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Cyberdog was a web browser/Internet application suite like Netscape. If it’s the spiritual predecessor to anything, it’s Safari, not iCloud, but I wouldn’t say it was even that. It was really just a tech demo. From what I remember, it was just barely functional. It was something you’d run after you installed OpenDoc and say “that’s neat” about and then never touch again.

It also can’t learn. Once the training is done, the network is set in stone.

It’s discussed in the paper under the heading “ASD microbiomes mirror behavior improvement after fecal matter transplant”

“To test this, we re-analyzed data from a 2-year, open-label fecal matter transplant (FMT) study with 18 children with ASD52. In this study, the children were subjected to a 2-week antibiotic treatment and a bowel cleanse, followed by 2 d of high-dose FMT treatment and 8 weeks of daily maintenance FMT doses. Based on one of the most common evaluation scales for ASD, the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), significant improvements were achieved after the 10-week course of treatment. Two months later, the initial gains were largely maintained, and a 2-year follow-up showed signs of further improvement in most of the patients. The results are consistent with a potential role of the microbiome in improving autism symptoms, but how the underlying changes in microbiome composition related to those seen in other studies remains unknown.”

When the song came out, almost all phones would have been rotary dial, so this is probably just coincidental.

The Game Genie for the original NES worked like that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie

From the live stream, you can see how quickly the temporary fill is going up.

https://www.penndot.pa.gov/RegionalOffices/district-6/Pages/...

Do you think Hacker News should get rid of downvoting?

My recollection is that during the Google+ period, Google changed their indexing and basically destroyed every other forum. Things that were first page results dropped out completely and lost virtually all of their ad revenue.

But there’s no reason the rest of the world has to use the same web sites. It’s “parochial and weird” to expect that everything on the internet will be tailored for every country automatically.

They’re substantially larger and heavier

How many people play text tic-tic-toe on the internet? Puzzle questions would seem more common.

Yes. And so cryptocurrency is a reversion to a model of payment that’s been rejected by most people for its poor security.

Email started off as something you only got through your ISP. It then turned into something you only got through Google. It’s not really an example of a service where the vast majority of people make an active choice.

Same thing with fraud against a business being turned into “identity theft”.

It works well under the original intent, as someone who handles things that are orthogonal to development, like gathering information from different departments to answer a question, getting things through approvals, managing feature requests, preparing reports, fending off last minute changes, etc. it doesn’t work when it’s just someone doing business-school project management with story points and 30 minute daily sit-downs

If your health limits your active hours to barely more than you can work, you won’t. In that case, you get very lonely, from my experience.

Target is starting to become scammy itself. The top search results for a lot of things I’ve shopped for lately have been questionable-looking products from their third-party sellers.

They exist primarily to extract profit for investors. The car service aspect is incidental.

I understand the reasoning, but their using names that sound like they came out of cyberpunk novels causes a new set of problems and conspiracy theories.

Thanks mostly to Google themselves, with their algorithms rewarding useless copied content.

And the owners did fail. Chrysler was transferred to Fiat in bankruptcy, and GM shareholders were wiped out

“A fundamental problem with Galactica is that it is not able to distinguish truth from falsehood, a basic requirement for a language model designed to generate scientific text. People found that it made up fake papers (sometimes attributing them to real authors), and generated wiki articles about the history of bears in space as readily as ones about protein complexes and the speed of light.”

How would anyone think releasing this was a good idea?

The reality of physics and biology is that if someone is bigger and stronger than someone else, they can beat them up and take their things. Anyone trying to deny that is going to discover there is no control unless you end the freedom of unlimited violence. It takes tyranny such as mandating that beating people for no reason and taking whatever they have using the tool of your superior physical strength results in punishment imposed by collective agreement of society.

We call that “taxes” and people who are not billionaires pay more than 10% of their income a month

Not many, if any. It really does look like Amazon — a lot of stuff with names like “BCDYYXZ Awesome App Clock Streaming Email Wordle A+++ Good For Facebook”

By contrast, Apple has let their App Store become a scam marketplace

The implementation I’ve seen only stores a hash based on the image analysis

OkCupid has completely destroyed its interface and utility, so whatever they’re doing doesn’t seem to be working anymore.

The problem is that US Christian conservatives believe a government ID is the “the mark of the beast.” Seriously. http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/03/...

Uber fails to show up for me about half the time. It just goes through driver after driver, moving to another when the previous one doesn’t come well past the estimated time. Has happened in three different cities in the past three months.