neurobro

Not sure about bad labels, but semi-supervised learning is the term for training on data with a lot of missing labels. Essentially the algorithm makes predictions on the unlabeled data and uses its highest confidence predictions as additional training data. Generative models can also "dream up" entirely new training examples. There is a risk of amplifying the confidence in bad predictions, but it works well overall (better than using only the labeled portion of the data).

What do you mean by "low latency"? Low latency before the user sees anything? Low latency before the user can interact with the app? Low latency navigating to the next page? It's hard to answer every conceivable question in a headline.

Everything is vague to some degree. The hand-wringing over "performant" is just a meme.

In context, I would expect "performance" to refer to how quickly a scene can be rendered, and another buzzword, "scalable", to refer to the size and complexity of scenes that can be drawn. "Beautiful" probably means "lots of detail and snazzy effects."

Actually, the article says "scalable across platforms", which is confusing to me. Maybe they mean scalable to different screen sizes?

It is a word because people keep using it. That's where words come from. Apart from the number of characters, it is no better or worse than other words/phrases having the same meaning. Sometimes the precise meaning is clear from the background context. Sometimes additional details need to be supplied outside of the title or bullet point where it is used.

What does "it" mean above? Devoid of context, it could be just about anything.

With a few exceptions like HD video hosting or sites doing a ton of computation for every request, the best response to point 1 is to just lighten the site, which reduces the load from bots and also improves the UX for humans. Rate limiting can also help in some circumstances. Or maybe consider... charging money.

If you don't force botters to take extreme camouflage measures, bots are easily filtered out of logs (and offer a potentially useful metric of their own).

If a business is threatened by "competitors" simply scraping published information, it's probably already doomed from the start. And I would posit that most site owners with this mindset originally got their data by scraping other sites, which is why they feel vulnerable. Compete over elements that are actually valuable!

It looks like it was designed to fit perfectly above the fold on the screen, but then some manager (to put it mildly) came along and made them insert a useless grey bar at the top, pushing everything else down. Nothing a little "Block element..." can't fix, though.

It's not Mozilla's job to adjudicate license infringement, but the GPL doesn't give permission to lie about who owns the copyright as that extension apparently does. Regardless, Mozilla probably should hold "recommended" extensions to a higher standard if deceptive copycats are able to make the list.

Looks like a typo for 2008, considering "recession" and "over the last 11 years".

They already have data from both the National Disk and Community Disk online and are currently investigating copyright issues before releasing the URL to the general public.

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It is likely that the Domesday Project will not be completely free of copyright restrictions until at least 2090 (assuming no further extensions of copyright terms).

Copyright is a huge impediment to the long-term preservation of digital cultural artifacts, mitigated by the people's willingness (and technical ability, for now) to ignore it.

Plenty of young people are involved in "maker" and "hacker" activities using radio communications on the unlicensed bands. The cost of entry is on the order of $10 compared to $1000 for a half-decent HF station that's less versatile and less interesting. That's where amateur radio needs to provide value to stay relevant, not drawing youngsters into weird club meetings to hang out with a bunch of ancient totally-not-CBers.

I shopped at RadioShack just one time in the '90s. I bought some walkie talkies, and the cashier insisted that I provide my name and address to make the purchase. I said I didn't want junk mail. He assured me that it was only for recordkeeping purposes and that my info wouldn't end up on a mailing list. Within weeks, I started receiving RadioShack catalogues and flyers. I'm pretty sure they spent more on postage, paper and ink over the next few years than I had originally spent on the walkie talkies.

ES6 arrow functions are very convenient and look remarkably similar to Example 1, so learning that syntax is probably inevitable in the long term. And I doubt someone who has never programmed before would understand either snippet, although both would be simple to explain. I haven't used CoffeeScript, so I can't say whether I'd find it better/worse than JavaScript for my purposes, but this article wasn't convincing at all.

Mozilla Corporation is a taxable entity owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. The tax system in the US apparently doesn't take kindly to non-profits funding open-source projects because they "can" be used commercially. e.g. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/open-source-madness

$300 million revenue with ~1,000 employees is about $300,000/employee. Pretty good but no guarantee of profitability.

Fucking SQL. I don't want to learn your stupid DSL.

I really like one change in LINQ syntax (and probably various other SQL-inspired DSLs), which is to invert the basic query structure, enabling better IDE support:

from thing in things ... (yay, now my editor knows what a "thing" is and can provide better code completion and type checking for the remainder of this deeply-nested behemoth of a query that probably should be expressed as hundreds of simple statements instead of cramming half of the day's work into a single "statement" with no obvious rules for indentation because, after all, run-on sentences are notoriously annoying to read and generally should be avoided).

That alone is worth investing a few minutes to learn something new.

Maybe in the '90s. Today's students are busy cooking up ways to use ambient radio signals ("illuminators of opportunity") as passive radar to see into houses.

It's a letter, issued by an occult kangaroo court, that coup d'etat forces hold in hand while demanding the keys to the kingdom - a demand that can't be challenged in a legitimate court of law.

A mid-range motorcycle is cheaper than a car and could make that trip in 9 minutes or less, if security isn't a concern.

the only thing going on is the linking of his name with his actions.

And linking his name with unverified claims about somebody's actions. Ever tried not to think of a pink elephant when someone told you not to? Try it. Don't think of a pink elephant. It works about as well as "don't let this damning claim tarnish X's reputation in your mind, because it might be wrong."

Well that seems less preposterous than my own idea of using lasers to accelerate a ring of air, generating a plasma circuit that would pull the craft up magnetically. (Version 2 would have a series of plasma rings that the craft would fly through like a coil gun.)

Eich shares the same moral ground with gay marriage supporters. Anyone supporting government-issued marriage licenses with associated privileges and entitlements is hateful and bigoted toward individuals who aren't marriage material for various reasons beyond their control.

I wonder if there are enough privacy advocates to convince stores to stop carrying invasive products by buying the product and then returning it, citing the privacy policy. Question is whether the store would actually stop selling the products or just change the return policy.

If blocks were closer to optimal, it should have the effect of raising transaction fees to ensure timely confirmation, which would improve the reward ratio somewhat. Maybe it still wouldn't be significant.

Product placement, augment digital content with tangible products, live venues, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, build upon existing content (like Hollywood does every time they steal from Shakespeare or Homer), develop proprietary means of reducing production costs, sell cameo spots to fans, invest in the next wave of distribution infrastructure, interactive/custom content.

I'm not particularly creative, so I'm sure a creative person could come up with a better list.

I can't speak to the developer experience for Qt vs. GTK, but one day the scrollbars in the GTK-based programs I use started going into ultra slow motion if I held down the mouse button for 1/4 second.

While looking for a place to report the bug, I discovered this is an intentional "zoom" feature. Almost nobody knew about this amazing(?) feature, so with virtually no discussion, it was made to activate automatically to be more "discoverable".

Personally, my life would be better if I hadn't discovered this UX regres-(cough)-feature. This sort of thing also reflects poorly on the software using the library. (Initially I thought Synaptic was broken.)

I'm surprised that a mature library can change overnight in such a far-reaching way on some dude's whim.

It's like asking people to stop voting for the least-awful of the two candidates showcased on the teevee. Yes, they should just stop for their own good and for the public good, but it's not going to happen.

The pro-systemd brigade only seems to be a small minority of Debian devs (though they're extremely loud, and trollishly persistent).

And generally more convincing, probably due to actually understanding both sides under debate.

Probably 50-100,000 among their employees, ex-employees, aspiring employees, partners, contractors, and people who've seen it mentioned somewhere like this (including me and you, now).

Let's play a bit of semantics and say putting people on Mars helps to insure our future. As in, it provides insurance against some catastrophes that a malaria cure and even squirting flowers can't.

Still I agree that we tend to see things through our own lenses. Maybe evolution has something really amazing planned for bonobos, but we're too stubborn to die off.

My first impression from the title was some kind of Firefox phone debacle.

I think it depends more on the federal government officially deferring to state drug laws (unlikely) or taking action to de-schedule marijuana specifically (slightly less unlikely).

Right now the only people who can grow cannabis openly and "legally" with any degree of safety are the states themselves, which kind of puts a damper on market competition.