skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem as I see it is that the public data that users want to access is packaged in such a way as to maximize its exposure through Googles channels, be it a search engine with a proprietary ranking algorithm, a browser with certain unique features/quirks[1], a new HTTP version that allows stuffing more tracking information into HTTP headers, etc. While a mere three examples does not do justice to their achievements, there are honestly so many examples to list at this point it would be a disturbing exercise to be comprehensive.

It is not worth debating whether this impressive work is part of a plan by a corporation or a conspiracy among multiple corporations to steer/takeover "open" standards. (From past experience, it can be assumed that corporations will try.) The important point is the effect that this work is having, irrespective of intent.

The author uses Microsoft or Apple as an analogy. Question: If something goes wrong at the corporation -- e.g., as we see today MS is not what it used to be, at least not in the browser market -- then what happens to the corporate-driven "standard"? Will Chrome always be the #1 browser?

It should not matter.

If people believe it does matter, then we know people are not aiming at complying with a open, immortal standard, they are aiming at being compatible with a present-day successful corporation, hoping to ride on their coattails.

I submit to the reader that whatever "standards" the corporation creates may well die out if the success of the corporation ever begins to fade. Keep in mind also that these "features" that the corporation has introduced as "standards" may have been introduced primarily to benefit that corporations business (and business model). They are the largest/primary implementer. Maybe their software is the only software that ever used the feature. If the software "disappears" from use because the corporations business falters they stop developing it, then what good is the standard (e.g. if it is too difficult, not well-enough understood or for whatever reason that other software authors did not implement it)?

I leave it to the reader to draw some examples of where this may have happened in the past from the internet and web archives. It could be exhausting if one were to try to be comprehensive.

1. This is only personal opinion but when it takes a minimum of two hours to compile a "browser" (as suggested by one corporation that sponsors one of these monstrosities), then clearly that is a problem. It should cause people to question. Instead it effectively stops people from compiling -- they give up and just accept the binary distribution. By comparison, IME (please do not assume I am referring to Linux) it only takes a fraction of an hour even on modest hardware to compile a complex kernel. Kernel development may not be for everyone, but there is no reason I can imagine why every users "web browser" needs to be a single program of that size and complexity. Personal opinion. Others may disagree. I respect everyones opinion but am entitled to have one that differs.
"Cryptocurrency" can't be "The" global currency since it's not one thing. It's a collection of currencies, and bitcoin itself won't be the global currency because there aren't enough bitcoin to be viable for that purpose in the long run.
That requires someone to actually post a job; I'm not sure how well people know of that site. I forgot it existed until you mentioned it.

Most of what we're seeing in the "Rust jobs" space is companies hiring people to do Rust work, but also other work, and so they're not pure "Rust jobs". For example, take Dropbox, one of our oldest production users. They have a job opening for a Senior Software Engineer right now: https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/735139

Nowhere in this listing do they mention any specific technology. Will you get to use Rust in this job? Maybe! Maybe not. They tend to hire good programmers, and expect them to be flexible, in my understanding.

Another genre is stuff like Amazon, who used to have a job posting up here, that now 404s: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/559813/sr-software-developme...

This posting said that knowing Rust was a plus for the job. Does that mean you get to write Rust? I can't say, as I don't know the details of what that job entails, but it might be a good way to differentiate yourself from the crowd.

Anyway, I think jobs using Rust are extremely important, and want to see more of them. It takes time though :)
The wonderful thing with multi-user forums like this is the crowd-sourcing aspect.
Freedom from the Box
If that's true, why was Apple being so cagey about it for so long? Why didn't they advertise it as a feature?
Your suffering from survivorship bias, and you also seem to be talking from the perspective of a colleauge at the same level or near enough as the new employee.

Managers and above want people who dont really know their rights, have the energy and willingness to just do the job.

They also assume that younger people have better skill sets.

All things equal, younger people cost less.
It looks like Geekbench 4.
Sorry, the op is right. Safari IS the new IE.

Service workers is one of the most egregious failures on their part. And I believe it's been done on purpose. With service workers you get full control over building your JS based app, something Apple does not want, they want everyone to got through their store.

Considering that the only way (moving forward) to create an offline JS app now is through service workers, and Apple is just starting to get it working, _maybe_ for the next version of Safari.

https://caniuse.com/#search=service%20workers

What does this mean? It means that it may take one or two more _years_ of _hardware_ updates to get iOS users able to use a javascript feature in their browser.

As far as I know, iOS and Safari are knitted together like MS did to Windows and IE. Try and get a new version of Safari that doesn't match with the version of iOS you are running.

I could go on about the state of local storage and other HTML5 debacles on Safari, but it's total loser and I am only going to make myself upset.
I also mind being robbed. And for exactly the same reason.
Actually, it is the opposite for me. Works fine in both, but in Chrome - if I open developer tools - I get 19 warnings and 1 error. None in FF.
Geekbench
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/geekbench-4/id1130770356
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The relationship between dinosaurs and birds has been observed for at least 150 years, although until the 1990s the idea was that birds were descendants of dinosaurs, not the other way around.

Still, the idea that at least some dinosaurs might have had feathers predates Jurassic Park by decades. I distinctly remember learning about this possibility in my first grade classroom, which would have been 1988 at they latest.
I love Kowloon because it feels very r/outrun. I'm sure actually living there probably sucked though.
Wrong. The peak demand from the phone can exceed the available voltage even if you're at 30%, causing an immediate shutdown. That's what we saw a year ago. Now they no longer shut down unexpectedly, but the performance of the phone sucks, even with a battery that holds 87% of its original capacity.
I don't think you understand the difference between a theory and a fact.
That's it.. NOW I'm moving.
> not to try to get X followers or foster the biggest community around a new slideshow plugin you just built.

I've run into this in interview questions in the wild. "So what open-source projects do you contribute to?" It's of course totally their prerogative if they prefer OSS contributors, but it wasn't a stated prerequisite to applying.

I loosely compare it to the points and review systems that are being pumped up to gauge one's worth in various freelance portals, etc. The gamification of everything. I can't say I'm a huge fan of that progression, but then I've never liked the zero-sum game worldview.

I work for a company that has some lines regarding IP ownership over content produced while in their employ, so any public contributions have to be unrelated to work that I do professionally, and the line is quite fuzzy as to where this ends and begins. Freelancing in software outside of my direct industry—generally fine, as long as its not fulfilling a service the company offers on some level and its not a competitor, or of advantage to a competitor. Publishing code that has benefitted the company is a grey area I'd rather not stray into. Therefore, I haven't contributed. We fork open source software (licenses permitting), and don't file pull requests. I've advocated for adjusting policies to play a larger role on the OSS community as part of larger new initiatives for both the improved reputation as communal contributors and for the benefits of increased mindshare, but to no avail.
Your taxes also help pay for the education of millions of children, among other things, so there’s that.

More to the point, your objection has some merit- but if you (or anyone else reading this) feels that way, are you protesting or otherwise politically agitating against war, or are you just sitting around feeling abstractly ashamed?
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as someone who upgraded their original Pixel from Nougat to Oreo I didn't experience any slowness. So anecdotally, it doesn't happen with Google Pixel devices.
> It's not only to make them run longer - they're reducing the peak demand on the batteries to avoid spontaneous shutdown when the aged battery can't handle the load.

Yes. I used to have spontaneous shutdowns on my iPhone 6 in cold weather when the fuel gauge indicated a number like 20% and it was this sort of problem that was meant to be fixed: the CPU using too much current, causing the battery voltage to drop enough to trigger the low-voltage/brownout detector, causing the phone to die. The battery would last long enough (from last full charge to needing to recharge) -- it wasn't inadequate in the energy department -- it just couldn't deliver enough power in cold conditions.

Throttling the CPU in those cases (when the aged battery can't deliver enough current) is sensical and extends the life of the phone -- the only serious issue is that the user might think that there is a problem with the CPU or the software (and replace the whole phone) when the problem can be adequately fixed with a new battery (far less expensive than a new phone).

The feature is good but Apple's software should be far more proactive in notifying users that this is happening, if only because users jump to a conclusion of "my old phone can't handle this new iOS update, damn Apple making me buy a new phone" rather than "my battery is too old to reliably deliver whatever current the SOC wants".
My mistake - I took 'precrime' to mean simply an act that does not or has not yet amounted to a criminal act, but I see it is a term of art for punishing people on the basis of what they might do. There is nothing very wrong, IMHO, in choosing who you put your trust in and with who you associate on the basis of what they have already done. The first three words of the article are "free software communities...": its not about society as a whole, or any situation where exclusion could reasonably be considered punishment.
Tippy Turtle did it first! (This is actually the premise of a Saturday Night Live cartoon from 1984.)

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tippi-turtle/n9...
Evaluation of Speech for the Google Assistant
>I think it's better to realize that we're not all in this together

Without an idea of "we're all in this together" from what would I derive motivation towards the just? Or even a definition of justice?

(Just in case we're having some miscommunication around different readings of the phrase, where one describes an "is" and different "ought": I see the phrase "all in this together" to refer to our shared inescapable subjection to the consequences of society. Although I can envision a reading that takes it as some assertion we're all equivalently culpable for steering. Unless you really want to get into the semantics, I'll stop typing and leave it at the point I see the former definition used in the parent post.)
> The issue is not creating waste, but wasting one's money on middle-men for replacing one's phone batteries.

Well I could say I'm spending that money on having a nicer phone that's sealed and seamless, rather than wasting it.
You can see that a LOT more devices were affected on iOS 11. I assume they tweaked the algorithm as to when it's triggered.

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-an...
You actually want to block forbes.com/sites/, which contains content from their "contributors " (aka bloggers they lent their name to )
Thank you for addressing the reasonable and consistent part of my unhinged rant.

I know what the real problem is. No rapport was established. You are in the defensive because you feel I corrected you as well and thus passed judgement. It's human relationships.
It's probably too late to contribute meaningfully to this conversation. But look at the tone of many of these comments. So many "know it alls." So many strong opinions about the right way to hire and work with developers. Owners and execs often don't want to deal with the jaded baggage that comes with experience. Many owners/execs want to have a person integrate with the existing work flows rather than having to repeatedly justify a workflow to a person who thinks he or she knows a better way to do things. Not saying it's right or wrong, it just is. It also probably violates the uniform guidelines on employee selection.
Then you can go back to chrome or chromium, both of which Google has pushed a binary plugin to that records voice in the past.

Debian had to raise a storm over it and turned into a compile-time only option to not get the microphone listening plugin on your chromium install.
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The hunt for aliens suddenly cropping up in the nytimes has the feel of a distraction.

The video itself felt like one of those old bigfoot vidoes.

I want to believe in aliens as a huge fan of star trek (TNG is best :) ), but I feel skeptical for now.
I have adblock installed. Forbes throws up an obnoxious "ADBLOCK DETECTED!" interstitial when I visit, which is a great reminder that their content is rarely worth it anyway.

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> Arguably, this does more to prevent obsolescence than plan it.

Why not simply make the battery replacable?
I said it was a total shit show unless you have very basic needs and that's what you seem to have outlined. You even said you couldn't get through more than 2 months using it so I guess that is correct isn't it?

You also mentioned that you got one extension that you needed, uBlock. Great. How about these: Quick JavaScript Switcher, Don't Track Me Google, Stop Tracking me on Reddit and Google Search Filter. That is just a sampling of the non-developer extensions that I use.

Also, if I go to one page that doesn't work in Edge that's the end of my time with Edge. Since that happened almost as soon as I tried it out, I stopped trying. Despite that, I do open it from time to time to see if it got less crappy and many times I get a bunch of popups from Microsoft begging me to do more with their stuff. No thanks!
Chrome is not Chromium, however. Just because there is a nougaty open source center doesn't mean that Chrome is entirely free from proprietary software worries and worries about Google's commercial interests infringing upon user interests/greater web interests.

Additionally, Chromium isn't WebKit either. Blink forked from WebKit some time back and the fork continues to diverge, with WebKit and Blink disagreeing on some implementations.
In 2015 I did my longest fast ever. I went 12 days without food -- just water. I felt surprisingly normal for the first 7 days. After that I felt weaker and weaker. The weakness very much reminded me of the experience of having the flu. By the final day it felt as if I really did have the flu, though those symptoms would come and go, and disappeared quickly after I finally had some food.

The conclusion I draw from this is that some of the symptoms that we associate with viruses actually comes from the under-production of our normal enzymes. If you go 12 days without food, then your body starts to run out of the protein needed to make normal, everyday enzymes. And when a virus hijacks the machinery of your cells, and forces those cells to make virus proteins, the cells under produce the normal, everyday enzymes that are needed to live. And the symptoms of both experiences are very similar. So this aspect of a virus needs more study -- what is the result of not producing normal, everyday enzymes?
It's like getting credit card offers saying you are "pre-approved". then you apply and get declined.
I am red hat and I can tell you that several of us are very excited about Kubeflow. We look forward to a productive 2018.

See our blog post on why we are doing this and how we hope to contribute: https://blog.openshift.com/machine-learning-openshift-kubern...
Mozilla is fighting an uphill battle, but that doesn't give them a free pass. The Pocket, Cliqz, and Mr. Robot controversies undermine Mozilla's core message. Whether or not they are simply failures of marketing and branding doesn't change the fact that they hurt the company. That being said, a lot of people will never know about these issues so the damage is not catastrophic.

I would also argue that "just being better than X" was shown not to be effective in the last US Presidential election.
How many people buy state lotto tickets?

What is the EV on those? Some it's something like .5 or less. HORRIBLE odds. If you want to gamble, go play $1000 hands of blackjack or something, you can get something like a .97 EV.
Without reading this specific paper, I think this is the future. If not genetic search, then some other metaheuristic. I think this is only really credible road to AGI in the near term, as it seems to be largely a hardware limitation that will be alleviated in the next few years.

Through the history of deep learning, the frontier has been networks that can be trained to some feedback of whether they're working or not in ~6-8 days. Within a few years there will almost certainly be ASICs that allow us to train hundreds of thousands or millions of networks in several weeks, relative to several weeks for one of the same network in 2017. This will let us start exploring things like evolving networks seriously.

Fundamentally, we know neural networks can instantiate general intelligence, and we know genetic search is capable of finding the right neural networks. There are big differences between the CS and biological versions of each, but it's striking that the big breakthrough in "AI" was deep neural networks and not anything else.

When I think about the difference between AlphaZero and human intelligence, I don't think it's "more intelligence." AlphaZero seems perfectly intelligent to me: I think the difference is more about the selective pressures that produced us. AlphaZero is a reflection of its environment and the process by which it developed in that environment. I would be shocked the future of deep learning continues to be hand-design from human intuition.

Edit: looking at the link, I want to caveat the above by saying this paper may or may not be "it," but directionally I think the idea is underrated and erroneously out of favor now as neural networks were in 2009. Ken Stanley (coauthor on the linked paper) in particular has been hung up on one particular approach, NEAT, since like 2002 that is kind of interesting but definitely not the end-all.
Yeah, they use Blink which is a fork of WebKit and open source as well.

So I guess it is great, isn't it?
It puzzles why anyone would go around picking up trash from parks they never use themselves.

If you don't like my answer, then go watch idiocracy and contemplate the essence of your existence, and then go and do what fulfills you as an individual.

--

It puzzles me why anyone would go around in a santa suit cheering up kids they'll never see again.

If you don't like my answer, then go read How the Grinch Stole Christmas and contemplate the essence of your existence, and then go do what fulfills you as an individual.
It's not terribly uncommon for larger functions to do something like

func someSQLStuff() {
tx, err := createTx()

defer func() {
if err != nil {
tx.Rollback()
log(err)
} else {
tx.Commit()
}
}()

rows, err = tx.QueryContext( ... )

// more SQL
}

Basically, function-scoped cleanup. Like closing opened files.
For me, prisons are a more front-and-center topic of activism. I've been involved with SSDP for over a decade. My only real anti-war activism (since the protests around the 2003 war) has been donating to Doctors Without Borders.

But that wasn't quite the point I was making. All I'm saying is that there's no reason to be proud per se of paying taxes.

And while I wish that education were better funded (and National Parks, and NPR), I don't think that it's reasonable to suppose that, so long as we make the mistake of delegating those things to the state, that it won't use our money mostly for misery and death.
> simply sell the private key in a private transaction

Then why not sell it three times to three separate parties? And also keep a copy of the key and engage in some spending from the wallet themselves?

I'm not saying that these particular people would engage in such trickery. But I would be very wary of any proposition to sell me bitcoins in an out-of-band transaction of this kind.
Can anyone explain the reason behind the push for ternary? They say that with special ternary hardware added to IoT devices (which is a big ask), it'll make their proof of work process more efficient on those devices. Why not just make the proof of work easier then? It's not like thousands of low power IoT devices are going to be able to compete against the hash rate of a few powerful PCs anyway unless I'm missing something.

I've tried asking in other places but I've just had people regurgitating buzzwords at me... It's quite worrying how easily convinced non-technical people find jargon when there's so many red flags here. I can't believe some people are really buying the story that the broken hash function was a deliberate form of copy-protection to prevent open source copy cats.
Run the benchmark test and see if performance is way below expectation.

Just because Apple replaced the phone doesn't mean the battery isn't deficient.
Mildly-related: HK[0] is an in-dev videogame about a cat in a not-Kowloon-but-similar walled city.

0: https://hk-devblog.com/2015/10/07/first-step/
It isn't a loot box, but Candy Crush had (and maybe still has) a wheel you can spin once a day to win some bonus item. I spun that thing hundreds of times over a few years and never won the big prize on the wheel.

I've always wondered what the logic behind that was. Why not have a fair wheel?
Google is transparent. I know what they are doing. I know why they are doing it.

Mozilla became a shady character. It engages in "it depends on a meaning of the word 'is'" speak.

Here's how Mozilla can get back into my graces - it needs to publicly FIRE whoever approved it and whoever advocated for this project.
Thank you !! More the merrier and happy to be here. Looking fwd.
Yes it is a bit soon, on the other hand it feels like it is good to get the word out there when you know that a change is coming.

She is located in Minneapolis MN. She would be happy with remote work.

She is smart, productive and reliable but not particularly ambitious with regard to the day job. Seems happy to take on the entry level grunt work including auditing telcom vendor bills, remotely updating router firmware and running test cycles, testing custom software portals, document/write test plans, update and clean up system documentation and whatever else the engineers don't want to do that isn't too technical.
A false soundbite.

The first sentence of the article has more detail but is still false. Then the second sentence of the article contradicts the first sentence, adding the phrase "of the DC city police". Shall we believe that version?