skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you already have image X saved, and you want to also store image Y, which is mostly similar. Take all of the pixels which are the same in both X and Y and set them to RGBA (0,0,0,0). Instead of using the Windows image viewer, write a web viewer in JavaScript. The viewer takes image X and image Y, composites them in a Canvas, converts that into an image, and then displays the result.

The extra steps with compositing in a Canvas first will prevent you from getting artifacts from scaling the images, but the artifacts may not be particularly visible.

If you are comfortable with NumPy this whole process should be fairly easy and painless. I have done something similar in the past, but it was for making animated GIFs.

If you are particularly adventurous, you could remove large chunks of the VN foreground by taking the per-pixel median value from a large stack of images that share a background. You could then use this as a base image.
I wouldn't call this an Easter egg. about:mozilla is an Easter egg. Installing a strange, unexplained add-on is not.
I'm I the only one who thought the little easter egg was interesting. I am a fan of the show.
How many years of work did it take to get to the surge in good will around Firefox 57 in recent months?

All that can disappear overnight if they're not careful. Don't fuck this up, Mozilla.
Theorem. There are no even prime numbers greater than 2.

Proof. Assume n > 2, 2 divides n and n is prime. Therefore, 2 is a prime factor of n. But since every prime number only has one prime factor, itself, then n = 2. But n = 2 contradicts n > 2. Therefore, no prime numbers greater than 2 exist. QED.

- or -

Claim. There is no beer in the fridge.
Argument. I opened the fridge, there was no beer in the fridge.

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p is a proposition. ~p is its negation. Take q = ~p. Proving p is the same as proving ~q.

Seems to me you can most certainly prove "negatives".
What is your reason for saying this? That was quite an interesting comment, but after working to verify it - it seems to be simply false?

States by tax level ##: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-us-states-have-the-highest...

States by poverty rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty...

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Wyoming - lowest tax rate, 3rd lowest poverty rate

Alaska - 2nd lowest tax rate, 8th lowest poverty rate

Nevada - 3rd lowest tax rate, 29th lowest poverty rate

South Dakota - 4th lowest tax rate, 23rd lowest poverty rate

Florida - 5th lowest tax rate, 37th lowest poverty rate

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New York - highest tax rate, 32nd lowest poverty rate

California - 2nd highest tax rate, 35th lowest poverty rate

Nebraska - 3rd highest tax rate, 15th lowest poverty rate

Connecticut - 4th highest tax rate, 4th lowest poverty rate

Illinois - 5th highest tax rate, 24th lowest poverty rate

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I'm not going to map out all 50 states, but at least for the top and bottom there seems to be no correlation at all. The low tax nations average to the 20th lowest poverty rate. The high tax states average out to the 22nd lowest poverty rate. To be clear, that means the high tax states suffer more poverty - at least when just considering the top 5 for each.

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## = The reason I used that article instead of Wiki's list of states by tax level ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United... ) is that the Wiki page just offers data on state tax income, not about the actual rates.
They didn't make money off of this making this argument invalid.
Thanks to zero interst rates for 10y his apartment is now worth $50 so effectively we paid of his mortgage.
What do you gain by doing that? It isn't any cheaper to train with connections removed. It could really damage the training if a parameter gets stuck at 0 that shouldn't be. And the sparsity penalty has traditionally been considered to be enough.
The government is restrained by due process and the rule of law. "Paperwork" should not be able to overcome that.

The much more reasonable explanation is that there simply were not laws clearly written to prevent this behavior, or that some attempt was made to write such laws but they are unenforceable for some reason.
From the article:
> His fact-finding mission into the richest nation the world has ever known has led him to investigate the tragedy at its core: the 41 million people who officially live in poverty.

Sounds bad, but that number "officially" leaves out almost all assistance provided by the government to low-income beneficiaries such as food stamps, housing etc. It is a measure of cash income poverty and not a measure of income + government benefits.

It is a misleading metric because you can effectively feed, house, and clothe all those with "poverty" level income and you won't change that poverty statistic at all.

There is plenty of room for discussion on improved social welfare programs but it might be prudent to actually acknowledge the existing benefits before figuring out what to do next.
Yes, but the reason for fire is the liquid electrolyte. Lithium batteries don't have to catch fire. A short clip from PBS Nova: https://youtu.be/m9-cNNYb1Ik
Mozilla silently injecting ads into the content of websites through the browser is unacceptable. Full stop.

This is the same type of scummy shit that ISPs have been pulling for years. But unlike ISPs, there's competition in the browser space. Mozilla must hold themselves to a higher standard if they want to survive.
Geek-turned-trucker speculates on risks of internet-of-trucks
If they're not going to do anything about fake stuff, why should they care about fake reviews? As it is, they're trying to make it so you don't know what you're buying or who you're buying it from, or even be entirely sure what the price is going to be, or who is going to be delivering to your door, so why should they care about reviews?
I know it’s kind of the opposite action, but I lost trust in Chrome over it persistently and repeatedly deleting my extensions. Searching for help reveals I have to “sign in” to keep my extensions. When a browser built by an advertising company wants me to sign in, the only conclusion I can make is they want to track my browsing behavior. I probably consented to that through the click wrap agreement, or maybe not. Who knows? I’m not about to spend a whole day reading 10 miles of legalese to find out.
Yeah, that attemp at positive spin won't fly here, not with this audience. Silent sideload of a paid-placement extension that changes headers and page content is not an easter egg. Maybe if it were activated by a ctrl sequence, but even then... this is a hole in perimeter security. It's the sort of thing that makes me reconsider my institution's security policy to sanction Firefox as a supported and authorized browser. Not cool Mozilla, we can get by with chrome and IE / Edge... MS might not be bleeding edge in browsers but at least they understand this sort of Enterprise requirement. MS might pull some ad placement bs on windows home, but they were smart enough to avoid it with pro.
If it was a one time payment of $50 then the answer is yes, of course.

How many people would need to pay that to fund the Firefox team for the next five years though? My guess is: not enough.
>How?

If you make the offense definition broad on the assumption that not every instance will be prosecuted, then you take the power of conviction from the jury and hand it to the state prosecutor.

If the state prosecutor elects to prosecute, the conviction is guaranteed because the law is not specific. It varies nation by nation as to whether a jury is allowed to directly ignore the letter of the law when passing a judgment, but even in nations where it is not, jury nullification is uncommon.

Thus, the conviction rests on the prosecutors decision to move ahead or not, not on the judgment of a jury of the defendants peers.

>I imagine most cases of assault in the middle ages were not brought to trial either.

Fuck me dead buddy, I hope you're not seriously attempting to use the middle ages as an example of how a justice system ought to be?

>But, if something does go to trial, it's still up to the jury to decide.

In Canada, it is considered the duty of the presiding justice to attempt to prevent the jury from performing jury nullification[1].

So yes, it's up to the jury, but the jury is under pressure from the justice to not consider the ramifications of this system you seem to like so much too deeply. Since we all know very well that humans are easily manipulated by perceived authority to harm their peers[2], I stand by my statement: that sounds like a terrifying way to write laws.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification#Canada
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
>What the medium post reports is not just a gray area

No it is completely obscene. I hope it is severely dealt with, and all of the people who were around and didn't criticize, and promoted even tough they knew are dealt with too.

What I was commenting on is that every time the subject comes up a load of people start the 'you can't even talk to women any more' nonsense.

> dehumanize themselves

It is not dehumanizing to not fuck your colleagues. I see it as extremely unprofessional to get too close to them. I see my self as an extremely kind, thoughtful and empathetic manager. My female staff have brought me issues from menopause, menstruation, man trouble to money problems and I try to give them all a sympathetic ear. When I have dealt with something in a way that has upset them it pains me. I care very strongly for a number of my team, indeed I have one away on secondment and I miss them. I ask them about their weekends, and their families. We even throw the odd innuendo around. One is very flirtatious, and I laugh it away. However at 5.30 they went their way and I went mine. We are colleagues not Fuck Buddies.
Yes, obviously. It's obvious in the first paragraph.

Why isn't the article called, the "The Rohingya Genocide". Didn't we learn anything from Rwanda?
I've been looking for some time now for an alternative to Firefox. The integration of Pocket was the big red flag that made me start to doubt Mozillas intentions.

- My focus is not on performance or compatibility, but usability, privacy and security.

- The interface must be graphical.

- Native cookie management. I can't fathom how bad FireFox is at that.

- Support for JavaScript is not necessary. It's mostly used against my interest anyways.

- I don't want want my Browser to make any unsolicited access to check for updates or metrics or anything of that sort, at all.

- Of course, it must be free software.

Any ideas?
don't buy now. it's now Chinese owned
Opera can’t be considered trustworthy as of this event (cribbed from Wikipedia):

On 18 July 2016, Opera announced it had sold its browser, privacy and performance apps, and its name to Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I Limited Partnership (a consortium of Chinese investors including Qihoo 360) for an amount of $600 million USD.
I don’t want to live in a world where an engineer and QA team could get jail time for signing off on a feature release like Apple Maps which wipes out $30bn in equity value on release day because it is loaded with bugs. Almost every time we miss a deadline or every time bugs go into production, losses are incurred somewhere by someone.

These were human beings like us that were doing the job they were mandated to do to the best of their ability. Many lost their livelihoods in the process. It created trillions of dollars in wealth (and losses) and anyone who has looked at their 401k lately can see that they are at it again.
It's always interesting how this happens. Is it new executives how come to power and they never realize what the brand meant to users but see a short term stunt to get some extra profit and go for it.

It happened to Lenovo and other laptops when they started installing spyware (Superfish) on their machines. They basically ruined the brand image that took years to build up.
How about if I pay for pretty Apple hardware? Also I just used lynx yesterday and it was fine.
So electric cars cost more up front but less per mile, and you're maybe going to keep them longer.

There's an opposing dynamic: a taxi drives a lot more miles per year than a personal vehicle, so taxis (driverless or not) are likely to be the biggest early adopters of electric cars.

Maybe if autonomy develops slowly relative to electric cars, we'll mostly end up driving our own electrics, but if autonony develops relatively quickly, we'll have a more sudden transition to autonomous ride-sharing and hardly anyone will drive.

Here's an interesting article from this perspective: https://perspicacity.xyz/2017/05/24/this-is-how-big-oil-will...
> Not the same. "I don't know, but I believe we will in the future" is not the same as "I don't know, and I don't believe we ever will know". One statement has faith in the scientific method to conquer all obstacles at its core, the other has skepticism about the ability of the scientific method to overcome all obstacles at its core.

I will skip the rest of what you have written for now to first address this fundamental misunderstanding, I might get back to it when we have cleared this up.

I agree that those two statements are not the same. But neither is the standpoint of science generally. "We don't know, at least not yet" does not mean "we don't know but we will know", it means "we don't know and we don't know whether we will ever know", so it is skeptical towards both claims, that we will know, and that we won't know. Not being convinced of some claim does not imply being convinced of the negation of that claim, it is possible, and often rational, to be skeptical of both.

OK?
Nightly was, so I assume any with experiments turned on.
The trouble is, it costs money (or a lot of time from talented people) to support a project the size of a browser. I would imagine getting some funding helps keep things afloat.

You even say, "maintaining a web browser is work that needs a corporation's backing behind it (or a government's)".

I suppose we should expect the goodwill of corporate sponsorship, but this relationship can quickly turn into the "sponsor" asking for things in exchange for donations.

This situation exposes a weakness and requires the recognition of the fragility of the open source model (at least for larger-scale projects). We've seen weird corporate-backed things in NPM projects before. It happens, but what is the better alternative? How do we prevent it? Most corporations only support open source projects out of self-interest: that is, they have a stake in seeing a particular project succeed because their stack may depend on the software.
It's not "being derived from", it's "being a derivative of", which in turn has a legal meaning that need not exactly coincide with the usual English meaning.

That said, lawyers have certainly given their approval to the way Nvidia packages their driver, so it should be fine or at least very very hard to challenge.
This is MoCo as usual: top notch engineering ruined by Dilbert-worthy high level management / executives.
That's right, although work is being done to improve the situation. The first is the ability to have function calls: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/848824/. This won't allow loops, but will allow for less inline boilerplate. Building on this base infra, some folks are working to add a loop counter based verification rather than forcing the user to unroll manually.
I don't think firefox is spying on you in the same way. Let's remember the bigger picture.
I agree. I would also add on a personal note, I'm not religious by any account, but your goals have to be your religion. You have to have faith that your grit will achieve those goals and pray to the gods of achievement everyday and be grateful you are alive to be on this journey, no matter how hard it is. Its kind of like you have to willingly be insane. I also found it helps if you work out really hard to get through some of those darker days as your small workout achievement boosts your mood and in a way is similar to having pain and then being the master if it by running up that hill, etc. Great article.
> high population density places I've lived the vast majority of my adult life has been a figment of my imagination

Just a wild guess, the "vast majority of your adult life" are the experience you imagine the whole world has, yet they were spent unattached, without children or supporting so much as a cat, never mind children in a rich area of a huge city (and yes, San Francisco counts as huge) ...

Clearly we should design the entire planet around the frustrations extremely rich Californians experience ($100k per year is almost 2 TIMES the median income, and makes you part, as an unattached person, of the top 7% income earners in the US. Let's just stop pretending and point out the obvious: to fix income inequality in the US, these incomes are what needs to be taxed MUCH more, without, of course, providing any more government services for that extra tax for you. You do not need it. Plenty of other people, 93% when not even counting those outside the US, do need it)

Sorry for the derision, but you were doing it to me.
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Interesting. @icebraining, do you know where this list exists?
While on the surface that might seem like a workable idea, getting input validation right is going to require more syntax (making it far less clean). Specifically, URLs are only ever string data, so without type annotation everything is strings, even if it looks like a number, array, or even more complex data type.
Why aren't Bernanke and Greenspan in prison for causing the financial crisis?
Except for all the illegal stuff they did to cause the crisis, it wasn’t illegal?

No, you couldn’t prosecute people just for causing the crisis. But there was plenty of crisis-causing illegal activity that could have been prosecuted.
If they had a regular CPU on board too this would make more sense. But this could be useful for some volumetric work, like oil & gas visualisation. Maybe parallel database stuff too, but lots of porting. Just can't see what bottleneck it is fixing apart from super high res uncompressed video.
Not paying taxes on AirBnB income is also considered tax evasion in the US. I doubt there's any meaningful enforcement, but it's no more legal in the US than in Europe.
That's what you get when technologists no longer run companies, but trendy "cool gals/guys". Mr. Robot is on decline as well; maybe one Mozilla exec knows another at Mr. Robot production and decided to return a favor? Can't wait to get Watchdogs 2 on WebAssembly playing in Firefox next...
A UK newspaper which has been supportive of Blairite neo-liberal establishment, including but not limited to foreign adventurism such as invasion of Iraq based on rock solid evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction and we were in danger of mushroom clouds over Europe and US?
> Firefox 57 gained a ton of good will from a lot of users

This was the new interface, right? I just saw this the other day and though it looked pretty good; was actually considering a trial switch back (after moving to chrome years ago, when a single bad tab would take down the entire browser).

That’s now put on hold - a compulsory extension is one thing, but having it be purely for advertising is a massive “No” flag to me.

I’m of the view that getting (most) people to consider switching browsers only comes every few years and requires a very large incentive; “We’ve fixed that one incremental problem” isn’t enough. A complete revamp would do it, but takes time to permeate into conciousness. And in the meantime they do this. “Squandered goodwill” seems to be spot-on.
Employees used to be personnel but now they're 'human resources'--a pool from which value is extracted, then disposed of when exhausted.
Do you have an example of a law you think should’ve been used to put people in prison that we didn’t pass because of lobbying?

What the bankers are accused of doing is classic civil fraud: lying about the quality of assets they sold to investors. These sorts of transactions between sophisticated parties has always been the subject of civil rather than criminal enforcement. (Criminal fraud tends to come into play only where the misrepresentations are more clear cut and egregious, and the victims are ordinary consumers rather than sophisticated counterparties.)
> forgot what its called, but basically an account with an indian bank where u can deposit in $ or any specified currency

You mean an EEFC account?
Bowden said that her team consisted of the odd conglomeration of people that were drawn to overnight work looking at weird and disturbing stuff. “I had a witch, a vampire, a white supremacist, and some regular day-to-day people. I had all these different categories,” Bowden, who is black, said. “We were saying, ‘Based on your experience in white-supremacist land, is this white-supremacist material?’”

That right there is an incredible vignette capturing the level of diplomacy and thick skin required to do this job well: A black woman asking a white supremacist employee to ID white supremacist content so they can create guidelines and get it off the internet.
Taking to the Stars
CORBA? That's a term that gave me a sudden flashback to debugging nightmares in the 90s.
FunicuGAN?
Agreed. The more sensible forms of debt jubilee I've seen proposed would give money to everyone equally, but with the proviso that if you have debt you have to use the money to pay that off first.
It may actually be cheaper to hop a ride on a self-driving electric Uber than to drive your own gasoline vehicle.

https://perspicacity.xyz/2017/05/24/this-is-how-big-oil-will...
Internet connected huts for Rohingya refugees to keep in touch
Like? The most obvious would be falsifying documentation in connection with mortgages ultimately sold to Fannie/Freddie. But that’s just capture a bunch of loan agents, not satisfy anyone’s blood lust.
As an Uber employee, I respectfully disagree. I'd rather work on an improved and changed Uber than work on forcing ads and propaganda down people's throats.
It's not an Easter egg, it's an advertisement for a TV show.
Telegram Desktop comes pretty close to this ideal.
Yes, actually. At the same time though, we see examples of trust eroded even with payment (cable companies, or the latest Windows 10 crap). I suspect that it’s no longer enough to merely pay for such things; you need a way to verify trustworthy behavior top to bottom.
Oh, stop that stupid trope already. There are many other ways of sustainable FOSS development, proven for decades. Look at sqlite, the Linux kernel, the GNU ecosystem etc.
It's a terrible idea mainly in that it is unfair to everyone who didn't drink the kool-aid and buy a house because the value was supposed to always go up. Not just because wealthy people might profit.

If there's ever another bailout, they should heavily regulate the people who gain something from it. Not as a punitive measure, but more like a statement of good faith. "If you bought these homes, surely that meant you intended to live in them. So as a condition of the bailout you can't sell them for more than X or rent them for more than Y." It seems drastic, but I can't see many other ways to approach fairness in that situation.

But I don't think we've learned because people are still arguing over whether we should have just thrown the bankers in prison, like the system wouldn't just replace them with more bankers.
Part of the problem here is the culture of toxic masculinity and the acceptance of harassing behavior by men as being normal, even expected.

Even though it's not 100% about men, it still being almost entirely about men and the culture among men which equates sexual aggression with status and power still makes the discussion worth framing in those terms.
The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program