skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [Microsoft-made browsers] have a strong history of being far behind the web standards progress

They've catched up quite a bit on that front: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

Also, IE before version 6 had a history of being extremely innovative (DHTML, anyone?). That's part of how they won the first browser wars (that and pushing the browser through their OS).

> and exposing system vulnerabilities via ActiveX

Now that's just baseless fearmongering. Edge supports neither ActiveX nor Java Applets. That's why IE is still around: for legacy websites in corporate intranets that still require this junk. I'm not sure if IE is installed on non-Enterprise SKUs of Windows 10, but it would surprise me if it was.
Didn't Microsoft get sued for this kind of behavior? I thought they'd stopped employing these tactics.
Cancers 'rising around the world'
Gasoline in the US is taxed not subsidized.
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Content creators get paid via Basic Attention Token. Wow ppl reply without reading anything. BAT is all about attention. Pay attention!
There's a difference between observing how a comment was generally received and remembering exactly how each person reacted. I'm not saying nobody does the latter, but I don't.
Personally the only times when I got back-stabbed at work were by Canadians, but I don't go around making conclusion about Canadian culture being backstabby.

If 1 in 10 Chinese you met are manipulators, that means 9 out of 10 are NOT honest/manipulative, how can you then go conclude "in Chinese culture 'any means necessary' tactics are considered smart and fair game as long as they work."?
You can install run Android apps on many Chromebooks now, so you can install Firefox if you want:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-run-firefox-quan...
Bitcoin Layer 1 (on chain) ~= .09 euro

Bitcoin Layer 2 (lightning network) ~= 0.0005 euro

Source: https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1029425619350642688
These costs are independent of the bitcoin amount transfered.

>blockchain solutions implement this as many, distributed middlemen, IIUC

There are no "middlemen" required to transfer bitcoin via layer 2.
"Middlemen" required to transfer bitcoin via layer 1 are miners and a peer (could be the miner) to relay a block to you.
Corporations exist
I suppose that's possible, but it seems rather convoluted. Why wouldn't those hypothetical funders simply bribe both branches of the status quo party like every other rich asshole does?

I might change my mind about all this if any of the actually-different young democrats who have forsworn such financing are actually elected this fall...
According to https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/05/15/us/manhattan-marijuana-...

There's been 5,500 cases in 2017, which is apparently 85% decline compared to pre-2014. So 3k is just over half year's worth.

But that's combined with stopping the possession prosecution this year.
It does bother me that they never acknowledge the more knowledgeable and informed trump voters.

To think they don’t exist is almost as ignorant as the people they’re referring to.
I argue, no. Not because of the weighty, complex social issues, but because wading into that subject area means addressing larger, more difficult ontological dilemmas in biology that aren't suited for examination in a high school biology class.

For example, the teacher's preferred answer to this question was false:

5. True or False: When several traits are combined they can
be used to distinguish one racial group from another.

Technically, the answer is true. It's only false if trait only refers to the caricatured stereotypes of some particular racial classification system. But even if trait means readily identifiable phenotypes, you absolutely can break global populations into identifiable groups using traits like ear wax & perspiration, eye color, hair color & type, skin elasticity, and various other traits. The groups may not perfectly reflect traditional racial classification systems, but that's of no matter. The old Victorian system is but one among many around the globe, and all cultures are adept at redefining the contours of race. The racial classification system of modern American culture is nothing like the Victorian system. Disproving the inconsistency of Victorian-era race is like disproving phrenology--nobody cares. (We say "race" was a Western invention but that's just because Western Europe was the birthplace of modern phylogeny and biology. Race is a meme that was and is easily adopted and localized.) A shallow approach risks piquing students interest without dispelling the notion that any system of socially constructed racial categorization is broken and unproductive.

The counter-point to typical racial classification systems about the degree of genetic diversity of African populations doesn't resolve the question at all, because once you open the door to sophisticated genetic variations it becomes trivial to track populations.

There's just too much complexity for a high school biology class to really wrestle with. It would be awesome if it was explored in a science-centered high school class because it's a perfect way to really drill down into fundamental concepts in science, but it'd have to be a seminar with a low student-to-teacher ratio. And the subject is a minefield, particularly in an age where people are primed to be outraged. It's just not practical for most schools.

Incomplete and inconsistent answers are the perfect environment for breeding pseudo-scientific concepts. There's something to be said for not asking the question unless your prepared to invest yourself in finding the answer.
Some have notches and a chin some do not, just as some are completely edge to edge with no chin with a pop out camera and in screen fingerprint sensors.
Sucks for ublock users I guess.
That's a bit of a strawman, since the OP didn't talk about the first amendment but about "free speech". Free Speech is a principle coming from the enlightenment of which the first amendment is one expression, but certainly not the only expression.

The idea is that speech should be tolerated even if you disagree with it, and that societies that make room for controversial speech are better off, in the long run, than societies that do not. As a corollary, it espouses the view that individuals should be free to speak their mind and should be tolerated even if their speech is controversial. Because we cherish Free Speech, we created the first amendment. The first amendment is not the sum total of free speech, nor is free speech merely a governmental issue. For example, the California labor protections that protect employees from being fired for what they say in their private time is an example of the principle of free speech at work, and has nothing to do with the first amendment.

The principle of free speech is why there are many processes, both private and public, in which the public is invited for individuals to air their views, whether they be question and answer sessions in companies, or local government hearings. It's also the principle behind movements to build public libraries that stock controversial books. Almost every institution, whether public or private, tries to give some room for dissenting speech in its operations and tries to create a space for people to air their views. Thus the attacks on these spaces, even if they are not attacks on the first amendment, are of concern to those of us who value free speech. This includes opposition to efforts at censorship, both public and private, whether these be the circulation of blacklists of communists during the cold war, or any other kind of punishment, both public and private, merely for speech.

You may not agree with these values, but merely saying "well, the first amendment doesn't prohibit it, so it's not an attack on free speech" is a wild misunderstanding of what free speech is.
This is a known Chinese problem, not racist it is ingrained in their culture. Chinese will literally riot if they are not allowed to cheat..
Just stating: I do think they attempt to address this, they have a great malvertising team, but the problem is huge. If the attack is broad enough it absolutely gets addressed... it’s just such a logistical challenge, and malvertisers are exceedingly clever about their wares
I wonder if I should collect a bunch of these...

Off the top of my head, I've observed:

- Resume Driven Development: wherein enterprise contractors and developers inject as many fad frameworks, architectures, and uncalled for features unnecessarily.

- Vendor Driven Development: wherein the application architecture is tie to a cloud solutions billing model as much as possible.

- Search Engine Driven Development: wherein the code is just a bunch of copy/pasted code that isn't really understood, and doesn't really work together coherently.

- Ignorance Driven Development: wherein a perfectly serviceable solution which is better in every way was not used, simply because the developer saw a problem and immediately went to code, without looking at how everyone else in the world solves the problem.

- Delusion Driven Development: wherein a completely useless application is beautifully crafted based on the obvious delusions of a manager or founder, which have successfully spread to the development team without any critical push-back or data to back the deluded assertions of the authority that has deemed the software necessary.
Didn't they do stuff like this when they first made IE and it got them into a lot of trouble with an anti-trust lawsuit? Seems like they are doing the EXACT same thing again.
Heh. Staunch agreement in this thread - respectful disagreement in that other one. We should go for a beer or coffee...
> Off topic, but how is attacking refugee policy “racist?”

The narrative pushed by BILD was that for anything from antisemitism over rising housing costs to "rises" in criminality was caused by refugees (and refugees alone, never mind still dominant Nazi antisemitism, capitalism and fabricated statistics), that refugees are dangerous, that Islam is dangerous and other stuff that basically echoed what the local right-wing extremist party AfD also said.

It's perfectly valid to debate refugee (or other) politics, but if one crosses that thin line of feeding the population outright lies or incite hatred, one deserves to be called a racist hate monger.
Wouldn't adjusting the system's clock circumvent this?

I do agree with your point that this is a bad thing in the first place.
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That is probably true but I have been changing mine manually and then pushing them via version control.
I use Brave primarily on mobile. Saves maybe >50% battery. Chrome when i need to. Set Brave as the default so other apps use it. So fast.
Yeah, I’ve been doing strength training 2 hours 3x/week with a coach, and I would never attempt this without a coach.

Every work set she’s watching me and making frequent adjustments. It would be impossible for me to do this without her. Maybe I could record video and analyze it, but I would have to essentially learn all of her expertise and even then it would be delayed so I couldn’t make fixes until after I have already completed a dangerous set.

At the very least I would recommend a good two months or so during your linear progression. After that you can do volume sets, pause sets etc alone, with coaching maybe twice a month for heavy days and to check in on your form.

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They don't cost enough money to justify this whole embarrassing episode. Probably they're just a little bit harder to configure than it was to just dump everything on GitHub.
Not in the same way as in the US, and I don't think campaign contributions are a thing, at least not at the same level as in the US.

But there are many, many lobbyists active in the EU, and some of them have a surprising amount of influence over politicians. There has even been a case where two different parties, independently from each other, introduced the exact same bill, which had been written by a lobbyist.
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Right, so never ever. :/
A criminal investigation? Does that mean EA managers could get jailed if they visit Belgium?

I'm just kidding of course. There's no reason to visit Belgium.
I suppose you're thinking of these riots [1] after cheating was forbidden in university entrance exams in one Chinese locale?

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/101323...
Feature-Specific Profiling
Wouldn't it be cheaper for cloud providers though? They are buying more bandwidth so they can get it cheaper. Also, they are taking advantage of the fact that clients have unused bandwidth so they can overprovision and get cost savings that way as well. I would think that that SHOULD make it cheaper for clients, but the opposite seems to be the case.
Use Brave by default and use other browsers when necessary.
I literally just logged into gmail instead of inbox for the first time in years now that I'm forced to migrate and... all I can say is wtf this mess. inbox was just about perfect. I'm going to miss bundles.
No FM radio? Too bad.
Google does it with their apps too— clicking on links in Hangouts keeps prompting me to use Chrome instead of Safari. Honestly, I'm shocked Apple tolerates this.
Does this essentially make an equivalent of a refrigerator at a quantum scale?
Pagerank is just one factor in a much more complicated algorithm. The full algorithm has always been secret, because SEO is a thing. If you demand a transparent algorithm, you're giving up search that actually works.

However, at a meta-level, there is some public information about how Google decides whether a change is making things better or worse. This doesn't tell you how the algorithm works, but it shows the goal they're optimizing for.

Google has "over 10,000 human raters" that rate search engine results. I don't know how they choose the raters, but presumably it's a variety of people in each country. You can read about them here:

https://searchengineland.com/library/google/google-search-qu...

Also, the guidelines that the human raters are supposed to follow are public, and you can read them here:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...
I'm being thick. If they thought it was a hack why did they change the deposit info?
If accessibility is the exact situation alt text is designed for, and it works for the most part, who is to blame for it not being accessible if not the person putting inaccessible text in there? Merely providing something is not equivalent to providing a good solution.

By my understanding (as a sighted person who has relatively zero experience using such features) alt text is for short pieces of text that might aid in communication of an image to a blind person. I have even less understanding on whether or not dumping a chunk of code in there would be at all useful, and I expect very few sighted persons would know better. Hence my complaint, and hence my question.
I am proud to say I lived through peak Moore’s law
To be honest so much corporate speak. Only Sergei's voice seems to be authentic. Everyone else trying to be extremely careful with their language of comments even though it's not a public event.

And "misinformation" and "fake news" will be combatted by AI? Seriously? That is like saying, "I have no clue but I will use some buzzwords". Pichai/GOOG knows AI better than everyone. I think they still don't have plan for combatting misinformation.
I just ditched my Apple Watch 3 (with cellular) and got a Garmin Forerunner 935.

All of the features the AW provides beyond the 935 are implemented poorly. Any noise from street or wind or water made the AW phone features useless. For texting, only bareable responding with a few words or less. Siri did not work.

With the 935 I gained battery life, big screen size, better fitness tracking, sleep tracking, and still operates with wet (rain or sweat or swimming) fingers.

Even if I get notified of something on my AW, couldn’t do anything about it without my phone.

Sometimes I missed carrying a phone on long distance runs for the camera. Eg. Moose!

I’d like a smaller phone like my old Motorola Razer for my runs.
I’m not sure, but I’m quite confident that they made no effort to extend the proof to include a model of the hardware and the low-level asm. Doing this would be hard — consider bugs like BadIRET or CVE-2018-8897. BadIRET would have been caught by any halfway credible model of the hardware. CVE-2018-8897, on the other hand, was the result of CPU behavior that was totally unclear in the manual and made no sense from a first-principles perspective.
I agree. In my field there are entire journals which I regard as rubbish and which are 95%+ Chinese/East Asian. Part of the problem is integrity, but a larger portion of the bad papers are just meaningless cargo-cult science.
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I'm not sure if you are agreeing with me or not.

As far as I am aware, the US does not have any substantial free speech protection other then the first amendment, so it does not make sense to say that "free speech" guarantees us anything beyond what the first amendment does.

The arguement that my parent was making is that Google can deny you use of their platform without violating your free speech. In my view, the only way that makes sense is if you interpret free speech as narrowly defined by the first amendment. Otherwise, to be denied Google seems to be clearly denied free speech.
I wish they would just keep the IE UI, and have Edge be the rendering engine.

The only reason I like IE over other browsers is because its UI hasn't changed much and remains relatively un-dumbed-down and un-mobile-apped like a Windows application should. Its configuration dialogs are also standard ones.
Vote for those who advocate for it. Take your friends and family to the polls with you.

If you have extra money, donate to those politicians. Even a $10 donation is helpful.
As others have noted, Tesla tried this with a single station off the I5 and quickly abandoned the idea.

The battery is probably the most expensive component in the entire car, and is ultimately a consumable. People would forever be anxious about getting swapped out with a battery with more charge cycles on it than the one they had, ultimately affecting the potential lifespan/resale of the car.

Not an insurmountable problem, but a problem that adds a fair deal of complexity to managing the inventory at the charging stations. From what I’ve read, the software on the few Teslas that used this service didn’t understand the battery had been switched at all, and continued measuring battery health as if it was still the same original battery. I certainly wouldn’t have been keen on this idea at all unless the car correctly tracked these things.
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> The only thing this will do is entrench massive players like Google and Facebook who already have these systems in place.

Not exactly. Small and micro platforms are excluded from directive’s scope.

From legislation: In particular, small and micro enterprises as defined in Title I of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC, should be expected to be subject to less burdensome obligations than larger service providers. Therefore, taking into account the state of the art and the availability of technologies and their costs, in specific cases it may not be proportionate to expect small and micro enterprises to apply preventive measures and that therefore in such cases these enterprises should only be expected to expeditiously remove specific unauthorised works and other subject matter upon notification by rightholders

As to what small is, Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC Article 2.2 states:

Within the SME category, a small enterprise is defined as an enterprise which employs fewer than 50 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 10 million
Do you have a source that backs this up? I am under the impression that 7nm is a marketing term but that it is still smaller than the previous node.
The context here revolves around the definition of the word "discrete" and the fact that they are using "discrete" in terms of "transistors" as in "discrete transistors".

When used in that manner, "discrete transistors" generally means that each individual transistor is on/in one single package. The item pictured here: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/12852 is a "discrete transistor" (the plastic package contains one single transistor, the three leads connect directly to the collector, emitter, and base).

Now, in the case of this design, they explain that they are unable to purchase actual discrete transistor packages because no one makes the appropriate MOSFET transistors as single transistor to a package items anymore. So they had to use four transistor packages instead of single transistor packages. So under a strict definition of "discrete" they did not use "discrete transistors". They then provide their rationale for why one could view this as still discrete in a less strict usage. It is then up to you to decide if you accept their rationale.
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Depending which sources you believe a lot, possibility the majority, of companies are still running Windows 7.
Not even enterprise gets rid of that crap.
If it's a global currency, it would also need to solve the Euro's problem: When every country uses the same currency, how can the individual countries enforce individual fiscal policies? If the answer is "not at all", what substitutes for fiscal policy?
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