skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the cat happens to be extremely photogenic and a lot of time was spent taking pictures of him. So maybe a calendar? With a legendary tale that is based on a true story, mildly embellished, every month, proceeds going to the local animal rescue charity. There is talk of that.
can you wire up shortcuts to calendar events?
The EU at least have slapped Google with some modest fines. Hopefully their Chrome nonsense will get them one as well.
I’m confused. Are you really claiming you can’t log into gmail in non google browsers? And this comment was upvoted?

Sorry. I call BS.
The default feed is pretty clickbaity but I filtered to only show the technology category and it's not terrible https://www.fairtrending.com/?lang=en&fc=cat&cat=28&tag=&msc...
> As you know, the subscriptions feed is now optimized on YouTube and not all new content from your subscribed channels find their way into your feed anymore.

Source? Wasn't that just an experiment?
I'd second that.

"Sensitivity training" sounds very much like some kind of communist dictator's "re-education camp". The line is thin and oppressive.
The Crisis of the American Elites
Traveling Ruby: self-contained, portable Ruby binaries
Something, I missed in the article, is Chrome's background in WebKit. (Rather, it seems to convey the impression that this was an original project by Google.)

Anyway, this may also directing us towards a viable alternative: A new, independent and cross-platform repackaging of WebKit2 / WebCore.
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."
So much youtuber celebrity garbage
Between this and their shady browser in China I'm starting to think Google just starting to become straight up evil.
Cats are decimating bird populations, we don’t need more options for cats, we need less cats.
> Smaller, non-tech companies frequently see enormous productivity benefits by building simple building CRUD applications with a small amount of custom business logic.

The problem is convincing these smaller companies of that fact. Many of these smaller businesses are owned by people who are deeply suspicious of technology, often with good reason. They've been burned by slick salespeople who've promised the moon and have saddled them with software that they don't know how to understand or maintain which now has vital financial or customer data.

As a result, many smaller companies (such as sole proprietorships) don't understand how far along software has come, and the role that software plays in allowing larger companies to squeeze them on margins.
Yeap. I left Firefox because it was slow. Now, Google wants everything. Plus, Chrome hogs all of CPU on relaunch now.

With Quantum's Servo, I'm going to give FF another bite at the proverbial apple.
No, a brick wall doesn't stare at you blankly. Nor does it argue back arrogantly and defy you that whatever Google wants is best.
The initial page it showed me was a trainwreck of absolute garbage.

I think they need to go and work on their sums a bit more.
Yeah, from the website, "texting, navigation, calendar functionality" - I can't ever imagine wanting any of these in a pair of glasses instead of a phone.

If anything, I think there is a rising sea change in that more and more people are realizing they DON'T always want to have a life full of digital distractions, and that having that beeping thing in your pocket is bad enough, but having something smack dab in front of your eyeballs is even worse.
Makes sense, thanks. I thought maybe this was a smaller change where you just used a different layout/representation of the tree that allowed faster, more cache-friendly evaluation, but you've actually gone much further with this VM, which is fascinating given that it opens up the possibility of JITing queries.

My day job involves working on a query engine that faces some of the same design challenges, so I find this stuff very interesting.
Stress-regulating brain area larger in depression, bipolar
Good to see signs that Bing isn't just in maintenance mode, I'd hate to lose what little competition in search engines we have left. I switched back to Google from Yahoo after the latter got sold to Verizon, but it occurs to me that I never really did give Bing a fair shake. I suppose now's as good a time as ever.
What's wrong with it being a Canadian company?
Fossil 2.7 has been released
> Plus working in chrome dev tools all day long, you really miss it when you want to pop something open and look under the hood real quick, and I don't think Firefox is quite up to par there

Based on what? What did you try to do and couldn't? Or is your complaint - like the rest of your comment says - that you weren't immediately familiar with the UI, you didn't bother learning, and then decided it was the browser's fault?

How long did it take originally for you to learn the Chrome tools and how long have you given Firefox?
I try to change this week but I'm unable to make zoom to work well (Chrome is perfect to me. Safari not work neither).

Exist a way to make it work? (ie: Maker a goblal zoom and a per-domain/page)
I am working on Learn Anything. It’s an open source website with the goal of providing most efficient learning paths. A kind of Netflix for learning.

If humanity really solves personalized learning by crafting learning paths based on all of Internet’s resources, user’s current knowledge and learning preference, I believe something akin to singularity may be reached. So I am trying to build the website that tries to reach this goal in an open source way so anyone can help.

Website https://learn-anything.xyz
Code: https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
I've seen bio data get messed up just by one person opening a csv in excel:
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...

I mean not even editing anything, just opened the file to look at it and then allowed saving the file on close.

But yea, your typcial bio analysis is a lot of clicking around in one peice of software, importing that output into the next software, etc and is totally unreproducible. Then in the end you get an average and standard deviation (at least its not usually only p-values anymore) but no one ever checked what the underlying data looked like.

"Is your standard deviation for Group X so large because of low outliers, high outliers or is it a multimodal distribution?" "No idea. Whats a distribution?"
The lovely secrets of the 'signing' brain
For now. For example, Hangout video chat worked in Safari (much better than Chrome even). The new Meet video chat does not work in Safari.
Is your platform up yet? Would love to give a try
It’s tough to use Safari if you’re a web developer; Chrome tends to be better at rendering pages and in overall performance, as well as adopting features quicker than Apple.
> That's pretty much what Kuhn means by pre-paradigm science: when scientists don't know enough about an area to have come up with general principles to guide their research.

Isn't this extremely post-hoc reasoning? If you're on the bleeding edge, you'll formulate theories based on whatever context you have -- and experiment with that. I don't see how the idea of a "paradigm" helps here. It's what everybody does all the time.

Maybe I'm just confused about the definition of "paradigm".

... which Kuhn does define, but it's a definition just fuzzy enough that it's pretty easy to argue either way on any given area of science.

EDIT: Basically, I think more of a fan of the David Deutsch school of knowledge.
Better Promises in JavaScript
I see, there's a language filter up top must've missed it the first time around.
Whew, luckily it is about octopi. Lobsters would make this a lot more controversial.
I believe for most, if not all, architectures the synchronization and memory barrier primitives cannot be written in standard C.
It seems anti-competitive in historical Microsoft monopoly-regulated way with Google using GMail to give Chrome data.
The Penrose–Hameroff ‘Orch OR‘ model of consciousness (1998) [pdf]
These changes are really shocking. I’ve stopped using chrome a week ago for entirely different reasons and happy to hear one has managed to avoid sll this mess.
I’m using 3 different gapos accounts, that would be some serious mess.
Even if this change is reverted, I’m not going to switch back.
By chrome, it was nice for a pretty long time.
Exploring the reasons why I launched a library to improve async-heavy workflows which falls back to normal promises. It is very useful specially for tool authors, see the library I also published recently `fs-array` using `magic-promises`.
> we can't produce very high energy particles

We can, it's just really hard to get a reaction out of the composite particles we've been using and we may have hit an energy limit here. Our energy problem is pretty much limited to fundamental accelerators now.

> dark energy or dark matter is a good example for this.

It's "weird" in the sense that based upon our observations there's a discrepancy between our presumed mass for very distant large stellar objects and the apparent rotation rate of some bodies in it's outer radius.

There's a lot of room for corrections there that don't involve new fundamental science. It's much more likely that we'll be able to to link two disparate areas of science together with a rigorous equation. This has been a good chunk of our progress so far.

> I'd be really disappointed if we already discovered everything there is as well in terms of the laws of physics, I mean how boring would that be?

Ultimately, there has to be a limit to how much knowledge there is to be gained. Beyond that we can start asking the really important questions like: "Does the universe fundamentally allow for the existence of free will?"
My take would be AR - being able to overlay info about what you are looking at would be potentially very useful (look down a street and see the addresses, see Spanish or Mandarin or ____ labels on objects in front of you, etc.) That said, having texts/Slack messages poke you in the eye seems worse not better than having them on a phone or smartwatch.
I used to self-host because I could run really strict spam filtering. Unfortunately Sonic dropped their plans to offer static IPs and reverse DNS with their fiber products so I'm stuck with using their servers as a smarthost at least. Can't say I enjoy it (especially with their all-day outage this week), but it does give me a chance to at least easily run aggressive spamassasin filters.
I don't understand why it is weird to believe in a young Earth, but it is not weird to believe that a god literally became a blood sacrifice to himself in order to save us from his wrath or any of the other stories from the Bible that modern theologians still consider literal, undeniable truth.
I think you are a bit mistaken here. I have lived in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia for over 10 years:

1. Drug laws are harsh in Southeast Asia, but Singapore is the only place you don’t have to worry about bribery. It’s probably the only country in Southeast Asia where you can’t bribe anyone.

It’s places like Bali where cops plant drugs on tourists or sell drugs to tourists to arrest them later to get cash from them.

But if that really scares you, avoid Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia - it’s a safer bet in Singapore.

2. Canning isn’t a common occurance. I would be more afraid to be Black in America than being canned in Singapore.
My opinion is that the UX is no where near as polished. The history and bookmark features still look like they're from 10 years ago, and subtler things that are just given thought to because there seem to be dedicated UI/UX designer on the chrome team.
> We all run puppet / ansible multiple times a day on our infra right? Checking for config drift.

No, not necessarily. I think a lot depends on the rate of change in your environment and the size of the team managing it, and the number, complexity and types of devel/test/production environments being managed.

In an emergency services network like mine changes are rather the exception than the norm and running ansible/puppet in a loop every 30 mins is a waste of resources. Also, changes that break when pushed to production could result in fire engines or ambulances not being dispatched. Not good.

A devops team I worked for ran up a full vagrant VM on every commit to the puppet repository, then ran puppet inside the VM and ran the full gamut of testinfra tests as well. The whole process took 20-30 minutes at times and if the new code you just pushed broke the tests right at the end it would be 20-30 minutes before you found out. Of course you were supposed to mitigate this by running the tests against your new code in a VM before you pushed them. So that is the other extreme. Personally I found that to be overkill, although it didn't stop broken changes being implemented to production sometimes.

> Ansible returns changes to what they should be at the same time?

Well yes so does puppet, but that assumes that your puppet plays/ansible playbooks etc. are all written to be idempotent. The default modules generally work in that manner, but both allow you to write plays/playbooks that aren't idempotent and that can break things.

Infrastructure tests allow you to seperate out (or augment) the validation that running puppet/ansible gives you. Because the tests are generally of a read-only nature there is a less chance of accidentally changing the state of the servers when you run the tests.

You could run ansible or puppet in 'dry-run' mode I suppose, and examine the output for errors, but testinfra or serverspec give you a much nicer interface IMHO and are more lightweight and execute much faster than a full ansible/puppet run.
There are no negative predictions especially nor 1000 years out, and asking for them shows a complete lack of understanding of how prediction science works.

Nevertheless: And the researchers say this means the probability of the ECS being less than 1.5°C—the Paris Climate Agreement’s super optimistic goal beyond the 2°C goal—is less than 3 percent. The upside, though, is they say this new estimate means the probability of the ECS passing 4.5°C is less than 1 percent.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dizzying-science-of-climate-...
I think it's not possible. I looked for a way to trigger shortcuts automatically too but seems like they can be triggered only manually.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/shortcuts/run-a-shortc...

Here one describes a way to send a push notification with a link and when he taps the notification, it starts the shortcut. But still, you need to tap...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/337309/how-to-auto...
>As a pedestrian I would surely rather be hit by a bike going 15 mph than a car going 45 mph.

Remember, the topic at hand is motorized scooters: which are perfectly capable of moving at 45mph. We can't think of them like they're bikes.
Because people watch absolute garbage. There's no algorithmic solution to that.
This flag is not really working. Just checked it (chrome 69.0.3497.100)
Wondering when they come out officially, gotta support a Canadian company
> full-fat, salty, and carb-heavy food.

> My diet is very well-controlled

Pick one
With these app-only banks I am always considered about their security if their main forcus for the first years is to grow at a startup-like pace.

This talk from 2016 shows how they cut corners when it comes to security in order to achieve this: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money
And it doesn't matter.
My mission is to make it possible for the users take back control of the internet, and make technology work for people (http://unravel.org). The internet has gone from being a technology that liberates information for everyone to something that concentrates power and information. Everybody complains about it, but very little is done about it. The tech industry doesn't need to disrupt the world nearly as much as the tech industry needs disruption.

It matters that I do this because, while I may have just a small chance of succeeding, I probably have a better chance then most. For the few of us who have the skills, the time and the plans to do something about it, we owe it to all who cant do something about it to at least try.
> but you've actually gone much further with this VM, which is fascinating given that it opens up the possibility of JITing queries.

That's why I did it, and why that's the first part in PG 11 that got JITed ;)

> My day job involves working on a query engine that faces some of the same design challenges, so I find this stuff very interesting.

FWIW, part of the design decisions I made for this stuff in PG were made to a significant part because it had to be adaptable incrementally without breaking too many idiosyncrasies (although there were some, in another commit, around multiple set-returning-functions in the SELECT list). I'd definitely do some things differently if I were to design more on a green field.
Software development is a semi engineering, semi math/quantitative profession. Very little of current US primary/middle, and high school education is dedicated that. A few boot camps are not going to solve the fundamental skills mismatch issues....
Why app-only? Is it so hard to provide a website too?
We are going into beta test in the coming weeks, I would love for you to try it! Shoot me an email (in HN profile) if you are interested.

The invitation is open to anyone of course :)
Aw man. It's working on 68! Guess I have to avoid upgrading for now. Thanks.
So Mr. Stevenson was frustrated when his previous retail bank's computers were down - so he moved to a computer only bank? Nice logic. I hate branches but its nice to know when everything is screwed up I can go into a physical place and talk to someone. The next crisis when your virtual bank app stops working - what are you going to do then?
It seems as though the needed escape hatch is a browser that simply CAN'T send info about you back to home base. Firefox might qualify, but I don't know for sure, and I don't want that to be our only option. There's a lot of great engineering that goes into Chrome.

So I'm wondering: Is enough code open sourced to make it possible for an organization such as Apache, GNU, or whatever, to create a sanitized fork of each new version of Chrome? This would be a version of Chrome with no privileged party other than its user. Every other party would be limited to the same set of features (cookies, local storage, etc.) that apply to all 2nd parties.
"probability must be between 0 and 1" - why? (I get it's used in mathematics, but I see no reason why a NN would have to output probability that way.)

"and being wrong on a confident prediction gives huge penalties using the popular maximum likelyhood loss functions" - It should.
A significant part of this, in my opinion, is that the consequences of homelessness have changed substantially over the last decade or so.

The major shift comes because of the smartphone.

Previously to be homeless meant to be completely disconnected from society. No mailing address, no land line, you don't exist.

Today you can have a phone number and high-speed internet access without a permanent address.

This alone makes the prospect of dispensing with your digs when you can no longer afford them far less unattractive than previously.

People live relatively modern connected lives from vehicles and tents today.

I'm not speculating, I'm speaking from experience. I've lived a very vagabond lifestyle for years in CA, and this approach has really taken off in the last 5-7 years or so. Batteries last a long time, solar panels are cheap and efficient, prepay phones are affordable.

I used to spend a lot of time in various cafes around the SF bay area. The outlets at these places started becoming contended for by ostensibly "homeless" people looking to charge their smartphones.

In 2018 "homeless" people have smartphones, they watch netflix, they do all the things. The last time I was at Java Beach in the outer sunset a guy who just moved off the sidewalk into a van was playing 3d games on a gaming laptop using the cafe's wifi and electricity until closing. I know his situation because he told it to me. He was wearing pajamas getting some gaming in before they closed up to retire in his van down the street.

That's a pretty damn comfortable "homeless" life. It's not really much different than what people are doing in their $3k+/mo apartments he parks in front of. I don't know where he bathes though, there is the ocean right there in the worst case, right?

I'm not passing judgement. It just shouldn't be surprising, given these circumstances, that relatively sane and capable people are slipping into "homeless" lives. The severity has substantially diminished vs. the homeless of the past, especially places where the climate is nice year-round.

I think if there were no smartphone, these "homeless" people would feel much more motivated to relocate someplace affordable.

It doesn't bother me if folks are choosing to live homelessly someplace desirable instead of relocating someplace less desirable where they can afford a home. Apartments are overrated, where the weather is nice.
Then maybe backpack nukes are protected by the Second Amendment? The Constitution says what it says--"we don't like the result" is a reason to amend it, not ignore it. In any event, whether or not backpack nukes are "arms," AR-15's clearly are within the category denoted by the word "arms."
I switched to Firefox after the recent Chrome update. It's awful.
Unfortunately, Senior House isn't alone in this. It actually started much earlier, with a systematic dismantling of fraternities which were somehow deemed problematic, many of which had been around for hundreds of years.

The inflection point was generally attributed to the changing of the administration - which used to be more governed by professors and the like who might empathize with students, but eventually grew to be much more bureaucratic; at some point, certain individuals at the top decided to target the living groups they disagreed with. Senior house, being a place where outsiders gathered, and having a reputation of extremes, drugs, is just the latest casualty in the cleansing war against the more tolerated traditions of yore.
Depends on your use case, but the more common paradigm for reusable and procedural image compositing is the idea of a node graph. Prople prefer to work this way for the interactive visualization. This kind of functionality is found in Natron and Blender (free software) as well as Nuke, Fusion and Houdini (paid.) All of these programs can be scripted with Python.

If you're looking for something to run headless on a server, Imagemagick is a good choice.
Yeah, it's not all of France, and the national policies make sense, but it seems that the closer you get to the Mediterranean sea, the more the quality and work-merit balance tapers off.
GP claims that FF performance is terrible, which I cannot endorse (I guess GP might be having an actual issue), but I'll make a different claim: performance is not as good as Chrome (or maybe even Safari), despite all the accolades of FF Quantum, and my myriad attempts to switch to FF. The (at least perceived) inferiority of performance in addition to general UI ugliness makes it a no switch for me.

P.S. macOS 10.13.6.
I want to switch to Firefox, but the developer tools simply do not work at all. Every time I try to use the console on the site that I'm working on, the tab freezes and everything just stops working. (This immediately happens, not after a period of working and then bugging out) If any representative from Mozilla wants to reach out, I would be glad to help you fix your software because we need better competition in this space. (email is in my profile)

Current Firefox version: 63.0b8
OS: mac OS High Sierra (10.13.6 17G65)
Kuhn is very explicit on that the typical behavior is this kind of subsuming rather than outright replacement. He even points out cases where the new paradigm causes us to lose the ability to say certain things we were capable of in the old one.