skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the Chairman of Y Combinator Decides Which Startups to Invest In
I have a surface pro that I have been very happy with, but it has a couple of issues that make me still use other computers many times. I got it thinking it could replace both my laptop and my tablet, since it can be both.

One, it is a bit too heavy to use as my primary tablet. It gets heavy to hold for a long time, especially laying down. Also, the on screen keyboard is not great; the iPad keyboard works much better.

Second, the fact that the keyboard is detachable means it can't really be used on your lap. I often like to lean back in a chair and use the keyboard on my lap; the flexible keyboard makes this not work. You need a table to set it on.

It is a pretty powerful laptop for its size, though, and I like being able to take only it when I am traveling. It even plays games fairly well (at least as well as can be expected with onboard graphics)
Some people eat crocodiles, horse meat, etc. Eating cows or pigs themselves is pretty weird on itself, especially if you see how they kill and process the animal. The fact that we are used to se things is all that counts.

That being said, viruses were not transmitted by people eating bats. It was a species of cats that got infected by bats. As for cat consumption, well it is very easy to dupe somebody to eat cat meat thinking it is rabbit. That is why in a lot of developing countries when you buy rabbit meat they keep the furry head of the animal attached to the body on the bag so that you can see it is the real thing.
Gosh, I would love if more services didn't offer any account recovery, and refused email/password combos found in HaveIBeenPwned. With perhaps a discount code for a password manager below the sign-up form.
There are a number of reasons not to launch as an external cloud offering. A few:

- Reliability (performance and availability) could be below Azure standards

- Supply chain maturity - they may have difficulty scaling procurement and deployment to meet orders

- Lock in - major cloud providers typically provide product guarantees with forenotice on the order of years before a deprecation. It's a big commitment to launch a product externally.

- Business case - maybe the TCO doesn't make sense when compared with Azure's data on demand and price point
Duplex fiber where a separate strand for TX/RX can use the same frequency.

Simplex fiber, that is point to point, may in fact be able to use the same frequency, but it's not done in practice. Possibly due to the difficulty in directing the outgoing and incoming signals to different pieces of hardware(receiver and transmitter)

GPON networks(typically used by Fios, etc...) have multiple passive splitters on the strand. For example, a common PON splitter would have 1 strand in from the OLT(optical line terminal, essentially the head-end), 32 strands out. The light received from the OLT is split x32 and sent to each downstream port. The devices on the downstream ports(ONU/ONT, Optical Network Terminal) receive this signal and also transmit it on the same strand. That transmitted signal must be coupled back into the single upstream port, from every attached ONT. I imagine there is significant difficulty getting the light to traverse the splitter and exit only via the upstream port. So a different wavelength is used so that it doesn't matter if the light is received by the other units, and also it can be more easily filtered (by wavelength instead of direction).

My knowledge of optics is not sufficient to fully explain why it's easier to filter by wavelength instead of direction.
>> The most interesting part of this whole episode is the Orwellian efficiency communist China can control their population at will.

Say what you will about authoritarian societies, but one of their advantages is the ability to impose a direction to their population. There are certain situations this can prove very useful.
I'm not sure why Amazon won't try to recoup some of the investment by designing and marketing other boards / devices with this chip, or by just selling it in quantities to some manufacturers (think telecom, home entertainment, industrial equipment, etc).
It's not very "new". People have been working on porting, improving and optimizing software for the Arm server ecosystem for more than a decade now; really performant and widely available hardware may be new on the scene, but it would be silly to wait for that before starting work on the software side of things...
I've been told by friends in China that modern cities like Beijing shut down these markets years ago. It's still a holdover from the huge migration from rural to urban environments, and a cultural preference for eating wild meats, more so than a cost of living issue.
You realize the entire purpose of HN is to advertise jobs for YC companies?
General consensus so far seems to be about twice as fatal as the annual flu. (Which says nothing about transmissibility rate / R0, which they are still figuring out.) Really rough numbers, annual flu is around 0.1% , while the spanish flu was more like 2.5%

So, not a pandemic in terms of fatality. General sense so far seems to be it's more of a big deal than the (run-of-the-mill) flu, less of a big deal than SARS. (Keep in mind that the run-of-the-mill flu is kind of a big deal.)
Gonna go out on a limb here and say that consuming more pesticides is bad for you.
> they weren’t informed about the real dangers of what was being spread.

I wonder how many of them would even care. This week the EPA dismantled the Clean Water Rule.

The primary backers for this were farmers and developers.
Another consideration:

We've all probably read that “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

When another (maintenance) developer sees float/double being used to represent money, their first reaction is going to be "uh oh, this dev didn't know what s/he was doing". There's a big risk of someone reflexively refactoring this later on.

You may ask, "What if I put in big comment blocks saying essentially 'I knew what I was doing here'?"

Well, even if maintenance devs read that and believe you, they're still likely to introduce errors, since they aren't used to using floats for money, and don't know all the tricks to avoid errors...

Unless there's some justifiable win in size / performance, this (although interesting) falls under my "Don't be too clever" rule.
The Vice article that is cited by sdiw doesn't mention that the virus came from "bats being eaten.[1]" The article does state "new report points to the original animal source: bats" but nothing about bats being eaten. Maybe I missed something, please let me know. :)

The National Geographic article states the following:

> "[T]he highest prevalence of coronaviruses tend to be extruded by animals through feces, or guano in the case of bats. Coronaviruses not only spread via the air and the respiratory tract, but also if fecal matter comes in contact with another creature’s mouth. Bats aren’t exactly clean, so if one nibbles on a fruit, the food may get contaminated with fecal matter. If the fruit drops to the ground, then it can serve as a viral crossover point for farmed animals like civets." [2]

It seems more likely the virus jumped from the bat to another animal that ate something contaminated with bat guano infected with the virus. That animal was then traded at this market where the virus somehow spread to humans.

This lead me to find the following Wikipedia article on Civets[3]. This mentions how Civets are farmed and fed coffee cherries then the partly digested coffee beans are harvested from the Civets fecal matter. This is purely speculation, but this could be one way that the virus could have spread to humans. A Civet ate a coffee cherry that an infected horseshoe bat had contaminated with guano infected with the virus. The Civet was traded at this market and the virus spread to humans. Once again, this is pure speculation on my part but it shows how there are other mechanisms in which the virus could spread to humans without someone 'eating bats'.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqy3n/scientists-now-thi...

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/new-coron...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet#Coffee
What would be necessary to get the weights?
> For me, Twitter has been the worst thing to happen to journalism.

This is the absolute reverse of true: twitter allows accountability of the journalists at outfits you mentioned.

> With social media, Twitter specifically, the journalist becomes the main focal point

If you put your name on reporting, you're accountable for its quality.

> and particularly how non-diverse these institutions are

Au contraire, the papers seem far more obsessed with idpol than twitter, preferring to focus on cults of personality and what their popularity (or non popularity) means than meat and potato issues.

> A majority of the content is still really good (climate reporting, international politics, 'explainers' and data backed reporting are all excellent)

I disagree, but I'll leave the question of why you consider this flavor of reporting high quality up to you to figure it out.

I subscribe to the new york times, the washington post, and the la times, RT, al jazeera, among many other smaller publications. I don't think I could make any sense of the election year, climate change, or international politics without twitter, full stop—you're only seeing half the conversation, or less. Frankly even hacker news has better "reporting" on climate change than any "journalistic outfit" I've read, mostly because it's a massive topic to cover that changes very rapidly and it doesn't sell attention nearly as well as problems that operate within our understood paradigm of how our world should work.

And, frankly, it's hard to imagine an outfit more driven to polarize and work up its base for no discernible reason than the New York Times Opinion section—I can't articulate it better than this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWj7Q5iPus.

Finally, this entire dialogue neglects that twitter allows journalists to critique each other in public, a distinctly positive thing for journalism no matter what your opinions are about the unwashed masses.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146480.
You are cattle in a free range tax farm. its like stamping you with a number and putting it in a book for them to look at. think about that next time you consider how free you are.
Who's Afraid of New Apartments?
User-to-user sharing (because data created using Userbase is private)

Edit: technically you could do something hacky like share the database with a user who broadcasts the data somewhere. But I don't think you'd want to use Userbase if you want to store lots of data that anyone would be able to see
Generally, is the penny indivisible in finance? (So is using integers fine for everything, as long as you remember you you are dealing with cents, not dollars)?
The article states:

>"Originally, the node name was tied to the transistor gate length dimensions."

then further down:

>"CPP, a key transistor metric, measures the distance between a source and drain contact."

I have mistakenly thought that node designations were based on distance between source and drain. Could someone say why gate length dimensions are the more significant measurement? The distance between source and drain somehow feels more intuitive to me. But maybe because this is easier to visualize?
FYI, all the articles I clicked on in the link that started all of this were opeds by people not associated with the nytimes.
Is anyone familiar with the stand-alone executable export[1] for Racket?

I did a Ludum Dare and browsed a submission where a child had spent a lot of time and effort making a project in PyGame, but found it hard to distribute because he didn’t have the technical know how of converting it to something like a windows `.exe` file at the time. If this helps youngsters learn and explore programming the way the Commodore 64 had a nice BASIC->6502 ramp alongside distribution via floppy/cassette, I’d be super excited about this.

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html
They built a 1,000 bed isolation hospital for SARS too, near Beijing. Also in a week. It was demolished about ten years ago.
I did think about the China angle, but unfortunately I doubt the majority of people care or even know about that, just like we've experienced with Facebook for the past two years.
A thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212123
There's nothing "difficult to grasp" - these are shit decisions and dark patterns.

A feature that's MAYBE useful in a corporate setting to a hand full of people should not be a default defacto setting forced upon EVERYONE.

The issue isn't the feature... it's the default settings that enable invasive features.
You are entirely correct, we started this project as an internal tool to be used in any environment where no integration with IAM/OIDC/LDAP/AD/etc.. was available (we handle LOTS of clusters and many of them are in this situation).

So, this is mostly recommended (as you said) for smaller projects/teams/orgs but we figured out this would still be useful to many so we just open sourced it.

It's also entirely true that you can use it in any cluster, as Kubernetes under the hood does NOT have any concept of "user" it's just a bunch of certificates with some roles attached, so you can actually deploy it anywhere and you can use to release certs on the fly for your users.

As for gitops, that's a great questions we got asked a few times today. It's just no there right now, this is a nice web ui wrapping RBAC primitives. We'll surely be working on it soon.

Hopefully, this was clear. Let me know if you have more questions.
The article actually picks up on that but the other way around:

"There is a perception that because the radioactivity is naturally occurring it’s less harmful (the industry and regulators almost exclusively call oil-and-gas waste NORM — naturally occurring radioactive material, or TENORM for the “technologically enhanced” concentrations of radioactivity that accumulate in equipment like pipes and trucks)."
What is up with this article? It's like forwards-from-grandma quality writing.
Yeah, the "this one spreads through eyes!!!!!!!" shit I keep seeing pop up is actually helping to moderate my panic, somewhat.

It reminds me how much of the "panic!" signal I've been really starting to see explode in the last ~24h, which humans are highly sympathetically attuned to when they suddenly see it spreading everywhere around them, is just from a sheer mass of other idiots who actually don't know anything either coming online on the issue, and reflects internet meme virality, and only very indirectly the uptick in actual danger (ie, from having been loosely following the outbreak, prior to this latest popularization).

Still looks pretty fucking bad, though.
Interesting.

I think the nature of catholic schools being a diocese to diocese (or grouping of them) thing tends to create a lot of variety.

My school had similar teachers (this one sister and one priest aside) to any of the other local schools.

Also unlike the schools near me now ... it was basically open enrollment like any public school and the costs were on a sliding scale based on income. Many students (myself included) paid very little in tuition. The diocese picked up the tab for the rest.

Meanwhile the catholic schools where I live now are ultra exclusive and bonkers expensive. They like to hint at a very 'classical' education and a lot of discipline.

But at my school things were very much easy going and by the time you were a senior you effectively were taking mostly college classes from the local colleges, and coming and going from school as you pleased as you might at college. It was a great experience (although I proved to be a terrible college student... so maybe not as effective for me, but I wouldn't blame the school).
You certainly can test for some non-organic foods at retail.

For example, non-organic oats are often sprayed with roundup at harvest time, so cereals made from them routinely have unsafe levels of carcinogens in them:

https://www.ewg.org/childrenshealth/monsanto-weedkiller-stil...

Organic oats have less than 1/10th as much roundup in them on average:

https://gimmethegoodstuff.org/pesticides-in-organic-oatmeal-...

Also, the more farms go organic, the less contamination there will be in the organic crops.
It's funny how you make a generalisation and then are very specific. Not everyone decided to have children. I have designed my own living situation to be quiet and to minimize distractions. Even if your home is a very distracting place, working remotely doesn't have to mean working from home. You still get all the other benefits of openness and communication and you can rent your own small office with a door that closes.

I find it challenging to concentrate in an open floor plan office that is full of people. I find it absurd that it has become the status quo for software development.
what possible motivation is there to fix it when you're not competing with anyone?

Considering the bug hasn't been fixed in 4 years with completion from Firefox and Edge, I think your assuming that competition drives bug fixes might be a bit off. It clearly doesn’t.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133431
I never commented the viability of Gecko for MSEdge; I merely rejected the notion that Rust was part of the reason why it wasn’t viable.
Entirely different use-case. This is a simplified way to create new users, templates and distribute certificates to access a cluster. It does NOT integrate with external ldaps/ad/etc..
What really stands out for me is "100% encrypted DRAM".

How efficient is this? Can different cores have different encryption keys, so that different VMs under a hypervisor can't benefit from breaking the hypervisor's protections?
Intel's newer design that will come for the Surface Neo and such are also nightmares.

1 big core (from the regular Core architecture lineup) + 4 little cores (Atom), how the hell did they even want to make that?
Back in the late 90’s and early 00’s, there were a ton of cpu platforms around: SGI MIPS, DEC Alpha’s, Intel, Sun SPARC, etc... while I will admit it was a colossal pain working somewhere that had all of those, it was often possible to recompile from source to get things to run. I’m not suggesting it’s trivial, but given the incredible investment in ARM in the mobile space, the wind is at least at your back today. It certainly has got to be much easier than it was in the days of being the only person in the world trying to recompile an obscure open source scientific computing package for DEC Alpha. Commercial software is a different beast, but even there, the incentive will be high to do a port if lots of people start migrating to this.
Frutiger's Type Designs Show You the Way (2015)
> unfortunately the biases comes out as we are all human

Can you point to an example of any recent article in any US paper that even tries to be objective? Only the BBC pretends to strive for that nowadays.
I've had the (4GB) Surface Go since launch and always thought it was too slow to be usable. Finally did a full reinstall a month back and it's somehow been great since, it's not a powerful machine but feels very snappy in daily use now. Basically wasted a year.

Must be something going on that's fixed in a later Windows version because the difference is night and day.
Ask HN: Nepotism at DeepMind
I know a case of blatant nepotism. The unqualified research candidate has a relative working at the company, skipped part of the interview process, and was hired last year. Should I report to HR or quietly condone?
> You (most probably) did have to go (physically) to a bank and prove your identity and your credit record in order to maintain any credit card.

Didn't have to go there physically. And this is done once while with crypto exchanges you need to sign up for multiple ones because the quality and coins they offer vary so much.

> And it takes days to wire money to your bank account.

In the UK I can transfer money through my phone app (or online banking if I prefer) to any other UK bank account and the transfer is instant and completely free. Cryptocurrencies can't compete with banks that have their shit together when it comes to convenience.
I think the issue with the tv streaming example is that you’d have no idea what the lag time is, the delay would be two whole seconds but as long as the video doesn’t skip you wouldn’t even know, versus moving a mouse around which would make the smallest amount of delay extremely noticeable.
A couple of survey tips:

Explains what a NFT is.

With the answer where the answers are drugs and porn, you won’t be able to distinguish between people who don’t pay for porn (or too embarrassed to admit) and those who don’t use crypto to do it. So you need a different survey structure to make the difference.

A 4 way choice for each category:

1. Crypto

2. Non crypto

3. Don’t purchase

4. Rather not say

Might be better
Here is another theory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22058923

Microsoft was somewhat already vested in Chrome tech before starting, so skill and knowledge was there.

I would love to read an official interview though.
I hope it is a joke (pretty good one if it is), but on an off-chance it is not: it is entirely plausible that you are the first Brave browser user to visit the site (or at least Brave of that version).
> If you're truly wealthy, your financial advisor won't let you do either one. So the OP was correct.

You don't get wealthy without making risky investments.

For example, I went to lunch with a billionaire once. He told me he made the money in stocks by mortgaging and margining everything he had, and buying volatile stocks.

Do you think Musk's SpaceX and Tesla are low risk investments for him?
Most likely that it isn't very common. Mine said <0.01% for the Brave user-agent.
Surely there's some way you can enable TTS for incoming notifications. Or like the article mentions, just text outright. I haven't heard of classrooms banning smartwatching / smartbands. Just look at your wrist to read a message...
If they wanted to make copy/share/whatever else easier, they could've just made those buttons appear with the first tap, but also not change the immediate editability of the selected text like it was before. That's why all those other comments here about how they made copy and share easier are beside the point --- it's definitely possible to do that without making editing harder. Sadly it seems the skill of adding new functionality and making things easier without breaking existing functionality and making things harder is not common these days... but that's really what I think people making changes should focus on and deeply consider.
Hey, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot, and we're trying for something a bit better than that here. The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit to heart, we'd be grateful.
"Gate length" referred to the width of the sandwiched semiconductor band with different doping, (i.e. the "N" part of a PNP CMOS transistor). Traditionally (which is to say, so long ago that it doesn't really matter) these were the finest features present in the mask set and were a good metric for fab sophistication.

That CPP metric is measuring how close together the contact vias for the two halves of the transistor can be. It's a much bigger number, but still probably just as good as a proxy for transistor density.
Yeah, no. First, sometimes you actually don't get to use a ETL before doing the report, and massaging an integer or float to decimal in an ETL is just going to cause you trouble.
They haven’t. I just got my 10gb package stolen by voda today. The company is dishonest and no one around here trusts them. People might get money through M-pesa, but they convert it into cash asap.