skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Google and Apple control the browser on their mobile OS through tie in (having Chrome as default is mandatory if you want to ship Android - Apple doesn't allow other browser).

Both have ensured that's the actual experience of using web app remain terrible on their platform.

The mobile market is not at all a competitive market and it's really starting to show.
Get pg's essays printed in hardcover, its one of my favourites in my bookshelf (though its missing some of the more recent ones)
Edge does this too!
This was a surprise to me too, but another user linked to this announcement up thread: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/listening-...
Reading through the article it seems that it's likely, as expected, that Epic will not win in this case. I'm guessing that the outcome where Fortnite (and Epic's developer account) are not brought back, but Unreal Engine development is kept, is the most likely. In any case the ruling looks like it will happen in a few days so it'll be interesting to see the real outcome and if it's different than expected.

This point is particularly interesting:

> Going forward, though, Rogers said that she felt "this case should be tried to a jury... I think it's important enough to understand what real people think. Do these security issues concern people or not? Are the concerns of the developers incredibly important? I think many people would feel it is. I do think that this is something for which jury insights would be important. Otherwise it's just one more judge."

How would it (this or another case) be brought to a jury? I'm asking as I don't know how this sort of thing might happen - can it just be "requested" by one of the two sides, or are there other conditions that need to be fulfilled too?
Locked for me. This isnt even a WSJ/NYTimes style paywall where you can pay $5/mo ...it costs like $40/mo!
That’s not really what’s happening though. People are reading your premise that tiktok is a viable mechanism for influencing behaviour of its users, they are then pointing out far bigger examples of the ability you cite (Facebook, Google, Twitter) to which you say that’s different and we need to focus on tiktok because good reasons and not because china but i cant elaborate on good reasons.

At which point you’re being disingenuous.
Sure, and thanks for the link!

The least-squares solution is just a step-up from Taylor series that doesn't require anything deeper than the notion of an inner product (the parent comment I was responding to didn't go beyond Taylor).
Bellard's Formula
Maybe, just maybe, because azure is down, as we are told 10 times in the next 30 stories. :-~
I was mostly just making a joke about the suggestion that email addresses should look like "com.gmail/cydeweys" from upthread...

But I could _kinda_ of make an argument for it. When I open my browser, I want to go to "the homepage of the company running New Your Times, so homepage@com.newyorktimes - or perhaps the menu from French Laundry - menu@com.frenchlaundry
Ahh yes, our rights may be being eroded away, but at least a few people "silently protested" while it happened! That will really show the state not to mess with us!
They are doing much more than simply deep learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8qypWV2L2g

Deep learning alone has long since been considered a faulty approach (see ALVINN), since it could produce a car that can sort of drive, but nobody knows how, and when a road rule changes you have to retrain it from scratch.
Google is also being sued by Epic (who is suing Apple for essentially the same thing): https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-games-sues-google-over-...
Difficult to tell if this is desired functionality for teams or a bug. It’s inline with its normal performance level.
We always kept our drive free of snow through copious amount of snow blowing and shoveling and if you look at the private roads/driveways up there, that is typically the solution. For the private roads that people didn't shovel or snow plow, they would either ski, snowshoe, or drive a snowmobile. In my view, the issue up there was that government was doing an awful job and the public didn't care enough to change it so it never changed.
Jotai: Primitive, flexible state management for React
I’m not entirely sure that inverting everything is a sufficient implementation of dark mode, at least as far as accessibility, but you’re welcome :-)
Because there's no guarantee that compiler did that. Even if you do this in your code, the moment it gets called from pure JS, all bets are off. With proper runtime checks, you could get consistent behavior out of that.
Mercurial planning to transition away from SHA-1
That's a good question, so I'll answer it with a question. Do you think Joe Biden should withdraw from the race due to the "credible" rape accusation? If the answer is "no", because there's no hard evidence, then we concur.
CLRS (Cormen / Leiserson), "The Art of Computer Programming" (Knuth), "Algorithms from P to NP" (Moret & Shapiro), "Algorithms: Their complexity and efficiency" (Kronsjo)
To the edit: more like I was deeply unsatisfied with each and every non-whiteboard interview process.

This is regardless of outcome, including many offers and years of working at companies with broken interview processes.

I don’t think whiteboarding is a great methodology, but the other methodologies are worse.

As an interviewer, I find it stressful to give whiteboard problems and my data point usually feels fairly noisy. At startups I preferred giving a tiny take home and working with the candidate on extending it in an open ended way.

As a candidate, I refuse to do take homes (known too many take homes)
You simply can't understand what chemotherapy does to your body and mind untill you go through it. Your minimization of its effects are callous.
People can blast him for being greedy, but here's the thing about California and its taxes: they are being wasted.

We have a state with awful public transit, tent cities of homeless people, decaying infrastructure, wildfires (yes its partly a Federal problem but the state could do something), gross inequality between school districts, and chronically terrible urban planning leading to a housing shortage. California is incredibly wealthy and is relatively high tax (though by no means the highest) so what bottomless pit is that money falling into? California is a money pit where no amount of cash fixes anything. Might as well just set money on fire.

You could say the same thing about America as a whole. We pay only a bit less in taxes than Canada (at least if you're middle class) but get a fraction of the benefits.

I'd be sympathetic with a tax increase if current money were being spent wisely, but don't ask for more money when you can't even build one high speed rail line at 10X the cost of anywhere else in the world.
The new enforcement is still a year away.
I’ve become less convinced that governments are going to prioritize autonomous driving over electric.
Replace “internet platforms” with television and you can run this same argument in the 1930s.

Heck, people made this argument for the printing press.
alright but some profit motives align with customer interests and some do not. The discussion here is to make that determination.
There are a few blocks like bees hive that aren’t fully determined by the seed. That can only be determined within a certain location accuracy the rest is random at runtime when the player enters that area. But the block does persist after that.
As a tenured professor (math), I generally agree but would say it a little differently: yes, definitely talk to students and avoid advisors when there are warning signs. OTOH, even "great" advisors that everyone loves may not be a good fit for you. Like any other personal relationship, advisor-advisee is a function of both you and the advisor, and you need to find one who fits you well. This goes beyond intellectual interests into personality, advising style, etc.

For example, some advisors are very hands-on in terms of giving guidance on projects, while others (like my own) are very much hands-off and lets the student find their own way. The latter worked for me, but isn't everyone's cup of tea. The former is great for students who like more guidance (esp at the beginning of research) but is not for every student. The same goes to other areas of advisor-advisee relations: paper writing, job hunting, etc.

Edit: to address a main point in the article: don't get me wrong, there certainly is such a thing as abuse. "Compatibility" isn't everything. I was just pointing out that it is an important consideration in choosing advisors; a great advisor for your friends may not be great for you.
This compares 3 'structured' meals a day, to ad libidum eating over an 8 hour window.

...what's the point? why would anyone conduct this study, how does precisely three meals with pre-calculated caloric value relate in any way to eating as much as you want in 8 hours.
That's not what I got from the two paragraphs it's possible to read. It suggest Uber "is destined to lose the high-stakes race to its rivals, which have demonstrated a lot more headway" which sounds like it is doable, just not by them
'The information' stories seem to always revolve around a disgruntled employee sharing internal documents that results in the most click bate worthy title possible. Its not an opinion piece its manufactured content and rumors. They have no interest in informing readers. It is just a tabloid for techies.
Since Levandowski is now suing Uber for $4B that number may climb.
If it makes you feel any better, I've been that guy on both sides of the coin - both on the cloud and on-prem. Things go down.. even the cloud.

I worked for a company, where I really did have nearly 100% uptime at my local data center in our office. I wasn't a luddite, and the cloud wasn't something I was afraid of or didn't understand. I just, at the time, had an infrastructure in place before the cloud existed, and it worked well enough at a great price point. We were on the same electrical grid as a hospital, our infrastructure handled our scale, and just really didn't have problems for a long span of time.

Still, someone came in and said.. what, you are still doing stuff on-prem and not the cloud!? How legacy! How dated! And so the push to the cloud came next.

We migrated to the cloud (and some colo facilities for some equipment we chose to keep), and on the 3rd day of being freshly migrated, the cloud provider had a major outage and went down for longer than we'd ever had on prem. The next month, the colo went down and their diesel generators failed, and it was down for an entire afternoon.

Oh sure, there was some SLA money returned in that event from the colo...

I'm just saying, I've been on both sides. Tell them the truth - even the cloud has outages, but it is certainly more "convenient" to have hundreds of engineers work on fixing an outage at global scale, and all you have to do is wait for it to start working again - then it is to have to fix it all yourself.
O365 (aka Microsoft 365 now) has easily been the most unreliable SaaS product I've been forced to use over the past 8 1/2 years, it's been a real disaster story for several of the clients I used to have and for several of them has resulted in loss of profits and general distrust in Cloud/SaaS software.

A few times during outages I managed to get hold of someone that worked at Microsoft who stated something along the lines that they only state that a service is degraded or has an outage if enough customers complain - or if the websites they have to sell / demonstrate products to potential customers are unavailable.
Or overdose.
Can you give me one example of this?
The Information sometimes unlocks articles for HN readers, but for those that don't have access the biggest takeaway to me is that Uber has made relatively little progress towards fully autonomous cars despite a huge amount of investment.

The most shocking detail:

> Uber’s vehicles had also been having what the company refers to as a bad experience—such as a sudden jerk or a potentially dangerous movement—every one-third of a mile on average.

That's really bad. While there are no uniform standards for what a "bad experience" entails, my general sense is that Waymo and Cruise (widely considered first and second) are doing 10-100x better by that metric.

Another damning bit:

> Uber couldn’t even get the prototype to drive a one-mile stretch between the unit’s two Pittsburgh offices, with the goal of shuttling employees back and forth

I don't even know what to say to that. If you can't make your cars work reliably on a known, one-mile stretch of road, what have you been doing for so many years?

[Disclaimer: I work for Lyft, but not on the self-driving car program.]
Oh, that make much more sense. Google enforced the policy against Epic, while allowing others (including itself!) to violate the policy. So it's doing uniform enforcement now to fend up charges of discrimination against Epic.
If this account were to be taken at face value (which it shouldn't be until evidence is presented), then the professor was abusing everyone for years, not just a handful of students. That, indeed, would not be allowed to continue.

I'm getting sick and tired of people taking on the role of judge, jury, and executioner, with zero corroboration or hard evidence.
Do you know if there were there proposed bills to have these items addressed?
Ahh, this explains why I was unable to log into my personal email account on my work laptop.

I thought it was just the network here being overly keen to block requests since I'm relatively new and am still finding out all the quirks

This also explains why clicking "Sign in" would randomly download an HTML page (ie logout.html) instead of redirecting to the proper auth endpoint!
It helps to understand what is attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YesAXipf4
https://archive.is/QiQrS
If you look at very popular YouTubers, they will have captions translated in 20 languages or more. I'm not sure uploader approval is doing much in that case.
This is a common source of misunderstanding, so I think it's worth clearing up:

Rapid initial weight-loss is usually just a loss of glycogen, the front-line starch form of energy storage in your body. For every gram of glycogen you clear out, 2-3 grams of water goes with it. As soon as you eat anything, all the water comes back instantly. That may be weight loss, but it's definitely not fat loss.

The metabolic pyramid roughly goes Alcohol > Sugar > Glycogen > Fat >>> Protein. Useful protein is extremely strongly conserved by your body, especially when fasting. Makes sense right, without your muscles, you wouldn't be able to hunt down and kill your next meal.

Fat loss when totally fasted happens basically at a rate of your BMR, which goes up a bit when fasted. This is due to an increase in noradrenalin in the fasted state. Your BMR is roughly proportional to your body weight.

A pound of fat contains 3500 calories. Your BMR is roughly ~2000 kcal per day for an average human, plus a bit more when fasted. This means when totally fasted you will lose roughly 2/3 of a pound of fat per day.

That rate remains pretty consistent throughout your weight loss regimen.

Over 12 weeks, they lost 2 pounds, or 7000kcal. That's a daily caloric deficit of 100kcal. Sounds like they weren't really on much of a diet.
So now you're telling me what is and isn't news and where I should be looking for news?

what are you Fox news?
I have seen plenty of profane machine captions, but never any profane abuse in crowdsourced ones.
> just the effort of finding the seed for the world where this image was taken

"Pointless" projects flood HN; my favourite from today obviously being the Typescript in-type SQL database. You posted your fair share of them in fact, I especially love this one from your history, COBOL on COGS: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

They're pointless in a very cold, medical sense but they're obviously works that foster interest. That make people think. That spark new ideas, and who knows what will come out of that.

Science and math regularly explores "pointless paths" just for the hell of it. From those pointless paths often rise critical, high-impact inventions.

The same applies to software engineering. Sometimes, there is a direct line to "usefulness" (such as via creating software that may end up being directly used, or via inspiring other tools used for high-impact applications). But sometimes it's more nuanced, such as by inspiring thousands of people to pick up programming and learn new skills. One of those people might be your next John Carmack. Maybe ten.

If this sort of stuff wasn't useful, we wouldn't have a concept of having fun at all. We wouldn't need it; hell we wouldn't even need to forbid it because nobody would want to have it. We'd have industrial-scale baby-breeders plopping out toddlers in factories, with robot arms stuffing them in a suit and forcing them to learn every waking hour until they're good enough to grease the gears of that very factory.
> why has McAfee decided to IPO now as opposed to any other time in the past few decades

All of the tech companies see where the economy is going, and they all know it's time to bunker down. Going public is a good way to raise a nice burst of cash they can sit on to get through the really bad times ahead, especially while the market is still hot enough to raise said money.
At they now have manager reporting the truth and not what the board want them to say.
The discussion of these things is so weird

The basic Genetic algorithm, accord to the text

1:Randomly create an initial population of programs
from the available primitives (more on this in
Section 2.2).
2:repeat
3:Execute each program and ascertain its fitness.
4:Select one or two program(s) from the population with
a probability based on fitness to participate in genetic
operations (Section 2.3).
5:Create new individual program(s) by applying genetic
operations with specified probabilities (Section2.4).
6:until an acceptable solution is found or some other
stopping condition is met (e.g., a maximum number of
generations is reached).
7:return the best-so-far individual

By making fairly reasonable variations of the concept of fitness and "genetic operation", it seems like one could have simulated annealing, stochastic gradient descent, particle filters and a host of other standard algorithms. Remember, they say "Select one or two program(s)" - select one and mutate is any monte carlo algorithm, right?

Which is to say GP seems more like a mix-in that can be added what ever algorithm (add some binary operations to the unary operations most algorithms effectively use to evolve). Yet GP is spoken of as an alternative all the other approaches, something wholly different. Plus what is spoken of as "genetic programming proper" is this basic loop plus a bunch of less explicit but very assumed approaches.
Genocide should not be an ‘unfortunate fact of life.’ And lets be clear ‘sufficiently eliminating cultural distinctions’ means genocide.
The real question should be: does driving a car requires human-level cognition?
Most 911 systems don't operate on Azure, seeing as how most of them were built/implemented decades before Azure was introduced.
There's more real money (hint: lobbying money) backing electric cars right now than there is backing autonomy since everyone in the industry knows it's at least 5 years before we get borderline level 4/99.99% reliable level 3 driving and a good 30 years before we get the 8+ nines that are needed to truly go to level 5 autonomy; most local laws are already well equipped to handle people using level 4 autonomy, so it isn't a priority thing to address.

Edit: I realize that level 4 doesn't ask you to take over, so I've edited my comments to reflect that.
Fear of abuse is just the excuse entities use to avoid providing services they have other reasons to oppose. Heavily abused services continue to exist if they're profitable enough or sufficiently socially useful.

All adtech and most social media is both abusive and socially destructive, but it's profitable enough for the Right people that there's no serious prospect of it being shut down.

The road network sees a lot of abuse (e.g. transportation of illegal property, impaired driving, simply allowing criminals to move freely) but it's too socially useful to shut down.

Fear of abuse is just a cover for withdrawing, or failing to provide, services for other, unstated, reasons.
CRDTs are just applied partial order theory. Partial orders are just mazes where you can drag your finger in a certain vague direcion, taking arbitrary turns in that vague direction, and still find the exit.

Get your intuition down really good and 10+ years is not required.
There doesn't seem to be any information regarding adherence to the protocol. Did the participants manage to keep to either strictly Intermittent Fasting or a stern 3-meals-per-day-and-nothing-else program? Considering that the participants were all "Overweight" or "Obese", implying that the participants have historical issues with portion/calorie-intake control, that seems like a pretty important point to ignore.
Have to take the opportunity to shill https://sievejobs.com - a jobs website I've created that let's you hard-block jobs with "broken" hiring practices such as discussed here.

Create a Job Seeker profile to help the website overcome the chicken-and-egg dilemma - As with any job site, it's free for job seekers and I've tried to streamline the signup as much as possible.
I am not surprised. This is a competition between Tesla and Google, technology companies. I never saw Uber, a services company, as being part of this race.
No one can read this article yet it is instantly upvoted to the very top of HN. Goes to show how discussion forums like this one just serve to amplify people's existing biases rather than actually educate them on anything new.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim...
Just curious, what's the non-accessibility use case for high contrast (black and white) on the iPhone?
The quote is "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI."

https://www.imore.com/apple-accessibility-human-right
The e-mail instructing her to login via G Suite (with the password she does not know).

"To review or change your automatic renewal settings, or to cancel your Domain Registration subscription, please proceed to your G Suite Admin Console while logged into your G Suite account, and proceed to the "Billing" section.

For further assistance, please contact the G Suite Support team."

I just ran a whois and it seems the registrar is GoDaddy with the reseller G Suite.

Thank you for the links! Those will surely be helpful.
If the judge were on HN she would get downvoted to oblivion for making the following argument.

> "If we look at this plaintiff and industry, walled gardens have existed for decades, Nintendo has had a walled garden. Sony has had a walled garden. Microsoft has had a walled garden... In this particular industry, what Apple is doing is not much different... It's hard to ignore the economics of the industry, which is what [Epic is] asking me to do."
As someone who's had Extensive experience with fasting, both intermittent and extended, I would hardly even consider this study 'Time Restricted Eating' much less fasting.
The article is a lot lower on jargon that your pretty aggressive comment.

It is also very light on actual content. It basically states that the UK has put in place the military organization, developed offensive capabilities relating to information systems (ergo developed exploits and recruited experts) and has used them offensively in the past.

While I agree none of this is terribly interesting (everyone does this), I fail to see how it is spectacularly wrong. Would you mind explaining ?
Is that "need" or "find convenient"?

1 in a million gives you an error of roughly 132 feet (40 metres) in the circumference of the Earth. 1 in 100 million brings that down to 1.32 feet (0.4 metres).

1 in 100 million is a mere 8 decimal places (out of the billions of decimal places that we've computed for pi.)