skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got a ride from their parents when their parents were using a car instead of a scooter.
Nit: it seems it's more like a smooth approximation to maxarg than max.

Yeah it makes sense that this is a super important function, but I still feel like one could just remember the principle that "exponentiation followed by normalization is a smooth approximation to maxarg."
Every or almost every? E.g. Bromite (www.bromite.org) integrates privacy enhancement patches from Iridium, Inox patchset, Brave and ungoogled-chromium projects for some reason.
I sabotage myself when I feel threatened by project/task deadlines
1.6%, third hire. Now the company is at series C, 4 years later. Significant dilution as expected (own roughly 0.5%), but clean terms for all rounds (liquidation preference 1X, non participating).
Actually, I do need to be in the Bay Area for personal, professional, and health reasons. But, yes, I take your point. I could certainly live on 3/4 or 2/3 of a Bay Area salary in the middle of nowhere, if I wanted to.
Craig Newmark also gave $20M to the CUNY graduate journalism school (where Jeff Jarvis teaches), which now bears his name.

For a reflection from Jeff on Craig's role, see: https://buzzmachine.com/2018/06/11/thank-you-craig/. It's worth a look.
I do agreee and have actually asked many people before if they believe doctors are scientists. The sad answer is many people assume that they are (or should be). There are also researcher-clinicians who practice medicine with patients and are actively involved in research. They are much more likely to be in touch with the latest findings in that field (rather than a standard GP /doctor). I think if you had something that the medical community cant deal with the best thing to do is to do a lit review and take a stack of papers to them although i understand it's not easy for members of the public (especially with a medical ailment) to critically review scientific research. Hopefully, the latest move by the EU to remove paywalls from academic journals means more people from the general public start reading them.
The best option I've found for windows is using OCRA https://github.com/larsch/ocra
The service being offered is a VM which can let people do nostalgia trips.. including running IE6 on windows 98.

It would be much less fun if the server didn't have network access.
You don't need a web browser to edit text. As evidenced by dozens of excellent text editors that are not built on web browsers.

It's just easier to take a web browser that already has something approximating a text editor, and pile things on top of that.

And why is that? Well, because you want to support all the different platforms, and we as an industry have absolutely screwed up the portability story, and so we build it as hacks instead. There's absolutely no reason why developing a GUI app for macOS should be radically different from developing a GUI app for Windows or Linux - they all ultimately do the same thing. There's no sensible reason for them to be different. But they are. And so now the easiest way to solve that problem is to pile the browser on top, and forget that the differences exist. Of course, it doesn't actually solve the problem in general, because the differences are still there, and the industry as a whole still pays the overhead tax, in both man-hours of work someone has to spend maintaining that flimsy stack of abstractions, and in runtime performance tax those abstractions impose.

But the only way to fix it is to burn the whole thing to the ground. And that's not happening, because the short-term cost is too large to even contemplate any long-term gains.
I don't think that is directly applicable to this case (definitely not to the level of calling the problem 'solved').

The link describes a technique for training a neural net to detect a type of image, an '8' for example, in an image regardless of location.

However, in this case, you only have one sample of the target. You could run a net to attempt to extract a list of features (children, bronze), and compare that to all your images, but I don't think that's how the bing image search is structured. That would be closer to searching for '4 children bronze park' (which it does a great job of finding such things; just nothing related to the target image).

Also, when you use convolution in the way described in the article, you would lose relative position information (or at least, dampen that part of the signal) of each of the bronze statues; as the entire point is to not care about the position of the object.
> If they were emphatically against you using your device to your own ends, they would do something in the browser.

I can't say I care much about their intentions. I can say that they are preventing me from using my device very effectively.
"Zero explanation" and "emails have been ignored" is misleading. We've given you far and away more explanations and more emails than any other user. We've been more patient with you than nearly anyone else would have been, even while you complain on this site about how badly we treat you and openly flaunt how you troll us with comments like this one.

The problem and the solution remain the same as the last N explanations we gave you. At some point, N becomes so large that it is madness to continue. N passed that point that a long time ago. It's time to try something else, so I've banned your accounts. If after 3 months you want to be unbanned, we'll give you another chance to use HN as intended. At a minimum, that means no more off-topic drama, no more meta drama, no more drama about troll topics, no more self-referential rants, and no more tedious tit-for-tats with other users.

If in the meantime you post a particularly good and on-topic comment, you can call our attention to it and we'll be happy to vouch for it, if other users haven't done so already.
I stopped trusting Google the day they announced they would use Gmail email content for displaying ads. Sometime in the late 00’s it was I think.
To be frank, I think the ship has already sailed.

* Where were all these cryptography engineering folk when Google decided that it didn't have to ask any permissions to install autoupdates to Chrome?

* Subsequently, instructions were published on how to disable the autoupdate — published by Google itself, mind you — yet somehow after some time has passed, the same versions of Chrome that were supposed to have stopped looking for updates were somehow able to magically automatically update themselves in the end after a number of releases anyways — so much for the browser being secure against remote execution attacks by a powerful-enough party!

BTW, if you think Brave is any better, they refused to disable the autoupdate. https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/1877 TBH, between the lines, I got the impression that it's part of the business plan, where an outdated browser is basically worthless to them as an investment anyways, so, spending any engineering resources on such causes is fundamentally not worth it. Who cares about the good-will of the user if there are so few alternatives anyways?! So, I basically stopped using Brave at that point, as I didn't feel like being the product.

Mozilla may have gone away with asking for your permission to download and install the update as well, but at least there's still a clear setting in the interface which lets you be the boss, and, compared to the quirks that Brave may offer, at least once configured, you do know they won't go behind your back to do the dirty work anyways.
I recently moved back to Firefox from Vivaldi. It's been a good move.

I feel like Firefox is back in the same boat it was in the 90s, but this time fighting Google Chrome instead of IE. But it's a bit different since you have to explicitly download Chrome. It's a bit different since you see an ad to download it right when you hit Google.
You seem to mean AdWords (now Google Ads). AdSense is for publishers.
>i too would love to see ms take 'phone' seriously

Nadella won't because of MS hate.

Lots of naive developers are drunk on the false open source android story and won't apps for their OS - e.g. snapchat founder refused to build an app for WP. And kept sending take down notices for community built clients. This is why MS keeps pursing web apps and "universal apps."

Ms spent at billions in payment (bribes) to developers to build WP apps, yet.

Microsoft of today would never have created Windows. They have tried and failed multiple times to turn Windows into a store only OS.

Their OS was unjailbreakable far more so than IOS. WP's inability to share apps is the major reason why WP failed in my own country. Even till today, people still beam android / windows apps.

Windows 10 auto updates is another clue that MS is clueless about data costs. I'll bet, more people left Windows for autoupdating than for being insecure.
Money is important, but I think the biggest reason is cultural.

There are a lot of people in the US who believe that the chronically homeless are moral failures who deserve their misery (they "fail at life", to quote an acquaintance); that social welfare to help them constitutes rewarding moral hazard; and that the most effective way to minimize homelessness is to dial up the disincentives and make their lives as painful and humiliating as possible.
Is it also "nouveau riche status seeking" to watch movies in languages we don't speak?

Is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" not a valid film for me to enjoy because I can't appreciate it in its native Mandarin? That sounds even more pompous to me.
Ten Christian values we must never follow
> 'The Doctor' from Star Trek Voyager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjOifRG-u8

I would totes go to see that.
It was dropped, but they must have added it back after the publicity.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
In many cases, people -- the public -- need to stop thinking of Company X's purpose as "providing Y service".

The focus has really become first and foremost upon "making money". Private profit.

The service becomes, if not incidental, then certainly secondary to this.

Consumer and small business Gigabit Internet in the U.S. was a rare oddity, until Google launched its Fibre initiative.

And for Google, this was to move customer engagement and so ads -- their moneymakers. (And neutralizing competitors' barriers to same.) As the Google idealism continued to be actively suffocated, it was not about Fibre, it was about making money.

Across the ISP industry, fiber deployments have been stalling, where they've not outright been declared dormant if not dead. This has been -- to me, at least -- rather observable in the past few to several years.

What's been happening? Companies have been building and building up to cellular radio enhancements, serving simultaneously mobile users but also -- with a single technology and deployment, and one that has also been exempted from "net neutrality" and also somewhat excused from having to explain its "data caps" -- traditional fixed installations.

At the same time, telecommunications companies have been severely neglecting their "legacy" copper line services.

They have decided to move to cellular radio, for all this, and to convince regulators and other public authorities that these deployments meet, or should be allowed to be redefined to "meet", all of their outstanding obligations -- which remain substantial and were granted in return for the monopolies granted to them that have continued to benefit them for so long.

Cellular deployment's cheaper. Especially when you are not required to provide the same / equivalent level of service and capacity. When you have greater authority to manipulate the service and delivery to your own benefit.

And when you exist in an oligopoly and have no fundamental, substantive competition...

You provide enough to avoid losing your position. And the rest is pure profit.

You're making money. The "service" is just a means to that end -- one you make "just good enough" to avoid cutting into said profit.
Literally nobody thought your next response would be anything but “CITE???!?”. You and your kind are entirely predictable: Disguise a minority opinion as an objective truth then shift the burden to anyone who calls you out.

Nobody in this thread besides you has expressed a desire for a 0ms scroll. Nobody.
Oh right, of course. Cheers :)
For me it was early on during the time where Chrome was new. First they didn't support plugins so adblockers were not working so I'd see ads and pop ups everywhere. Next they did support adblockers but they sucked due to API limitations. I realized then that they were primarily an ad company, I know the adblockers have somewhat improved for Chrome but I went back to Firefox and never bothered again. I only use Chrome / Chromium for web development.
Firefox will not, because they don't control youtube or google.com, or facebook or any major website. One of the reasons they are the best.
> Does that mean you somehow got access to various diagnostic tests (blood tests, CT/MRI scans, etc.)?

Since my problem was chemical and I didn't have a concrete region but non-localized issues I didn't need the extremes of medical imaging (CT/MRI). Quite a bit of ultrasound was done, abdomen but also of the thyroid. An additional functional re-check of an enlarged thyroid with a nodule previously examined two decades prior using a radioactive tracer was not strictly necessary, but oh well. By the way, the nodule in the thyroid as well as the enlargement - both stable for decades - completely evaporated and disappeared, respectively, to the great amazement of the endocrinologist, once I treated the underlying cause of all my problems. Which was long-term- low-dose mercury poisoning. Lots of blood and urine tests, especially after I determined that it must be heavy metal poisoning, to check progress of chelation therapy after the initial confirmation.

> the fact that diagnostics are not commercially available

I had no issues getting any test or imaging that seemed reasonable, immediately. Country: Germany.
You are not in fact responding to any argument I've made.

My point is that IRBs have an incentive structure that encourages excessive risk aversion. My citation is an instance of this phenomenon in action. It has nothing to do with the particulars of psychology. You have not attempted to address this incentive alignment argument in any way. Blocking an attempt to replicate an alcohol study due to weak evidence for a very small negative effect is another example, albeit hypothetical, of this same excessive risk aversion. You have not made a similarly substantial argument. Instead, you've just asserted that institutional review is embedded in biomedical research. It is, but I think it shouldn't be.

> Also, SlateStarCodex is bad.

It's amazing that immediately after a paragraph in which you claim to be making a substantive argument, you make a bald and unsupported assertion that an influential and widely-read blog, one that Pinker has called "wonderful", is in fact "bad".

This is not the kind of intellectual conversation that HN was meant to host.
I think we just had a different set of ideals back then. I feel like maybe we got tired of fighting the same battles. Or maybe Microsoft was being judged more harshly on moral grounds because their software was also widely criticized for being crashy.

I mean, at the tail end of that period even South Park was lampooning the reliability of Windows. A lot of Google’s products work very well and dependably (well, provided they don’t murder the product), which maybe isolates them from that synergistic hate.
Please be civil with people who have a different perspective. The implication that the opposing position is outmoded is not a logical argument, it's an insulting one. "In this day and age," I'd think we could learn to be less dismissive of people.
I have found a lot of modern music using hooks from old pop songs to catch new listeners. I don't much like the practice.

On your original point, even discordant music can grow on you. Pino Forastiere uses a lot of dischord and I didn't like it at all at first. But I let it play out a bunch of times as there were so many other good qualities that I loved about the album. It didn't take long to start understanding what he was trying to do with the dichord and from there it made sense and I could hear it in context and enjoy it.
How does the delusion persist if you’ve clearly just stated that you realize it’s a delusion?
Yes I have the same issue. Completely absurd resource usage on some pages, causes my fans to spin constantly.
Unfortunately I fail to see the connection between your reply and what I wrote. I said zeitgebers are set by the sun, so what is your point?
They ditched proprietary extensions in favor of an open spec than any other browser can use... I mean WebExtensions are here to stay and for the greater good. I can't understand blind hatred towards a move towards an open source alternative.

As for Firefox including Pocket, they own Pocket for starters, and it's less annoying than Edge or Chrome pushing their analytics filled services. There's a lot less cruft on Firefox than in other browsers. If I really wanted I could use one of the GNU forks of Firefox, though I'm not sure how much more privacy conscious they may be aside from a bunch of brand rework.
I’ve recently launched an experiment to get off of google. I can’t say I had any real reason other than curiosity. I have some privacy concerns but can’t say that was the main driver here. I think I just looked at my laptop, phone, etc and thought about how prevalent google code was in my life. It was my navigator, my file store, my calebdar, my email, my search engine and my browser. It knows everything about me.

That said I have started migrating from the ecosystem. I’m using safari for the web. Duck duck go for search, and Apple for maps. So far results are a mixed bag but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. I’m hoping to get completely off of google in the next 3-6 months as long as viable alternatives that respect privacy exist.
I probably phrased my suggestion wrong. Yes, it's not central to OP's enquiry. But I did find a basic understanding of CT to help a lot when reasoning about types, and that lecture series gives just that in a relatively simple way.
Which you can disable.
> Various efforts to include chromium or derivatives in Fdroid have failed.

Fixed[1] in rattlesnakeos-stack[2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RattlesnakeOS/comments/953dfj/v0025...

[2] "A cross platform tool that provisions all of the AWS infrastructure required to build your own privacy focused Android OS on a continuous basis with OTA updates." https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack
City planners and politicians in the USA would be wise to consider the root cause of the scooter surge rather than worrying too much about the side effects. People want to get around without buying an expensive heavy machine. Scooters solve the "last mile" problem of public transportation in sprawled areas.

It's clear that automobile-centric urban planning cannot work for large cities. Yet, there are always screaming loud voices protesting anything that affects their ability to drive in perfect comfort and speed.

I wish we had politicians with the courage to ignore those people and make the infrastructural changes we need to keep our cities functional and pleasant as our population continues to urbanize.
This past weekend I tried Safari again when I saw it updated to version 12. I was surprised to see that Apple deactivated my uBlock Origin plugin, saying it would slow the browser down. So now Safari is unusable and filled with ads, and there's nothing Apple provides to replace uBlock Origin. This is a total show-stopper for me.
AFAIR, they weren't doing WP on their own hardware. The end user experience on various WP was (as with many android devices) a mixed bag. Coupled with being perceived as 'late to the game', and people wanting to jump on the app-bandwagon but not having enough resources... WP never got mindshare.

PERSONALLY... I think MS could mount another shot at the phone market - but they'd have to be serious, commit long term, and be willing to lose out $ for a while to gain marketshare.

I don't recall them spending billions on getting WP apps built. If anything, the anecdotes I heard were mixed - both cheap funding of lots of stupid one-off apps to try to inflate numbers, but cheaping out on funding for established apps with existing users/communities. In neither case did I ever read about billions being spent in those pursuits.

Again, I think there's probably one more chance MS has to make a run for this - new leadership since the ballmer days, commitment to manage their own hardware, and a public commitment to long-term investment in that ecosystem... - lots of folks are waking up to the privacy issues in mobile - apple has a story, google doesn't have a terribly good one. Lots of smaller/secondtier players in ios world are fed up with 30% fees. MS could address privacy and fee issues, and attract/keep new market. But... we don't want another 'playsforsure/zune' situation. :/
That's what we have now. It hasn't exactly been working out for the users.
So is it disabled by default since Firefox now sends Do Not Track by default?
I'm using https://iridiumbrowser.de
In Firefox preferences, you can change the address bar's suggestions to list history/bookmark matches before search suggestions Or to remove search suggestions altogether.
With a VR headset, no one can see you eyes are closed...
Safari 12 no longer supports uBlock Origin. I discovered this over the past weekend. Without ad blocking, Safari is unusable for me.

EDIT: It seems AdBlock Plus has now come out with a new plugin that conforms to Apple's new API.
Not a Gonkai phone, but you might be interested in the iPhone aftermarket engineering behind this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY5R-7dgbEA
I wonder if anybody could give me a link to read on canned food issues. I come from Russia and there were non in USSR and Russia after USSR dissolved, what were the issues in the US?
As far as I know (which isn’t perfect knowledge by any means) MS has had a hardware division since 1982, it’s just that it was never their focus. IIRC Bill Gates famously didn’t want to become a major hardware vendor, but wanted to focus on the software. Certainly I’ve never heard of a ban or anything like it, and I was under the impression that dealership laws were essentially unique to cars. If you have some other information to the contrary I’d be happy to read it. Obviously if such a ban existed it was lifted before MS made things like the Zune, or Surface.
If you’re monetizing with ads, you’ve already lost control of your revenue.
I agree. This sounds like a publicity ploy. According to Wikipedia "Ficus carica is dispersed by birds and mammals that scatter their seeds in droppings." How do they know that the seed was not brought there by a bird? Did they check the age of the tree? Does it match the date of the incident? I wrote to CMP http://www.cmp-cyprus.org/ let's if they answer. I could not find a press release on their site about this subject.
I would go see a foreign-language opera if there were real-time subtitles displayed in my preferred language.
Probably has a cage full of virtual rats being released onto their face. I love Walmart!
I often type a programming error message into DDG, fail to find anything useful, type it in Google, find it right away. I don't see how reoptimizing my brain would help in this situation where I'm just typing in an error word-for-word.
Directions and pathfinding

Any maintenance or repair of complex systems

Education and training

Warehouse inventory picking
I did this a while ago and it really ain't bad at all. Unfortunately to the lay person to search the Internet is "to google."
From Gongkai to Open Source
>I think they need to go and work on their sums a bit more.

What does this mean? Are you saying Youtube needs to improve, Fair Trending needs to improve, or the viewers need to improve?