skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with "ships from and sold by" is that it doesn't address one of Amazon's other big problems, counterfeit items commingled in their inventory. Have a shipping container full of good quality counterfeit XYZ? Ship it to Amazon to sell, it'll get mixed in with the same UPC from everyone else including Amazon itself and the counterfeits will never be traced back to you.
Compelling article, but marred by the click-baity title. It would be more respectful of the bereaved to reserve "Epic Fail" for things less tragic than the loss of a child. "Tragic Failure" might be more appropriate.
Depends how hilly the terrain is.
Which, if any readers not from the US are wondering makes a very big difference because of the events of those 10yr.
I expect advertisements from a website.

I do not expect advertisements from my web browser - and I don't think that's an unreasonable line to draw.
its not polling for running the company, its a disaster check. If most of your employees hate the idea, it should be a sign of something wrong because I would expect Mozillians to be also users of Firefox.
I live in Colorado. Marijuana was slowly decriminalized before it was legalized.

A handful of states stopped putting minorities into prison for marijuana. It's hard to argue that any of the states have applied a reasonable standard of justice for anyone convicted of these crimes prior to the laws changing.
Because they "caused" it by complying with irresponsible "fair" lending regulations. Unfortunately, they had to; it was the law.
Embedded WebExtensions are a bit weird, since they're kind of a hybrid of our legacy and modern add-on APIs, so I'd just bet on confusion.

This is the only code that runs when the add-on is enabled: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33ac...

Lines 22 and 39 determine if the inner WebExtension starts up.
In case anyone loves this type of thing but hasn’t heard of PoC||GTFO, I encourage you to take a look: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
> I'm a woman. I have been raped. I also have two adult sons.

Firstly, I want to thank you for publicly sharing your opinion and bringing nuance to a complicated and difficult topic.

But secondly, how did we get to the point where we must first give out group identity credentials in order to be taken seriously in a discussion? Shouldn't the actual meat of what a person says hold greater weight than the group(s) that a person identifies with?

I've been noticing this trend a lot lately -- articles in, say, The Atlantic of the type of 'hold on, is this what feminism should be?' -- but always prefaced by the author first identifying as a woman, perhaps to insulate from criticism.

Please note that this is no way intended as a criticism of you. I find myself doing the exact same thing (prefacing comments with snippets of my bio) -- it just feels weird that 'progressivism' seems to have led to this, which doesn't feel much like 'progress' at all.
Please don't quote things out of context in a way that changes the meaning. What I actually wrote contrasted some people's good experience with others' bad experience. It wasn't a blanket statement as it appears when selectively quoted.

I happen to be an existence proof for the bad experience group, but a few seconds with your favourite search engine will readily confirm that I am not alone. I don't know what the ratio of lucky to unlucky users is, nor did I claim to.
From bare metal to serverless
pretty sure google docs can _share_ files without js.
Nothing like the good old trusted hobby store. And yes, this repetition of phrase or structure should be a clear signal.
Framing it as our problem rather than their problem would help more in my opinion.
You can try it yourself. It gives you 18 choices for each word, basing the choices on the predictive engine and previous words. It's basically written by a human.

http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=d08198a9a936f791b7ffe1...
> If the yardstick for Mozilla's mission is how fast they can make a browser, why do we need Mozilla? There are arguably better equipped entities doing that.

Are there? I see no evidence to support that assertion and a lot of evidence against it.

Market share matters. The last vote at the W3C about DRM video being the most recent example.

I mean, I probably qualify as reasonably savvy, and I have used exactly 4 browsers in the last 10 years: Firefox, Chrome, IE/Edge, and Safari.
Microsoft have been raping people for years now with windows10... That telemetry, they're all up in your junk like nobodies business xD
That academy link is pretty "out there" and def hard to take seriously when you see consciousness and other things mentioned like that.
This is becoming a SEVERE problem for Amazon. My wife and I have been talking about cancelling our Prime account just because unless you're getting something from an obviously known manufacturer, the site is riddled with junk and counterfeits.

With clothing it's annoying, but with electronics it can be outright dangerous because there are a lot of falsely certified products. I bought a cheap outdoor LED fixture thinking at worst it would just be a bright LED in a cheap housing... it was manufactured so poorly that it didn't work out of the box, and upon investigation bare wires were exposed within and arcing. It was some of the sloppiest soldering I've ever seen.
> the internet service’s Terms of Service (TOS) didn’t mention the Monero mining code.

There's a business opportunity - free coffee if you agree to mine crypto on our behalf.

Did Starbucks Bs As. refund their customers?
"Ron's Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself"

"Leathery sheets of rain"

This is more witty and literary than anything JKR could come up with. 100% Would Read.
Why Intelligent Optimism Is Crucial to Human Progress
The pod is an AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR[0][1], a type of IRST (InfraRed Search & Tracking) system. The pod is either cued by the F/A-18 radar, or automatically tracked by pod itself. The ATFLIR has a computer assisted stabilization system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ASQ-228_ATFLIR
[1] https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/atflir/
Do you think there is a single organization out there which will never be breached? I personally don’t think it’s possible.

Or are you more taking aim at it being a defeatist position? I do t fully understand.

I’ve never seen a decent, well-resourced red team not win.
Trains don't pick you up where you live and drop you off where you work. Self driving cars can do this.
I think "used predictive keyboards" leaves enough wiggle room that there can be a human looking at the handful of suggestions and navigating through them, while letting the autosuggestions work their surreal magic. It seems a powerful combo to me. I love me a good Markov chain composition, but yeah, they really lack in the coherence department, which means they are whiffing on a level of good humor.

Edit: here's the tool: http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=d08198a9a936f791b7ffe1... My preliminary playing suggests there is definitely substantial human intervention. But the results are fun.
I'm not saying that's cool, but there are millions of people with worst jobs, or simply dying of hunger
Come now, it wasn't the "populum" that wanted Galileo to shut up, it was the "Pope-ulum".
Whomever wrote this is quite the Racter
Not quite. North Carolina for instance has decriminalized carrying small amounts of Cannabis.

The map in this article is particularly illuminating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decriminalization_of_non-medic...
If the F-18 HUD footage in OP is real, that would indicate the avionics picked it up, tracked it, and reported the heading and velocity. This is also interesting because the FLIR showed the object as mostly black: not emitting heat as a jet would.
Only 1 second at 504,000kph
I like to believe most did, like myself, but then it became a job and we struggle to find something creative to fill the hole through a series of futile attempts in hopes of discovering something that sticks
Ok consider Iceland. Literally an island, very high overdose rate.
Yes, sadly. I can't remember the last time Firefox crashed on me prior to 57. I've lost count of the number of crashes/hangs since the update, but it's well into double figures by now. Whether it's Firefox itself or the handful of extensions I have installed, I can't tell for sure, but it's much worse here on a Windows box with more extensions installed than a Linux box with just a few. In any case, if the new runtime model is supposed to make things more robust then unfortunately my experience has been quite the opposite.
I'm not sure why the inaccurate statement that a train can pick you up at your house and drop you off at work made you think about how "car-centric" some regions are.
You might want to consult an employment lawyer. Firing you in retaliation for reporting wrongdoing in the workplace may have been an illegal act.
Arguments against Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fall apart when you realize people are using it for more than frivolous speculation, such as to escape extreme currency controls from their totalitarian governments. And no, asking said governments nicely to please not screw us as hard daddy doesn't work, because the new tyrant who ends up in power after overthrowing the previous government will end up just as bad.
A list of things that are wrong is pretty boring without plausible alternatives. Like, even if you're right, it doesn't matter because we're not comparing The Bad Thing to The Absence Of All Those Bad Things. That's trivial, of course bad things are bad.

We're comparing The Bad Thing to A Different Set of Tradeoffs. That's the part I want to see.
Mozilla needs to get rid of the people responsible for this and specifically the rogue marketing team members that have been the source for much of Mozilla's missteps such as the tone def attack ads on Chrome which deeply embarrassed a lot of the Mozilla engineers.
Same. I told recruiters that increase would cost $20k/yr
>If this code had been in core-Firefox, we'd never have noticed it. Counter-intuitively, maybe it wouldn't have felt as invasive, because I know that Mozilla controls core-Firefox, not me. (And I choose to defer to their judgement, because my other options are to defer to Google or Apple.)

The code is available. I'm pretty sure the tor project would have noticed it.
Imagine a combination of self-driving cars and trains. Perhaps the self-driving car can take you to the train station that is nearest, if there is a train that is coming in a reasonable amount of time.
It was also a single store or set of stores in Brazil.
Or just very advanced earthly technology hidden in plane sight via the ridicule of people who lump it in...
it hogs my memory if there's no other software running

What exactly is wrong with that? Do you understand how RAM works on a computer?

Maybe your system is different, but for me, FF 57+ uses much more CPU than Chrome, and unlike RAM, that's a statistic that actually affects something in a meaningful way (increased power consumption).

If you're worried about Chrome using RAM when nothing else is, you might be fetishizing the concept of free RAM.
“Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time“

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
> Anarchists believe in unmediated relations between free individuals, the absence of any coercive or alienating forces in societies, and an unquestionable, universal right to self-determination.

If that sounds difficult to implement, I agree! I'm an anarchist because I think the principles so succinctly put are a good pole star for my personal life. At the scale of society I see Marxism as just as important. How to square the two? I don't know

How to make a political program out of anarchism? I don't know, but I think it'll be possible with the right philosophical and scientific mindset. I think it would be a mindset quite radically different from how we currently approach the world.

There are some immediate problems to ponder. For example, my fist is an unmediated relation between individuals. Does the idea of free individual preclude it? You can't base your politics only on what you think ought to be, but also how it ought to change when there is a violation of that preferred condition. Clearly there are times when a good anarchist (whatever that is) will throw a punch, and how ought an anarchist society deal with that?

I like The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin as a thoughtful examination of society that tries to grapple with such small and dirty questions. As well as bigger questions of course.

In that quote, I don't see a solution, or a goal, but an orientation. It frames the world in a way that asks you to focus on certain possibilities that might seem remote, but have existed and will exist so long as humanity exists. That's why I'm an anarchist and why I like and agree with this piece.
No, I wasn't really talking about that.

I don't know how to elaborate. I have been trying to come up with a clear explanation.

The best thing I can come up with is that somewhere I saw some video that said that white males are the only people in the US who seem to not know that when a cop stops you, you roll down your window and place your hands on the steering wheel at the 10 and 2 positions. Some white males will act like the cop is their friend and cops never see that from women and people of color.

If you have so much power that no one wants to offend you, you may not realize you are surrounded by yes men. You may have gotten to where you are in your career by being very aggressive and not readily accepting no for an answer. You may not recognize that doing the same thing in romance is actually harassment. To you, it may be a normal form of negotiating.

Pissing off a powerful man in your social circle can be very problematic. Most people don't want to do so, regardless of gender.

And I think that's a poor explanation, but it is the best I can come up with right this minute.
Let me test your implementation then. ;-)
And I knew a guy who lived on the Mendocino coast, and arrived in the financial district before at 7:00 am. (It's too depressing, even now, to even look up the millage.)

He was slightly excentric, but certifiable after 9 months. They let him go---locked the doors and prayed.

Then I knew guys who slept in their cars after work. At first, I thought they were crazy, but so many times I thought maybe I just might try it.

You used to be able to rent rooms in the bad parts of SF for under $50, but those days are gone.

When I was commuting, I was in construction, and the way I looked really didn't matter.

Oh yea, I built Luxury Condos. I knew, I would never be able to set foot in one after I finished building them. It's a great life--for the wealthy.
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But then, why does Amazon want to do that? it will decrease its own profit.

Why would policing fake reviews decrease Amazon's profits?
It might take days or weeks using an average laptop to mine the equivalent of a cup of coffee.
Firefox isn't a website. This is contrary to user expectation.

There is some degree of deceit present here which bothers me. They pushed out this advertisement through user studies, a feature that ostensibly exists and is designed to improve Firefox. I take issue with it instead serving as a backdoor silently install an advertisement.

If I personally saw this in my add-on page without any knowledge of what it was, I would be alarmed. My first thought would be that my computer had been somehow compromised.

I'm also slightly sympathetic to the idea that these user studies / telemetry can be used to improve FF. By abusing the feature, they encourage people to disable it, which harms Firefox if you take the position that the data gained by telemetry is useful. I certainly no longer have it turned on.

I've seen people link to anecdotes about the user study feature being reenabled after an update was downloaded. All I'll say here is that this is not cool if true.

And really, at the end of the day, why should I put up with any form of advertisements in my actual browser software? Good alternatives exist that don't have advertisements. Advertisements embedded in the product is a huge part of the reason why I switched away from Windows 10 to Linux.

To me, it's a worrying trend between this, Cliqz, the initial integration of pocket, and the the advertisements on the default new tab page.

I'm not particularly sympathetic to the idea that Mozilla needs to pull these kind of anti-user stunts in order to function. We're talking about a foundation that saw revenue of 421 million US Dollars in 2015 and 520 million in 2016.[0]

[0] - https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/02/mozillas-revenue-increased...
To deny that something unexplainable has been happening in the skies is really disingenuous. We have very expert, specialist organizations whose primary responsibility it is to know what's happening in our skies. You take these two things and remove the context of "UFOs" and suddenly it's not crazy that they're doing something about it, but crazy that they're not doing something about it. The context of "UFOs" is laden with plenty of bad rap, but that doesn't absolve these organizations from their responsibilities.
When a suspect is arrested for murder, the newspaper uses the words "suspect" and "alleged" in order to avoid slander lawsuits.
Google doesn't sell data. Chrome, however, isn't silently installing extensions without people's permission, though.
For trains to be truly useful, we needed to not build our cities around the highway, around sprawl. We didn't do that. So self-driving cars will prove to be far, far more useful than trains, especially since trains require long term public investment, which Americans generally do not favor.
This is important information and should be in the title.
Buenos Aires is in Argentina
The sentences were generated using predictive keyboards, and then the sentences were arranged into a story by a human editor, according to an article I read about it.
> Anarchists believe in unmediated relations between free individuals, the absence of any coercive or alienating forces in societies, and an unquestionable, universal right to self-determination

If you and I can interface “unmediated” and freely, and I decide to use that freedom to take your shit, you need a “coercive or alienating force” to correct the wrong. Controlling this force is the history of civilisation.
What's crazier is only 4.5 hours of sleep each day. That makes me feel sick thinking about. Makes me feel even more grateful for my 15 second commute from my bed to computer :/
My commute went from 4 hours a day to 30 mins a day. Hopefully i'll never have to commute like that again.
No even at current prices anything but an ASIC will makes pennies a day while costing dollars to run. You could mine other currencies and convert to Bitcoin if the hardware is new enough, but the easiest option, NiceHash, is still offline after the massive hack
I do. But it doesn't solve the whole "Is this good or crap?" problem.

Generally on Alibaba, you have to know what a "reasonable" price is and expect that "acceptable" means you may have to order something 3 different times. I seem to have a miss rate of about 20-30%--so most of the time I get what I want, but very occasionally I get a bad roll of the dice and have to order 3 times.
That’s why the FA-18 footage is so compelling to me. This is not the easily fooled human eye we’re talking about: Radar tracking and thermal vision almost completely eliminates simple optical illusions from the list of natural explanations.

Even more bizarre is how the craft appears totally cold, while there is a warm thermal halo of some kind around the craft, with a pattern very reminiscent of high energy fields.
As far as I can tell, any website that uses a less than negligible amount of JS runs better on Chrome, and that's about 80% of the sites I visit.
It is inane to posit future, unknown counter arguments to a present, cogent one.
I'm not personally aware of the answer to that question, but I expect it will be covered in a postmortem in the coming days.
I did a 2hr commute from Irvine to la via Metrolink. The actual Metrolink route took 1hr but from home to station and from union station to 8th and grand the total was 2hrs.

People asked me why I wouldn’t just drive to work which would take me about an hour. I for one did not care for traffic and having to stay alert for an entire hour whereas on the Metrolink I could just fall asleep, read, listen to podcasts or eat some food. Needless to say the commute was kind of hellish If I had to do it for 16 years. I was happy to quit just 2 years later.

After that job I worked remote from home for several years and now freelance full time. I feel pity for anyone who has to commute to work.

I should point out that I left work at 4 and was usually home by 6. Nobody left as early as I did but I just didn’t care and made up my own schedule. Nobody objected.
There were and still are approaches to web browsing in Emacs. But like every other completely mainstream web browser, keeping up with the evolving web, and especially its client-side programmability and performance needs, made its usefulness rather marginal.

In the end it’s often less trouble to switch over to the browser window that’s already open anyway and copy and paste data between it and emacs.
I can't speak for all of California, but it's effectively decriminalized in San Francisco, and has been for a decade at least.
How are predictive typing algorithms different from markov chains?
The key that all (or most? I've not played them all) the videos start out in.
how did we get to the point where we must first give out group identity credentials in order to be taken seriously in a discussion?

I am not really aware of what you are describing.

HN is less "social" than most forums. There are no avatars and the profile is completely free form and can be left completely blank. It is a very large forum, so I cannot assume that everyone recognizes me. It also is overwhelmingly male, so it is common for people to assume that anyone speaking here is male.

I often qualify my remarks here on certain subjects for those reasons. Long experience as a participant tells me that if I don't, someone will make a fool of themselves by accusing me of being a rapey bastard, as obviously only a rapist man would ever say X (or something along those lines). And that is a huge, pointless derail that I hate seeing.
Their employees are mostly or entirely remote workers, I think. Even bringing them all to one place once a year may be cheaper than maintaining office space, and you can pay everyone local salaries (since many will be in cities with sane costs of living instead of northern California, they’re probably cheaper to hire).

In other words, I seriously doubt they’re spending more, they are most likely using money more wisely than your average tech company.
> most typical home devices either don't care at all or have SMPS which rectifies mains voltage to DC

Linear power supplies are still somewhat common, and they'll blow up when connected to DC. Aside from old power adapters, they're also likely to be found in home stereo equipment.
I believe this is in reference to the information bottleneck. This is an idea that there is a limit to the performance of a particular network. From an information theory point of view, a deep neural network can be viewed as compressing the input and subsequently generating a code on the other side. So the network is seen as encoding the data and because of that we can bound it using some tools based in information theory.
Gentle question:

was it a candid easter egg ?

I feel a bit distanced about the whole situation. The issues I've seen are:

- getting money from secret extension
- potential security risk
- bad will from mozilla

the name shield studies feels a bit scary, a CIA paranoia tone but anyway.. I believe that's the era that is tense and what seems to be an easter egg as you say, ends up as a brutally negative thing.