skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I can understand the disquiet about loading patients onto this device when it's a bridge to nowhere, in terms of treatment and recovery, wouldn't it better to look at this in a more positive way: As providing the necessary (and astonishing, technologically speaking) first step in being able to treat previously untreatable conditions.

I'll bet that over time the technology will improve and require less intensive management, and for every patient who ends up in an unpleasant twilight between life and death, there's going to be one whose short-term survival inspires doctors to find a way to get them off ECMO. Long-term survival and recovery rates will improve as the years and decades go by, and eventually technology like this will be a regular and uncontroversial part of medicine. Doctors will look back on these early days like we look back on early surgery: as the hardest part of a learning curve that eventually pays off handsomely.
That is interesting. Could you please describe in short your methodology? Did you try to read/write many small files, or one big file?
I suspect that the ~1 day delay is just the time needed to run automated tests, rebuild packages, retest them, upload them on the various channels, turn updates on, etc.

I've worked with people who work on release engineering. Many things can go wrong by accident and silently, so you take your time to avoid distributing a broken binary that you could not upgrade.
Open-Closed Principle in Automation Testing
I don't know, both bigotry and "[culture] exceptionalism" map pretty well to the cultural universals of "Collective identities" + "Binary cognitive distinctions".

Which is, again, why I think zanny was being downvoted: wishing people could get over wanting to work overtime, and wishing human brains would stop categorizing things and then assigning the categories themselves moral worth, are very different kinds of wish, that don't really feel like they should be in the same kind of list. The latter kind of thing can't be described with "a problem with American culture", because that's not the level it exists at.
My advice is don't hang out with people who believe in bullshit, or look things up on their phones. Hard to find, but worth the effort!
I don't imagine we will actually see this change in the way expected. Rather than companies making it so employees can leave on time and still feel secure in their job, I imagine companies will eventually find themselves destroyed by competition that are smart enough to forego having an office at all. Offices are a massive expense, and while they were crucial and profitable in the era of difficult communications, they're now nothing but a source for value destruction, amplified even greater by the tremendously negative impact on cognitive productivity interruptions have. The exact things that made offices valuable in the past, physical proximity of coworkers, are their greatest weakness now.
Slack Stock Price Soars in Direct Listing Debut, as Valuation Hits $21B
Address a large or growing market, solve a big problem, show traction (or profits, preferably), have a team behind you and yc will fund you regardless of the number of founders.
And bear in mind that 'object file' here could consist of simply a single 'ar' format file containing all the other static code that needs one simple link command.
zero sense, really? a lost wallet has been handed in, and at least one other person has witnessed the wallet being handed in (not even assuming cctv, other people, or supervisors).

you don't know if the wallet owner or that original person will turn up and make enquiries as to what happened, and of you just keep the money, there is a real risk your actions being discovered.

whereas at least if you TRY to return the wallet, when you do eventually keep the money, you have an angle of both plausible defense, and arguably, natural justice on your side...
The Sony Compact series and the Samsung S10e are the last "small" phones.
> User-fed databases like this are all full of absolute garbage data, and have been gamed.

Is OSM equally bad? There's many ways to run a "user-fed" project.
I'm actually working on solving this problem at the moment with https://darklang.com. Our approach is to allow the quick prototyping of python via tooling built-into the editor, within a language that has strong static types (similar to Haskell or OCaml).

As an example, you never change types in Dark, you only make new types and switch over to them, so if you want to test out a type change for just one HTTP route, you can do that.

Dark also doesn't have nulls or exceptions because they're hard to reason about. The usual tools to replace them (Result and Option/Maybe types) require you to handle all the cases when you write code using them. We're allowing you to write code that doesn't handle these cases (again, using editor tooling). Instead it tells you exactly what errors can happen at every point in your code. Once you have your initial prototype/algorithm figured out, you can use that information to handle all the edge cases.
Fascinating, if somewhat depressing[1] read.

What struck me was that the ICU is required for ECMO patients because they are at risk for other complications like blood clots. At what point do we have mobile wheel chairs of the 'Captain Pike'[2] variety where the wheel chair provides most of the organ functions for a person? And then where does that put us on the life/death scale? I can't help but think that practicing medicine is going to be even more complex ethically in the coming decades.

[1] The whole choosing when to turn off grandpa vibe is super depressing to me.

[2] Captain Pike - a character in the Star Trek pilot episode who was confined to a wheel chair that provided all functions, his only communication was a light that blinked once for yes and twice for no.
If it would allow me to send money overseas with cheaper fees, then yes, I would consider it. Otherwise I am happy using traditional credit cards and Venmo/Cash App.
Interesting. Last time I returned a lost wallet, it was to New Jersey (I'm on Canada's West coast, where this was found). People will return wallets from outside of their community. It seems odd to restrict them that way and then ascribe the motivation to some "civic" reasoning.
Here it is:

https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet/blob/master/gems/sorbet-run...

As you'll notice, `sig` doesn't actually do anything.
Really interesting article.

> ... it also set strict requirements for younger people who lived there: if your income exceeded a certain threshold, you would be evicted. If you refused, you were charged rent – at potentially up to twice the market rate, depending on your income.

The goal was to make public housing a safety net for elderly, low-income and socially vulnerable people. The effect, however, has been to make social housing off-limits for most people: eligibility fell from 80% of households in 1951 to 25% after 1996.

And it has turned public housing into a kind of ghetto for poor and elderly people who rely on pensions and can’t afford private rents.

In Canada it is often controversial when upper middle class people are found to be living in affordable coops and anti-poverty activists, in an understandable effort to create as much low income housing as possible, often call for wholly low income housing projects instead of having buildings with mixed incomes. This article suggests at the flawed outcome from overly means testing benefits.
You missed my point and I don't think it's a stretch, especially if you don't understand their culture. A better analogy would be if you would return a sack of $100 in nickels, I think most people would leave it. I'm not too familiar myself but if the entire country has moved on to mobile payments, people would be less inclined to return obsolete forms of money. Perhaps someone more familiar can explain better.
Will you run out of money?
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

YC has always recommended having cofounder(s) but that shouldn't hold you back. That is even if you didn't have a team of 4 people.

If I can remember correctly, Ryan Hoover from Product Hunt went through YC as a solo founder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaqUUAYi_Yo
I'm not sure that conclusion follows.

considering 67% of browsers in use are chrome and ~10% firefox it could be that they are paying based on difficulty and potential reach.
I was a huge fan of the Nexus 7 -- it's the device that changed how I looked at personal computers. I bought myself one, and ones for a couple of family members.

Within 3 years they were all unusably slow. Kept them going for a little while with some device resets, but eventually we just all had to give up on them. The family has been on iPads ever since and even the oldest of the bunch still run great (much thanks to iOS 12's perf improvements).

That's the whole story on how I got sold on Apple hardware.
One theoretical benefit is that linux won't evict file data from a ramdisk, but it will evict it from cache and buffers if it thinks they are not needed that much. The kernel algorithms for memory management are very opaque and linux may do some suboptimal decisions, especially when applications are starving for memory.
You say that like we take away people's drivers licenses if they're not capable of driving safely
On smaller scales, this seems to be a popular experiment. I recall hearing, in the popular press, related experiments on city neighborhoods and university departments. (Of course, it's fodder for unfair prejudices and jokes about, e.g., which department disproportionately attracts sociopaths.)
Not quite the same, but I lived in a house whose previous resident had run a photography business out of it. It was still listed as the business address on Google Maps, so I got a ton of junk mail (and some real mail, like bills!) for the business. I reported the business as closed or moved a bunch of times, but I never heard anything from Google and nothing ever changed. I just checked, and it's still listed at the same address.
And yet we accept it all the time.
> My Sengled bulbs just require I essentially strobe the light like 5 times or something like that which isn't great but it's better than this.

unless you have kids tall enough to reach the light switch
You think someone on ECMO is going to work?

Go take a look at an ICU ward, conscious or not these people are seriously unwell and as close to death as humanly possible.

Even the rich ones.
At least I didn’t vomit on the guests at my brother’s wedding
I have an (odd) simple solution: If google offered to pay $X for each good bit of business address data, anyone submitting bad data would be committing fraud. Google could send their whole profile to law enforcement. Would probably get much higher quality data as well.
The Nexus 9 was awful. It was very slow and lagged all the time. I think it was due to the Nvidia CPU as I've also had a Chromebook with an Nvidia CPU and it's also really slow.
I would also have liked to see their position on the chart. This was in the footnotes.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1540-5893.37...

Abstract

This article examines the lost property regime of Japan, which has one of the most impressive reputations in the world for returning lost property to its rightful owner, and compares it with that of the United States. Folk legend attributes Japanese lost‐and‐found success to honesty and other‐regarding preferences. In this article, I focus on another possible explanation: legal institutions that efficiently and predictably allocate and enforce possessory rights. These recognized, centuries‐old rules mesh with norms, institutional structures, and economic incentives to reinforce mutually the message that each sends and yields more lost‐property recovery than altruism alone.
Really? There are a lot of secret military facilities near you that leave tanks or fighter planes lying around or what? For every military base I've ever encountered in my career, the fences with "US Property NO TRESPASSING" signs and giant signs out front warning that you're approaching a military installation were the identifying features. In other words, they were all very much declared. If you took all of the signage away, I think it would be extremely hard to definitively identify most military installations as such from outside the fence.

Could you give a link to one of these facilities on Google Maps or something? I'm honestly really curious to see what you're talking about.
Tokyo Metropolis, which Tama Ward falls under, has roughly 14 million people. Greater Tokyo has 39 million.
Why would you say you don’t have that feeling about your iPhone?
Did they pay the guy to say it that many times or just put it on repeat to save money?
Taxation is not based on how much of something you can do or need. It's based on the concept of finite supply, which means you having something is coming at a cost to someone else. You are paying for the opportunity to have it at another person's expense. So tax, in it's original format is meant redistribute or rebalance that opportunity cost.
From a layman’s perspective, what I often hear ECMO being used for is to allow the heart/lungs recover for a while from the sheer trauma of a heart attack or surgery while not bearing any critical load.
Or Google Buzz
Deep Fakes: Researchers Develop Forensic Techniques to Identify Tampered Videos
Definitely true, but also besides the point. The comment in question was suggesting government control/influence, not familial dynastic influence.

Also just because much press internationally is political doesn't mean they share the same political perspectives. They are often at odds with each other by region.

Further, the type of media controlled this way no longer has a monopoly in information. Thanks to the internet, there are many smaller and diverse organizations with perspectives now as easily accessible.
Google bricked my 2013 Google I/O special edition Nexus 7 a month after they gave them to us. Can't say I had much confidence in Google devices after that.
This seems like a reasonable humorous form of emphasis to me.

The full stop before "Like" is an intensifier to draw attention to that sentence. The "uh" indicates the author's surprise at how little the biologists know, which also intensifies the sentence.
Not from the machines which typically get infected, which are the employee desktops accessing the file server.

If the malware manages to get itself running on the file server itself (and with root privileges), then sure. That's not a common case though.
Can someone help me here? I'm scanning through this and... not really finding much meat. They used a deliberate radio attack to spoof GPS signals and change the car's idea about where it was in a fundamentally unrecoverable way, and it seems the only thing they got the car to do incorrectly was... take a wrong turn?

I mean, yeah. If you take away someone's maps and compass they might get lost. What am I missing?
Agreed. Furthermore, Google Maps is full of fake reviews with only the option to "Flag as inappropriate" and no option to properly report a fake review with supporting evidence - which I would do, if the option was there!
On the surface I think it really pricks you but it would be like buying an iPhone and wondering why you have to pay for a song subscription when the phone has the hardware to play them.

IMHO this falls into two buckets for Tesla that both align with the vision:

a) You pay a one time software cost then benefit from cloud updates for the lifetime of the car. Those aren't free for Tesla to do, on any level. Would it be nice if you could opt out? Maybe but this isn't about _you_. It's about driving a technological change which you may benefit from. Buying a specially built car without those would likely be _more_ expensive than just offering one with the features switched off. So if it pleases you to pay 10k USD (made up number) _more_ for a car that you can never upgrade just so you aren't offended by software you can't use then....sure?

b) In terms of their mission in benefits them to operate in this way. It's a quiet spur to other manufactures who aside from Nissan don't seem to quite get. Tesla has shown that you can build a $35K USD car that competes with everything and cast a lower cost of ownership over 5 years than a Prius. I remember early discussions coming out of VW that convinced them to go all in. Quite simply that said, wait - if the base Model 3 has a theoretical cost of 35k and that some non-trivial percentage of that is autonomous hardware, redundant and constant cellular communication, an over top the drive train to handle a 3.5 second 0-60 launch, and a bunch of tech goodies then we can make a 20k car that's mechanically just as good with all the bells and whistles of a modern sedan...just wont't be a futuristic space car.
While I know YP (the physical book kind) is/was different, and I admit I’m ignorant about this question, was there a significant issue with impersonation and fraud? (I.E. Acme Pest Exterminators, not being Acme pest exterminators?)

If an old timey business could filter reasonably well against fraud, one would think a modern leading tech organization would be better positioned to handle this problem.
Warning: bad math and faulty assumptions incoming.

Considering it was discontinued in 2004 and people generally have reliable long term memories starting around 5-8 years old, I'd say the youngest person to reasonably remember BonziBuddy would be 20-23 years old. The peak of popularity would probably be 2002, when the lawsuit that shut the company down was filed, so the last group of people who would be widely exposed to BB and have memories of it would be 22-25 years old at the youngest.

As someone quite older than that demographic, I had completely forgotten about BonziBuddy and seeing this brought up is definitely nostalgic for me.
1600m^2 is ~17,000ft^2. That's...huge.
TypeScript actually handles the first example quite well. If you simply have a heterogenous array type, the type of its members will be the union type of `number | boolean | string`.

If you’ve used a typed tuple, then the type after access is based on what TypeScript statically knows. So array[0] would be number, but array[random() % 3] would be the union type.
The confusion arises because I'm not at all talking about filtering rotten content (aka facebooks instance of the problem). I'm talking about sorting for good content, possibly identifying a niche hit in a stack of shovelware. On the surface these are very different tasks but they are both manifestations of what I'm calling the fundemental problem. The task of curating, that is identifying the content of incoming data to either sort or filter it, must still be done by hand and thus rarely if ever pays for itself. Sure 900k is a rounding error to Apple, but how much do they make off that 900k? And keep in mind the 900k figure was a bare minimum just to accomplish 5 ratings.

The issue is that if you want to identify content as "fun", "offensive", "dramatic", "tense", "crass" or any other of the myriad of labels that haven't been machine learned, very quickly the labor to generate these labels will cost more than the value generated by these labels.
A great retrospective: https://youtu.be/L958sMz1kWs
May be, most of the complex code is abstracted in libraries and frameworks these days. So, the design patterns may not be that useful in application code. But back in the days, when I was writing infrastructure code (Server/ORM), design patterns were super important. Without that, I wouldn't have understand any of the code written by my counterpart.
I'm guessing the technology would need to improve a bit before that becomes a possibility. It needs to be made reliable enough to not require an operator monitoring it 24/7. Probably built into a wheelchair.

What would be really amazing is if we could replace defibrillators with these in stores, malls, etc... Instead of trying to restart someone's heart you have a system that's simple enough that a layperson can slap on a dying person to keep them alive while the ambulance arrives. Maybe in the form of a cuff that you clamp over someone's wrist that can use computer vision to identify veins and automatically insert the needles and run the machine. Too complex to be affordable with today's tech, but something that could definitely be possible in my lifetime I think.
The disingenuous part about your comment and the parent to your comment is the implication that thin and light computers aren't something consumers prefer and demand.

If you actually go back to using a 2015 MacBook pro, especially the 15" model, it actually does feel thick and heavy in comparison. The new model is a full half a pound lighter (22% reduction). The physical length and width dimensions are also much more portable. In a backpack or on carry-on luggage, that matters a lot.

The 2013 MacBook Air you got repaired so easily? That computer has two fewer processor cores and is actually thicker than the current 13" MacBook Pro.

The other disingenuous aspect is the idea that this repair is a full system replacement. It's not: while it does replace a lot of parts that wouldn't normally need to be replaced, you're still left with the same logic board, ports, bottom case, and display assembly as before.

iFixit noted that the new MacBook Air model, using the same design language as the other MacBook Pro models, is actually a good amount more repairable than the previous design. It really follows quite closely to how a lot of designs happen in the tech world. The first version tends to be the most complex and difficult to repair (get the product out the door), and subsequently the design gets streamlined over time.

The 2015 Retina MacBook Pro is, from my understanding, easier to repair than a 2012 model. The original iPhone was a nightmare inside, while the iPhone 6s is regarded as being incredibly easy to work on.

I get it. Apple isn't being friendly to those who demand simple, inexpensive, modular repairs. That is bad, and it should not be encouraged. But make no mistake, consumers do not want to see their computers get thicker and heavier.
Though I haven’t yet used it for anything in production, I think if I were starting something greenfield and wanted “Ruby with static types” I would go with Crystal. I really enjoy writing it and the performance you can get is quite a significant boost over Ruby.
A little tooting of my own horn here, but nyble[1] allows you to build a ramdisk bootable image and kernel, that you can serve trivially with any http server and iPXE. A related project, tiburon[2] allows you to make this JSON db controlled. Still working on documenting them in greater depth, but you can see an example of what nyble can do[3].

[1] https://github.com/joelandman/nyble

[2] https://github.com/joelandman/tiburon

[3] https://scalability.org/2019/05/nyble-ftw-installing-my-ramb...
15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program (2015-2017 versions)
Hm.. wouldn't it bias your results in some countries too? I used to live in Poland, now living in Switzerland (both topping the chart), and in both countries it's pretty customary to drop found wallets/IDs at police stations.

Btw, in both countries there's a rule (at least in Poland it's in the civic law, probably more like a custom in Switzerland), that the person who found your wallet can receive some share (finder's fee) of money, in Poland currently 10%.
Fast prototyping without types? Meh! I need types to be able to prototype and change things really fast, knowing that it won't break.

I feel a lot more confident to prototype in OCaml/F# and then "downgrade" to an 'ordinary' language that needs more people to understand what is written, than the other way around (prototype in Python and move to something 'real' later)

I think that recent movement to put types in dynamic languages is just because of the need to fix existing projects, people are finally "getting it".

TypeScript is awesome in this regard. Almost makes JS bearable.