skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qualcomm got this win because of two patents relate to software. For their inventors, they are probably not working on Qualcomm's core business (licensing and modem), wondering what will happen to them? An email from their superiors saying "well done and thank you", a cash bonus maybe some extra RSU, a promotion or maybe nothing?

Anyone has experience on this?
With uBlock Origin and uMatrix it looks extremely clean to me.
Towards usable checksums
The ideal of a bug-free program has been abandoned long ago (Guido van Rossum)
How you can add Bootstrap to your Ruby on Rails project
Congratulations, You Are a Finalist in the IT Blog Awards, Hosted by Cisco
I read somewhere that net worth of $1 million is not enough to send two kids to Ivy League schools. There are many ways $10M will revolutionize your life compared to $1M.
> Capitalism means free markets.

No, it's a model of property rights. “Free markets” are a slogan, but not even a particularly coherent concept much less a concrete thing that is present in capitalism.
I wouldn't be surprised if it also happened precurrency as well. We aren't dogs but one thing known to make them potentially more aggressive is having larger "territory" it thinks it must defend.

That was useful behavior for guard animals but not universally
For vast periods of time you want them to bark at intruders, cattle rustlers and predators but not mauling small children or innocents who may leave you liable.

Essentially it may be the power that does it technically.
Yep. I didn’t even finish reading it.
I think that probably in Swift each individual string is required to be of finite length, as in most programming languages. The set of finite (but arbitrary) length strings drawn from a finite set of characters is countable.

On the other hand this type BitSequence (pretending UInt contains all non-negative sequences) is the set of all countable infinite sequences of bits. That set, as you explained, has the cardinality of the continuum.
Can there be a UI that lets readers agree/desagree on Cookies once and forever so that the popup is not shown again, and to block 'please disable adblock' popups? An, also, firmly let the website know that the user wants to stay in the mobile browser and doesn't wish to download another app just to read a 1000 words article?
About 20 or so years ago I was feeling bad about my chances of developing the type of CJD associated with mad cow disease because of all the burgers I'd eaten over the preceding years.

There were also human cases getting reported at a rate that some suggested matched the pattern for the early days of an epidemic.

Luckily that never materialised. Still though having lived in the UK during a certain time period precludes one from donating blood elsewhere, to this day.
Yes, but those people have an investment to protect. This article reads as an extended attempt to bully a writer who values her privacy into surrendering it to please people who have no real right to know anything beyond what she has already revealed. It's such a vile attack that I couldn't finish reading it. "Asshole" doesn't begin to cover it.
In America's Panopticon
Actually, deep learning models do use symbols.

We call these symbols "embeddings" or "representations" in a vector or tensor space... but these symbols may not have any known or readily interpretable human meaning. People who are uneducated in basic vector (and tensor) math may have difficulty understanding how this is possible, but it's a fact.

For example, the ELMo embedding of a particular word in a sentence is a symbol that represents the complex syntax, semantics, and polysemy of that word given its location and use in the text.[a] Similarly, a trained WaveNet model represents a sequence of text as a (fairly large) tensor embedding that encodes the information necessary for generating the corresponding speech; this embedding is a symbol too.[b] As a final example, the next-to-last layer's embedding of an image processed through a trained Detectron model contains representations of every identified object in the image; those representations are symbols too.[c]

Moreover, the kind of automatic differentiation that is necessary for training deep learning models with backprop reduces into manipulation of symbols in a tree, viewed through the right lens. Witness, for example, the recent work done by Mike Innes et al for the Julia language.[d] We could very well be in the early stages of adoption of "deep differentiable programming" for a growing number of cognitive tasks that might not be solvable via human manipulation of symbols.

The challenge for deep learning going forward, as Bengio says and Marcus quotes, is in figuring out how to "extend it to do things like reasoning, learning, causality, and exploring the world."[e] As far as I can tell, everyone in the field already agrees on these goals; many researchers are thinking about and wondering how it might be possible to pursue them.

Does Marcus understand this? His complaining about the "lack of symbols" is... misguided, I think.

[a] https://allennlp.org/elmo

[b] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

[c] https://research.fb.com/downloads/detectron/

[d] https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler

[e] https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1065280340669816832
He is a well known figure in chess. More people recognize his name in connection to chess than Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana combined! Of course he writes about chess - when he does people listen and assume he has something insightful to say (weather or not he does), thus when he wants money he needs to talk about chess. He can be (and reportedly is) a great inspirational speaker, but he is expected to talk about chess at some time in each speech.
Agreed, if you were an investor in Citi, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns you would have lost nearly everything. Madoff customers did much better.
> The overwhelming majority of first time home buyers do not have enough cash on hand for a down payment and an emergency fund.

The point is, then these people are not first time home buyers.
not so much by default. first you have to launch firefox with a special flag. if firefox is your default browser, and your session started by clicking a link in a different program, youd have to close your browser and click the right shortcut.

unless I am mistaken and -no-remote isnt required anymore.
...with only 5 or 6 other hard-to-find substances. If you are stockpiling those items, why not stockpile penicillin itself?
Yes, but the article says that the instruments used in opthalmology can be vectors for the prions. OP is fine though assuming his operation was more than a year ago and he's not currently dead.
I don't think the important question to ask here is if it can survive, it's how can it survive. These sort of tools should be in the commons anyway, just like social media.

Monolithic social media is not sustainable and often times quite harmful because it optimizes for engagement. The Fediverse will deal with this one way or another, worst case everyone switches to whitelisting.

I've been in favor of adding a limit - once you can remove by deleting a few lines of code of course - to the number of users an instance can hold. Purely for symbolism. It worked when Elasticsearch was added to Mastodon and a "viewable_by" property was added so you could only search for things you had engaged with.
Their announcements do seem to be a certain amount of time ahead of reality. They announced the early rider programme having started at least a few weeks/months before the evidence of it started showing up, and it looks the same this time.

My take on that is that it's okay. They're being cautious.
the window you use to run command.com was for DOS programs only.

This is not strictly true. You could launch Windows programs from the DOS box. If you tried to run something like PBRUSH.EXE from true DOS you would get "This program requires Windows" but in a DOS box it would detect that Windows was running and launch the program.

I think it is true that there were no Windows-only command line apps though.
You can still build it, I believe, they just don't provide ready to go .iso files. I think.
2018 Design Tools Survey Results
I wasn't complaining about the bloat (already have uBlock), I think I just need to turn off requests for notifications. (Or even better, have intermediate option where I can be aware that it wants to send me notifications, but where it doesn't take the focus off and interfere with my plugins like Vimium.)
Tencent’s New Medical AI Lab Targets Parkinson’s
> Now for the same price, you have access to thousand of movies __and__ TV shows

Yes, but are they the movies and shows people actually want to watch? You know, classics and the like. Increasingly, the case is "no".
The economist has been freaking out about norms destruction since day 1 of the trump whitehouse. This “book review” seems like just another chance to sound their favorite alarm.

Not that they’re wrong, but the people (at least almost half of them) voted for someone who promised to break these norms. As far as I’m concerned, we signed a contract for 4 years of bull in china shop. Smart people need to be focusing on he silver lining and coming up with new, better norms and institutions that we will need when the rage winds down.
Google Play has dropped 22 malware: Uninstall these apps
Analysis of the cyberpunk subculture
Then to add insult to injury quantitative easing to fix the problem was simply a fancy way of saying “let’s give those banks that profited from this situation trillions of dollars so they can trickle the wealth down”.
Let me guess, you're using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)?

Archive.is blocks Cloudflare DNS. You should switch to another DNS server if you want to use it.
That's why I'd like to suggest a three-phase solution: the first phase is advocating for using JavaScript for progressive enhancement only; the second phase is a JavaScript blocker; the third phase is using three-phase power to deliver mild electrical shocks to web developers who abuse JavaScript.

Seriously, though, you're right — and every time I'm forced to enable a new JavaScript source in uMatrix, I'm angered at the site which requires it. In some cases, I just don't even bother using such sites — why buy something from someone who respects neither me nor the Web enough to provide a usable site without tons of JavaScript?
You mean like how Madoff went to prison
After the new media query 'prefers-color-scheme: dark' has landed, we now need 'prefers-content: tldr' as well.
2018: The Year Privacy Took Center Stage
I've had pretty good experience with it.
I discount the touted magical benefits and just focus on the practical results, which for me has been increased hardiness/resilience with regard to energy levels.

My approach:

- Follow a cyclical pattern. Your body/metabolism evolved to endure periods of hunger as well as taking advantage of relative plenty. Try to flex your metabolism each week by eating little or no food for 24+ hours, then eating one meal per day (nutrient dense, see below), then eating two per day, increasing until you eat to satiety (just before going back into the extended fast).

- This is a bit like treating each week as an annual seasonal cycle. For my schedule, Sun night through Wed morning is Winter (mostly fasting), Wed/Thu is Spring (one meal per day), Fri/Sat is Summer (two meals), Sunday is Autumn and feasting before Winter comes.

- You'll be eating much less in total volume, so focus on maximum nutrition density when (re)feeding. This means eating things like (grass-fed) liver and heart, wild-caught fish and bivalves, vegetables and leafy greens to replenish nutrients and minerals. From a nutritional standpoint, this is not so much a keto/hflc/carnivore/paleo approach, it's really just: Eat meat and vegetables. During the Summer/Fall cycle of my week I'll deviate a little and add berries or low glycemic veggies.

- I exercise with high intensity twice per week. Once on Wed morning (ideally fasted), and once on Sunday morning. The rest of the week I just do a bit of stretching/mobility. This isn't critical to the fasting program, but I find that the metabolism flexing through fasting is a positive stress that complements the physical activity (also a positive stress).

So, that's it. The cyclical nature of it feels good to me, it feels a bit more natural, the nutritional part feels really good, and I've had really good results from an energy level and body composition standpoint.
Instagram Management Service – Instagram Growth Service
Employees usually get RSUs when they get a patent filed and granted, and that's it.
Rating aggregator for Netflix and Prime movies
Kids use Fortnite as a game but also as a place to hangout
Is OSHA called OSHA in the UK?
I totally agree. I'm not trying to poo-poo this stuff, just trying to ask some questions. I'm asking in part because I'm curious about what has been developed and what's being contemplated for the future.

I think one promising avenue is to start doing our own work in AI / deep learning powered countermeasures against attacks. AI doesn't replace humans (yet?), but it does augment them. A citizen militia vs. an AI-augmented propaganda army would be toast unless the citizen militia is also leveraging the force multiplying power of AI.

Given the agility of small actors at innovation, the citizen militia might actually end up with better AI than the PR flunkies and propaganda mills.
And it doesn't?
Thanks for posting this, I have passed a message to a friend of Aaron's dad.
> The point is, then these people are not first time home buyers.

They manifestly factually are, whether or not by the standards you would prefer to apply to the decision they should be.
To be fair, most of the extra features (including this one) are apps that you either have to enable or can disable.
And even though I initially installed Nextcloud as basically an FTP alternative too, I absolutely love how I've been able to migrate my contacts and calendar over (away from Google) with basically no hassle.
cataract surgery involves replacing the lens with a new lens, now generally an artificial lens

https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/cataract-surgery.h...
It is very interesting that now we start to see trolling and vandalism on that page. No surprise for a public wiki. I published it here to HN instead of tweet just to limit that kind of publicity but encourage people in the community to experiment in the spirit of Doug. That is the best way to celebrate his legacy.

For those internet trolls, no big deal, they will get bored after 15 minutes. To people who think at a little bit longer time scale, that is just noise.

P.S.
This Show HN post was posted yesterday and got no notice. Until it was kindly re-upped

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

Thank you dang!
Though describing ThisOldTony as nonfiction is a bit of a stretch ;)
I tell computers what to do, not the other way around :)
My understanding is that this is possible because at some point, the private keys for the airplay encryption were found. Alas airplay 2 cannot be supported unless the same thing happens, which is a shame.
This is true in China also I believe.
Prion disease is exceedingly rare. CJD is the most common, with an incidence of 1 per 1,000,000 person-years worldwide, inclusive of all transmission vectors (including medical procedures).

Iatrogenic transmission is a rarer subset still: the riskiest transplants (with respect to CJD) are in the central nervous system. The UK tracked their transmission rates from 1970 to 2003 (a long period is needed because surgical transmission usually occurs in folks with long incubation periods - up to ten years or so) for dura transplants (something that goes into the CNS) and found a total of eight.

This article is one good step above scare-mongering, but only one.
Drosophila – a versatile model in biology and medicine
That must be on an older iOS version? Pretty sure that on recent versions the modal dialogs are actually not modal anymore and are rendered 'in content'. So you can always close the tab.
You seem to be implying that the world would be better if they didn't do this research, that doing it as a tech company to just apply the tech is immoral. Is that what you really mean?
No it is called the HSE.
> Are we going to pretend that your average HN user doesn't understand the pros/cons of their software choices?

I am not pretending that the average HN doesn't understand the pros/cons of their software choices. I own my own domain and with it I provide my own email, calendar, and the like. It's nowhere near as simple as it could or should be. It increases the barrier to entry in both cognition and technology required while hiding the actual cost of the decision to offload that data to a third party.

> They still continue to use those services, despite being aware, because they simply aren't sufficiently motivated to change their habits.

Again: bubble. Is it that they're insufficiently motivated to change their habits? Or is it that they've been trained (whether personally, or educationally, or through another employer) for something easier and haven't been given a solution just as easy?

> GMail is familiar, and hence easy, so why switch to ProtonMail (for example)?

For me, personally: both of them are off-site and not owned by me. For many others: they don't know of ProtonMail. For many of them: they can't afford ProtonMail.

> There are many, many successful people who can function perfectly well without the latest iPhone.

I wasn't talking just about phones. Computers, even your employer's computer, can track you; my employer uses GSuite.

> Please don't resort to ad hominem attacks on Hacker News.

I don't believe this was an ad hominem attack; I believe it was an observation.
Submarine happened. I knew exactly what was meant.
Agreed I have seen many SO answers in areas where I have expertise where wordy waffly feel good answers - that don't actually answer the question asked get preferred of short and to the point 3 or 4 line answers.

There is also to much vote whoreing going on with people chipping in with non relevant answers. I wish I had a pound for every employment answer that mentions "right to work" when its not an American employment question.
If someone is playing around trying to get a proper structure it really is a lack of experience.

If a person repeated the same project 5 times on the last attempt would require very little trying to find the proper structure. Experience has everything to do with that.
Prion diseases have incubation periods that are very long (5 to 20 years). It is only after symptoms appear that the end is near (a year or less).
I'd say CRI is a bit bogus in that a light source can have fairly high CRI and still look bad. For example, I've seen LEDs used in a flashlight with a CRI over 90 that had a significant green tint.

On the other hand, I have not seen a light source with low CRI that looked good illuminating people, natural materials, or anything else where subtle differences in color are relevant.
Here’s why China’s launch to the far side of the Moon is a big deal
Call support and claim your refund. (But I'd guess you haven't paid them a penny and use what they have developed for free.)
For Qualcomm, it seems that you get $1500 USD when your patent is filed and another $1500 USD when granted.

I guess one can pocket more rewards once your patent is proven to be more valuable to the company. The question is how much and in what form.
Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/...
At least contextually I will personally complain that the whole business model of making content to then profit off of (be it in $15 3D tickets, $100 blu ray box sets, or 5 cents of Netflix revenue) permanently as being incredibly amoral and culturally destructive.

We have the Internet. People give away data in their posession for free to the order of exabytes a year. As a species, we have the capability to host the total sum of all information produced by our kind in kind. We just chose to silo anything dating back to the 1920s in corporate coffers as a means to rent seek forever on properties the creators are either long dead or long gone from the studio that continues to profit off their work forever.
It seems like scooters are here to stay. Gaining skills and experience at repairing small transportation devices is probably not a bad plan.
Every browser is like this. Browse the WebKit or Chromium bug trackers and you will see the exact same: thousands of issues - these are all large projects with a backlog.
Eleven researchers publish sharp critique of EPA fuel economy logic
I've installed browser extensions to turn off karma/points on as many sites as I can find. For me this has worked well.

I still kid my wife about "internet points" when I take a photo for Google Maps and the like, and I totally empathise with you on the feeling of seeing that number, but for my own peace of mind I've had to restrict myself from it.
FWIW I bought four IKEA bulbs a few years ago and all of them made a low buzzing sound. Couldn't stand them anywhere but the bathroom.

On the other hand, if you're looking for IoT light bulbs, their Tradfri system is a lot cheaper than Hue and I've read that their gateway has reasonable security practices and a good API. I would bet that those are more premium products that they wouldn't have released without making sure the electronics are quiet.
Finding the Right Balance and Smartling
The year is from the onset of the first symptoms. It said nothing about incubation period.
I remember when a noname oem from Shenzhen "won" a patent case against apple in 2014. They barely managed to enforce the ban in a single retail chain in Beijing, and then Apple simply switched to ifone 5, which was untouched by injunction.
Great list. I love when people do this, as I inevitably find new channels to follow.

Thanks,
Non-public and insider are two different concepts. I could send a satellite to space, take pictures of parking lots, count cars, and it'd be a pretty decent indicator to the relative success of a retailer. Add some other signals into the model and it'd probably be good.

I don't need to give the public access to my satellite images. But if I wanted to make a subscription service for 100k/month, I could. It would be non-public, but not insider.
My take on this was :

1- Buy hardware (Raspberry + DAC + Amplifier)

2- Download and install Volumio (volumio.org) on SD card

3- Profit
Anarchism at the End of the World
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11721058?dopt=Abstract

> we estimate that the mean duration of the incubation period is 16.7 years

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> A comprehensive statistical analysis had earlier reported that the mean incubation period was between 10.3 and 13.2 years, but the tail of the distribution was long. Using these estimates, we calculated that the upper 0.4% quantile was 40 years, and even larger for those infected young (>50 years), very much in line with these new observations.