skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest ways people waste money
At that point, IE was so technically far behind that you could easily point to reasons why Firefox was better: Add-ons, usable tabbed browsing, incredible speed increases, more customization, and websites actually working.

Nowadays, we're asking people to choose, for all appearances, a slower browser that's not as technically advanced in some ways, with no clear merits and a lot of changes to workflow. The choice today is between freedom and convenience. The reason people flocked to Firefox in the first place was that it was both freedom and convenience.
IE development was totally stagnant. IE 5.0/5.01 came out in 1999 and IE 5.5 came out in 2005! Chrome rolls out new versions every six weeks. That's why Chrome will not be displaced as easily. They can put serious pressure on the standards bodies to follow whatever changes they want to make to their browser.

Anyway the adblocking thing isn't really related. Extension APIs are not industry standards, Chrome already doesn't allow adblocking on mobile, and maybe at some point they'll just write off the users who care and focus on monetizing the users who will put up with ads.
The opposite of wrong is correct. Newton's Laws are not correct, therefore they are wrong. Technically.

I agree though that saying they're "wrong" has limited utility... Perhaps the more useful way of thinking about models is "give sensible predictions up to certain amount of accuracy in certain contexts".
IANAL either, but I’v come to understand that covert recording conversations which you are not party of, is illegal, regardless of the location.
> 2) DNS is a stateful protocol and different clients _may_ see different responses by server? (e.g. return false denials for unauthorized clients)

Caching is what makes DNS usable. If you do this in a way that doesn't break caching, it's not so simple.
timestamps are rarely the answer
We are more rational than those who nudge us (2016)
Let's turn around the discussion... if Russia had decided to outsource the PCB's for some new stealth fighter to a US manufacturer you can bet that several cloak-and-dagger US agencies would be looking for any way possible to compromise and take advantage of the opportunity.
Replicating SQLite using Raft Consensus (2014)
What are your favorite gaming tools in 2019?
After being away for a year and a half (Busy with...Life) I returning to streaming. I'm wondering what new streaming tools have popped up in the time. Websites, programs, that kind of thing.

Please do not mention those sites that are already known to everyone as https://discord.com https://streamlabs.com https://stickeroid.com https://www.voicemod.net/

I'm setting everything back up again, and would greatly appreciate recommendations for things that help enhance the experience of my stream, or give me more tools for running one.

Many Thanks !
All perception is learned. Our sensory machinery just gives us noise. We learn through experience to differentiate the signal.

For example, paralyzed babies will also be blind, even if their bodies are moved by someone else.
Why not go all the way and glue/stitch a vest to the seat for the driver to slip in? ;-)
What? This is exactly where an intelligence agency would step in and add an extra little chip onto the board. There's tons of precedence for this.

Unless the government inspected every board individually, there's no way to guarantee supply chain. At least from a national defense perspective, everything that comes out of China is a possible risk.

To flip the debate around, if the US manufactured PCBs for China, don't you think we would do the same thing?
this is why using a popular framework is critical even if it is flawed. there is support for so much stuff you just need to install
Skimmed a bit and found some snippets, from which I can't take this paper seriously as it dismisses unsupervised learning / language models over large datasets. Yes, sec 4.3.4 briefly discusses recent work in this area, but only briefly and dismisses it by cherry-picking the least positive result of many.

"Only if we have a sufficiently large collection of input-output tuples, in which the
outputs have been appropriately tagged, can we use the data to train a machine so that
it is able, given new inputs sufficiently similar to those in the training data, to predict
corresponding outputs"

This ignores of recent work with large language models that do generalize, zero-shot, to novel tasks.

"supervised learning with core technology end-to-end sequence-to-sequence deep
networks using LSTM (section 4.2.5) with several extensions and variations, including use of GANs"

This reads like something generated from a LM (e.g. GPT-2):
* Where is any mention of attention or Transformer?
* GANs? Have any recent works used GANs successfully for text? There are a few, e.g. CycleGAN, but not widespread afiact.
Ah my mistake, I thought you could drop it in a script tag.
So Long, Exoplanet HD 17156b. Hello Sauron?
Was referring to this:

https://www.expertlaw.com/library/intellectual_property/fair...

“The less commercial the use, the smaller the portion used, the lesser the import of that portion of the work to the whole, and the lesser the effect on the market for or value of the work, the more likely it will be that fair use doctrine will apply.”
I like much of his work in formal ontology and it's weird and personally disappointing to me that Barry Smith is a co-author of such a bad paper. :(
Looks to me like an insurer that manages to discriminate who they insure, but pays out as well or better than non-discriminating insurers (say, because they have more money, because they need to pay less often), will come out on top.

I don't think the principles of trying to maximize profit, and paying out insurance, are so acutely opposed they could not coexist in the same company. It's just the conflict between cutting costs and maintaining quality - something almost all companies face.
> ...just a database engine with all the same complexity, problems and plenty of research already

Greenspun's tenth rule of programming strikes again!
Fair enough. My point is just that the claim that the earth is flat is not entirely indefensible under the right circumstances, and so any proclamation that a particular position is wrong (e.g. "The earth does not orbit the sun") calls for a certain amount of humility and awareness of context.
This kind of learning bias has already been shown to be eeked out. The 'criminal' classifier that was used in one of the US states (kentucky or tennessee i believe) for sentencing and parole decisions, was shown to carry forward the human biases from its training data. ML is only as unbaised as its training set.
"impending recession" - why are you so sure there will be a recession soon? I've kept hearing people say it for the last four years.

Yes, there will be one eventually, but it could be in 2030 or 2040, as far as we all know.
>It feels more like an argument that chatbots will never exhibit general AI.

I feel it's even more specific, that the current approach to training and building chat bots will never exhibit general AI. Theoretically, you could make chat bots in other ways such as directly simulating a human brain down to some arbitrary level. Maybe there's things in-between as well.
Sketch, from Bohemian, did something that feels like this.

They were working on a vector drawing software, targeted at making rich web2.0 type illustrations more easily. For an example, check out the screenshot of the early app for an idea of the kind of output they were showing off in 2012: https://www.macgasm.net/2012/08/16/sketch-2-1-update-adds-re...

They were competing with Adobe Illustrator at this time, which was extremely dense and less focused on that one thing.

And then skeumorphism fell away and product design workflows started evolving and absorbing the systematization practices from devops, etc, and designers needed a way to make mockups that was more advanced than hypersimplistic tools like balsamiq, but less dense/more focused than Illustrator. In 2019, their value prop is completely different (and better!), but the bones of that first application are very visible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EatUkHez0U

Since sketch's customers were making this journey, they software emerged along with it, and they deservedly dominated the early product design workflow. Now Adobe's competing with them instead of the other way around, but new entrants like Figma are building in features that are easier from a fresh start, like web collab and canvas items as react elements. Long term, they might get PUBG'd, to use a fortnight analogy – pioneering the category but getting usurped by bigger hits (fortnight) down the line.
Was Darwin Wrong?
A couple years ago, Safeway rolled out an app that contains the best deals. It's slowly becoming a situation where you can either use the app (and get tracked) or get reamed on pricing.
Astronaut to perform the first DJ set in space this summer
I wish SharedWorkers were not removed from Safari. They are super useful for sharing a single websocket connection between multiple open tabs. Something you can’t do with ServiceWorkers
Pretty sure it’s quite easy to test for any resonators in a radio test chamber.
Fuzzyjs – fuzzy matching algorithm in TypeScript
Trash incineration with district heating is highly underrated. Not only does it save space and prevent methane emissions from landfills, it also lowers the urban cost of living. Unlike an enzyme, oxygen will destroy almost any kind of plastic.

https://stateofgreen.com/en/sectors/district-energy/district...
The next paragraph has

"Passing the strong form of the test would indeed be clear evidence of general Artificial Intelligence. But this will not happen in the short- or mid-term."

To me this is a more realistic claim, but undermines the rest of the paper. The title and abstract claim that Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test (with the implication being that they can /never/ pass the Turing test), while that quote says that computers cannot pass the Turing test now or in the near future. The latter is a much weaker claim, but seems to actually be supported by the paper. As a disclaimer I only skimmed the paper.
“Hypothetically speaking”. Heh. Good one.

On that note I don’t understand the willful cognitive dissonance around Chinese espionage. They’re a powerful state aggressively looking out for their own self interests just like all the others.
Britain's unexplained wealth orders give the state too much power
That's fair.

They're not treated the same, though. Using /pol/ is considered acceptable, but posting as if you're on /pol/ often isn't. Using /leftypol/ at all isn't considered acceptable.
Agreed. I personally find BroadcastChannel more flexible, but they are not in Safari either :(
Yes, on DNSSEC the people that can impersonate your site is a strict subset of the people that can do so on TLS.

But I'm not sure certificate transparency will work as well for DNS as it does for TLS. At least not without some changes (that are a good idea for many other reasons) like permitting SRV for HTTP.
A classic example is Roxanne by The Police. ~132bpm verse, ~138bpm chorus by my rough measurement. You can really feel the rhythm section wind down after the first chorus, which wouldn’t have worked if the guitar hadn’t waited two bars to come in and resolve the shifting tempo with precision jabs right as the band hits the original pace. Great moment.
This is one of the most civil and productive exchanges I’ve ever seen on HN. Props to you both.
It is. It is a thorough study of the necessary components of real human dialogue, and a well-defended claim that there is no model, nor even any existing TYPE of model, which can model human dialogue. Human dialogue, the paper says, is a temporal process, and the two mathematical models for such processes--differential and stochastic--are insufficient.

From the paper: "For example, it is not conceivable that we could create a mathematical model that would enable the computation of the appropriate interpretation of interrupted statements, or of statements made by people who are talking over each other, or of the appropriate length of a pause in a conversation, which may depend on context (remembrance dinner or cocktail party), on emotional loading of the situation, on knowledge of the other person’s social standing or dialogue history, or on what the other person is doing – perhaps looking at his phone – when the conversation pauses."

Optimists in the comments here have hope for advances in mathematics that would give us a new method for modeling that could be applied. Maybe their hope isn't unfounded. I'm just a dude who read an academic paper. But I did enjoy it.
No, it's not. It depends on the laws where you are at, but most places usually have something saying if the guest has a reasonable expectation of privacy, then you are not allowed to record.
Oh, yes, that's what I'm referring to as a chatbot- something built specifically to converse by modeling natural language, rather than trying to model cognition at any deeper level. Not that we can do that successfully either, but at least trying to tackle that has an honest chance of working.

This sort of feels like an updated version of Searle's argument... a chatbot is an awful lot like his 'Chinese room.'
Apologies if this is off topic, but I've never read such a well researched science article, citing many primary resources and papers. Well done.
Will the FCC Sink Pirate Radio in Colorado?
An Instagram star with 2M followers couldn't sell 36 T-shirts
I like King and can confirm that I can read it much faster then books he mentions.

Some books are quick to read, others slow. Ulysses was intentionally written to be difficult and Stephen King put great effort in making his books easy to read.
>If the majority ethnic group in some country democratically votes to exterminate some minority group, is it just?

For them it is. In Germany during the war what they did wasn't considered unjust (like in the South during legal slavery). And if the majority on earth agreed, it would be considered a-ok (like before countries started abolishing slavery, when it was just a normal thing for most peoples all over the world).

We do have some escape hatches from "it's just what most say it is", but those are based on religious and cultural ideas (including "scientific" conceptions of justice in the latter camp).

I think in the end: justice as an operative thing is what most people say it is (it can't be anything else). But there's also some common shared sense of justice, not well defined and not easily enforceable at all cases (e.g. one couldn't enforce it in WWII Germany), but which contains a core of the only universal notion of justice (don't cause harm without reason, don't kill, don't steal, etc).
> our CTO was handling everything about AntiMalware. He was the main developer...

There's (one) of your problems. Your CTO (just like managers) should not be coding, they should be defining and leading the technical strategy of the company.
Brancher is targeted to a wider audience, including people who have only a basic training in machine learning and Python programming. The interface is designed to be as close as possible to the math. The downside is that Brancher is less flexible than Pyro.
>Which seems to indicate that your position is something other than "it's incredibly debatable"

Actually the 50-50 split mentioned among economists are the very definition of "incredibly debatable".
The post could have been written with a different tone, but I think it makes a good point that can't be purely dismissed as simple snobbery or belittling.

I think the reason some folks get defensive on this topic is that it's somewhat common for someone to claim to be an incredibly fast reader, but on closer inspection it is (almost always) revealed that they are reading very straightforward and simple fiction that is about as close to being designed for speed reading as possible. This makes the claim of speed reading feel disingenuous. There can be truly dramatic differences between novels in terms of the complexity of the language used and the nuance of characters and events. I don't think one should expect a particularly celebratory response if one is making other folks feel like slow readers when they actually have been reading far more complicated material.
To be honest, I don't think those constraints are much of an excuse. HN is no different from any other large internet forum that has existed or will exist in the future. It exists in essentially the same space as Reddit etc all of which are not free from criticism despite having the same level of constraints you mentioned as HN here.

Specifically, I don't see how HN nowadays is cultivating that sort of intellectual curiosity when I've seen how horrible the culture here can be to certain groups of people. Not only that but the sort of posting culture encouraged here is weighed in such as a way as to be anti-intellectual: Specifically the idea that you're supposed to flag or downvote egregious posts rather than respond in kind. Now I understand that you're not supposed to feed the trolls, but what I believe this has resulted in a sort of 'tragedy of the commons' incident where nonsense is allowed to expand and grow without proper response. Some of the incredibly toxic things I've seen I've flagged and downvoted in kind, but the net result is that it goes unchallenged.

I see HN encountering the same problems as Reddit where HN is not prepared to deal with growth and bad actors. I see people being shadowbanned (and for good measure), but I don't think HN can remain a completely open platform without falling apart like many other platforms that have existed before.

And as for the other sites/circles, I mostly post on semi-private controlled forums because that's where I can find the highest quality of users and debates. My point was that I see the overall impression of HN from the people on those platforms to be more starkly negative. And it's getting harder for me personally to see any real cultural difference between HN and a more tech-oriented subreddit.
What Went Down at WWDC
> "The weird thing with propaganda is that it can often be completely true in each part but represent a lie in totality."

Propaganda can also straight up tell the truth. Propaganda, contrary to the impression given to many put through the public school system, is not a synonym for "lie". Propaganda is often lies, but being dishonest is not a defining characteristic of propaganda.

One famous example: Loose lips sink ships. Okay, maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but it's generally pretty true. In a war, breaches in secrecy can easily cost lives. Those loose lips posters were still unambiguously propaganda though.
I'm saying that for most everyday situations, Newton's equations provide sufficient accuracy for people to achieve their goals. However, in the case of GPS, the system wouldn't work reliably if it was only using Newton's equations.

Einstein's theory of gravity is much more robust and is highly accurate across a far wider domain. It can be used to implement a reliable GPS system.
This makes me think of groovehq who just recently forced all their customers on to their new rewritten from scratch product.

This after one full year of their customers begging them not to.

So now they have a new modern (in the 2017 sense) product which is worse in many ways and with a whole set of new bugs. And some very unhappy customers.

Improve your products. Don't replace them.
What people can do without anyone noticing is unbelievable.

Once upon a time, I worked at a Unix workstation manufacturer [1], which was having some financial problems.

The hardware developers worked in a room in the center of our offices. It had no windows, and one door to a hallways. If you went right down that hallway, you would pass my office and another programmer's office on your left, and my supervisor's office and the office of the head of software on the right, and then reach the back door to the office.

If you went left, you'd have to go past the reception desk and through an open area to reach the front door. Next to the front door was the office of the guy in charge of engineering.

The way the desks were arranged in all four offices in my hall, and in the engineering head's office near reception, you could easily see if anyone walked by.

The hardware developers had a large format printer in their area. That thing was something like 5 ft side, 4 feet tall, 3 feet deep, and weighed maybe 300 lbs.

One morning they printed something just before noon, then went to lunch. When they got back from lunch maybe 30 minutes later, the printer was gone. During the time they were out of the hardware area, I was in my office, and at least two other people were in their offices in my hall. The receptionist was at the front desk the whole time, and the engineering head was in his office.

None of us saw what happened to the printer. Later that afternoon the company we rented it from called and said that they had successfully repossessed it from us, so apparently a couple repo men managed to stroll into the office, passing several people, walk into the hardware area, disconnect the printer, and walk out with it, with nobody noticing.

Our office was just engineering. Sales and admin were in a different building in the same office park. Manufacturing, shipping, and the warehouse were in a third building there. Meetings with outsiders, even outsiders who were there to meet with engineers, took place in the conference rooms in the sales/admin building. We generally didn't have visitors in the engineering building except when interviewing someone for a job, and we always knew when those were expected.

[1] Callan Data Systems
Oleksiy Hashyvochnykov – deaf architect who designed 8 metro stations [video]
Let’s say all the planets’ orbits decayed and ultimately spiraled into the sun. Wouldn’t that be a possible end to the solar system? I mean it’s just be a sun at that point. But I think the Sun would still be the dominant gravitation force.
`but by law in the US she is considered white -- and she looks white as well` -- as a non-American I have a hard time understanding why the law in the US should distinguish your race?

Maybe I am missing something?
If you already submitted and its published, I would be careful about updating the package and changing options such as language in the dashboard. I was particularly thinking language as an option that would invite review. But if you need to change and re-publish make sure to also do your code updates externally and xhr from the extension so your able to minimize changes to the package.
I believe this is known as the 'chicken breast stroke' in ornithoculture.

But, seriously. My grandfather used to take my brother and I every summer to see the bald eagles near their house.

Never really appreciated just how special that was. They are quite majestic and their nests are huge.

This is one thing I'm glad no one listened to Ben Franklin about.
What do you think an acceptable conversion rate should be?
Few people know that "Baccalà" (stockfish) became popular in Italy in a very peculiar way [0]:

"He is known for being shipwrecked in Røst, in northern Norway, in the winter of 1432, and subsequently returning to Venice, where he wrote a report of his travels for the senate. He is also credited with popularizing Stockfish in the Veneto region, where it is prepared as Bacalà alla Vicentina."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Querini
You're describing DDE. In use since Windows 2.0 and still functioning today in Windows 10, 32 years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/dataxchg/dy...

It's implemented with the WM_DDE_... series of messages. There's a library, DDEML, which wraps some of the complexities.
A copeland example on HN, what a nice day :)
i think i know the feeling! though i played guitar, not drums