skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen both types of organizations:

1. The bug tracker is there to document and prioritize the list of bugs that we know about, whether or not they will ever be fixed. In this world, if it's a real issue, it's tracked and kept while it exists in the software, even though it might be trivial, difficult, or just not worth fixing. There's no such thing as closing the bug as "Won't Fix" or "Too Old". Further, there's no expectation that any particular bug is being worked on or will ever be fixed. Teams might run through the bug list periodically to close issues that no longer reproduce.

2. The bug tracker tracks engineering load: the working set of bugs that are worthy of being fixed and have a chance to be fixed. Just because the issue is real, doesn't mean it's going to be fixed. So file the bug, but it may be closed if it is not going to be worked on. It also may be closed if it gets old and it's obvious it will never get worked on. In this model, every bug in the tracker is expected to be resolved at some point. Teams will run through the bug list periodically to close issues that we've lived with for a long time and just won't be fixed ever.

I think both are valid, but as a software organization, you need to agree on which model you're using.
Spin off, maybe. Make it something more akin to The Linux Foundation where a consortium of vested interests donate time and resources. This should also include public funds as part of civic infrastructure and national defense funding. BTW, Mozilla really should be in such a bin too.
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I'm very confused. Chrome is just Chromium with Google's own Telemetry. Chromium is open and maintained primarily by Google.

Sure, there's a userbase, but you need a business model to take advantage of it in the first place because the benefit was the Telemetry (Google's) and Google's Ecosystem.

Also, the article specifically mentions Chrome, NOT Chromium (which again, is open), so what incentive would Google have to maintaining the project without their own version of it? Would they be bared from starting a new one? Would someone else take over Chromium? Who would have the resources to do such a thing other than say Microsoft who currently uses a Chromium browser?

Why not just go for the jugular and separate Adsense from the rest of Alphabet? It's the main driving force in all their dark patterns for all other platforms (Youtube, Android, Chrome, Search...)
Libraries in the project fixes this whole issue for C/C++. As for compiler issues, just run it with the same compiler. It really shouldn't take more than 20 mins of setup.
The monopoly the DoJ is trying to break up isn't Chrome, it's Search. From TFA:

> Antitrust enforcers want the judge to order Google to sell off Chrome — the most widely used browser worldwide — because it represents a key access point through which many people use its search engine, said the people.
Do they have any intention to hire for those roles or is it literally just for measuring market signal?
The userbase and trademark are both very valuable. I'm guessing it would also come with some controlling positions in the chromium open source project, since those are mostly held by google by being the biggest developer and user of the project.
Fair.

My frustration arises from people who say that the US turned Guatemala or wherever into a banana republic, and therefore the West has zero moral worth and capitalism must be overthrown.
Very interesting. Thank you getting into the details.
Do you chunk the text that goes into the BM25 index?
For the hypothetical answer, do you also prompt for "chunk size" responses?
> Can this example be widened to use server side code?

Author: Nothing stopping you from forcing a Jupyter notebook to self-host itself: https://hello-notebook-http-mode.fly.dev/ . Then you can just use HTTP to send messages back and forth between the browser and the notebook.
Firefox still lacks webgpu support.
> Buying the browser should come with most of the engineers that actively work on it

The 13th Amendment to the US constitution makes the sale of people illegal.

Seriously though - how would this ever work? Google cannot negociate on behalf of their employees or promise they will work somewhere if Google stops employing them.
Not who you are replying to, but before I switched to Vivaldi (a Chromium fork), I saw lots.

Among them: Logging into some of my financial accounts doesn't work on Firefox. Enterprise software and gear like VMware and management UIs of various devices on the network. (They foolishly hard-coded their devices to reject any UserAgent strings that weren't Chrome, IE, or Edge.) Sites that use some kind of poorly-implemented tracking/fingerprinting to make sure you're a human. (I would routinely get stuck in infinite CAPCHA loops even on normal sites.) For a while, Slack video/audio calls did not work on Firefox because Slack chose to use codecs that FF didn't support. Video calls on FF are still hit-and-miss on various platforms, ran into it on Facebook just the other day.

These are all just off the top of my head, of course. There are plenty more that I've forgotten.
Believe it or not, it’s possible to have meaningful differences about the way to design a system while maintaining the same motives. It’s clear that you’re happy with the ActivityPub design. I’m not. And your argument right now is akin to saying the Web isn’t decentralized because it uses search engines.
What things are only available as PWAs that are worth it? Like I know they exist, but I've never installed or used one.
Of course that says that our eyes (& more generally our sensory organs) are bandlimited which is what lossy signal compression algorithms exploit (similar to how MP3 throws away acoustic signals we can't hear or how even "lossless" is still only recorded at 44 kHz). And indeed any sensor has this problem and it's a physical limitation (e.g. there's only so much resolving power an optical sensor of a certain size can have for an object of a certain distance away which is why we can't see microscopic things and this is a limit from the physics of optics)

It says nothing about the underlying signal in nature. But of course we're building LLMs to interact with humans rather than to learn about signals in the true natural world that we might miss.
Is this really going to happen in the next 62 days?
Chrome is definitely a better experience than Safari, and not by a little bit. In many ways Safari is the worst browser out there right now. Most of its market share comes from the fact that Apple still forces Safari to be used on iOS no matter what browser you think you have installed. I think the DOJ should go after Apple harder on that than they are on Google, because nobody is forcing anyone to use Chrome the same way Apple is forcing their users to use Safari.
It has already been acknowledged that the rates are "lopsided", i.e. that Russian loss rates are higher than Ukrainian loss rates.

But none of what you're saying means that Ukraine isn't also suffering from a very high loss rate.
Blink is a fork of WebKit, itself a fork of KHTML and KJS.

2024 - 1998 = 26
it was an example of them pushing proprietary extensions and eventually removing them again. If I start beating you and then eventually someone calms down and I stop, it's not an example of me not beating you
> It should be pretty fun when WW3 starts ...

Which may happen as some people just got Biden to authorize (honestly I don't think he can do that by himself), without congress approval, the use of long range missiles by Ukraine.

Some people are really hard at work trying to start WWIII.

I don't think it's the russian who severed those cables.

Russia knows that if WWIII doesn't start until a few more weeks, Trump is probably going to stop the US aiding Ukraine and stop the US giving its approval for total nonsense (like allowing these long range missiles weeks before handing over the presidency).

So why would Russia severe those cable?

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.
I'm reading this on a non Chrome browser and I can search for it on a non Google search engine. I don't understand where the monopoly is.
Disappointed to see this is an exact rip of our open source tool zerox [1]. With no attribution. They also took the MIT License and changed it out for an AGPL.

If you inspect the source code, it's a verbatim copy. They literally just renamed the ZeroxOutput to DocumindOutput [2][3]

[1] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox

[2] https://github.com/DocumindHQ/documind/blob/main/core/src/ty...

[3] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/blob/main/node-zerox/src...
This is surely the only real possibility, and puts Edge's shift to Chromium in a new light; could MS have predicted/lobbied for this push?
A cluster is not a super computer.

The whole point of a super computer is that it act as much as a single machine as it is possible while a cluster is a soup of nearly independent machines.
It´s because Taylor Swift´s lates album uses a lot of ´delve´.
Cops were too busy swatting.
Not every desktop app these days is an electron monstrosity. Especially not if it's a commercial app.
Video-games fundamentally don't work like that. Stories are told through gameplay, which is an interactive medium expressed through engine, assets and direction. The best video-game storytellers are the tech guys. Most of the franchises you've listed have fairly rudimentary writing by the standards of any other medium, but it's elevated because it is so fun to play. Even something as story-centric as Baldur's Gate, Disco Elysium or Pathologic rests on a ton of technical innovation.
No the article is about Chrome, not Chromium
Our only local fiber ISP (Quantum Fiber, recently acquired by CenturyLink) just rolled new WiFi 7 routers to their entire subscriber base. However, I've noticed that these routers often just shut down when too many devices are connected to them, even though we have an extender. The router will get confused, and reboot, and then you'd have a few minutes of downtime while your computer tries to figure out what's going on

Tech on the phone says this is just how routers are supposed to work. He did clear my DHCP reservation table for me though, even though I was having problems with the APs and the DHCP / routing is handled by a separate box (afaik) and it was kind of a pain tracking down the 4-5 hardcoded IP addresses I had scattered around. He also says the new APs have no logging and no way for techs to access them. For a brand new system deployed in 2024! The router / fiber NID has extensive remote access and monitoring capabilities (although their mobile app has ~2-3 minute latencies for every page load). But no access to the APs! It boggles the mind. Just feels like box ticking all the way down.
I've said this before and it might be a minority opinion, but frankly I really couldn't care less if Valve made another half life game. There are tons of companies churning out fantastic games from both the AAA and indie space, that there's really no lack of games to choose from.

Meanwhile, between their contributions to linux, proton, the steam deck, the index (just waiting on a new revision... any day now valve...) they are doing work that no-one else wants to, or can afford to, achieve. I'm glad they're focusing their efforts on these niche places with their infinite money printer, rather than being just another video games company.
Is Chrome being run so bad that we need even more committees, councils and bureaucrats to implement every single feature ?

Microsoft is already using the Chromium and changing the default search engine to Bing and shipping it as Edge. What else is needed?

This DOJ looks like they just want to pad their resumes with some grandiose case which might be bad for everyone else.
That's one example. Here are a few others...

Bezos wasn't in retail. He also wasn't in compute hardware.

Reed Hastings wasn't in entertainment and crushed it. Jeff Katzenberg was, and Quibi was a disaster.

Ken Griffin was a punk kid in harvard, never worked in finance. Jim Simmons was a math professor, didn't work in finance.

AirBnb guys weren't in real estate or tourism or whatever bucket you want that to be.

Larry & Sergey knew zero about advertising. Zuckerberg too.

The incumbents have been destroyed with some frequency by outsiders who take a different approach. It's almost impossible to tell in advance if understanding a domain is an asset or a liability.
Unity is more popular amongst hobbyist / aspirational game developers, it's not at all popular in AAA.
Unpopular opinion but I really liked Microsoft Academic instead until they canned it, sadly.
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> I'm missing the logical progression from, "AI can speak like a human" to "Humans prefer interacting with AIs over interacting with humans"

Just a few days ago I saw a gamer express a preference to talking to NPCs over talking to other players in MMO-type games. Given much gamer behavior, that's not unreasonable.

Here are some of the best NPCs available today.[1] This is a tech demo for Unreal Engine. A Youtuber is trying to convince the NPCs that they are not real and are characters in a simulated world. After a while, they start to believe him, and then they argue that their existence is as valid as his. "Existence is overrated, man. I'm just happy being here making jokes and confusing people."

"I think, therefore I am", bites back.

[1] https://youtu.be/aihq6jhdW-Q?t=681
The cynical take is that they've given up on singleplayer games as a whole because their multiplayer titles are far more lucrative. In the 13.5 years since Portal 2 they've only released one full SP title, HL:Alyx, and that was arguably motivated by their VR initiatives need for a flagship showcase more than the desire to make a new SP game. It just had to be an SP game because VR was too niche to sustain an MP population.

Everything else they've made in that time has been live-service forever-games which have relatively minimal development costs but generate hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, largely through predatory gambling mechanics. Putting a fresh coat of paint on Counter Strike made them upwards of a billion dollars in the first few months alone, and it'll keep printing money for much longer than Half Life 3 ever could:

https://esports.gg/news/counter-strike-2/valve-cs2-money-202...

The sad thing is that being a private company they don't need to pursue Scrooge McDuck billions at any cost like a publicly held company would, they have the freedom to make whatever they want, but apparently what they want to do above all else now is to peddle lootboxes.
I'm worried about what happens to the Chrome extension store. If Google sells Chrome, then does that also mean the Chrome store? I guess it would have to. So not only does someone need to buy Chrome, they also have to operate the Chrome store too. I'm not sure this is going to work out well.
Are they going to request this only for Trump to unrequest this?
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Peak is not usually midday; peak is in in the evening when people get home from work. So in places like California and Hawaii, you get the opposite problem where the solar drops off right before peak demand and you have to ramp up other generators to make up for it. It's called the duck curve problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

The United States electric grid data is freely available and pretty neat: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr... Choose a grid or a state to get regional time and you can see that region's peak will usually be 4-7pm. You can even see that weekend peaks are a bit lower, and that there's a second peak at ~10am when people get to work.
Maybe also adding smoothstep and clamp as traditional shader building blocks functions.

You can still define them in inline with not too many characters though so maybe it's ok.

https://garten.salat.dev/fake-shaders3.html#Zy5kaW09NjQ7bGV0...
Not posting this as a definitive gotcha, but this article includes some detail on how the situation was "complex" at best

> In early 1994, after the Trilateral Agreement, "General Vitaly Radetskyi, Ukraine’s new Minister of Defence, summoned Mikhtyuk and two of his senior generals to Kyiv.[10] Without warning, General Radetskyi told them they had 15 minutes to decide whether to take Ukraine’s oath of allegiance. General Mikhtyuk and one general took the oath, while the other refused. Then, the minister ordered [Mikhtyuk] to return to his headquarters in Vinnytsia immediately, and convene all of his subordinate commanders. ..He did so explaining his personal decision to remain in Ukraine, and asking each officer to take or reject the oath. “All of my deputies,” Mikhtyuk recalled, “except one, said they would not take the oath and asked me to transfer them to the Russian Federation."
I have no idea how this would work either, but I feel like the election makes this more likely to happen, not less, after the amount of rhetoric that Google needs taking down a peg.
na... Oracle.
I don't think there is any PoW that results in acceptable performance for the user (especially on mobile) while also making the cost for an attacker high enough to deter them.

Even renting the compute on AWS, it only costs $0.01 per minute for the equivalent of a decent desktop computer (c8g.4xlarge). While an attacker will likely either use a botnet, or hardware better suited for solving the PoW than the hardware the user is using.

Though CAPTCHAs don't really work well anymore either, since solving services are quite cheap. Recaptcha is nowadays primarily based on other factors, like IP reputation, susceptibility to google tracking, and behavioral scoring.
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I agree that the DOJ should enforce browser choice in iOS much like the EU has but in this scenario it feels besides the point. No matter how better or worse anyone might think Safari is it’s my right to choose which browser I access a site with, and I’d rather not be harassed to change.
Steam made $1 billion in revenue in 2010. It may not have been the dominant distribution medium, but it was definitely a moneymaker by the end of the '00s.
Forcing Google to sell their ad business would be the death of that company. After all, it's mostly an ad company...
Nah, it was faster, lighter and better.

I say this as someone who has been back on Firefox for years at this point.
Posting a nonsense job to accrue CVs and a call-list of details is a common tactic used by the people tasked with building the internal candidate database.
Chrome isn't being run bad because of committee, it's being run bad because it's used by Google as part of their web advertising empire.
Re: Application Environment Variables
Yes. On one hand I’d like Google to improve things a bit. There are some rough edges, which is a shame because it indexes some things that are not in Scopus or Web of Knowledge, like theses and preprint repositories. On the other hand I worry that some manager somewhere would kill it if they realised that it is still around.
And what do I, the new owner of this user base, do with it?
In the context of Google's ad business the fact that chrome is open source has little bearing. Chrome is both massively popular and also a loss leader designed to further entrench Google's ad monopoly. If Chrome were broken off then a competitor in the ads space like Meta could purchase the search traffic instead which would force Google's ad business to be more competitive.
If they're "burning" money how is that a loss for the economy? They're spending the money on something; effectively stimulating the economy.
Chrome is not run badly at all. But in its current state it gives Google the ability to singlehandedly dictate webstandards. Thats an issue.
Logged-in Chrome users are tied to Google logins. The mind boggles at the complexity of trying to somehow separate Chrome identities from Google identities, much less explain that to the general populace for whom "Google", "Chrome" and "browse the Internet" are largely interchangeable.
What do you make of OpenAlex, which inherited the dataset?
I think the real issue is Google is able to use Chrome to push web standards in any direction they want.
Bookmarks, passwords, payment information, recent tabs, extensions... all synced with your Google account in Chrome. Firefox can't sync to your Google account. All that information is synced across the entire Google account system, to your Android phone, other Chrome browser instances and so on. Yes I know you could export your data from Google and pull it into Firefox's sync system, but that's a hurdle.
The very first line of the article states that this is a retrospective of the August '23 incident, hence the downvotes.