skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard this story, thank you for sharing. As hard as I (and many others in the West may try), I wonder if it's possible to bring as much determination to my field as someone from such harsh circumstance can. What an interesting person.
As far as ecosystem impact goes, it seems Verily's approach can be easily controlled as they releasing roughly the same number of mosquitoes as they are eliminating from the fertile population. This contrasts with the gene drive approach, which has recently been shown to be successful at eliminating populations albeit in an experimental setting [1]. Given their theoretical ability to spread throughout an entire ecosystem within only a few generations, it seems like that is a potential panacea though with a much higher risk of unintended consequences.

[1] https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/study--gene-drive...
Always nice to see one's own subjective experiences backed up by hard measurements :-)
Fi has visual voicemail.
> What if we collectively had the will to invest this much into fusion?

We should invest much more heavily into fission, and keep deuterium/tritium fission investment at around the current levels.

Why? Because deuterium/tritium fission like the stellerators and tokomaks use produces a lot of (energetic) neutrons, along with heating the plasma. That is very bad for two reasons. First, essentially unrecoverable energy is wasted by the neutrons. Second, the neutron exposure causes the reactor to become radioactive. So, the promise of "clean" fusion energy with no radioactive waste is not realized.

Aneutronic fusion is possible, but requires higher energy and different fuel. This is not yet being widely researched, but some interesting work is being done at LPP Fusion: https://lppfusion.com/

That is an effort I'd like to see funded much more fully.

At any rate, next-generation fission reactors are just as safe as deuterium/tritium fusion, are well understood, and many designs produce less and shorter-lived waste than the dinosaur PWR designs. It is beyond silly to not fully leverage clean, cheap fuel with a million times the energy density of fossil fuel while we work out the kinks with fusion. There is a necessity for reliable grid power alongside unreliable "renewables", and fission is the only viable CO2 free approach for the foreseeable future.
That extra layer is to obfuscate/abstract role of developers/blacksmiths. With a story about blacksmith comes suspension of disbelief[1] so that author's story is more real. Problem comes when anyone (HN readers for example) tries to think about this more thoroughly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief
There's one example, the Nortel IP theft. I'm surprised it wasn't the first comment like every story on Huawei. The world trusts devices that come out of USA even though there is hard evidence of the NSA physically rooting devices with their own malware, but wont trust Huawei.

This is entirely trade propaganda at the behest of large cellular RF equipment manufacturers, and device manufacturers.
Indeed :-) I just wrote up some reflections of hitting 21 years in my career, feel free to take a read -> https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/success-criteria-21-year...
This ish right here.
I saw a workaround being opening a new google account and using that for Fi
> your React application will never load faster than about 1.1 seconds on an average phone in India, no matter how much you optimize it

Weren't your assets deployed on Netlify's CDN? Shouldn't that make location roughly irrelevant (assuming enough PoPs)?
Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US?

It seems completely out of whack to me.

For comparison, I have 20GB + unlimited call/texts for 10e/month, with optional 2e/GB recharges, and that's not even the cheapest available offer
>He literally gave reasonable evidence to support his claim. The reply made a conflicting claim with no evidence

If the ridiculously small sample size, questionable sampling technique and the fact that one of the participants was part of the school/family that organized the whole event doesn't disqualify early UFCs as "evidence" in your eyes, then it's pretty clear you are simply want to confirm your biases.

>This isn't antagonistic, I would also like to see if there was a similar competition where 'traditional' martial arts fared better.

What's stopping you? Search for "open martial arts tournament". Good luck verifying whether participants are actually proficient in the art they claim to represent, though.
"Most start ups will die because of mistakes made from the one bucket of common errors – about 90% of them. These include bad financial management, hiring errors, product errors, marketing errors, etc. I believe they can be easily avoided, but can also be easily forgotten about when you’re busy hustling."

As far as I remember the reason most companies were dying (from a YC survey, I believe?) was product-market fit. This is not something that can be "easily avoided", and certainly not by simply having a mentor.
Maybe bigger news is that they now officially support (in "beta") iPhones, Samsung's S line, and many other handsets.

If you use a non-Fi native device it won't support Sprint (T-Mobile only) and fast switching from WiFi to cellular is disabled.

It might have limitations but at least it is officially supported. People have already been using non-supported devices on Fi with these same limitations, it was just technically forbidden.

Fi really is a great network, I doubt it would ever happen but I still hope that cost per GB might fall a little in time. I am pleased they added the data ceiling/unlimited after 6 GB.
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I'm less familiar with the information perspective of this topic.

Why would you need more bits to describe a single atom in a galaxy vs a single atom in a gas cloud?

If a set amount of bits are required to describe an atom then that amount will not change whether or not the atom is in a galaxy or a gas cloud.
My father believed that truly great restaurants don't do this, because they KNOW their food is perfect.

Practically speaking, though, dpeck is right... shortly after the food is dropped, the waiter should confirm the meal is to the customer's expectations. This is also the chance for customers to ask for condiments, get a replacement fork for the one they dropped, etc. Nothing worse than sitting in front of a hot meal you can't eat and being unable to get the waiter's attention.
Anyone looked into potential privacy implications?
I understand my current carrier can potentially deduce things about my habits in the unlikely event that they were so inclined, but Alphabet et al seem to make a not insignificant portion of their profit from data gathering - that is, they don't need to be interesting in me particularly to sell data about me to those that are (whether for benign ad targeting or something more nefarious)

I don't mean to seem paranoid, but with the current hype around Google's tumultuous relationship with "Don't be evil", I'm not sure I want them having that data on me too.
Dealing with the politics of getting anything done in India will make the dealing with the people in LA look simple and trouble free. India is a mess because of the government policies, bureaucracy and corruption. I strongly feel if India has a dictatorship like China for let’s say a 20 year period, they could far exceeded the enconmoy of China.
I am paying $10 for 2GB data, unlimited talk and text so this looks very expensive to me.
https://fi.google.com/compatibility

Check compatibility for Apple devices. the one that I notice immediately is that visual voicemail does not work, rather you get the messages texts.
A censored search engine is a direct instrument of oppression.

Contracting to build a censored search engine is the moral equivalent of contracting to build a barbed wire fence around a concentration camp.

You're being an active participant that directly assists in making that oppression happen by building tools required for the actual act of oppression, as opposed to building something that merely done in the same country.
I went there some time in the 90's, I think 1994. My friend and classmate was the son of our local Apple dealer, who got some free tickets. My friend and I skipped school and went there with his dad. While the dad was busy with grown-up stuff, we played Mac games like Spaceship Warlock and F/A-18 Hornet. Afterwards, we got into real trouble with our chemistry teacher for this. Good times.

However, by and large the show did seem kind of boring even then, so I never went again.
> you're side-stepping the point that many people are making here, which is that being an Alphabet subsidiary means that they're subsidized by Google's ad business.

I'm not side-stepping that point. I literally conceded it multiple times.

> It's concerning that massive public health projects ... are undertaken by a company ...

You're concerned that a public health project is being undertaken by private industry...but what concern is there? What are you worried about? I'm happy to discuss that. I probably share concerns regarding the same thing.

However, if a private company invests in public health, I tend to see that as a good thing. I also agree that such private companies should be accountable. This necessitates government regulation on private companies. I am for that, to the extent that the company can still do things in the interest of the public.

However, if your point is actually that there is limited accountability for private companies working in the public interest (or their own interest), then why conflate Google and Verily? It doesn't make your point more or less valid and contributes to a fundamental misunderstanding of the context around a given issue.

If that's really your issue from the start, then just say you think these types of things should be done by entities which are held accountable to the public.
I think that post is quite misleading. 90 and 100 are extreme values representing extreme confidence. Your model could just as easily learn [0.09, 0.10, 0.05] on the final layer, and the probabilities would then be [0.337, 0.340, 0.323]. And look, now softmax has the opposite problem! The final activation layers differed by a factor of 2, but softmax output almost identical probabilities!

Except this should not be surprising, because softmax is not scale invariant. Values on the unit scale is what you would normally expect, so if you feed it values 100x larger, it's going to be way more confident. If you feed it values 100x smaller, it's going to be way less confident.
I totally agree with this blog... The BBB is a place people go mainly to complain (unlike other review sites). Especially since the BBB wasn't originally founded on reviews but on grading/rating businesses.

Just goes to show you that even with a perfect 'A' score, people will still read the reviews! Adding the BBB badge to your website is just one more way for these mostly negative reviews to be seen.

(TL:DR; I disfavor reviews on the BBB site more than other sites because of how it was founded -- people generally go to the BBB to complain --- which is definitely why I could see it causing a decrease in conversions.)
Not even in my wildest dream I have imagine that, India could have cheaper and faster internet than most of other countries. Now for 2 USD/month I'm using 3GB data per day at 4G speed.
And from the title I though this was about NoSQL...
Wasps and hornets too, please, while we're at it.
I was really hoping they'd bring down the data rate as part of coming out of the "project" phase.
22 year olds can also have health issues, dying friends, sick family. Not sure how "mid life" is an "issue", per se?

All I'm saying is, all things considered, building a business is hard regardless of what age you are.
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Canada has the most expensive plans in the first world and we don't have access to Google Fi yet. It's ridiculous how expensive it can be to have data here.
The biggest part of this undoubtedly has to be the ability to use phones outside the Nexus/Pixel lines.
I've been a Project Fi customer for a few years now and love to wax poetic about it, but always have to add the caveat of "oh, but you can't use your current phone.". Which is a bigger deal when many of my friends are using iPhones and would never consider switching to Android.
The smart blanket would predict it much earlier, to have the time to warm it up.
I have to disagree with the top reply. You definitely can interpret low probability as I don't know. Check out this blog post-

http://henripal.github.io/blog/langevin

And these papers-

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02855
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11145
I'm guessing international support will also be limited.
Oh,and thanks to pthreads and guile fibers the concurrency situation is probably the best of any scheme.
His current low blitz ELO ranking only says that he plays less blitz than Carlsen. Possibly to catch up to Carlsen in the normal rankings, with playing lots of normal tournaments.
ELO is not measuring the potential, just the rankings of wins and losses.

Caruana's potential is probably the same Carlsen. One should never underestimate him.
Not super familiar with that example but another one is all kinds of technology not working well with darker skin.
Great point. Having been on both sides of the hiring table, I can tell you that the candidate has no idea what we use to make decisions, because the candidate has no visibility into our internal issues.

Most of our decisions (especially to pass) have nothing to do with the candidate. And they have no way to know, so instead they over-analyze their resume or what was said during the interview to try to extract some kind of clue. Which is 99% wrong.

Some examples to give you an idea:

- we like you, you did well at the interview. But we have one position open right now, and Joe, who is the star engineer at our competitor, is making signs that he'd be willing to finally join us. We have been courting him for two years. So we put your application on hold, until Joe makes a move. Nothing you can do, and we sure won't tell you, in case Joe doesn't jump ship, and then we call you back as if nothing had happened.

- we like you, but we are about to close a new contract in the middle of Texas. If that contract closes, we'll need to hire someone ASAP there, instead of here. So while technically the position we have is here, we are waiting just a bit to see if the contract closes and if we need to shift our hiring. We should know this week, so no point in telling you anything. One week later, it turns out the contract is not signed yet, but it looks really close. Let's wait another week, we should know for sure by then... A month goes by...

etc.
How do you covertly take notes in a restaurant... on your phone?
The most valuable point for me: Gamification! A friend of mine wrote his master's thesis on that topic. And yeah, turns out it works really well if done right ;-)

Regarding the rest of the text: I wonder what value people using these apps get out of them?

I share some of his sentiment: The aim is to onboard a bunch of people with a "get rich quick"-kind-of-mentality and flood a platform with content of questionable content (I mean, the content could be good - but somehow I doubt it if a single person creates a thousand apps). On the other hand: Living on 6k$ in Morocco? Could be a worse life...
There are some clear examples mentioned in the DNH license text. Also, if a project or company discovers their purpose or business model has adverse effects for a significant population or evosystem, that would signify harm. The "ethical source" licenses are encouraging software developers to be proactive in our duty of care for the general public.
Well, that's just no fun at all.
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There is a support document with information about some of the privacy and data collection.

https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6181037
> The difference is that in California, the people who don't want it largely outnumber the people who want it more than in most places.

Measure R (2008, 67% in favor) and Measure M (2016, 71% in favor) both passed with supermajorities and raised Los Angeles taxes by billions to pay for rail and other public transit options. To me, that seems to indicate that the majority wants these kinds of projects.
Moving an airplane on its own without moving parts.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/21/first-ever-p...

That is the future of aerospace right there.
...you're not super familiar with Mark Cuban, are ya?
Indeed, it hardly gets better then the feel of turning hardware knobs in machine interfaces. Some distant resemblance to [0] perhaps?

[0] http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html
Not fully compatible with iPhones though.

From the Google Fi Compatability checker (https://fi.google.com/compatibility):

"Voicemails won't show in the iOS visual voicemail app, but you'll get them as texts and can call to check them"
Yes, but the question was essentially, "does the sound it cancels out and you don't hear still hurt you". If you still hear it, you're answering something else.
I would argue that complaining about the language adds nothing to the discussion. Whether it's in the title or in the comments, you can't reasonably expect to censor bad language across the entire site, let alone the entire Internet. Far more offensive content gets posted here than a single swear word in the title of an article.
I’m hopeful Apple’s push with eSIMs will allow for carriers and MVNOs to replicate Fi without the need to use Google.
Man, that's amazing. Here in the US, I have 5 GB / "unlimited" low-speed data, for $70/month.
Weird. My partner and I visit Paris annually for weeks at a time. I've had maybe one or two rude experiences that I can think of. Everyone else I've encountered has been pleasant.
That's a very good point. I'd imagine that it has to be since other handsets won't know which network to connect to in order to get Fi service.
Welcome to the internet?
But it just parallels the 405.
:( In Canada, I pay ~70$ for 6GB and unlimited calls/text
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I also like team rooms for 2 to 5 people. You can have a nice talk and still get the feeling of privacy.
Right, when the whole company was restructured for the explicit purpose of allowing independent parts of the massive Google to operate independently and efficiently with respect to their different business models.
Switching your cell number to Google Fi doesn't preclude using Google Voice. They're unrelated services, and you can transfer your existing cell number to Fi.
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But unless you’re going to the same destination mass transit isn’t ideal. If there are enough shared routes, and the cost advantage of shared transportation add up to a big enough benefit than it works. But my ideal transport is teleporting, which I think a subterranean hyperloop pod is closer to.
For people interested, an alternative low-cost wifi-first carrier is Republic Wireless https://republicwireless.com/
I'll apply to a small company f I meet what seem like the most important of the requirementstc. . But it is a largedompany I assume that a large company filtered outjust by HR you don't meet 100% of the require. I've I used to but afterhaving never interview from ain those cases, 've stopped me.
Well, whatever features compel developers to seek out and/or promote RAML. If the RAML developers are committed to the OpenAPI spec., it might be good to put a deprecation warning and link to OpenAPI Initiative on the RAML website. That would reduce confusion and signal alignment.
I have friends in India who claim to pay 10 cents per GB.
If the non-supported phones are stuck on T-Mobile's network and don't support the seamless WiFi/Cell switching, what advantage is there to picking Fi over regular T-Mobile service? Price-wise Fi only wins if you use very little data.
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>Steve Jennum (Ninjitsu) was an alternate and fought in the finals, where he won by a sloppy armbar.

Ever heard of confirmation bias? Well, you're engaging in it right now. If winning an early UFC is "evidence" of MA effectiveness (which I don't think it is) then Steve Jennum's victory should be accepted as "evidence" that Ninjitsu is effective. But you've just offhandedly dismissed it.

This a common pattern. Often, when a practitioner of traditional martial arts wins an MMA fight of any sort, MMA fans proclaim it "doesn't count" because of one of the following:

- It supposedly didn't look like their style of fighting.

- They cross-trained in other martial arts.

- The opponent wasn't "good enough" or the match wasn't high-level enough.

On the flip side, the same fans don't seem to care at all whether BJJ people or wrestlers cross-train, whether their actual performance "looks" like their style, or which techniques they used to win. Again, confirmation bias all around.
I did the "estimate your bill" for Google Fi. For 6GB of data and unlimited talk and text it's $80USD or $106CAD per month.

Compared to a Telus "Build Your Plan" with unlimited nationwide talk and text, plus 6GB is $90CAD or $67USD.
>Filling our landfills full of disposable products?

This is rampant capitalistic consumerism, nothing to do with China.

>Copying our IP?

Doesn't really matter. Who do IP's benefit? Not the consumer, only the already super wealthy. Hint: the very large majority of the world is not wealthy.

Taxes went up on products from Aliexpress. Shipping from China to USA is much more efficient than the other way around.

When I'm subsidizing health insurance, food stamps, and medicare on Walmart, Amazon, Starbucks, etc, to put billions more in Bezos pocket, I could care less about something that actually benefits lower income people with affordable products that would be well out of reach in USA. Raise wages and people who were using Aliexpress will start buying domestic.
You could as well buy a lottery ticket!
Visit an audiologist for a test. I recently had a hearing test for the reason you described and was told there were no problems.

I started to ask people if they could actually hear or understand while with them at a loud place and many told me they couldn’t - they were mostly pretending to understand after eventually giving up.
having worked with both svn and git (and cvs, perforce, teamware), and having integrated svn/git/cvs/perforce clients into a production application, I have to say that switching to git was the most enjoyable experience.

yes, git commands have weird names. yes, git is puzzled by renames. yes, merging might be a problem.

but svn is just too damn slow! svn is "cvs done right". there is no way to do a cvs right: file-oriented change control must be replaced by a snapshot-based change control (and it was, in git).

now if I could only version directories and attributes in a platform-independent way...
> No tengo ni idea que estan diciendo por nada.

I feel this way about some Caribbean Spanish accents. I was recently in Havana and sometimes I felt like they weren't even speaking Spanish. I find Argentine Spanish pleasant to listen to.
> I understand my current carrier can potentially deduce things about my habits in the unlikely event that they were so inclined

I worked for one carrier and part of our project was exporting (without names) location history to some external company which then provided segmentation into categories like "student", "stay at home", "working", "retired" based on how people move. The results were then reintegrated and used for marketing purposes.

So they absolutely can and they absolutely do that.
Correct and there's money there. Other then disease they also bother you: a whole industry exists to keep them from biting you.
The use of the immune system to target cancer for clinical use.
It's one of the cheaper plans in the US.