skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some companies / services are just not viable as a standalone company, but still provide immense value to customers.

What will end up happening is not that Amazon will have to compete with others on video game streaming for example, what will happen is that video game streaming will disappear because not viable.

Browsers won't suddenly flourish when Google cannot finance browsers anymore, they'll just turn to shit.

People won't spend $50 a month to subscribe to what Google currently provides for free, they will just lose access.

In the end the users will just flock to the Chinese equivalents which will be happy to steal all of the western data for the low cost of providing file hosting.
This was to be expected, however I am curious if Vivaldi, Brave and others will make their own webstore which will have plugins like ublock origin, and how long till Mozilla follows suit.
For me it was Carmageddon. I bought it later on an ipad and it may have just been rose tinted glasses of being completely blown away back in the day but the ipad version never seems quite as crisp...
Product Response Cycle
I believe it's extremely crucial to understand response cycle of each product i.e. when does the product start showing it's advantages. A simplistic view would be that shorter the response cycle, the better. A more complete view would be that understanding the response cycle allows you to decide your go-to-market.
Seen this argument a lot recently, it's a really interesting take that I wouldn't have really considered before.

The common argument for breaking up monopolies is to provide more competition in the key area, since monopolies tend to focus efforts on things that don't benefit the consumer (like buying out smaller companies to stop them existing).

From that view, monopolies don't really benefit the US, if anything it stops the US market functioning competitively, and eventually running themselves into the ground.

I guess the other view is that "somebody is going to have a monopoly so why shouldn't it be my country?", but I'd say that ignores the fact that you can just curb other non-competitive behaviour fron foreign countries, like the EU has been trying to do with Apple and Google.
I think people should be able to do whatever they want on their own machine. If the setting is there, then let me use it for whatever extension I see fit. Sure, make it harder to do so, but don't treat users like children. I can't even screenshot banking apps on my own damn Android phone now.
The US has zero goodwill after almost a hundred years of ridiculous amounts of assistance. We're not getting any less goodwill by stopping. The people who consume anti-American propaganda will continue to do so. Cool story though.
> replaced by new management.

New management is aligned with breaking up big tech.

Founders Fund (Thiel), A16Z (Andressen [0], Horowitz), and YC (Gary Tan) have all been lobbying for some form of big tech breakup because it sucks up capital+oxygen needed for startups they funded to exit at respectable valuations.

Also, Andressen's Netscape was screwed over by Microsoft, so he has a grudge against large players.

[0] - https://www.businessinsider.com/andreessen-more-tech-compani...
Same with uMatrix: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjalg...
What annoys me is that the AF-P could probably be supported on a lot more cameras, they did add it to the D3300 with a firmware update. They just didn't do it for more cameras...
NOTAMS are a bunch of garbage that no one pays any attention to. That’s not my opinion, that’s the opinion of former NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt. I’m sure the GPS NOTAM was buried somewhere in the 27 page NOTAM list and it probably said something like this actual current GPS NOTAM: !GPS 03/022 GPS NAV PRN 08 U/S 2503061847-2506050001

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...
There usually are other systems (e.g. ILS), but not always.

This post has several comments along the lines of "We used to fly without GPS and it was fine!" The fact is that aviation is so much safer than it used to be, and GPS is part of that. GPS helps aircraft navigate accurately even when they're not near an airport. It helps give situational awareness and avoid mid-air collisions (almost every aircraft these days has a traffic display that shows ADS-B positions of other nearby aircraft, and those positions come from accurate GPS).

Loss or spoofing of GPS isn't usually a critical safety issue on an aircraft, but it definitely removes layers of safety and adds additional risk. Pilots can lose that situational awareness of nearby traffic. They may have increased workload and distraction due to having to use a less familiar & less accurate means of navigation, trying to figure out why their systems aren't working correctly, and even getting bogus ground proximity warning system alerts. ATC may now have increased workload and distraction because some approaches or even runways are no longer usable.

We drove cars for a long time without seat belts and air bags, too.
> streaming movies and music were already there as a technology, ask anybody with a Megaupload or Sopcast account.

You can't have a revolution without users. It's the ability to reach a large audience, through superior UX, superior business model, superior marketing, etc. which creates the possibility for revolutionary impact.

Which is why Megaupload and Sopcast didn't revolutionize anything.
You've voiced my sentiment exactly. I really wish Firefox was more at the forefront of innovation and development, and there's a lot to criticise Mozilla for, but I wouldn't change it back for Chromium for anything.

I have a completely custom minimal layout with address bar and tabs at the bottom, all the extensions I need, and I don't notice the performance or compatibility differences almost ever, with few rare exceptions. I feel it much more as "mine", and it's a joy to use.
I visited some similar telescope in Australia at https://www.sidingspringobservatory.com.au/ run by Macquarie University ... the students explained the lens system could not be too new and could not be too old. Basically it sounded like someone had partly reverse engineered one generation of the lens interface only.

I guess the camera and lens manufacturer wants their lenses to be used with their cameras and to have better results than other manufacturers, whereas random companies want to clone the interface and sell cheaper lenses that also work with the cameras. Realising how awesome the lenses are, the students want an array of them, however they don't have the budget to buy a similar array of top end manufacturers' cameras.

In Sydney they have interesting viewing nights at https://www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-science-and-engineering/dep...
The two examples I gave are where locking a device down to extract value from customers conflict with privacy for those same customers. The former won years ago, and there has been no change since.

The iPhone had to add an app store because there were some apps that users couldn't build on the web at the time. They since allowed apps, but those apps are restricted to a proper subset of the APIs that first party apps get.
Had fun making this visualization of how security works - look right? https://eraser.io/git-diagrammer?diagramId=Gyr7VvuFOGNGsnznQ...
The ESA and Arianespace provide hundreds of European companies with business, most of those subsidies go directly back to the knowledge economy that in turn generate tax income. It's a win-win really, and I'd rather have that than a private company that is dependent on a whim of one man. Not for something so crucial.
Luckily, Firefox has several forks that strip that telemetry.
Last year, my coworker and I kicked off a side project that required property data for a machine learning program. We quickly realized that buying a comprehensive, high quality dataset for the whole USA could cost nearly six figures annually.

Since we’re both software engineers with a foot in real estate, and because property data is public, we decided to compile it ourselves from over 3,000 counties across the country. Our aim has always been to make this data freely available so that smaller companies aren’t priced out of the market.

Leveraging OpenAI’s API allowed us to automate the data collection process—a task that would have needed a much larger team not too long ago. We launched our API at the end of last year. We offer a free tier that returns up to 500 parcels per call.

For those needing higher volumes, we offer paid tiers, as maintaining and indexing over 170 million property records with 100+ attributes does incur significant costs. However, if you're a small company looking for bulk data, just send an us a support email. We already do bulk S3 transfers and provide hefty discounts to help you launch without overspending.

We’re excited to get your feedback!
You get out what you put in. Of course if you provide one sentence of context(and some implicit context from the environment) you aren't going to get magical result.
You were clear. Mailtemi is just talking past the point of your comment, rather than engage with it.
Mozilla’s guidance on this (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tips-assessing-safety-e...) is that only some extensions are manually reviewed and you shouldn’t trust this as a guarantee of safety if you don’t trust the developer who owns the extension.
It's the new self-driving, but for programmers.
Presumably individual aggression versus fertility is an inverted U shaped curve in which fertility rises with aggression to an inflection point and then declines. That point is probably higher than we would like for the achievement of other social goals.

It may be that at the level of civilizations the aggression versus fertility curve is different than for individuals: Memes may propagate more efficiently with more or less aggression than genes do. But social media is showing that brutality is more positively correlated with virality than we'd hope for.

If cultural values about aggression reduce fertility to below replacement they become culturally suicidal. For both aggression and pacifism the dose is the poison. Calibrating the dose is an eternal political and biological battle.
You described a sibling with a female reproductive system, who has been pregnant. This means that your sibling must be a woman.

That you refer to her as your brother rather than your sister implies that she calls herself a man, and that because she calls herself a man you have chosen to do the same.

You are of course free to immerse yourself in the fiction that she is a man, and make self-contradictory statements like "my brother is a man who has been pregnant." But it would be odd to expect others to agree with this, seeing as it is not based in reality.
The kingdom of saudia arabia.
Instead of smashing up successful businesses, you should tax them, and use the tax revenue to improve deficiencies in the market.

If the government thinks there should be more browsers, (or mobile os's) they should tax the existing ones and pay folks to improve the open source alternatives.

You _should_ outlaw behavior that creates monopolies, like predatory pricing etc
Do you have thoughts about Kagi/Orion browser? I've been using it for a bit now and I've been pleased with the ad blocking capabilities and the ability to have ublock origin on my iPhone and iPad. The browser definitely has scales but it's usable for me at this point.
Google aggressively makes it hard for Chromium derivatives to not conform to Google's engineering choices.

They could try and keep manifestv2 support for a while, but they will have an increasingly large and hard to support patch se to make manifestv2 work still.
> That doesn’t help American workers

Depends on your definition of 'help,' no kid in school thinks "Gosh I hope I can become a factory laborer when I grow up."

Let's be realistic, it doesn't help US geopolitical strategy and doesn't maintain US hegemony. The US doesn't need or want factory workers, it wants citizens who are self-actualized. It might need some factory workers to realize that aim, but human drudgery powering factory production isn't an end in itself.

Ideally the US leapfrogs all this and gets to fully automated production before anyone else. People want purpose in life, and being a factory drone is a pretty lousy purpose.
Time to reply to https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/91160/vivaldi-s-own-extensio... or something.
This was my thought too. The idea of wrangling AIs to make something is only lame or tragic if you dont like the thing youre making. For people who have ideas that they actually care about and just want to see exist, wrangling ai's sounds great, as long as their output is good
Brave has its own Rust based Adblocker BUILD IN. That is at the very core of the Browser, uses the exact same filter lists uBlock Origin and all the other use. There is no point in using uBlock origin in Brave at all. I have been using Brave for years now and the adblocker pretty much like uBlock. Never looked back. I think it even inspired by uBlock but the fact they can even integrate it tighter with Chromium makes more then than an extension written in JS.
Personally, I’m increasingly looking into native app development; maybe starting with iOS.

It’s good to have a diversified portfolio of skills, and if Chrome should be sold and not sustainable, there is the possibility that the rollout of new features to the web will feel like an Internet Explorer era malaise. The web may very well become a mostly frozen platform; warts and all.

I’m also not interested in following the inevitable JavaScript framework attempts to overcome this. At least this time, we have Web Components, WASM, and Canvas, making polyfilling almost anything theoretically possible.
I saw significant difference using the Lite version, enough that I switched to Firefox with Origin instead. I expected it to be good enough and was surprised to see the difference.
When I started my career 20 years ago, I thought "they" would figure out how to get a computer to do my job pretty soon. Coders are expensive after all. And I figured I'd just go walk into the woods or something after that; I had no plan for what to do. This is the only thing I'm good at and can make money doing.

Well, it's been 20 years and it hasn't happened yet. Perhaps this will be the year! But not yet.
I'm surprised anyone expected anything different. Why would an ad company support something that assaults its main source of profit?
Honestly I don't care if Google gets broken up, so long as Apple is first.

People complain about whataboutism, but the Apple versus almost any other 'monopoly' is insane. You can switch browsers within the next 30s, you can't install an app from a third party vendor ever on iOS. [1]

[1] Yes I know you can pay $100 a year, and then compile your own/open source apps weekly and move them to your device. No this is not a reasonable solution.
Real interest rates in Japan were zero or negative for pretty much all of that same 35-year period, so bonds wouldn't have helped you either. And "you were up if you bought international equities" kind of proves my point: if Japan is the harbinger for the rest of the world, there will be no more "always up" markets to flee to.
If my memory serves, both SQL and HTML are indirect fallouts from an AI summer, too.
It's not a global browser policy setting, it's something the serving website enables on a per-page basis. HN serves a (somewhat lax) CSP header itself.
this is a huge issue for me as well. It just kind of obfuscates errors and masks the original intent, rather than diagnosing and fixing the issue. 3.5 seemed to be more clear about what it's doing and when things broke at least it didn't seem to be trying to hide anything.
It has been noted in some circles that by the time you get to the end of that list, you've arguably included damn near everything.
With how quickly the tariffs are added and removed, if I were an entrepreneur I’d find it difficult to lean in on a risky investment that may be undermined or undercut by the eventual and sudden removal of tariffs. I’m curious how this plays out in reality.
> Milk's $11/gallon at my grocery

You should shop somewhere else, unless you're in Hawaii or something. That's not a normal price for most of the country.
The NASA RIF has begun
US giving up its place after 80 years so the gerontocracy can still feel relevant and in charge is a black swan event. We’ll correct to 30% of current value and trade sideways for 20 years.

Regular people talking about making money while giving up the world order? Rofl. You’re not in the club! Carlin already told you that.
She writes like she has 5 years of experience.
> though IIRC you had to patch BeOS for SMP support

The board might have require a driver or patch, but SMP was BeOS's entire reason for being! The drawing of each window on the screen ran in a separate thread. It was their main selling point.
youtube clickbait ass title. "quit my FAANG job because of ai" no you didnt dog
Indeed. I'd like to. Except Google also make it nigh impossible for anyone hosting their own email (the original-internet ideal) to get email into gmail reliably enough to be useful. I have my own address on my own domain, but can't rely on it (yes, DKIM and DMARC and SPF are properly set up) not to be marked "spam" for opaque reasons, so gmail remains my "main" address. It's a network-effect problem: once enough people are "captured", then everyone else is forced to join - or else be unable to participate.

It's a collective action problem: you'll have to persuade millions and millions of "normies", who have no idea what's going on, or what internet privacy is, or what's broken about the system, and who don't care to learn, and won't listen to us - or you'll have to impose regulation. Those are the choices. The second seems more possible than the first. Us nerds saying "walk away" is idealistic; we will, and always will, get squished, because the corps have the power and most folks won't (ever) care.
This is a distinction unworthy of merit. The slave labor creates the profit. The only reason it exists is because of the profit.
Boeing is as good as bankrupt now?
For some reason I read "edible games" and was super duper curious...
No; Webb was contracted to Ariane 5 when that was still a new rocket (a still unproven and problematic one), because there was a diplomatic cost-sharing compromise that ESA contribute and pay for Webb's launch vehicle.

Ariane 5 has a track record of reliability, but the decision to put Webb on top of it was made long before it developed that track record. It wasn't a consequence of it.
Here's the rub tho, you can still end up getting sued if for example you acted with gross negligence. An example I'd use here is you move somebody from a car wreck and injure them even further rather than waiting a few minutes for emergency response.

This is entirely going to depend on the victim and their lawyer, but they can absolutely make your life a living pain especially if they find out you have money and might just settle to make it go away.
We have to put some of this on Firefox for failing to remain competitive in the engineering arena.

If it's too expensive to develop a viable alternative to chromium, just say that.

The Firefox that has been trundling along for years is really just an excuse to keep the chromium monopoly afloat.
The test was "can I get it to generate this while spending less effort than it would take me to just write it" and it failed miserably. And this was a super low effort, small boilerplate problem to solve. This is the sort of problem it has to solve to be remotely useful

If it cannot do that, then why is anyone saying it is a productivity booster?
I think it's unfair to call Ladybird vaporware this early. There's nothing suspicious about their development schedule for the scope of the thing they're trying to build.

I agree I don't think it should be in the alternative browser discussion until they do produce something, however.
It seems to me you could create non revocable trust that gets most of this done, with specific instructions to the trustees. That trust would own 100% of the company, and could issue voting and economic rights akin to shares, with the proviso that the trustee cannot implement a sale.

That said, creditors could still force the sub into bankruptcy in most countries; even then I think the trustee could be instructed to always choose a restructuring rather than a windup if possible. You'd probably put that trust somewhere with UK Trust law.
If Mozilla can make up a significant portion of funding by selling default search engine placement, I'm sure an independent Chrome could get 10x that (based on userbase/usage) and be reasonably self-sufficient for continued browser development.
Laughing because I came here and this is the top comment. My coworker asked if I heard about it over the weekend, so I came to HN to search. "How do you spell it, m-a-n-t-i-s?" "No, like anus with an M in front."
The Linux Foundation basically exists to pay Linus. Now add the billions companies like Red Hat pay their employees to work on Linux dev.
Me too!

I get it that coding is like playing boardgames and that might be fun.

But solving real problems (with the help of AI or whatever other tool is most appropriate, maybe and IDE or a degugger) is where I want to be!
The problem with Google, Meta, Amazon, et. al. is that they have a steady stream of income from their main business, and use it to enter new markets with loss leader schemes obviously designed to destroy their pre-existing competition...

I'm not from the US, but it seems to me like the companies you mention stay in their respective market and don't try to destroy competition in other markets, like Walmart is a supermarket chain, UnitedHealth is just health insurance, Exxon just deals with gas, JPMorgan Chase is just a bank, etc...,

meanwhile Google operated YouTube, Chrome, Gmail and other services at significant losses for years up until the point where they basically have monopoly in those areas because the competition couldn't keep up with Google's free products, and now when the competition is destroyed, they are destroying these free services with increased pricing or ads, neither of which were there while they still had competition in those spheres...
I feel like if you are arguing the same side, it's really hard for to tell since you also talk about how cyclists are trolling you by choosing to impede traffic instead of just getting a car. But otherwise yeah, scooter clearly has risks.
Thank you! I haven't updated that page in a long time, and there are a few things I should add. Some possibilities:

* Does this map show spoofing? No.

* How come sometimes I see aircraft flying over Ukraine? That's GPS spoofing.

* [Add Myanmar & Kashmir to the list of conflict zones.]
On paper they are also a constitutional republic. the democracy is limited by fraud and state control of media?

The difference is, in the US, we at least pretend there's a chance for either party to get elected. And sometimes, we wistfully think that a third party candidate can moonshot, but that's not the way our system works. I have at least one friends that are political scientists, and their theses had to do with different forms of voting and the pros/cons of that, and how we could herald different systems into the united states.

so to directly answer your question: "no"
If you’re replaced by robots, build robots.
Because they have more money?
In my testing, UBO Lite is not working as well on YouTube. It blocks the ad, but you still have to skip it. Original UBO didn't require this.
Safari content blockers are not enabled in embedded Web Views.
Alright? Split iOS off from Apple, then split Apple Music off too?

I hate these arguments where people point to some other shitty thing a company is doing as some sort of gotcha.
For me the most important thing is the rights of the end user. So I consider the AGPL the best of all licenses I am aware of. And hey, if Google bans AGPL software then it must be doing something right.