skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, replace bad with inherently badly behaved then.

The worst thing is that many people are fucking awful to other people who return a dog to a shelter when it doesn't work out.
Especially for Firefoxes container functionality.

>Allows you to sign in to two different accounts on the same site.

Allows you to isolate your sites from one another, by containerizing tabs.

Allows you to avoid leaving a social networking footprint to keep those sites from tracking you.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techrepublic.com/google-amp...
What was LSD and psilocybin doing 'to society' when Nixon scheduled them?

What was MDMA doing when that happened later?

We need to fish for reasons, we can't just take policy as gospel. The same arguments were made against cannabis, and look how the tide has turned.
Bing is my primary search engine. This feature has been in Bing for at least 6 months. I love it.
The article mentions the 1960 Bell System user study of different keypad layouts. I can't speak to the other layouts, but I think in hindsight it's clear why the "touch tone" layout (with 123 at the top) won over the the "calculator" layout (with 789 at the top).

Everyone or nearly everyone in the user study was surely a telephone user. At the time, that meant being accustomed to the rotary dial layout, where the order of the digits is 1234567890. 0 is the last digit, after 9.

Both the calculator and touch tone layouts had 0 at the bottom. So the calculator layout has 0 next to 123. The touch tone layout has 0 next to 789 (and following the 9), just like a rotary dial.

This must have accounted for some of the preference between these two layouts.
True. There’s the hippie leftist archetype, and the commissar leftist archetype. It’s a spectrum, so they say!
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
--- Upton Sinclair
The study for the amount of birds they eat made a lot of assumptions so there's doubt on whether it's actually accurate or not.

Any link to reputable/scientific doubts on this? All my Google Fu churns up in reiterations of the popular narrative.
I picked up a stray (ok, so she jumped in the car) took her to the vet for the eye crusties found out she was unadoptable due to FIV+ they said they could put her down, or I could keep her indoors and she would just have a shorter than average life, six or seven years if she was lucky... that was 14 years ago and and is still doing fine.
Has no interest in going outside, ceilings are too tall out there for her, suspect that is why she jumped in the car in the first place
Using Brave for a bit will give you some perspective on what sort of things (e.g. location) are being requested whenever you hit a Google-related page.
At least with (-inf, +inf) you know that the answer is nonsense and that you need to go back to the algorithm to find a better order of operations.

With ordinary floating point, all too often people don't realize their results are nonsense. Adding measurement and computation error bounds to their graphs is illuminating.
The solution is Safari
Yes, this can be used for generating adversarial inputs, and yes, this is a new attack surface. From the paper:

The images generated here could be viewed as a variant
of adversarial examples, in which small image perturbations
(imperceptible to humans) cause a large shift
in the network’s output. The images we generate are
of a somewhat opposite flavor: while we do not limit
the magnitude of the difference between the original and
modified image, the detectors are sometimes “blind” to
the inserted object.
In addition, our examples are not “targeted” in the sense
that no optimization process is required to generate them;
they seem prevalent enough so that a simple scan of
transplanting translated versions of one object in the other
can give rise to multiple wrong interpretations.
Equifax Receives a £500,000 Fine for Its 2017 Data Breach
My default is now Brave, great for privacy. I like the features in Vivaldi so sometimes use that too.

Firefox just grinds to a halt for me on my Mac.

I only use chrome on the very rare occasions I still need to do a little front end work.
Exactly. I'll go further in saying a system or software should be considered insecure if it connects to Internet and wasn't designed/implemented with strong security. That's most stuff.
Deep Learning Generalisation Game
I am so glad I resisted pressure from Intel engineers to let /dev/random
So for the past two weeks, there have been "hotel workers on strike!" protests in Chicago. They've been outside banging pots and pans, blowing whistles, and generally making a lot of noise to raise awareness for their cause.

Are you sure that quietly switching to Firefox is more effective than saying "Fuck you Google, I took your product and made it my own. Here's how anyone else can do the same thing. Stop abusing your users' trust"?
CamTin was saying that workers should be considered investors in a moral sense: they put time and effort into the company and deserve a share of the profits. Obviously, workers are not investors in the literal sense.
Even 4 years at FANG with million in savings is laughable. You gotta be pretty high up the ladder. It is definitely not the average.
I got lucky; they had a successful IPO and I made around 150k based on working there 1.5 years. I joined fairly late (employee 400-something) at a startup that was very secretive about their finances and customers, but clearly doing well, if you were paying attention:

They had taken on a relatively small amount of VC funding when I joined, so just doing the math on the number of high-quality employees and the fact that they were making market-rate salary offers made it obvious that they had been successfully running on their business model for a long time, even though they wouldn't disclose finances or customer numbers to non-employees. And sure enough, they eventually IPO'ed as a company that had been (mostly) profitable for a while.
I feel opposite of this. I want my bookmarks to be separated on desktop and laptop. Sometimes my wife will use my laptop and I’ve had occasions where I’d bookmark something as a surprise for her (a gift I wanted to purchase) or I’d research some activity- only to have her find out just because google decided it was okay to sync my stuff. If there is an option to disable that I’d like to know. Ah hell, the latest UI update to chrome makes me want to dump it entirely. Worst part, it didn’t even ask me if I wanted to update.
Chasing 'likes' on Instagram, hikers break limbs – and need rescuing
I wasn’t aware YouTube positions itself as a “free speech platform”. In fact that just sounds like a dog whistle for online harassment.
The price necessarily implies there is demand for international students and with that you can conclude that yes, they did take a spot - from another international student.
I would like to see more banks /fintech startups with the same approach to things as Czech primordial fintech startup: Fio.

It is combination of stock broker and credit union (nowadays full-fledged bank) that was founded by bunch of CS graduates. They had internet access to account from the start, originally supported by custom made authentication device and 20 line officially supported shellscript that emulated the device by means of bunch of few "openssl something" commands. They have rest API that really is REST (GET account movements, PUT bunch of payment orders, no bullshit) and when they didn't have API they docummented format of movement notification emails and officially acknowledged and supported machine parsing of such messages (to the order of providing example code).

Somehow I think that EU's PTS2 and such things tries to force banks to do this, but solves the problem from the wrong end.
I do not remember the title of a sci-fi book I read that mentioned in passing that many spaceships had ship cats to manage rodents, just like sailing ships. It wasn't a feature of the story, just part of the tapestry.
It's not just short-term housing; it's not even just residential zoning. It appears to be all zoning in places with engaged residents. In my sister's Jeff Park neighborhood in Chicago, there's a bitter fight over whether to allow dense multi-family developments; in Oak Park, where I live, people litigate repurposing vacant lots(!) for fear of the clientele benign businesses will attract. It's not like liquor licenses or banquet halls, it's just basic services, and the subtext is always "keep new low income black and latinx families out".

It makes me worry that as neighborhoods get more connected (as mine has, with Facebook, and others are with Nextdoor), this problem is going to get much worse before it gets better.
Why? Why don't we say the same for posts about stickers from this year?
How do you assess the trustworthiness of thousands of transitive dependencies with a far greater number of code contributors in a way that scales? This is a serious question, and it would be great if you shared the solution you found. Thanks.
Forgot about their armband:

https://www.myo.com
Oh, that explains why I have heartburn when I don't sleep well!
It’s generally understood that submissions without such tags are from this year.
Good UI for command line tool = consistent syntax?

I'm only slowly getting the hang of basic git usage, so I'm probably not qualified to criticize it myself, but I've seen some Web pages (blog posts?) that seemed to make a pretty cogent argument that git isn't too great in that department. Sorry, no links to hand.
This reminds me of the two opposing conventions for drawing memory maps --- do you put "lower" (numerically lesser) addresses at the bottom and increase to "higher" addresses at the top, or start with 0 at the top and "increase" downwards? Just like with the Endianness Wars, it seems that multiple conventions often prevail when there isn't a clear and obvious advantage of one.
Hah, I had a "Hotpoint" GE range until recently when it started having a fun issue. If you Google the reviews, well it randomly turns on the oven....at the best of times like when you aren't home example. Because the stupid potentiometer used for the oven control has a piss poor "off" position that goes bad over time and the oven either a.) refuses to turn off or b.) oscillates on/off over an extended period.
> To me, these “endless textual revisions and supposed clarifications” sounded suspiciously like thinking.

How do you tell the difference between earnest thinking and flip flopping, "a sudden real or apparent change of policy or opinion by a public official, sometimes while trying to claim that both positions are consistent with each other... during the period prior to or following an election in order to maximize... popularity?"

Could we at least concede that when somebody says something that makes your bullshit detector go off, and then they change what they're saying, your detector isn't broken?
quantity != virality. Christmas and Easter sermons are definitely not viral material. Plus, google is definitely not going to go out of their way to push Christian videos on people haha.
Realistically the left/right spectrum is orthogonal to the authoritarian/libertarian spectrum. Classic liberalism is, I think, more aligned with the right but also profoundly anti-authoritarian. Similarly, the left has a proud tradition of supporting individual liberty but also a strong tradition of suppressing it in favour of collective power.

Corporations of all stripes tend towards authoritarianism though, in my view. It is a natural structure when you have agents using someone else's capital.
Oddly enough I haven't had too many issues with YouTube's slowness (as a Firefox user). I mean, it's slow, but "tolerable". It's the new Gmail that's horrifically slow now. It takes a good 20 seconds to get to the point where I can interact with it, and then each interaction takes another 10 seconds.
Agree, SS is not a safety net. Neither is Medicare. What I should have made more clear is that stripping the 1% of SS benefits will provide no increase to the 99%.

SS is supposed to be the third leg in the retirement stool, with pensions and individual investments the other two. SS is a very short leg, nearing insolvency. Pensions are a thing of the past.

That leaves a pogo stick of individual savings. If you don’t want to be eating Alpo in old age, you need to be investing 20% of your income, and hope you can ride that pogo stick until death.
Rats on the Boat – BitTorrent P2P Search Engine
Social security is a mostly old age and disability insurance program with eligibility requirements and weird rules, and maybe some solvency issues. My understanding is there is some coverage for disabled children that's not based on previous earnings, but I'm not familiar with the details.

Everything else is based on eligible earnings, so I wouldn't consider it a safety net -- if you didn't earn enough or long enough, you may not get anything out of it.

I think you're going to get a lot more resistance from high income/ high net worth individuals if you take away their social security payments than if you raise the pay in caps, and set the payout percentages to be even lower at the top end. Or scrap the whole thing and build an honest steal from the rich and give to the poor guaranteed minimum income tax scheme.
Lots of people will give you opinions of should you ask for more. My opinion is you should ask for what you think is fair. If you think the current split is fair, then you don’t need to ask for more.

Keep in mind that most cases equity turn out to have little monetary value.
Or, in this case, "(<1400)".
The Bible repeatedly states that God cannot lie. Your father is making God out to be a liar. If it comes up again, if you want to start a fight, that's a direction you could go.
Unperturbed because I know the endgame on this :). World without alcohol is a better world. The arguments about the past. I can list down counter arguments. But that’s not the point. People often respond with emotions about alcohol consumption. Media brainwashing has done its job well.
Problem is, most of the times doctor don't help you. I solved all my health problems by myself, by debugging my body (literally). Doctors don't believe you and they fail badly because of it. Doctors are useful when you have a clearly recognized symptom and there is a known procedure to solve the problem.

But that's terrible honestly.
Probably because those videos don't actually drive much engagement. Most sermon videos -- for example -- tend to be relatively slow-paced, lightly edited (if at all), and do not use any visuals beyond a fixed camera on the speaker. All of these factors are poison to engagement, even for users who might otherwise be interested in the content.
One day I wondered where dinosaurs fit into christianity. I know next to nothing about christianity but I think it includes the belief that humans were on Earth pretty soon after Earth's creation, which meant either christianity rejected the dinosaur's existence or they lived alongside humans, which would be a pretty neat scenario to imagine.

If I recall correctly the common explanations I found were that humans did in fact live alongside dinosaurs, and that dinosaurs lived and died within the first few days of their creation for whatever reason.

One article I read on a christian website also said that the dating of dinosaur fossils by scientists was incorrect because bones don't have timestamp labels on them so there's no way one could know.

In regards to "I wonder how people reconcile such discoveries backed by scientific validation" I think it's quite often simply unsubstantiated rejection.
Ironically, I arrived at this blog site pre-logged in to my Wordpress account.
At https://ingrower.com, we provide a farm management app with human-expert assistance for smallholder farmers in East Africa. There are 500 million smallholder farmers in the world today. Most are operated by women of the house in developing countries growing greens or raising chickens in their homes. Imagine enabling some of them to generate an income with their smallholding farms. That's what we're trying to do at InGrower.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

It's pretty bad. Firefox cuts my battery life in half doing nothing.
Graphics: Efficient Instancing in a Streaming Scenario
It was an intentional download so that Chromium users could use "Ok Google".
You can easily add a "knob" like this to any model. For example, you can first run an input through a fast, but less accurate object detector (e.g. YOLO), and if not satisfied with results (or automatically triggered by low confidence scores), run the same input through a slower, but more accurate model (RCNN).
Porsche stops making diesel cars
> The systems failure in April, affecting nearly two million TSB customers, was a breaking point for Mr. Stevenson. He moved his money to Monzo, a British start-up that is among a growing number in Europe offering checking accounts and A.T.M. cards, but lack physical branches — everything is done through an app.

I don't quite understand this logic. Sure there was a very inconvenient failure. But the reaction is the move your money away from established banks with thousands of employees to an app-based startup? No, not for me, thank you.
Such an amazing book. I hope you are inspired to read the rest of Brin's work.
“It also features some changes” says to me that this isn’t a safe fork to recommend to others. Rather than simply releasing a de-badged instance of the public Chrome product, it additionally includes “editorial” comments in the form of turning various switches on or off. Use at your own risk.
ITER Tokamak: First Plasma Through High-Fusion-Gain Deuterium-Tritium Operation
I always have my sound input/mic levels set to zero in settings. They can't bypass that.
Well, if there was a malfunction, that could happen - but so it can happen with current phones (I regularly get calls where people think they hang up but the call continues).
Does one really want to associate themselves with Brendan Eich though? Brave is what he has been building after being ejected from Mozilla.

While Brendan has built some interesting and useful things including Javascript, he is apparently poisonous enough to cause three of Mozilla's board members to resign, including a founding executive of Yahoo, the former CEO of AVG, and the former CEO of Mozilla Corp (from 2008 to 2010).

His wiki page is a good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
There should then be people that a) can afford $1M investment and b) can afford rent prices that justify $1M investment.
This is like Microsoft and IE all over again.
I switched to Brave on iOS after the Chrome redesign that ruined the UX for me. Pretty happy with it so far. It has some pretty neat features as well -- a visible tab strip that you can swipe and select/close tabs, for example.
This is basically the life I lead, minus the boot camp. I spent five years in central Virginia instead, to get my career to the point where I could get a good remote job.

I live in rural Arkansas, and there are basically no tech jobs here. My salary is much less than it’d be in LA (where my employer is located), but is still something like four times the median family income here.

I feel like I have the best of both worlds, and wish I could help others here make it in our industry - but who wants to hire remote junior devs?
Free to go live under the bridge again. Complete freedom.
That's true, I forgot to say that I'm happy that they're going to expand.
Edit: "My view of the future is we will be catering to the Wealthy."

Oops--and if you think I'm wrong explain? I dropped out of Chiropractic School because I just didn't believe in it. It cost me $20,000. The only thing I learned is when it comes to money/career; 99% of the people go along with the program.

You all love to think you are above money, but so few are. Do I suggest being a rebel--no.

I would like to see a few wealthy boys getting behind some inititatives(congressional bills) that bring a semblance of privacy to workers. Why? Because most wealthy boys can afford to take a stand. Daddy usually says, "Yes, come back home jr.!"

And no, not all tech is bad. Not realizing the abuses of tech is bad though.
That's a pretty significant issue. "Oh, it's a great browser! No, it doesn't work on 95% of computers."
This really makes me wonder why we seem to only have one common ancestor. It's starting to look like life happened really early, which means it's really easy, which means it should have happened more than once.
I worked on content recommendation for a bit while I was at Microsoft. People click on low quality articles, spend a lot of time reading said articles, then seek out similar or lower quality articles containing the same named entities. If you recommended a variety of content to those people, they'd most frequently pick articles of equal or lesser quality about named entities they just read.

This is really kind of saddening, but your best bet really is just personalizing on as many user metrics as you can collect to best serve the people who like clickbait as well as the people who are looking for higher quality articles.

Not really relevant, but funny enough, if you prioritize article quality, popular named entities, how relevant those entities are to the article, engagement, and article age, you end up with earnings reports.
Infringe is a more suitable word for IP than steal, since nothing is physically taken. The real question (and the thing which should force self reflection on western ip laws) is if companies are incentivized to invest in developing new ip without laws to create monopolies for the new tech. Maybe open source software is a similar model (copyright vs patents).
Anything?

For me, there are things that might improve outcomes, but would be unacceptable.

For example, drugs that help with information retention. Mandatory memory enhancing brain implants. Drugs that adjust motivation/focus. Wires attached to eyelids to prevent you from closing your eyes.

The reason why VR used for training seems dystopian is that it removes choice. Or at least feels like it does.

Arguably the trade off is worth it in this case.
> Container tabs are a similarly interesting idea with a weird implementation that requires you to micromanage your tabs, which I certainly don't want to, and provides a "techie" solution to something that should just be invisible and default (i.e. all web sites should be "contained").

All websites contained would be an interesting default. With ways to “re-open current tab in container [X]” and “merge current tab with container [Y],” it would involve less micromanaging. That’s still not invisible, the container process and UX warrants plenty of thought.
Also, on my 2-year old MacBook Pro, the thing heats up pretty bad and the fans go on quite loud. It's terrible. I've actually never run any application on my laptop that performs as bad as Firefox, and that's saying something.
I use Epiphany (aka GNOME Web) and it's like Safari: a minimal WebKit-based browser with no Google integration, but it's cross-platform, open source, and features Firefox sync integration for history/bookmarks/passwords/etc. I can't recommend it enough.
Enable community driven coordination of distributed enegery production and consumption.
Basically virtual power plants operating on the edge of our grid.

Heat, refrigeration, lights, etc are at the foundation of modern society. The foundation of modern society is driven by the distribution of energy. Helping ensure energy sources at the edge of our grid achieve scalability and fault tolerance strikes me as something that truly matters.

LO3 Energy

The company has been around for some time but recently underwent rapid growth. I started as a part time remote contracted and was the first software engineer to be brought on full time.

It’s been a lot of work and there is still a long way to go but the thing that keeps me chugging is the people involved. We’ve attracted a powerhouse of a team both on the business and engineering side. Further, I’ve never worked with a more genuine and kind group of individuals before.