebUSB and Web Bluetooth contribute to Google’s ad business?

(Except if you mean that any new and initially exclusive feature bolsters Chrome’s dominance further, in which case I’d somewhat agree.)
Sorry, no mistake on your part. I bought the Ram new in 2021. I live in the Tulsa, OK area, where prices are a little more reachable because of so many different dealerships.
Death to angle brackets! Curious what the history of < and > characters are… pretty sure it wasn’t for brackets.
The fragmentation inherent in Android ALONE makes it an insecure device for the vast majority of its normie users. You need a damn near decoder ring just to figure out where you stand.
This. I mean, Skyrim wasn't perfect. But another 2 or 3 games with those mechanics but interesting new content would have done quite well.

Bethesda's weakness has always been writing and content, though. Lots of it, but the main plots are consistently terrible.
1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap - ZAP!

2.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoal_Bay_Receiving_Station - Brrzzt!

3.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Defence_Satellite_C... - Sparkle!
I feel the same. Even the narrator's voice sounded robotic to me.

> results still look Unreal.

Maybe its the NAME :)
CNBC Live: Pentagon's UFO Report Finds 21 Cases That Can't Be Explained [video]
Your web browser may have also spent some time packing rectangles into rectangles. I recall reading this article a while back about how Firefox does/did it.

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/improving-textur...
Ehhh, only sort of. “Episodic Content” mostly turned into “DLC” and “Seasons” rather than disappearing entirely.
Safari is the #2 browser behind Chrome. It's about 55% to 30%, so while Chrome has a larger market share, it's not an order of magnitude larger.

Really the main difference is that Apple has a captive audience on iOS and no incentives to improve so they don't do anything with it.
Wow, is that because of tariffs or shipping costs from the US?
Creativity has always been the true currency of success. It's possible to work tirelessly, be very efficient, and produce a large volume of work. However, if your efforts go unrecognized, you risk becoming just another cog in the machine. In contrast, those who are creative—who can generate new ideas, gather various concepts, and synthesize them into something innovative and valuable—are more likely to stand out and become stars. This trend has been and will continue in the future.