skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial iteration of MSIE was based on the existing Spyglass Browser (see https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/02/business/spyglass-a-pione... ). Spyglass made a deal with MS to get a % of the sales of MSIE. Unfortunately for Spyglass, MS gave IE away for free.
There is a new Reddit layout, but it's not enabled for everybody yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741867
So another datapoint indicating that caloric restriction might be a good idea, with a plausible sounding mechanism of action.
It would be a bigger deal if it was not windows only.
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Is there no spectrum between absolutes? Anyway the AI will have no concept of the notion, unless its part of the calculation. And Utilitarian notions are notoriously repugnant.
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From what I understood in my recent statistics course, the p-value is the probability of receiving a specific result considering the null hypothesis is true. It's usually compared by using some distribution model (binomial, etc.) over the actual study results.

Short version; the p-value is only sufficient to disprove a hypothesis, not to prove it. If your p-value is 1% than that means you make experiments until the probability that you are wrong is less than 1%. (for example, you throw coins 100 times, 90 times is head, the probability of that result is below 0.04 so the coin is not fair)

That still doesn't mean you are right. Just that at the moment you have not been prove wrong or the data is not sufficient to prove you wrong.
Java followed by .NET, beats both reagarding available libraries, unless you mean only open source ones.

And JavaScript with their one liner packages probably beats all.

Python still misses having a proper mix of AOT/JIT compilers as standard toolchain, like Lisp does.
Yeah we can at last make some more progress in science, now that we're finally rid of Hawking.
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I work 4 days a week as a software engineer and that’s working out great for me. I might even make it 3 like another colleague.

My weekends have almost no chores, because I do that on Thursdays. I have time to do whatever I want, like fixing up my car, playing around with a project, or just catching up with friends.
My experience is that this is true for my company's corporate Azure/Office365 type services and ALSO for my personal Office365 Home subscription.

I had an issue sending an email from my personal microsoft account and I submitted a case via the support tool and I had a response from a helpful representative within 12 hours.
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This term is being used like this in other places as well, for example reactive vs. proactive agents.
As a South Floridian sorry to say but this is probably a massive waste of money and investment in an old technology that frankly I don't see how it's going to benefit people when it only has a few stops and because it can't seem to stop killing people it seems to be running slower and slower every week, wasn't this supposed to be a "Fast" train?

Also sure Florida has plenty of freight trains, something I'm used to but it seems like Brightline passes more frequently (not sure if they're still doing test runs here and there) which mess up local traffic patterns especially in rush hour times.
You might be right, however I've never had trouble making contact, or having my issue resolved even for small fish.
Again with the loaded words. And what is the actual health issue? Do we imagine that fish are exposed to more plastic than the average human? Not likely. We already accept plastic into our lives continuously.
My takeaway: Many technological innovations don't turn out to be world-changing events. And those that do take several years to trickle down to mainstream usage.

For those of us that keep a skeptical mindset when evaluating new technology, none of this comes as a surprise.
Blame Jordan Peterson
Having to actually type in a code sounds like a smart move on Google's part, to avoid spear-phishing and XSS attacks.
"I mean considering the fact people's political affiliations very rarely ever change"

Seriously? At least the cliche is that young people tend to be more leftist than older people because students and other young people often work low-end jobs and both experience low-incomes and empathize with people stuck in such jobs for life, but become more conservative as they begin to have higher incomes, own property, etc. and start wanting lower taxes.
This is getting too long and detailed to use my mobile to keep replying in as much detail as it deserves. :)

I get the impression that either (1) you have a very different definition of “common sense” to me, or (2) you are no longer talking about it. Does this seem like a fair representation? If so, can you explicitly describe what you mean by “common sense”?

As for reproducing results: limited experience of simple things only. Full time job has gone from software to full-time carer for parent with Alzheimer’s, so I don’t have time for anything more complex than e.g. {train scikit-learn to read from scratch, then read all the digits in Shakuntala Devi‘s number, then calculating the answer to her famous question} and timing it as faster than the human visual system takes to go from a number appearing to conscious awareness of that.

You know, fun toy examples for whiteboard interviews.

Mainly I’m keeping up to date with the “Two Minute Papers” YouTube channel. Hopefully I’ll be able to apply to start a PhD when my family can take over care duties for me…

Quick edit: I think your definition of intelligence is equivalent to mine. Please elaborate why you disagree?
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Neither Firefox nor iOS are “competitors” for Google. Google’s main business is advertising and collecting data. Both Chrome and Android are means to that end. Google wants to be wherever the users are, whether that’s on Android, iOS, Chrome, or Firefox.

For years, Google made more money on iOS than Android even after Androids market share eclipsed iOS’s market share.
"imagine the PR problems if X" worked prior to snowden, but now it seems no one cares.

If we don't care that they're spying on us all, why would we care about the reason behind the spying?

Your argument is very logical and plausible, but we live in illogical and implausible times.
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Playing battleships over BGP
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For us living inside the feedback loop of the tech world it might be hard to see the relative importance of some of the things. I think he brings up an interesting topic from the perspective of someone living outside of the tech world.
Sure!

> this is something that can be covered by common standards

Theoretically, but this has been a failure since forever. I've been moving countries a lot in my life and the hassle is real. Transferwise makes things easier but it's recent, slow and still is a middle-man you could get rid of with cryptocurrencies. With cryptocurrencies a simple transaction would suffice.

> Direct participation in payment systems for non-banks is also an option that already exists

I was not aware of this. I doubt it's realistic though, whereas right now I can (and do) send money to people via cryptocurrencies without a need for a bank.

I think the reason I'm getting downvoted on these posts is that people don't realize how banks interaction and money transfers are broken as soon as you travel and move in the world. Here in the UK banking is really easy thanks to Monzo and Revolut, but go abroad and it already becomes a mess. More and more people are going to have these problems as world travel becomes more efficient and cheaper.
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Wow, I never heard of this story so far. Back then, I was naive and young and believed Internet Explorer to be the better browser ;-)
> The difference here is that you don't need to know the name of the types of all the things, nor write them.

I believe the latest version of Java would allow "var", fwiw.

> Or wrap an object in another object.

True. The java standard library's I/O functionality is quite low-level, perhaps excessively so. In practice there are libraries that give a more lightweight/high-level interface.
AIM service shutdown in December.
Thank you! It could be true, but frankly I wouldn't trust ru.wikipedia too blindly, especially when it comes to small towns history, because there are lots of local lore gatherers with original researches, and nobody cares to verify their contributions. I can't check the mentioned act of Sviatoslav now, that would require to search for a real paper book :) But I'm quite sure it should be 1137, not 1138 for starters.
Did I left wrong impression ? Compare:

1) "Don't be evil." Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But "Don't be evil" is much more than that...
The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put "Don't be evil" into practice... - at the very beginning.

This whole section in now gone, as if never happened ... web.archive.org/web/20180121070136/abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

2) "And remember… don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right – speak up!" - at the end of lengthy document, After the Conclusion section. abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
Go ahead and knock yourself out. If you think “creating a quantitative model” of senescence is easy for “rational people”, then go right ahead. Your Nobel prize awaits.
POP3? You can use the gmail pop3 server via your mail retriever program, and set it to not keep mail on the server (which is generally the default). All mail suite software (Thunderbird, Outlook, Evolution, etc.) and individual mail retrieval programs (e.g. mpop, fetchmail, getmail, etc) support it.
Patents currently expire before any immortality products could be known to work correctly. So why would anyone change a rule like that?
By both virtue of education and selection process, and given that their education was adequately rigorous, they've likely been working hard at academics for > 10 years, they had the mental faculties to understand everything in their field, and they're certified by grades from the most educated people in their field on the planet (same is true for other top universities, as well). There are far more problems with hiring 15 year olds at NASA than sheer volume of applications - I would advise you to think more deeply about what you're suggesting as, even in your alternative education scenario, it's a truly terrible idea.

Devil's advocate: why is that a bad thing? Kids get social/organization exposure, to sports, music, basic education. The motivated ones are still apparently rising to the top despite the shitty environment. Most humans don't need to go into rocket science, and half of your graduating class will end up directly selling things to other people (in some form or another).As well, are you arguing that kids need less social exposure? That would be true if most kids were going to become software developers, which is not the case. Most of our social interactions do not occur in childhood; you're not speaking for everyone.

What I will say, that is somewhat similar to what you're arguing, is that it would be great if students had direct access to more challenging curriculums at every stage of their education. To my knowledge, ambitious high schoolers need benefactors willing to pay for college courses that are standard fare for secondary school in a lot of countries. If you're naturally bright and hard working without affluent parents, you're SOL in HS, which is not fair, and I think it's also unreasonable that they need to rely on being autodidactic from a young age, which is really the only alternative.
Is there two Yelps?
The inside of a proton endures more pressure than anything else we’ve seen
I'm sure the current US gov will pardon him! /s
You are entirely missing the point.

If Hawking and Einstein lived longer so would everybody else. And that would mean that a younger generation of scientists would have to wait much longer before their ideas could be discussed without opposition from the established elders who see their pet theories attacked by these uppity youngsters.

The quote is a riff on what Max Planck, himself an eminent scientist said on the subject:

"Science advances one funeral at a time."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck
This is a reference to Jordan Peterson I believe
I predict that AI has 5-10 more years of "mostly useless" ahead until it suddenly becomes interesting.

Another thing he criticised was the Internet of Things and other gadgets: I agree with the author on that one. I hope it dies a quick death. If there's a tradeoff between an internet-connected device that lasts 1-2 years and a not-connected device lasting 20 years, I would always chose the longer-lasting one.
Thanks for sharing and can't wait to see the technical article. I didn't know the Twitter API provided this much data.
This article has a lot of info on what contacts we have evidence to support:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations

And I'm sure we'll only ever know at best maybe a tenth of what happened. (Wild guess.)
Even immortals need a living.
I agree that the matter is multi-faceted, of course.
I just wanted to point out that we can't use a competing service's quality to assess whether market dominance was exerted or not. Neither I think it can be an extenuating factor.
One isn't any less a murderer if they kill another murderer.

Should a different case (maybe a class action) be brought against Yelp for abusing its position and momentum to force restaurants into joining the platform? Probably yes, but it would be a different case which, albeit rightful, has nothing to do with the Yelp-Google case.
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From https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/vat-customs/moss-schem...:

> the information used to determine the place where the customer is established or has their permanent address or usually resides.

Sadly this regulation doesn't specify which kind of information this could be.

Your customer could try to get a better price by pretending to be from a country without VAT. Therefore the address given by the customer is more or less worthless in this regards. One more realistic information is the IP address. But as this also is pretty easy to spoof it might be reasonable to also keep information about the country were the cc card was issued, if possible.
> I believe the latest version of Java would allow "var", fwiw.

While Python gained type hinting. It's funny how in the end stuff converge.
I suspect the company was using the free consumer version. That comes with little escalation, etc. They probably should have used something different for business email for a company with 100+ people, but this is not the point.

The valid point, if true, is that an action of one individual caused a major disruption for a lot of other people that are connected to him only via google algorithms or some other vague means.

Banning non-violating business accounts from the business that breaks ToS is kind-of OK (but should be followed by a human interaction to check); banning personal accounts for folks because of their business ties is not. My 2c.
In 2010 I bought a Nissan Versa for around $10k (lightly used). It still runs like a champ, the door handle has been replaced, a few belts, tires, oil, etc. However, all the repairs in 8 years is less than $5k.

That's around $700 a year, and the damn thing has 165,000 miles. Still starts, drives, no rust. Should easily be able to pull 200,000 miles off of it (or another 2 years). I think the car today is still worth a ~$1k - $2k.
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Am i the only one that finds Uber a lot more expensive then local, traditional taxi rivals?

In the UK just outside London Uber's quotes last Friday and Saturday night were 50%-100% hire then other competitors.
How come noone is pointing out that paying 12041 to Uber is paaying 12041 to undermine society by ignoring the rule of law and to roll back protections organizer labor achieved over a hundred years? Shame on you.
Not like, literally brainfuck, because brainfuck doesn't use #.

Anyone got thoughts on what it might be?

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Damn. Well there are probably others :) but I'm not going to do the research.
I don't think it served well as completely explaining it, because Android and Chrome were only cursory mentions, and I'd argue they're both critical to Google's ability to control the Internet, while each also being monopolies in their own right.
> Do other popular languages support a similar construct? C? C++? Perl?

C? No, though I don't really think of that as an actively maintained language. C++ and Perl achieve the same thing via RAII.

> Not that it takes anything away from Java. I think all languages are gradually trying to or discovering the approach the features and expressiveness of Lisp.

I think language design converges over time, alternating between expressive-but-unmaintainable and structured-but-too-strict but getting closer to the ideal as we advance. In many ways Lisp isn't a complete language design at all - rather macros are there for the user to finish the language themselves.
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It was a better browser. There was a story in one of the major PC magazines about how badly Netscape crashed on every platform. It use to be a point of nerd pride how well your operating system could handle a Netscape crash. It would crash the entire MacOS.
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There's more then one way to skin a cat, but none of them work 100% of the time for paywalls
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I think the parent comment was referring to video game piracy before Steam.

It was a mess of custom launchers, DRM, losing the CD/DVD or key so people would turn to piracy to access stuff they already owned.

Fast-forward a few year and most people are fine with Steam as long as it's the unified launcher for doing thing.
Yes. It's too much. I might see only one movie in a month.
I remember this too so I looked it up. It was Wakie, but it seems that they’ve de-emphasized the wake-up call aspect.

Here’s an article from 2014: https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/10/wakie/
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Of course, guess I shouldn't comment before the caffeine kicks in... I was thinking without reified types the JIT can't optimize it easily then got stuck on that. Of course the compiler could do so, Java just doesn't have an optimizing compiler.
>"except on bigger issues"

Internet: You're accused of not caring about any but the very largest of corporate customers, nor individual customers, and damaging companies that use your products.

Google: We don't respond to such minor issues.

?

It's a massive issue IMO. They know what they're doing, they just don't want to be overt with it as that will damage their rep.
It's 22 years later. The presentation is infinitely better. The content is infinitely worse... or at least the content that greets the average net user.

You really have to dig for good quality content today.
Consider taking a look at the Visual Studio tools, which have really matured over the last few years: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/features/modern-web-tooling/

Specifically, tools for Apache Cordova: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/features/cordova/

(disclaimer: I haven't used them, but I've heard very positive feedback)
Thank you so much! I will try to publish the technical article this week!
The big picture innovations take longer and arrive slower, but the small, life-enhancing improvements deliver so smoothly and consistently that you don't notice until they're taken away. It's only when you have to use a 5-year-old phone or application that you realise how much worse things were back then.
How does this work? Do you work 40 hours compressed into 3/4 days, or do you take a pay cut? Do you find that you are able to be productive for entirety of the 10 or 14 hour days required by a compressed workweek?
Firefox has this awesome plugin for exactly this purpose:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
Another good trick is to never log:

report(Msg) -> hopefully_traced.

You can then add a trace probe to your report/1 function and this allows you to have debug information when you need it.
'comp.misc' exists on USENet and has done since the dawn of time. It's fairly spam free these days, and a few dedicated people post stuff to it. It's in a perfect place to be used again and turned into a meaningful discussion hub.
We just stage everything in a single environment. It causes problems and clashes only on rare occasions.
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If what Uber is doing is illegal, why are they allowed to continue operating?
G Suite Business accounts absolutely do have recovery emails that can be, and often are, personal accounts. I'm in my gsuite account looking at the setting right now. And wondering if I should change it.

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the whole incident as conspiracy. It sounds relatively plausible to me, but agree that there are clear holes in the guy's knowledge or explanation.
If anything, it should show movie theaters that if they dropped their own prices, more people would go to the movies...
Ok, that's a good point. But video games are rarely created with public funds and in general are not crowdsourced to then be placed behind a paywall. Even Steam has plenty of competition.

If there were a disruption of the world of scientific publishing that would have a parallel in entertainment I would have chosen Spotify over Steam.
The exception being torrenting while wardriving.
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Not everyone lives in the authoritarian US where the police are legitimate psychos.
Doubtful (UBI) but also not an answer. Anti-geriatric treatment will be ignored until after their patents have expired because almost nobody will believe they work until 30 or 40 years after it becomes available.
I agree! Hy Brasil is not sinking, ignore the panic mongers, there are others with more experience in these matters than you...
https://youtu.be/qJh6EQ5gv7g
Sometimes! We're not a remote-first company but we consider experienced candidates who live in a not too dissimilar time zone.
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