skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of it is confirmation bias as well. People will remember when an ad is creepily relevant, but they don't remember the dozens of times they were completely irrelevant. It's like when my friends made me watch Stranger Things, it felt like Stranger Things references suddenly started to appear everywhere on the internet.
The IRC gateway was there to mollify people who said "IRC is better! I refuse to switch!"

Slack advocates could say, "Don't worry, you don't have to switch. You can just keep using your IRC client with Slack. Everybody else will have a web UI, which they prefer, and you can keep using Irssi. Everybody wins."
It's in TensorFlow: https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/nn/relu6

And even points to a paper: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~kriz/conv-cifar10-aug2010.pdf

I'm not sure why they didn't make it a variable maximum though, or what the advantage is over multiplying a sigmoid by 6.
>It just dont fit in, spacewise.

Sure they do. There is tons of space on the vertical axis that we're choosing not to use.

It doesn't fit in spacewise if everyone needs a detached house and a car.
Interestingly enough, in one apartment I had a particular fixture that would burn out incandescent bulbs extremely quickly. I put in a CFL and never had to replace it again. No idea what was going on there.
Great video! It reminded me of how magical it felt when I got my first Amiga back in 1988! I followed a similar path, started with Basic, then moved up to C (Lattice, later renamed to SAS/C.)
Body Work: The curiously self-punishing rites of fitness culture
Huh?

It's most assuredly post-modernist because it implicitly assumes that all categories are equal in value (i.e.: that no category is better than another), and that the decision is at it's core a power-struggle (i.e.: oppressive to the loser).

This is, again, a tired and fruitless approach.
I doubt it. Many companies depend on Slack's APIs to do things like post build failures or provide custom commands.
Think they'll live together happily forever... GraphQL will grow faster short term I think.
The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to Silicon Valley
> I’m sure they are still using phones, and email and face to face communication.

Slack's rise continues to baffle me. It's not good or widespread enough to replace email, Skype messenging, SMS or phone calls - so it's yet another thing I have to stay on top of at work. My life would honestly be easier without Slack.
If you want to avoid downvotes from “the hivemind”, you'll have to post more substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This reminds me of the hilarious Alexa AI horror shirt story someone posted in the comments here when Alexa was launched.. can’t seem to find it but it was absolutely hilarious :)
It was awful when compared to the paperwhite monochrome displays of a Mac or the Atari ST. It's frankly one of the things that set the Amiga back in the productivity regard.
Technically they can also check if you hooked on the recording APIs. This is like a rabbit hole :)
Yes, but that's very different - the Eurozone countries are not allowing another nation's currency to become their defacto currency, they're creating a pooled economy where they all still have a voice in the management of the common currency. (And it's still causing a ton of problems, when you consider what's happened in Spain, Italy and Greece.)

It's radically different from allowing your defacto currency to be one managed by another country, particuarly one that has no common economic interest with yours.
WA Legislator Says Amazon Lobbied to Stop Seattle from Enacting Pay Equity Law
It has a very small but dedicated user-base. You could clone it, but you don't have a market to sell to. You can't just make a lot more blind people to grow the market. (You could, but please don't)
Seems like I've been a bit too quick to judge. Apple has made some changes to reduce fingerprinting of devices: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6993440/321749
> Zero

Then you cannot, under any circumstances, remove a child from his or her parents.

I mean this in the strictest, most mathematical sense.

Are you sure that's what you want?
Huh, looks like I'm not using Slack anymore. There's a couple slacks I connect to casually only because I can in my already running IRC client.
You could try a USB SATA drive with a FAT16 filesystem containing "/wifipass.txt". USB-1.0 low speed is 1.5Mb/s and while I can't find documentation on ESP8266's GPIO switch speed, it's CPU is 40MHz, so bitbanging should be feasible.
Job equality: 2 necessary changes
Most local jurisdictions (cities, counties, etc) require you to obtain a business license before you do any kind of business there (including developing a website), which pretty much requires you to be incorporated (but "incorporating" as a sole proprietorship is trivial).
once in a millenium transformation of a former industrial
zone to a people friendly multi-story residential zone along
with supporting light rail/subway transportation) takes time

huh?

This only took about 2-3 years in Los Angeles. Many of the former industrial buildings and districts were rezoned and it has directly helped invigorate many areas of downtown which were formerly sparsely utilized. The Arts district has had several recent projects add what amounts to entirely new neighborhoods with hundreds of units and live/work spaces.

https://recode.la/about

Unfortunately due to prop 13, there's still a vast amount of empty lots and unused buildings just wasting space without adding any value to the city or residents. Given the rezoning, it seems to have finally inspired use of some of these buildings but many empty units will still exist until there's incentive to not just horde without use.
My 2c: I really like it to fetch data on the client side, works well with component based frameworks. But data mutations are a mess and lots of stuff you have to figure out yourself on the server side.
Well for starters IRC doesn't let you keep your hands warm when somebody posts a giphy and your system resource usage goes up to crypto mining levels.
See my other comment, but TLDR it's not a foreign currency if you're a Eurozone country.
Part of that is South India tends to be assertively anti-Hindi for various historical/cultural reasons. Given that, English is the only realistic option for communicating outside a given linguistic community.
I appreciate the kind words and don't mind chatting about it at all. My sister taught me that it is much better to talk about these things as it could save someone's life someday. She did take the treatment and the cancer is in remission.

I am happy to chat about this and she is as well to the extent you wish to go straight to the source. After her recovery, she organized a group of young mom's that meet regularly to help each other cope with cancer (and what she considers to be the more onerous issue - the thought of not seeing your kids grow up).
The UI looks easily clone-able. (if anyone wanted) -the LHs selects major groups, then a list of minor groups and identities, then a pane of content.

The "value" is the persisting storage and maybe the integration with bots (which IRC had first anyway) and Markdown, which is a really low barrier to entry.

So it feels to me like (and I speak as one who often says others can do it, but with no intent to do it myself so be warned) its a low bar implementation goal to do an IRC backed open slack.
It is hardly baseless. If the CPC has done well to allow innovation, it is likely because 1)China is enjoying the easy growth of an emerging economy where outside wealth is willing to pay you to pollute your lands for trinket manufacturing. 2) The party ALLOWED free thinking at Universities, and 3) the party acted under rules of meritocracy.

Under the tightening grip of surveillance in China today, and the centralization of power by the president and his "anti-corruption" campaign against the party and businessman, I don't see how innovation will persist. If the president and his party allies get entrenched, then I do not see how the party can stay a meritocracy, and without that meritocracy, I don't see how innovation won't get squashed.

Edit: thank you for removing the word baseless.
> brew install python3

Homebrew now installs Python 3 when you run "brew install python". I'm not sure if I agree with their choice, but it makes your guide a bit simpler.
Android apps declare two versions. Basically, the oldest version they can run on, and the newest version whose quirks and new behaviors they're aware of.

A good concrete example is the switch from making users agree to permissions when they install an app to runtime permissions. In the new style, the app is responsible for bringing up dialogs to ask for permissions. In the old style, the system does it when you install. So how does the system know whether your app knows how to ask? By setting targetSdkVersion to 23, you tell the system, "It's safe to assume I know about this new API I'm required to implement." But that doesn't preclude your app from running on older systems, where things behave just like they always did.
This is how I find out these existed, I could have been using something that didn't a shitload of memory in firefox the whole time :(
The New York Times is not only "reliant on advertising" to stay afloat, advertising was its primary source of revenue for its entire history until 2012. Only for the past 6 years has advertising revenue not exceeded circulation revenue, and they'd go under without advertising revenue even now.
Stablecoins are effectively digital money laundering tools.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve#Criminal_inves...

Why bother using a convoluted blockchain stablecoin rube goldberg machine where you need to jump though several hoops just to use it, when you could use a service like venmo, square, stripe, etc? What use case would justify the need for a stable coin if not for evading the law?
> What is their moat

Their moat is that the addressable market is too small for investors to bother investing in.
Maybe you should get out more?
>How often do you test? What other tests are available? What's the cost/benefit tradeoffs?

I don't disagree wit you, but none of what you say gets around the fact that once you start removing children from the custody of their parents, a non-zero FA rate sets in.

>Better techniques for confirming or denying the conclusion may be developed for use before doing anything drastic and irreversible.

Case in point: this is also a signal-detection problem.
You can certainly try to build a more sensitive detector, but the infamous tradeoff doesn't magically go away.

As such, you have to have at least some idea of what kinds of FA-odds you're wiling to tolerate, else you're just flying blind.

And I must insist on this point: the universe doesn't care how disturbing one finds the Hit/FA trade-off. It's still there, even if one doesn't want to look at it.
I had to leave the beta channel to get the device functional after a recent update. Some kind of error loop about "a recent update has not finished installing."
I have this strange feeling while reading your comment, as if you would respond to the tragedy of the commons with, "Isn't it great! We should get rid of all the commons!"---even though the result would be materially worse.

Open, federated systems are possibly, arguably, better, both in terms of ideology (or alternative, more specific terms like "privacy") and (maybe) technology. But, as you say, users don't care about open/closed, they don't care about ideology, they don't even care about technology. They care about ease of use and appearance.

Open, federated systems will never be as simple as proprietary systems. Further, they'll never attract the money necessary to get even as close as possible in terms of ease of use and appearance. Non-proprietary systems will usually lose out of the gate, not because they're dragging a 100lb anvil of ideology but because the alternatives have a magic tailwind of simpler requirements and more resources. (And that's as pragmatic as you can get, right?)

Note: I'm not a Stallman-wannabe, I'm not wagging fingers (at the moment, on this issue), and I use proprietary solutions all the time. But I also know what I'm trading off.
Things like IRC don't support embedded images, so lets build our own protocol with blackjack and everything else! Oh wait, its a slow morass :(
No, Windows Update doesn't distribute third party software. And even if it did, MSE is technically a competitor to McAfee so there wouldn't really be a solid reason to distribute it.

Your relative probably installed something and pressed "Next" through all the dialogs including the ones asking if they want to install super helpful bundled software.
I find it fascinating how almost every No/NewSQL database in almost every use case niche (document, time series, key value, etc.) gets blown out of the water by Postgres either from day one or a couple of Postgres releases later (sometimes using a plugin). It just goes to show how great their technology is. Plus, its very mature, well understood, safe, secure and stable. And its much more likely to still be around (maintained) 10 years from now than the current NoSQL flavor of the month.

After we had some pretty horrendous experiences with several NoSQL dbs (mostly MongoDB, CouchDB) on client projects, we strongly urge all clients to just use Postgres. The only exceptions are redis (for caching, queues, etc.) and elasticsearch (for ... search), which are just very convenient complements to Postgres. We have never found a single instance where the postgres performance was not as good or better than the NoSQL alternative.
More dedicated gamers don't actually use 60hz monitors. I personally use a 155hz IPS monitor but there are 240+hz TN panels for gamers out there.

All pros use at least a 144hz panel.
You specifically said "That's easier to parse than odds for .. a blackjack hand?" Presumably what one is parsing when making a speculative trade is the odds of a positive outcome.

(You don't need to parse a blackjack hand, btw. The odds are pre-calculated and easy to look up[0]. But I was talking about the overall odds of playing, anyway, which is usually about a 0.5% house advantage per hand.)

Note: I'm not arguing that casino odds are better or worse than the odds of a crypto trade. Just that they're better defined, which you seem to agree with me on.

[0] http://www.blackjackage.com/odds-hand.php
Not a joke / easter-egg. RELU6 is an activation function commonly used in deep convolutional neural networks. It comes up fairly often in mobile machine learning cases because it's used in Google's optimized MobileNet architecture and would cause errors when trying to convert to run on device.

The original paper detailing the function is here (PDF warning):

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~kriz/conv-cifar10-aug2010.pdf

"Our ReLU units differ from those of [8] in two respects. First, we cap the units at 6, so our ReLU activation
function is:

y = min(max(x, 0), 6).

In our tests, this encourages the model to learn sparse features earlier. In the formulation of [8], this is
equivalent to imagining that each ReLU unit consists of only 6 replicated bias-shifted Bernoulli units, rather
than an infinite amount. We will refer to ReLU units capped at n as ReLU-n units."
Most definitely, I liked that he mentioned looking at the timeframe of 10 minutes and assessing what would be the value of stopping and spending it with his daughter vs. continuing on. Just 10 minutes. But re-prioritizing can make a huge difference to both of you!
You mean to the Western mind? I've got one, so yeah I feel somewhat at liberty to make mildly self-depreciating jokes about it. Sort of the way that Woody Allen is allowed to make good-natured fun of pedophiles.

Egads, that's terrible company to keep. Moving on now...
I work at an accessibility research centre in Toronto. When people consult Occupational Therapists for their a11y needs the government here will subsidize a percentage of the software (and hardware?) costs. As far as I know JAWS gets recommended, NVDA doesn't :/
I agree. Bitcoin doesn't have guns so it is quite the feat for it to think it can become as powerful as those with killing power. But I believe in Bitcoin and I want to see it win. However large that win may be I don't know.
Something that is quite "fun" is to accidentally leave a few slack tabs open in the browser, while running pycharm.

(If you like watching the computer slow to a crawl and have to power it down).
I find this statement from Facebook in the article to be oddly worded, as if it was carefully constructed by a lawyer to avoid getting caught in a lie:

"Facebook does not use your phone's microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed."

OK... so they are saying they don't use your microphone to target ads. But how about precisely enumerating how FB uses your microphone?

Do they use it for any purpose other than helping you communicate during a call?

Do they try to infer any persona information about you, which can then be used indirectly to make money from your data?

I too have had odd coincidences where eerily relevant ads show up after I have had a conversation. If only FB was more transparent about what they do, I might not be so paranoid about it.
It didn't recognize hbar as 1?
Differentiated Index in Distributed Log-Structured Data Stores [pdf] (2014)
2. Under the same fast growth, you may also hire a specialist for some technology you decide to get rid of.

This would only lead to a very small (less than 3-5), if any, part of the 100 engineers getting fired.

3. They simply over hired.

I guess some part of this could also have been because they de-prioritized some big features, that led to some engineers not having enough work.
Apple was involved in a very controversial case in 2011 [1]. IIRC, the resolution involved nothing about them claiming that tracking user location without their consent was bad, and focused only on the fact that the data was easily accessible a by 3rd parties.

In fact, they still collect tonnes of data from phones, but now they're more careful about the data not being user-accessible. A few quotes from the link you posted to their privacy policy:

> "We also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual."

The "on its own" sounds a little scapegoat-y tbh.

> "We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, referrer URL, location, and the time zone where an Apple product is used"

You can learn and infer a lot from those vectors. Towards the end of the paragraph they also mention that they use this data, amongst other things, to deliver "better advertising".

> "We may collect information regarding customer activities on our website, iCloud services, our iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, App Store for Apple TV and iBooks Stores and from our other products and services. Aggregated data is considered non‑personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy."

Ofc.

> "We may collect and store details of how you use our services, including search queries. [...] Except in limited instances to ensure quality of our services over the Internet, such information will not be associated with your IP address."

Ensuring "quality of services over the Internet" is _incredibly_ broad. For a company like Apple it could apply pretty much to anything tbh.

A lot of people don't know Apple collects all this data; and part of it is probably the fact you can't disable this collection. Only App usage, the one that might also be shared with 3rd party devs, is optional.

Thinking Apple doesn't take part on Google or Facebook scale data collecting because they sell phones and not ads is not only inaccurate (they do sell ads), but also a little naive. Data is very valuable. I'm not saying Apple doesn't care about privacy; their business model relies a less on individual targeting than Google or Facebook, but they're also in on the game of understanding users as much as possible, and given they control the phone they're in very deep.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/04/how-apple-tracks-you...
Thanks for this write-up, it's really nice to see the process start to finish in such a straightforward way.

Is your intention to continue letting the user base grow naturally, or do you have plans to post about this in other communities?

Also, I think the sponsor revenue model is really interesting. Can anybody point to stats on the effectiveness of project/podcast/video sponsorship vs. more conventional internet ads?
Introducing Hextris – A Tetris Inspired Progressive Web App (PWA)
Could this be a good explanation why the interest rate is kept so low for so long ? as a way to encourage money to go to innovation ?
She does actually state this in the interview at around 3:45.
is it true what I've heard about irc and how it completely ignores stuff like encoding?
I've had this conversation with doctors quite a bit. The missing link, in my opinion, is that the mind is an incredible tool only made better with good data. I don't think you or anyone is advocating to replace doctors with a TI-86, we just want data driven / supported decision making and I just can't figure out why we can't bridge that little gap.

I have a spreadsheet that I actively log the total amount of time I spend with my doctors and their staff when I see them in person. All I am going to say is god bless nurse practitioners.
I really wanted to like Matrix but it expects you to independently verify the keys for each device every person is using. If they get a new device, new keys to verify.

This is crazy. The keys should be per person, not per device.
Probably tracked by your IP address.
Paper Signals: A Voice Experiment
And bluetooth beacons (which you can get geo position without having to pair) are uniquely identifiable and used by almost all big box stores..
Nah, the issue of people learning English in school is totally orthogonal to the use of the Roman script in texting. People used the Roman script for texting when that was the only script available on the mobile phones. Android has really great support for most Indian scripts now (with the notable exception of Urdu) and I'm seeing a resurgence of texting in native scripts.

Learning English is viewed as a "job" thing -- it's what you do to have a good career. And English isn't used in the same ways as native languages are. A lot of the serious literature, art and politics happens exclusively in languages that are not English and using English in these contexts outs you as the equivalent of the "condescending coastal elite" in the US.
Discord has all the same problems Slack does. It's a proprietary VC-funded app without a sustainable business model.
mIRC takes 24MB!
Ah! Knowing that, I bet that someone _could_ make a CJK font optimized for file size, which includes radicals by reference. It wouldn't work in every case, because radicals change size and strokes shift to make room for other strokes. In cases where the same radical appears in the same place, it seems like it would help.

But maybe that's not enough of a benefit unless there's also a way to say "okay you need to use this radical, but a bit narrower, but the strokes need to be the same width and not distorted".
I guess this is about to break because of the current announcement?