skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while ago, my wife and I were in the mood for dumplings so we headed to a nearby shopping center here in Southern California with a lot of Asian shops and restaurants and not enough parking spots. It's popular among locals and visiting tourists, including nouveau riche from mainland China.

It's a Sunday, it's lunch time, and it's packed. After going up and down a couple rows, I get lucky and see the reverse lights on a minivan light up just as I'm approaching the end of a crowded row. So I stop and wait.

While I'm waiting, I look in my rear-view mirror and notice this very new (no plates) white BMW aggressively weaving around other other cars stopped in the lane waiting for something to open up. Just as the spot clears, the white BMW races around me to take the spot. I'm stunned. I'm not a violent person nor even a particular strong person and haven't been in a fistfight since elementary school. But I'm ready for bloodshed. I lay on the horn.

A young handsome fashionably dressed Chinese guy wearing sunglasses exits the car on the driver's side. His attractive young fashionably dressed wife, also wearing sunglasses, gets out on the passenger side. She pulls out their young son, also well dressed and wearing sunglasses. Obliviously, they start walking toward the dumping joint where we're planning to eat.

I turn to my wife, incredulous: "Can you believe this? Did you see that asshole?" I'm not Chinese. My wife is.

"Asshole?" she replied. "In China, that guy would be a hero."

She didn't seem particularly upset by the turn of events. So I just laughed, put my vendetta in the hands of karma, and went in search of another parking spot.
That's false. No one knows what she _would_ say until she actually says it. She can certainly say "I can't say the answer to that because it would incriminate me (in ways that I don't already have immunity for)" and no one would have any way to verify that claim. Thus, it's a perfect response for every question.
Your points are excellent, classic.

One other hypothetical use of a 3D interface is as a way to conceptualize "true N-dimensional" data. A 3D experience indeed doesn't help any rational conceptualize of a rational situation but it might, maybe, allow you to mobilize the unconscious reflexes humans have for dealing with regular 3d space. But all this might also a 90s cyberpunk fantasy.
I must reluctantly agree with you, as a guy who’s spent a lot of his life feeling worthless and underconfident.
What makes these ideas "micro"? They seem like normal SaaS to me.
Are you sure? It looks like an L3 is getting $100k in equity per year, so they’d get a $400k grant at hire, vesting over 4 years?
The other awesome thing about QUIC is that it encrypts almost everything including header information, making middlebox traffic shaping worthless and demoting middleboxes in general.
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On the whole, I too agree with Pinker. But I don't think it's necessarily mutually exclusive with one generation "failing" another (I hate that wording because it feels reductionist).

If the claim is true that the millennial generation is the first to have a lower quality of life than their parents, that sounds a lot like a failure to manage resources given the prosperity you cited. How can we be at the most prosperous time yet have a generation worse off than the previous? It seems like it's either a failure of values, mismanagement of resources, or bad metrics.

Put another way, if this was a company that was posting record sales and margins yet somehow posting worse profits than the previous CEO, wouldn't that at least raise some eyebrows?
Does anyone know of any popular camera image formats (ie not raw) that are actually using more than 8 bits per color?

The blog post mentions "8 bits per color channel is not enough", but as far as I can tell everyone using Display P3 for consumer-grade photos (including the iPhone) is still using 8 bits per color, just over the wider gamut.

It seems weird that this hasn't become a thing with the big marketing push behind HDR10 and others for TV. You might think "backwards compatibility", but Apple was fine making the HEIF break and converting when sharing with incompatible devices.
Yes, we are relatively lucky that it's a low grade glioma. Sorry to hear about your dad, GBM is a monster.

The oncologist told us life expectancy is around 15 years which, while ~10x better than GBM, is a pretty disappointing thing to hear when you're in your early thirties. But that number comes from looking back at people diagnosed in recent decades, so we're really hoping that new treatments will change the equation going forward.
That question was asked, but the actual question that appears to have been answered is "What can we do to get all software development to move offshore?"
Hmm, generic Wellbutrin thinned my hair and made it fall at a worrying rate in only 2 weeks and stopped after discontinuation. Otherwise, it was a fantastic drug for me, unmatched still by any other.

Reading your comment makes me want to try the brand name. Maybe it was an allergic reaction to one of the fillers?
This is the case with many other online platforms (such as reddit) in that the original content of a post is still reachable if it was deleted, so a common method is to "scrub" edit your posts then delete them.

However at Facebook's size, and given they're known for 0 privacy, they likely track all changes anyway.
> ... the choice between chemistry and chemical engineering. Both majors are STEM and seem quite similar, but chemical engineering is the one with good job prospects.

Anyone know why this is the case? I took chem 1 in college (in the lib arts school), and while it probably wasn't as difficult as most of my classes in the engineering school, it certainly wasn't as easy as, say, the few electives I had to take in sociology, psych, or English.

So why do chemical engineers seem to have it even better than CS or CE majors (in terms of salary and job prospects) while most lib arts chem majors are paid crap and require lots of grad school, even PHDs, to get even an entry level research or similar job in industry?
I'd write a list. Come up with a strategy!

A strategy is holistic - it covers all the moving parts, which includes you, your mind and how it works, your preferences, age, responsibilities, expenses, dependents, what you are aiming for as well as external factors: the realities of this job (will you be made redundant because they see you are not busy?), freelancing (it's hard if it's your main source of income), the job market in your town, country and globally.

I'd write out some potential outcomes, bad and good and explore how you will feel about them.

And watch out for who owns the IP you create while you are moonlighting during your lunchbreak.
There is also the open source reimplementation of Milkdrop called projectM, which might be of interest to you.

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
I agree with your analysis, but seeing 3D is probably not the most important aspect of a potential useful 3D interface.

The human ability to intuitively internally model and navigate 3D spaces is what makes 3D special.

Cf. method of loci, for instance.
I suppose you're right that the expected value of information, not including the acquisition costs, is never negative.

That feels like cheating though--this information isn't free.

My argument is that the expected value of this information, including acquisition costs, can very easily be negative, since you can't just "ignore" being dead. These costs are extremely large in my snarky autopsy suggestion, but dominate for whole-body MRIs + followups too. The catch is that the scan doesn't have huge benefits and the costs of the followups, while non-trivial, aren't exactly open-heart surgery either, so both are in the neighborhood of zero, except for the monetary expense, which will be crazy high.
The repo refers to this article: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/books/HTML/gpugems/gpug...

Looks like it's standard Navier-Stokes.
But not soon enough to keep the factories in Shenzhen and the sales at the Apple store going. If it's going to be the Next Big Thing in the next three years, it has to be in prototype now.
> test their sites in Edge but have a Macbook

Not that I'm saying your assertion is wrong, but the end result of this move by Microsoft means that Chrome could be used as nearly a drop-in replacement.

I figured Chrome-in-Edge-on-Windows was meant as a stopgap to fix a browser that was already included with the OS. With OSX, they could simply stop offering the browser and it would have the same net effect.
"Bluetooth seems about average".

That statement has underlying meaning. It implies that it has not worked perfectly and lag-free every single time. It implies you have identified ways it could be better.

Yet it also implies you are happy with its level of buggyness. You have come to terms with it. You don't complain when occasionally it won't connect without cycling Bluetooth off and on again, or when there's a slight glitch.

If I design or develop a technology, I would consider it a 100 percent failure if as well as there being bugs with it, users stop complaining about the bugs and they just become 'normal'.
Don’t forget one of my favorite init projects! LinuxBBQ!
But as written, the definition permits generating the weird output. Which ignores the other arm of Postel's principle.

You could have the format definition forbid these characters; and then in the section about Postel's principle have "If you choose to accept forbidden characters, you MUST treat them as '?'".
> A finger laser scanner [...] would be a gamechanger and could really speed things up and reduce lost or misrouted cartons.

Full ACK. Recently stumbled over https://www.proglove.com/ which is in fact a gread ingredient.

I whish to have such devices as an end user for reasonable money (for various inventarisation purposes). Maybe that's something we will have in ~10 yrs. The hardware still seems way to expensive.
> internal organs shift to the point that it is impossible to automatically compare.

Seems like a good area to apply machine learning if we had enough data?
For the uninitiated, what is the difference between President, Partner and CEO?
I'm not getting that - in Photos, looking at the full size flat-red version, and taking a screenshot, I don't see the logo flash at any time during that process. Nor on the edges when I resize.
> Ultimately, I'm going to trust my doctor and insurance company.

You're already benefiting from the brand-trust type of system. You trust your insurance company (currently because the market is regulated, but if the market wasn't as regulated, you'd probably be choosier about who you shop with). Your insurance company pays the most for in-network doctors. Doctors probably need malpractice insurance and not be complete frauds to be in an insurance network.

I think the airline industry is a good example in the US. I could often save money by going with a smaller carrier, but I choose to spend a little more to go with the bigger carriers, primarily because I know if there are any problems, they're more likely to have extra flights to get me where I'm going.

Another good example is HVAC companies. You can pay someone working out of a truck to install a new A/C system for slightly less than the name-brand (factory authorized dealer) in your area. You're probably going to get what you pay for. Companies want to stand by their name. This is a once-in-a-while transaction that can cost multiples of 10's of 1000's of dollars (depending on size/complexity of the system, obviously).
This was a low-effort post, but I agree that Derek Vogt/Stephen Bax's theory is under-appreciated. Other hypotheses are either nationalistic , working back from the author's favorite theory to justify why it's Hindi/Turkish/your culture here, or flavors of the null hypothesis, such as explaining away the linguistic patterns as a sophisticated bogus language.

Vogt starts by comparing the writing system to similar-looking classes, identifying internal (in)consistencies and testing the theories on likely cognates for stars and plants.

Derek did a good job with internal reconstruction, and in light of the recent star chart update someone with knowledge of Romani should attempt to falsify his hypothesis. You might not succeed, but honest historical linguistics is a satisfying journey.
You don't worry about the website. Smart businesses worry about generating revenue, decreasing overhead, improving their image in the eyes of their customers, or reducing risk. Worry about helping a company with those things... you may find out that their "bad" web design doesn't matter in the slightest or in weird cases it might actually be on purpose.
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> Big Tech pays very, very well

Well, then there's the new guy at NY Google only making $128K. That person is going to need to visit a food bank to live in that city on that salary! /s
> There are more American millionaires than you imagine.

Mainly because the word means less-and-less wealth over time, due to inflation. The millionaires of 1959 were easily 6 times wealthier than the millionaires of 2019.
wait so if you screenshotted that.. what ends up saved in the PNG? Does the image clipboard now automatically have 2 versions of any screenshot; a wide colour version and some sort of normalised 8 bit version?

I'm looking at this from a macbook pro 2015 so I assume no wide colour support (?), yet I see the logo. Which conversion, at which step, caused that effect?
From the intitial announcement of Michael becoming CEO:

* Michael Seibel will be the new CEO of YC Core, which we are now just going to call “YC”.

* I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes YC, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our new online class. We’ll add more organizational units over time.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-changes/
Not a week goes by without some terrible Facebook bit of news. When will it end?
Maybe the price of the product cannot be raised enough to cover the higher cost of an employee?

Maybe those products don't get made, and nobody misses them.
Not OP but the team at Leap Motion [1] has some very interesting demos. 3D UI's re-imagined from the ground up. Weirdly, because now everything is 3D, the best you can do is try to mimic actually 3D things perhaps, something that didn't work in 2D at all?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m6J8W6Ib4w

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dB1IRg3Qls
I am actually an MD.

> Had we enforced a full-body MRI for every patient, we would quickly amass enough imaging data to know which anomalies are malignant and which are not to a very high degree

How, pray tell, are we actually determining which are malignant and which are not?? I’ll give you a hint: the charitable explanation is you are completely ignorant, the less charitable one is that you consider Mengele and Ishii modern medicine heroes. And that is even if the determination by imaging alone is even possible.

Once again I have to point out on HN... not everyone in the medical world is an idiot incapable of analytical thinking, it is just that a lot of us care about ethics. Our patients, even in research, are more than just numbers.
> The company that pays your wages makes money from selling something.

They could be using Elasticsearch for a side project. IMO, open source projects should not be unsecured.
> Since Assange has already been indicted, there isn’t much sense in collecting additional evidence from Manning.

This reasoning does not make sense. The bar for indictment is not "100% of all available evidence must have been collected". One can and should collect (and subsequently present) additional evidence until the closing arguments are presented. No case is ever a "sure thing". One is wise to continue to reinforce it throughout the entire process.
Android R will come with a Scrolling Screenshots feature
By that standard, Apple has never released a new product. After all, the iPhone was "just" an iteration on features that already existed in various previous devices.
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You're understating the costs.

I think you're correct in the current context. However, this strikes me as a sign of some kind of paradigm shift waiting to happen, enabled by the reduced cost of data gathering, data processing, and improvements in AI.

There was a time when many things which are mass produced now were once handcrafted luxury items. Perhaps, as technology improves, it will one day be cost effective to take a whole body scan into account. I can imagine a day when an AI would digest the information from a full body scan, then autonomously plan robot keyhole surgery to take many of the biopsies.

It's certainly possible that more data would eventually let us avoid most invasive followups, that's nowhere near certain.

I think it's likely to happen in decades, if our civilization doesn't fall soon.
I'm an early adopter for new shiny things, but this is dead on arrival for me. You made no effort to tell us what Oya actually is. It's as if you wrote this website for yourselves, not for the general public.

A few pointers:

- What is a "project"?

- Is Oya a language?

- What is this new Oyafile syntax?

- What actual problem is this solving?
Thanks! Yes, it's very interesting to see how often the theory is fit with the practical solutions in an "after the fact" manner.
This is google we're talking about. Why the hell would anyone trust that?
The $150k loan at 15% is generally healthier, as you have increased ability to pay off the principle early by making more than the minimum payments during good times.

The larger principle is only a benefit if you will actually see that money by selling the home. Given that everybody needs a place to live, this will only occur if you sell and retire to a low resource area. Everybody else can only look at the illiquid funny money and pretend.

Never mind that the larger valuation provides a juicier target for eg real estate taxes.
the finger/hand mounted laser scanners are nothing new, they've been around for years. Even something like this: https://www.amazon.com/d/Bar-Code-Scanners/Barcode-Scanner-W...

The downside is that they don't have displays, so the amount of information the user can receive is limited without them looking at a device, which then defeats the purpose of hand mounting the scanner in most cases. And even the ones with displays are almost always mounted on the hand, so the user can't be carrying something and reading the display at the same time. A head mounted display with a hand mounted scanner solves this issue.
Just a small aside re: kids being underfoot -- our little 1.5yo loves to spend time with us in the kitchen and always wants to be in on the action on the counter. This was problematic until we built him a little tower[0] to climb up and see/do things. We still have to be very aware of where we leave things on the counter, but he absolutely loves climbing up and down the thing and has mostly learned by now not to touch the stove or "big knives".

[0] https://www.ana-white.com/woodworking-projects/little-helper...
The last time i talked to Elasticsearch about pricing, it was so extremely expensive for our use case to the point of it basically being a non valid option for us.
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> Many of the bugs that make it onto Reddit/Hacker news are going to be ones that are largely changes in configuration defaults or behaviors that break things and are meant to be configured by the operating system designers that use it, not end users.

Maybe it's not for systemd to decide what I'm meant to do. If changes to behavior that they only meant for operating system maintainers to rely on results in angry end-users, they probably made the wrong assumption.

> On the sysvinit side you had thousands and thousands of lines bunch of procedural code of dubious quality that is endlessly rewritten by hundreds of different teams with vastly differing levels of competency and success using a general purpose language for configuration.

Meanwhile, I have ~400 LOC of init scripts (including service scripts) on my daily driver, an init system with <1% the LOC of systemd, and plain text readable system logs. I agree that hand waving about "imperialism" isn't very constructive, but on the other hand I don't think that misrepresenting the alternatives to systemd and exaggerating their faults is particularly useful either, nor is pretending that sysvinit is the only alternative. A lot of people have thought "sysvinit sucks" and done something about it.
Context is important. The qualifier at the beginning of the sentence is important:

> In some important ways, my generation has failed you in this regard [being too cautious]. We spent too much time debating. We've been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress. And you don't need to look far to find an example of that failure. Here today, in this very place, in an arena where thousands once found desperate shelter from a 100-year disaster, the kind that seem to be happening more and more frequently, I don't think we can talk about who we are as people and what we owe to one another without talking about climate change.

https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2019/05/transcript-tim-co...

I get the feeling that Cook, like so many other public figures who bring up climate change post-2016, is really talking about removing the president from office.

Consider the last sentence here:

> When we talk about climate change or any issue with human costs, and there are many, I challenge you to look for those who have the most to lose and find the real, true empathy that comes from something shared. That is really what we owe one another. When you do that, the political noise dies down, and you can feel your feet firmly planted on solid ground. After all, we don't build monuments to trolls, and we're not going to start now.

Anyone who believes that climate change is caused mostly by human activity should be concerned about this trend. The deeply political nature of the conversation has turned what should be a deliberate discussion about science and policy into a shouting match.
>> They didn't blow up the world

That's a depressingly low bar for "not failing".
Devil's advocate (I'm not even American): would the parties' results have been the opposite and the same people that support popular vote would still insist on it?

Or with different words: if you were living in a state with low density, would you still think that strict popular vote is fair?
Some copywriter wrote some advice about that: https://www.earlytorise.com/the-awful-truth-about-unsolicite...

May be a good start!
Neat trick that shareholders hate!
Chinese customers firmly support Huawei after Google pulls Android license
Iiiinteresting. Seriously.

I don't understand why one would want a talented student to get preferential admission to a school because, for example, he liked the design of the campus. I only get the argument that a talented student should get admitted to a school that'll best develop those talents. The link between "you're talented" and "...so you should get to go to any school you want!" is one I don't get.

Why doesn't that lead to absurdities like a school which specifically excels at teaching "low-talent" students, churning out competent (if unexceptional) composers, still admitting talented students preferentially?
This is a very insightful comment!

When all you've heard for the past 40 years is the end of the world is around the corner, and that doesn't turn out to be true, you start to tune it out.