skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>AFAIK 23andme and Ancestry are competitors

I'm not sure I'd call them competitors. Yes they both take your spit and process it, yes they both allow you to see potential extended family but that's about the only similarities.

Ancestry added it as an extension of their genealogical services while 23andme was originally for personal medical discovery before the FDA came down on them and they had to change tactics.
Mobile experience is terrible, cant scroll the story text
Howdy, Firefox version?
In my case, the CS class only covered the representation of floating point numbers (a sign bit, exponent bits, fraction bits, issues like bias etc) but not things like numerical approximation or integration methods. Those were in a separate class under the math department. And I think that's fair; after all those are really about scientific computing, not so much about computer science.
Indeed. I don’t see anyone wringing their hands over most nurses, K-12 teachers, and child care professionals being female, that a majority of the trades are male (construction, welding, electricians, plumbers, pipe fitters), nor that a majority of professional athletes are people of color. I’ve only seen it in tech (disproportionate gender and race composition) described as a “crisis”.
Your proposed approach could very well be the right way to distribute opportunity, but on some level it’s hard for me to fully buy in to it. To me, it would come down to using data to decide who gets a helping hand and even though it’s the logical/practical approach, it just feels a bit icky (personal opinion of course). And does that mean we ignore a group of individuals because the data points tell us so? We would miss out on outliers or late bloomers.

So yes, you’re right that it’s painstainking, and just an outright difficult problem to solve.
That looks a really nice and very usable modern incarnation of the amazing Psion.
Are you implying that US ethnic groups that were prohibited from participating in the capital markets, the civil court systems, insurance coverage, housing markets, mortgage lending markets and higher education and the specialized workforce until the late 1960s before then being allowed to start from $0 have a difficult time being uncorrelated from lower socioeconomic classes?
Unfortunately, 'the most widespread Linux distribution' is rounding error in the overall scheme of things from a desktop standpoint so it's actually pretty good that they support it as well as they do. Adding Nouveau to the mix is rounding error on the rounding error. So from Google's standpoint, sure they don't have the resources to test it relative to the number of impacted users. Looking at it another way: it's not like Apple or Microsoft will (ever) provide better support so they can get away with it.

I solved the Chrome/Chromium on Linux problem long ago by switching to Firefox. I'll still fire up Chromium for Google sites and a handful of other sites, but for the most part Firefox has been getting it done for me.
I am not demanding that they do work. I'm demanding that they do not deliberately sabotoge the nouveau driver. If they find the nouveau driver lacking, they should improve it, not sabatoge it. If they don't want to put the work in, then they should just leave well enough alone.
Right, I was looking at engineering only - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/georgia-institute-of-te... . Top 10 in many undergrad engineering programs. 4th overall in undergrad engineering. But yes, being an engineer, everything is about engineering for me. :)
I have been hearing some really amazing things about Apollo, but it's poorly suited for the type of stuff we work on (which is fine, not all tools work for all problems).

That's the amazing thing about Vue: it's utterly void of opinions (apart from components). The ecosystem of stores (there's also the functional one) is testament to Vue achieving elegance through simplicity.
The teachers or other sets of people who recognize talent must in themselves have a certain ability or “talent” for spotting talents in others. So if talent was abundantly everywhere why aren’t there enough of these talented teachers/mentors/parents who can nudge all the other talents so they can reach their potential?

The answer could be that talent is not well distributed over life time. For instance it would be safe to assume the bulk of the best teachers/mentors do not voluntarily work in places which pay them bad wages (usually poor areas) and so often opt to move to richer areas. And thus many of those talented kids from rural places grow up with much less chance of getting noticed and more importantly good “nudges” as a result.

If this is true and if society wanted to maximize utliziation of talent there’s perhaps no clear simple way, but a strategy might be to artificially redistribute this kind of talent for instance by giving poorer areas more funding for education.
Every feature has a cost. Not just cost to develop, but cost to maintain. Every feature has a benefit- how useful is it, for how many users? If the cost outweighs the benefit, then it shouldn’t be allowed, for the sake of keeping the code maintainable and minimally fragile.

Portrait orientation for displays isn’t unheard of, but it’s very very uncommon amongst even technical users. I’m sure a bunch of people reading this have all sorts of anecdotal evidence otherwise- congrats, you’re special, and either have very specialized needs or want to cosplay as someone with very specialized needs (usually the latter).

But that’s portrait orientation. That’s on the cusp of not meeting the bar for being worthwhile to support, but in general most OSes err on the side of supporting it for certain pro users. Extend that it into arbitrary rotations and you’re dealing with a feature that is way, way more niche than supporting portrait mode, and way more complicated than people might think. All for a feature that has no justification other than, “if it can be done, why not? Might as well right?!?”

Now, maybe there are other benefits that I’m not aware of or taking into account, but surely it’s clear why not supporting arbitrary display orientations is at the very least an extremely rational choice from an engineering perspective.
Hasn't gutenberg.com being doing this for the last 40-50 years ie digitising pubic works.
You forgot DVD to HD-DVD too
The user can decide on his own if he wants the application to run on an unsupported driver or not.

The application decided by default not to offer support for it.

Who should absolutely not decide for the user is the unsupported driver itself so I think the hierarchy is just fine as it is.
I see it repeated all the time that AMD has great open source drivers, but their latest drivers on their 5xx line card couldn’t run my 4K display at 60hz over Display Port without splitting the screen into two separate X displays. Nvidia’s proprietary driver can handle it no problem.

Needless to say I have an AMD card, with awesome open source drivers, sitting in a bin. While the horrid binary-blob Nvidia actually drives my display.
The problem is that most companies boasting about diversity don't actually do that. They hire individuals from similar backgrounds based on surface level features. No, having more women from MIT or Harvard isn't really making the company more 'diverse' in any real way, since many of them have the same backgrounds and experiences as your male employees. It's tokenism. If X% of employees are female/from some minority but they're all educated in Ivy League/Oxbridge schools, all from fairly wealthy backgrounds, share political leanings and grew up in similar situations, does it really matter or make any real 'difference'?

Economic differences are basically ignored in a lot of modern 'identity politics'
Not by default. GPU acceleration is off by default in Firefox on Linux. Distros may change that in their bundles, but the official builds have it turned off.
23andMe headquarters is located in downtown Mountain View, and we have a lab in South San Francisco. Nothing on the Genentech campus.
I disagree with your disagreement in two ways.

First (anecdotal, and adjusted to regional variety, but stands to common sense) - all people who I personally know to have gotten rich off of software were all bar none rich to have access to top of the line hardware/software/services to begin with:

1. accounting software in early 90s (there were literally three or four PCs around in my city there at all. Even software they just cloned locally from some experience they acquired studying abroad in USA)

2. internet/security in mid 90s (guy had T1 while most of us didn't even know internet existed or were dreaming of owning US Robotics modem sometime in the next century)

3. games in late 90s/early 00s (when we all fappped to pictures of VoodooFX and Riva TNT, they had them)

4. web in early 00s (most of us just begged for some limited shared hosting account to even see what it's about)

5. iPhone gold rush (price of iPhone was about my yearly non-disposable income back then)

Secondly, and this is part where I partly agree - software development really is one of the more democratized areas - but when field is so approachable that anyone can make money, anyone does. And that means goalpost has shifted to other things - social network, privileged experiences, marketing investment, time allocated to project, being able to fail enough times to succeed, etc.
It's free in the sense you don't pay for it with money, but considering how much Google pays apple to use Google as the default search engine, I would say the Google Browser is a big money maker.
Well, that's what extreme capitalism brings you. I'm not holding a hammer and a sickle here, but I'm convinced that the right to access a good education is more important than the right to sell it. Same goes for health services.

My personal experience: I went to a public University in my country. My parents paid around $800 per year (I had a 50% discount, because I have 3 younger siblings). I don't know how high it's ranked. It is honestly not something people ask. Most public schools are simply good enough.

We have some private schools, but a lot of students end up there because they don't want to put a lot of effort so their daddies pay them a title. And since the schools don't want to lose them they give them a pass, or dumb subjects down. So a lot of private schools are worse (in the sense that they require less effort) than public ones. To the point where some job offers started including the clause: "Any Student with the so-and-so degree, except those from this Particular Private School".
I didn't see anything about a black box, except that users had reported issues and they didn't feel that they could investigate them because there were to many variances in Linux distros.
This is where things get complex with ML. Any dimension that is correlated with the protected categories can potentially get you into a biased and discriminatory outcome. Because embedding are not necessarily transparent, it’s hard to evaluate what the model attaches to.

The most accessible example is anything to do with fine grained location, such as zip+4. Because people tend to cluster, zip+4 has been identified as a close proxy for race and other protected classes.

When we are talking ML-derived decisions and the nuanced approach, we have to be cognizant of the fact that certain repayment patterns and behaviors could also be strongly correlated to a protected class.
I mean, the War on Drugs wasn't incidentally racist. It was intentionally racist.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-dru...

And nominally fair is correct. It's not fair now, but people say that it is.

Sure there is stuff left over from past racist policies that impact people. For example Black families on average have 1/10th the wealth of a white family, in large part because of redline mortage practices and other policies that undermined home ownership for black people.

But it's also wrong to suggest that everything is fair now, and black people just haven't caught up because of historical injustices.

There's still strong evidence of systemic racial bias against Blacks (and Latinx people) in traffic stops, criminal sentencing, resume responses (including controlled experiments with identical resumes save for different names), hiring rates etc. And this is not just statistics in RL, but studies show that people are biased, even if they don't think they are.

It's sadly quite easy, if you are white, to not see the issue, and if you don't see it it's easy to think it's not a problem anymore. It's still a huge problem.
most people get auto loans st the dealership with a salesperson (the human element), but get credit cards via online or paper forms (no human involved).
User-friendliness is usually understood as being about usability and interface design. Spyware-riddled software may be shitty, and that should be called out, but it's orthogonal to user-friendliness.

Edit: You seem to disagree. Google "user-friendly" and realize that I'm not defending Chrome.
I think you're confusing telling voters what they're voting for and telling voters whether it's good or bad. Arts and entertainment are too subjective for these journalists to objectively proclaim they are bad deals. In the instance with the new Cowboys' stadium and the new Rangers' stadium, the electorate was plenty informed.
So an "auto loan" is a "car loan"? I thought it was an automatically created loan. Thanks for clarifying.
Try Arch with the 4.20 kernel.
This looks like a job for: Blockchain!

Seriously, though, imagine a public, distributed, append-only log, containing the hashes of the content stored by archive.is, with the data effectively signed by a (e.g. wallet) private key of the archive maintainers. People could volunteer to locally store copies of all the data that was archived, but only serve the data that goes "missing" from archive.is.

With such a dead man's switch in place, there would be no harm in archive.is taking down any content that they were threatened (legally or otherwise) over, and then other sites (hopefully too many to attack) could publish the taken down content, alongside the cryptographic proof that the data was originally published by archive.is.

You're right though that there would still be disruption, as the original archive.is links would (in the worst case) return unhelpful error pages.
The article you linked makes it clear why L2 was chosen - this orbit allows continuous communication between Earth and the lander. If the satellite was at L2, this would not be the case, as the moon would be in the way, so it has to be far enough away to see both the lander location and Earth at the same time

Also, orbiting the moon would give you coverage much less than half the time, and you’d need to track the satellite across the sky from the lander
>What you are describing is literally how medical training works. Residency IS on-the-job training. Medical school provides the foundation to then learn on-the-job; residency transitions them with graded responsibilities to independent practice.

It's not because you can't start on the path without going to medical school. And you don't need medical school to start learning radiology. I messed up my elbow in high school. They showed me the x-ray and said this is a fracture, this is a chip, etc. It wasn't difficult to understand and with enough time and practice I'd be able to see them in other x-rays. I don't see where something like Organic Chemistry comes into play.

>As far as your targeted questions, yes, I do think I would pass a cellular biology test from medical school. I wouldn't get 95%+ but I would expect myself to get at least 80% correct.

So ~20% of what you learned in cellular biology isn't needed as a radiologist assuming you only remember what you've actually needed.
My point was not that if I can do it so can they; I don't wish that on anybody. My question is what value tax payers realize from helping me? I suggest that there is none and if that's correct then they had no interest in helping. Forcing them to have paid for my care would have no benefit to anyone but me and the hospital that got paid.
Exactly!

Very far from a floating point expert here, but what I do is to scale-down by a few odd prime-power factors as appropriate:

Scaling down by powers of 5 is obviously appropriate for decimals, currency etc.

Scaling down by powers of 3 is good for angles measured in the degrees, minutes, seconds system.

If one scales down a lot there is an increased risk of overflow, so one can compensate by scaling up some powers of 2.

The way I think of this is as using my own manual exponent bias [0].

>the exponent is stored in the range 1 .. 254 (0 and 255 have special meanings), and is interpreted by subtracting the bias for an 8-bit exponent (127) to get an exponent value in the range −126 .. +127.

So, for example, even single-precision number are always exact multiples of 1/(2^126), and I'm just changing the denominator to contain powers of 3, 5, 7, ... etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponent_bias
That’s if you own the encryption key. If you own the encryption key you can just decrypt
I'm not sure the existence of alternatives, advertised through Twitter, is much of a comfort here. The integrity of the domain name system shouldn't depend on someone having a well-known twitter account that can advertise alternatives in the event of a hostile takeover.
If you are willing you could maybe mention that with some more info about your setup in the bug at [1].

Chrome has the capability of adding all kinds of qualifiers to the blacklist, including explicit exceptions to the rules for a ton of things as well.

If enough people can show that some subset of Nouveau users are stable it can be safely enabled for them.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=876523
Same story. I’m from a rural area in the South. Attended a terrible high school. No one in my small graduating class attended an elite university. Most attended universities ranked outside the top 100. I only know of a few graduates from my high school that attended the flagship state school ranked in the top 30-40, but they were exceptions.

No one in the history of my high school attended an Ivy League school.

Those in the more well-funded areas of the state send a large percentage of their graduates to Ivy League institutions on a yearly basis.

The smartest people from my high school weren’t that different intelligence wise from those more well-funded high school graduates.

The difference is our school offered a limited number of upper division college ready classes and had terrible teachers.

I think the assumption in my high school were students would graduate and go into a trade. Not many were expected to do anything big in college.
Can you explain how it's different from skaffold? I use that heavily.
Google's new SMS and call permission policy is crippling apps used by millions
Elected officials have been played by team owners and sports leagues.

The article conveniently neglects to mention one of the more notable examples of a certain very well known official getting "played" in this fashion (for the benefit of a certain hugely unnecessary sports arena on the edge of downtown Brooklyn):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
What we have is two side accusing the other of overstepping their bounds. Chromium making decision about drivers which normally is the domain of the operative system, and the driver making decision of what kind of systems the browser will support.

The more rational behavior is for chromium to let the operative system decide what software and drivers they want to use, and do what they want with bugs from operative systems that they don't want to support.

Whitelists won't work since all that will happen then is that project will do what Internet explorer did, ie call it self "compatible" and use the GL_VENDOR string of that compatible driver.
How much of this is just selection bias? I’m a white male who probably pattern matches the same way. A few months ago I was traveling and as a completely innocent mistake forgot to pay rent by a day. I was not given the benefit of the doubt at all — I was blocked from online payments and was given three days to vacate before a formal eviction suit would be filed against me, as if I were a criminal who couldn’t have just had a momentary lapse. The notice was unconditional, meaning the landlord could choose to continue eviction proceedings even if I paid — the most extreme option available to them, usually reserved for someone they want out no matter what.

In this case, I went in the next morning with a cashier’s check and they dropped it. But moments like this have led me to wonder if the common narrative of privilege actually applies to me in practice as much as is assumed.
Gab is basically "Twitter for neo-nazis". In theory they go on about being defenders of free speech but their original logo was a reference to Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character the Internet far-right racist crowd appropriated as their mascot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
Are you sure you're not thinking about this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832311
> If that were the case, at least in the financial sector, it would seem that another financing institution would have noticed this inefficiency long before 2019 and gobbled up all of that free money on the table.

Of course. They'll just only hire people who aren't subconsciously biased. No problem. They'll just put "No racists please," in their job advertisements. Simple as that.
LOL!
Humans are remarkably similar. It's popular to think that we are each so very special but our differences, despite standing out to our brains which are tuned to recognise them, are small. Especially, physiologically. We love to hear that we are special snowflakes even when the news is bad. This works out great for big pharma.

But, I can go a step further and prescribe a cure for depression that will work for 99% of the population, that means you.

1) Get outside into nature at least 3 times a week.

2) Break a sweat doing some physical activity at least 3 times a week.

3) Spend less than 10hrs combined
per week on your phone or computer doing non productive things like watching shows, flipping through social media or reading HN.

4) Eat healthy food every day.

5) Sleep 8hrs per day. If you are following the above this should not be a problem.

6) Maintain your relationships with family and friends on a daily basis. This means spending time making meaningful connections, perhaps doing some of the things listed above.

If you do the above consistently for at least six months and don't see significant results then perhaps you need the drugs but the drugs will have subtle but profound costs in terms of quality of life.

If you are unable to do any of the above then you are not living in an environment which promotes good mental and physical health.

But hey, it's so much easier to pop a pill and everyone else is doing it.
> I am definitely rooting for AMD to wow us next generation like they did in the CPU market.

Don't set your expectations too high. Their next generation of consumer graphics cards, rumored to be announced at CES next week, are reportedly still going to be based on a new revision of their current GCN architecture (which originally debuted in 2011 and is very much showing its age these days). Rumored performance for the "high-end" model will be somewhere around the GTX 1080 or RTX 2070 (though reportedly at a much lower price compared to either of those cards).

If you're waiting for them to produce an all-new GPU architecture the rumors are that they are working on one to be launched in the 2020-2021 timeframe. That's also when Intel is rumored to be preparing to launch their own dedicated GPUs so hopefully we will be going from 0 properly high-end GPUs with open-source drivers to 2 by 2021.
How is that different from Skaffold or Draft?
If you can't stand for that, then do something about it. Fix bugs, or pay people to fix bugs. On what grounds are you entitled to demand anything of the Chromium team?