skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lee never describes what the practical result of "A.I. supremacy" actually means. The only other place that "supremacy" in terms of between nation states is used is with military matters, e.g. Air Supremacy [1].

Is he talking about General Intelligence? Is he arguing that there are radical efficiencies that ML gives you that you can't get elsewhere?

I haven't seen a clear vision of what he means by "supremacy."

Aside from that, and I am well aware of Mr. Lee's CV, his book, and his resulting wave of articles reads like it's from someone who has never actually built a product that functionally based around ML. That's likely because he seems to be writing from a general audience, but some of the points just don't seem to hold.

For example, that SV doesn't like to copy. If there is anything true it's that SV LOVES to copy. See: Apple and MSFT copying everything important from PARC, IG copying Snap etc...

On the points about "AI," the example of being "first" to some arbitrary goal like fully autonomous cars is a weird near-strawman. Let's say that Didi does get to Level 5 autonomy first. Does that mean the rest of the world's on-demand driving services will completely capitulate to them? Of course not. Standard economics apply. Deep Learning hasn't upended the rules of economics just yet. Maybe once we're at the point where labor inputs are near zero because of automation we can talk.

Now if Lee were to start making the argument that this stuff matters in national defense and intelligence matters, or about the race to general AI, then we would finally have a good conversation. However he's not making that argument because it's a little too early to have it, and nobody seems to want to have it anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_supremacy
TL;DR: the program subjects itself to a format string "attack", allowing it to execute the shellcode for the web server.
This is the culture of having hundreds of millions of users. One user asking for something is just a data point and you have to rely on user research and surveys to know what users really want on average. But surveys have their blind spots as well.

The thing is, as a developer without having access to user research, all I know is what I want, and as a developer I assume I'm atypical. Whether it corresponds to what anyone else wants is questionable.

The opposite of this is people who assume that whatever they personally want is Obviously the Right Thing For All Users. You will find that attitude everywhere on the Internet. And that has its own flaws.
Also, eventually brink walls break down. Google on the other hand doubles down the depth and breadth of its overreach.
> name of the shop where you made a purchase and it's location.

i would hope that this data can be obfuscated or hidden if the end user desires it.
One of the articles cited is available for free: <https://archive.org/details/bstj39-4-995>. I find it interesting to note that the engineers also made variable force profile pushbuttons to test different springinesses as well.
You've posed a false choice, well-controlled quantities of high fat/salt/carb food is not a conundrum
Yes, Google is a cult.
It would be really great if you could follow the guidelines instead of posting like this. Would you please?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18053831.
I 100% agree that secrecy is a problem and invites corruption. The intent of the law is clear though. It has come up in cases before, and hopefully will again if it is being abused.
Safari isn't open source, only the rendering engine is. Doesn't matter to most, but does matter a great deal to some.
> just have a conversation with a few people that are currently or were recently homeless

A couple decades ago in San Francisco, I used to host an open mic. One of the regulars was Keith Savage, a poet who would occasionally compose and perform appreciations of the other regulars who had moved him. He was so empathic, so good at capturing what people were trying to communicate and then reworking it and responding... he gave so many people a rich reward for being brave enough to take the open mic stage.

Keith happened to be homeless, though that's not the most important or interesting thing about him... Folks, if you exclude the homeless from your life, you may be missing out...
I’ve noticed Siri has gotten worse on my watch as well. It’s basically impossible to use Siri to send a message on it now. I get the ‘what would you like me to send?’ prompt and then it doesn’t hear me at all. Really hoping the iOS 12 focus on Siri has fixed some of these issues.
What do you think they use in branches? Their internal network.

What do you think they can do if their internal network is down? Nothing more then apologize and offer you a coffee.

When the TSB problem happened, going to the branch was useless.
Again, all budgie advice, but:

Perches/twigs taken from live trees. I have hazel and apple in the garden so that’s what they usually get (and destroy) but check the wood is OK for budgies before giving it to them. All parrots love destroying things, and providing perches to strip is a good way to satisfy this urge without letting them eat an entire sheet of sandpaper. Basically just throw suitable foliage in there and they’ll find something to do with it.

Swings of any variety. You can make them from thick metal wire (thick enough that they can’t twist it themselves), optionally with a wooden perch part or make the whole thing from wire.

Ladders!

Small mirrors with caution, and not if you’re trying to tame them. They may “redistribute” food onto the mirror for their inverted friend. Interestingly in my current pair the female seems to pass the mirror test and the male doesn’t!

Bells, but make sure they can’t pull the clapper out and potentially swallow it. One of my previous budgies used to hit the bell, then was annoyed by the sound and so would attack it. The sound then obviously got louder and she would attack more violently, and so she kept herself occupied for quite a while.

It’s also nice to give them something to bathe in, which they may or may not take to. It needs to be a very shallow plate of water, and don’t just leave it in the cage or they will defacate it in and drink it afterwards.

They need cuttlefish bones and iodine blocks for bird health. Unlike dogs they won’t overeat, so even if you put lots of millet (budgie junk food) in there they will stop when they’re full. Useful if you’re leaving them for a couple of days because you can just provide extra food.
> Never attribute to malice ...

This principle is heuristical and as such can result in down-side when one doesn't actually resolve the uncertainty within the heuristic (read: guess) with detailed evidence.

The obvious downside here is that you can accumulate a bunch of risks which each independently satisfy the heuristic, and so don't seem like risks, but in aggregate can result in a swing towards the opposite of what it says.

Meaning, yeah, sure, stupid thing added to the codebase. But with the accumulation of all the poor decisions Google has made surrounding privacy, is Google really that fucking idiotic, or, what?
You're setting up a straw man; the original discussion I started was never about Elon Musk in particular; I used him as an example to make a completely different point. Seeing as there's some baggage around Musk that is preventing you from seeing my point, please pretend I mentioned someone other than Musk to make my point (Edison, Ford, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, etc.). Musk was not actually relevant to my discussion at all, unless you're hijacking it to start a new discussion about Musk.
The really neat bit is that the concept of Last Thursdayism itself, along with Bertrand Russell, was also one of those things created entirely last Thursday.
Easy. The trades.
The communist dictator part of your comment is probably the triggering element. A lot of SJWs can't handle anything critical.

But this is getting off topic. And I'm sure we'd rather not need to apologise...
> I do wonder however, why the search function doesn't try searching on sub-parts of the image automatically.

i also wonder the same. But then it's quite a hard problem to automatically decide which part of the subimage to rerun a search (presumably, it's not free to run so many).
I had several small-to-medium sized parrots until I became allergic to them. (Cockateil, Senegal Parrot, Sun Conure, Monk Parakeet)
None of them really liked their cages but would tolerate being put in them at night. What they really loved was hanging out in the garden window in the kitchen, they could see most everything going on in the house and our backyard. Great as long as they didn't see a hawk out there, then they'd be freaked out for the rest of the day.
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and ten years later, bipolar.

I didn't trust that western psychiatry could heal the underlying causes so I basically just shut up about it for a decade.

After about 10 years, I was suicidal and couldn't ignore it anymore.

My intuition told me to find another way, so I started to research on my own. I found a way through that involved MDMA therapy, NARM therapy, holotropic breathwork, and creating a loving romantic relationship.

I now live symptom-free, with no medication, and am really grateful I trusted my intuition and made my own path.
Like diversity training only more sensitive.
Thing is - the person who wrote that code doesn't know what I'm doing with it - a recent offending library for me was Jackson throwing an IOException if it can't parse the JSON.

Except I knew that it would always be receiving valid JSON because this code was downstream of a Kafka Streaming app whose entire purpose was to validate that the record was valid JSON that conformed to a JSON schema.

But the authors of Jackson require me to add a useless catch clause to my code. And seriously, an IOException for unparseable JSON? At least throw an UnparseableJsonException or something.

I will write catch clauses for exceptions that could reasonably be expected to occur and are recoverable from - but if an exception does occur, and you can't recover from it, what the hell is the point of a mandatory catch, log, and rethrow?

In my experience, 99% of the handling of a checked exception is to catch them, and rethrow in RuntimeException, which shows that the intent doesn't match the reality of how people are programming.

But, that said, I'm writing code on the JVM for our own internal apps - we're never going to have a desktop user facing a stack-trace. I think that when Java was developed it was intended to be far more user-facing than it is now.
I downvoted you for making a throwaway comment. I come to HN for substantive discussion, not throwaway snark. Please take that elsewhere in the future, there are plenty of other outlets.
I have been in Singapore for a conference. The country is clean and safe as far as I can tell. The only problem is that it is very small so unless you fly out every weekend to the nearby countries, there is not much to do besides shopping which I personally don't care about.
The problem is not so much these shelter cats which are hunting vermin. The real issue is normal domestic cats where the owner does not care or belief that their fur child is a supreme bird killer. Even when well fed.

Have one of them purring at my legs. He loves walking outside and catching birds, mice, etc.. but he will have to play inside instead. He gets out, but not often alone.

I understand not everybody can take care of their cat like that, but it would help if people kept their cat in when there's young birds outside.
> Either way I think the one thing I hate hate hate is, losing stacktraces! Don't throw a new exception without wrapping the old one. I need that info!

This! Throw as many RuntimeExceptions as you like, so long as you include the originating exception.
I'm with this.

I'd actually like a fork of chromium with no googley phone home features. Maybe put timeouts on cookies and bunch of other things.
I quite prefer the Option monad approach in Scala where you can pattern match the result. Far more succinct and doesn't require program logic flow to be interrupted.
Stack rewinding, code editing/saving, breakpoints on DOM subtree and attribute modifications, the ability to search for requests via response text (very useful when reverse-engineering APIs), breakpoints on XHR requests, event listener breakpoints.

These are not things that Firefox just does differently, they're features that Firefox just doesn't have.

Firefox's dev tools aren't bad in and of themselves. The UX is fine, and getting better. I don't know if other people have opinions about memory tools or profiling -- I don't all that much.

I guess Firefox's dev tools look prettier, and they do have some features that Chrome doesn't. But Firefox features tend to trend more towards, "here's a cool thing like the ability to debug shaders". Chrome's trend more towards, "here's a useful thing like the ability to debug Javascript."
At Genomenon, we're building tools that help discover, diagnose, and treat cancer and other inheritable disease. To do this, we've built the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine [1], powered by the world's most comprehensive source of genomic evidence.

You've probably seen a lot in the media lately about the possibilities of precision medicine powered by personal genomic sequencing. With the advent of the $1000 whole genome sequencing [2], we now have an immense amount of data at our fingertips. The problem we have now is known as the "bioinformatics bottleneck" [3], in which our sequence data reveals thousands of variants in our DNA, and we need to figure out which ones are clinically relevant, by figuring out which ones have been observed and studied. We seek to make that task easy; to minimize the time it takes to perform an exhaustive search, and reduce the chance of missing important information in a patient's sequenced genome [4].

Most people have been or know someone who has been affected by cancer or inheritable disease. As far as missions go, this was an easy one to get behind when I met my co-founder almost five years ago. When my startup at the time got acquired shortly after meeting him, I knew immediately what I wanted to do next.

[1] https://www.genomenon.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1,000_genome

[3] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6184/653.3

[4] https://scipol.duke.edu/content/questathena-wrongful-death-s...
Your argument is a plausible retcon of the bible, but the "God made it that way" mechanism is essentially infinitely flexible and unfalsifiable. The problem with that is for many people, falsifiability is an important aspect of evidence-based belief (judged by predictive or explanatory value).

Even if your explanation for why there are fossils etc. sounds sort of reasonable, if you grant this reinterpretation of the Christian creation myth, you've established that the goalposts can be moved, and from there you can find a way to move them for just about anything. Imagine we uncover a convincing, contemporaneous writing of Jesus' proclamation that he is merely a human. You could say, "Well God put that writing there to test our faith."
> "Elitist corperate control over mass media is great because I don't like what normal people do." -people in this hackernews thread

This seems blown out of proportion. "I don't like what normal people do, so I will probably not look at trending to find content" is what most people are saying.
Glad to hear you worked it out, good luck! Looking around there are a few levels of cache around whether addons are enabled, I guess those are what you need to clear it.

It's a temporary hack, but you might also want to look at temporarily loading extensions with about:debugging, this works even in official release.
You're justifying what is animal equivalent of institutionalization (I'm sure there's a more technical term for it for animal behavior). I recall reading about a behavioral phenomenon, where a neglected, abused animal (a large feline, if I recall correctly) was kept in a tiny cage it could only circle around in endlessly, no room to even pace. Once let out into a far larger enclosure, it would still perform this circular pacing despite having plenty of room to roam free. Do you suppose it really "loved" its old cage so much?

I may add that I too kept a budgie for 13 long years.
are there any situations in which it makes sense for an employee to exercise vested options "early"? namely, while still employed by the company and with no plans of leaving anytime soon. I'm curious because it sounds like shares and options were treated differently in the above scenario.
Define normal
> Then I have the exact same problem when support dies in the coming months though.

Good news! Even Firefox ESR 60 always you to disable the mandatory signature checks by setting the "xpinstall.signatures.required" pref = false. The Mozilla add-on wiki was a little unclear, so I just manually verified that the "xpinstall.signatures.required" pref works correctly in Firefox ESR 60. :)

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing
OK... opinion post here... hell with that... rant here.

I have to say the whole notion of "trending" I find ridiculous, and even a bit offensive. That somehow because a zillion people find something interesting, that I should, too, makes clear that the best we've done in filtering is assume people are sheep and need to be "fed" as such. Even with the targeted suggestions they do when they look at my viewing history (and other history I'm sure), it's so incredibly ham-fisted I just want to shout, "hey maybe you should spend less time getting your AI to beat Go champions and more time getting it actually make useful and relevant recommendations that just maybe you can dispose of that 'trending' shit you're always foisting on everyone." (Of course, if Google actually got newer versions of the Youtube app to just work correctly with their Chromecast, I'd take that as progress).

Yeah, yeah, I know that they aren't trying to get the best matched content to me in the first place... just that which I might swallow and they can get the biggest bang for their investment... but the value proposition gets too diminished and I'm gone.... emphasis on stupidity such as "trending" pushes me to look at alternatives with some frequency. I've already left Twitter and Facebook due to this pushing trends stuff, Google is on the edge.

Of course, maybe I'm the outlier and I should just invest in Google, Twitter, Facebook, oh yeah and their traditional equivalents of "Us", "People", and the "National Enquirer" since that's where the masses apparently are.

The only trending I'd be interested in at all would be "trending" amongst a group of people whom I could actively curate in a list based on my tastes and interests and... importantly... theirs. It's clear to me that I can't outsource that curation just yet.

Finally... the front page of Hacker News is obviously just a big "trending" list. I have a higher affinity with the audience here, but still find about 60% - 70% of the front page content to be of zero interest and the comments hit much less; The 30% - 40% I come back for clearly has a high value to me, nonetheless. Between a tagging filter and having the ability to select a list of certain HN users to allow undue influence the results that I see when I come to the site would make it much, much better experience. (And I probably wouldn't be baited to post crap like this). In truth, I don't actually use the Hacker News homepage directly and instead start my journey at http://hn.elijames.org/
The irony is strong.

I'm still not happy with how AMP operates. Seems like it will mess up the interwebs. Something on IPFS along with tighter usage of compression and markup compliance is likely a better solution than AMP.
Python 3.7 to JavaScript compiler
Profile switching takes one step to use: cycle through windows.
DARPA-backed researchers can ‘see’ around corners with new sensing method
Anyone know how this differs from https://chromium.woolyss.com who has been building Chromium, for all major platforms, without Google features for years?
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing

With the average cost of college being as high as it is and more than likely the students will come out with a ton of debt, the languages worth knowing are those that will help them get a job and start paying back the student loan in 6 months.
Are they? I’ve not heard of that stigma, but I can believe it. Might just be where I’ve talked most about dogs though.
The disagreements were about strategy and mobile experience, so not enough to call someone poisonous. Place Yahoo, AVG, and Moz Corp against Brendan's co-founder status and JavaScript.

The other toxic drama was about a 1000$ political donation. Very sad to see an unpopular view used to paint someone as a monster. If democratic political views are enough to kill someones career, it is more a sign of the toxicity of today's social media and activism than a character judgment.

> Does one really want to associate themselves with Brendan Eich though?

No, not really. Not a good political idea to align yourself with the black sheep. With all the tars and feathers he just looks weird.

Though it also works in his favor: Brave is popular amongst the alt-right and technical-minded early adopters. They see it more as character assassination and SJW corporate culture taking desperate vengeance for Trump's win.
CBD oil is a very powerful anti-inflammatory; CBD can be more effective for people if mixed with some THC, CBD counteracts the psychoactive properties of THC, however I believe THC is contraindicated for the diagnosis of schizophrenia?
Yeah the temporary thing was already working in the official release, but it's temporary so I was looking for the normal way. Thanks! :)
Wasn't the compiled-from-source chromium also downloading binary blobs without telling the user? There was an advisory about chromium doing it awhile ago.
ungoogled-chromium has deterministic builds

EDIT: never mind, I was wrong
Fairtrending isn't about recommending stuff you personally are interested in. It's designed to acurately report what is actually popular and not just being promoted by Youtube. I think that went over the head of the people complaining that their personalized recommendations are more interesting to them.
You should get on twitter to express your outrage at this obvious injustice like all the rest of the sjws.
There is some of this kind of apology parsing at the national level as well. China and both Koreas have at various points rejected several rounds of apologies by Japanese heads of state as insincere or insufficiently guilt-ridden. Some cultural critics, such as Ian Buruma, have suggested that the conflict arises out of expecting a "shame" society like Japan to act in similar ways to a "guilt" society like Germany. Others have taken a more cynical view, accusing Japan's historical victims of themselves acting in bad faith in rejecting Japan's official apologies (in the sense that by keeping the victim card in play, the historically aggrieved are able to extract more concessions beyond the ones that accompanied the initial apology). This dynamic is particularly marked in any discussion of comfort women.

Presumably other places we might see this is in how organizations of indigenous peoples in US, Canada, Australia, etc. respond to formal apologies from the national government that previously stripped them of their homelands, in the response by former colonies to official statements of regret from old imperial powers, and in the complex interactions between the descendants of slaves and the white establishment in the US.
Gave the new FF a serious try, and I definitely like it. Will be switching over soon.

Did not like how Google forces your google account to be active at all times, and the new UI of Chrome is a regressive step in terms of design.
There you go! We haven't got the actual model up there currently, but great point - will aim to get an actual demo deployed Thanks for the advice
What is “YouTube Music” - couldnt find an app like that in the app store