skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really surprising, is it? In a society that demands of women to get married and raise kids instead of work, it's mostly women who aren't allowed to marry and have kids who get to do things like follow a higher education.
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The chosen site for that test is basically a worst-case. It uses a local TV news site. These are all cesspits. They have banners, auto-playing videos, popovers, clickjacking, the works.
I've seen resetting Chrome fix all sorts of weirdness:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en
The US hasn't changed. These issues were always here. We're forced to confront them in a very direct way now, which rips off any facades built up about being "issues free." This is the "pain" part of "no pain no gain." Hopefully, as a country we're able to grow and become better the same way we did in the 60s, the last time it seems we had an equivalent/stronger "bandaid ripping off" moment. From personal experience, I vastly prefer a country like the US where these issues are being dragged front and center and exposed than other parts of the world where these same ugly facets of humanity exist, but people pretend they don't.
> and a company from a territory claimed by China was.

A company from a sovereign country claimed by China.
Because it's definitely a zero-sum game.
Isn't this a one year experiment due to Covid?
Hey, I used to work on this :).

It's complicated :).

Basically, WebRTC is a combination of a bunch of protocols: ICE, DTLS, SCTP, and RTP. You could theoretically reduce that to ICE + QUIC for p2p use cases and just QUIC for client/server use cases.

For p2p, there is RTCQuicTransport (see https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/01/rtcquictra...)

For client/server, there is QuicTranport (see https://web.dev/quictransport/)

Of course, you'll probably want to be able to encode and decode some audio and video as well to make that useful. For that, there is WebCodecs (see https://github.com/WICG/web-codecs or https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5669293909868544)

For use cases like live streaming and cloud gaming, I did a presentation about the combination of WebTransport + WebCodecs: https://www.w3.org/2018/12/games-workshop/slides/21-webtrans...

And then there is the work happening in the IETF along these same lines: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ript/documents/
I see it differently.

People who initially go there will self-select.

The problem is, to my mind, people’s mental breakdowns—maybe induced by the new enviro, but also other things, including perhaps genetic.

And that’s the people who self-select. What about new generations? Large populations will produce a variety of minds. Many will be sound, some not.

How do you deal with the Kaczynskis of the world?

Could you even have protests that could erupt into collapse? One thing you could do is compartmentalize “cities” so that if one implodes/explodes it doesn’t take the whole “mars civilization” with it, but still...
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GitHub is on board with it.

Look, there are riots, burning looted building, people getting injured and killed, including police, and world-wide demonstrations. Two guys got lynched in California in this month.

Do you really want to approach this from a cost vs. benefit POV?
But my sandy CPU had not much trouble being OC'ed to 4.5ghz while apparently the top freq. of the A13 is 2.7 ghz? How many, say, convolution reverbs can you chain on the A12 or A13 would for instance be a super relevant metric to compare things.
Pretty interesting article. If this spoke to you, I recommend reading "The drama of the gifted child" by Alice Miller.

Don't be put off by the title, it's a wonderful read no matter if you think you're gifted or not.
JS has always been relevant as an ecosystem because it incorporates new ideas. I liked jQuery more than what came before it, and I like React more than jQuery. They make the task of translating an idea into a work app much easier for me, and other programmers I work with also benefit from more readable code.

I wouldn't re-write an existing app to use fetch or hooks, but now that I've taken the time to learn, I'm happy I did. The vast majority of the mental work was done by other people, and I get to reap the benefits. The alternative to this is stagnation, and relegation to legacy systems... I guess the author wishes they could work in COBOL?
Well put! You absolutely nailed it in each point, and when you look at it that way, the current problem is easily explained.

Apple's (and Google Play's) operations are predatory and they need to change. Period.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jet_fuel

> (slang, uncountable) Strong home-brewed alcoholic drink; moonshine.

I posit that jet fuel is considered very powerful stuff in the general lexicon (even though it's just fancy kerosene.)
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How about Godot?
Yes, when Federighi took over both iOS and macOS.

Maybe what happened is that Ive took over the reins and made the life of the engineering teams too difficult. I'm optimistic his departure will bring good things to the Mac. So far we've gotten a new keyboard.
Vehicles are tested at a top speed of 80 mph in order to calculate the highway mpg estimates.

EPA utilizes five test cycles to represent real-world driving conditions. While it’s true that the test cycle historically labeled as the “highway” test has a top speed of 60 mph, this test is currently meant to represent driving on lower speed highways as well as rural and suburban driving. EPA’s highway mpg estimates are primarily derived from a separate “high speed” test cycle, which has a top speed of 80 mph. The remaining three tests are designed to simulate stop-and-go city driving, high air conditioning use, and driving in cold temperatures. For more information on the five test cycles and how EPA calculates its mpg estimates, go to epa.gov/fueleconomy.
I don't know about the rest of your comment, but it starts with a false statement.

> the advice of the business schools long ago and outsourced all its core competencies.

Business schools recommend the opposite. Outsource everything OTHER THAN core competencies. Core competencies are your competitive advantage; keep them in house.
I shudder to think of the huge number of applications this will break. This has all happened before with PowerPC (ironically an RISC architecture Apple abandoned ~15 years ago). It's probably necessary but nonetheless frustrating.
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Not sure that there is a final solution. It's an ongoing, everyday perpetual sort of thing...like waves:

When you catch a wave, you ride it out knowing that eventually it ends. And when it does, you get off the wave and paddle back out to catch another one. Repeat forever :)
Might just be a firefox thing, or a symptom of my ad-blocker, but facebook and the reddit redesign are both pretty terrible performance wise. The thingiverse redesign seems performant though so I don't know.
Ask HN: How would you fix this failing startup?
Suppose that you've joined a small startup as the new CTO. This startup has a lot of users but its quality of service is terrible. Their website and apps are slow and they fail left and right.

How do you find the cause of all problems and fix them? And more importantly, how do you make sure they never happen again in future?

P.S: The tech stack is not important here. I'm interested to know your approach and management practices that you'd implement.
My Latin American State university had a nice solution: a 1 year long introductory course open to everyone which you had to pass to formally enter the university, similar to a centrally-administered course on SAT exams.

The system ticked most boxes: poor students had a lot more resources to study and pass the exams, and the evaluation was very correlated to how well you would do in the University compared to doing than a single exam. It also served as a nice introduction of how to properly navigate a University environment.

When I did this course I wasn't happy in spending an extra year studying before starting university, but in retrospect this is a better system than anything else I've seen. Additionally, almost failing one of the maths courses was a wake-up call that made me realise that I couldn't just wing exams like I did during High School
The new American left does treat it as a zero sum game. That is why they focus on disparities instead of universal programs that would eliminate the largest absolute amounts of poverty and suffering.
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FWIW, I think "antipattern" is an overstatement, but it's what the community has been calling it. I do think some of the discussion around it is interesting and possibly valuable.
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Really? I found air quality even within Taipei to be comparable to San Francisco or even better, at least according to my nose, sinuses, and tear ducts.
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A gaming console isn't a payment device, news reading device, web browsing device and it certanly doesn't end up in hands of as many people as iPhones do.

There's a staggering difference of scale and thus influence on free market when Apple throws its weight around. They decide to kill of whole companies of dozens of economic sectors and curbing such power is why anti-monopoly laws were created.
Browser extensions are usually the attack vector for password managers.

I use the native desktop apps for them, previously LastPass and currently Bitwarden. The UX suffers a bit but you at least you gain some security.
Tech Firms Are Spying on You. In a Pandemic, Governments Say That’s OK
Nobody is demanding that. It could just be that they want to.
Also some disadvantages: rains and clouds almost 24/7, street noise, overpriced real estate.
The usual problem with wheel motors is unsprung weight, and the 90s was before batteries had decent energy density.

It sounds like something like a Prius, but with serial hybrid instead of parallel hybrid like the Prius was.
Interesting how being allowed to run your own software is now a downvotable opinion here on HN.
No Taiwan, the future is in America.

Taiwan needs to open branches of all production in US and plan for mass evacuation of its population, so it doesn't wind up wasting it's time like Hong Kong must do.
Ah, thank you. So is the benefit of this system that the Cas9 sticks around for a while, and at any point one can cleave all the sites at once instead of cleaving each as the Cas9 bumps into it?
The best thing about setting up Google wifi routers for your relatives is you can set yourself up as the manager of them, and manage them with the Google Wifi app from anywhere. So before Uncle Bob calls you about the wifi you'd already have got the notification that his cable service is down again.
> The point is to provide an exclusive and desirable brand name

Brand names are fundamentally based on merit, not by implementing some initiative that any school can do in a few months. Harvard is Harvard and not some no-name college because of its adherence to a incredibly selective admission process over the years.
I did not dismiss the whole trial.

They were first to this scandal precisely because they are conspiracists. A website with a name like covexit is nothing I would normally link. ice9, who has been a very solid twitter-lit-reviewer on repurposing candidates for quite a while, started the discussion in the anglosphere via primary sources and these tertiary sources. That better sources hadn't covered the topic yet is unfortunate, but time waits for no one and their claims are independently verifiable.

I reviewed covexit's apologia for Raoult, including his absurd response to RECOVERY's HCQ news, before making any post with the link mentioned. The 2020-06-15 paste was imported straight from one of my social accounts. Friends there already have context spread across many months from me re: topics like HCQ and Raoult.

Today's BBC article on dex is spreading like wildfire, exactly like the HCQ meme did. It has great potential to inflict damage. Better sources had to wait.

>I could immediately spot which side your comment was on just by looking at the links.

You presume too much. I work on web archival and synthetic biology. I'm not a fanboy of celebrity doctors/medical research cranks.

Please read [2], understand it, and see if you still have a need to reply.
Maybe it is time to recognize that Scrum (and other variants) didnt really learn anything from Waterfall and need to be revamped altogether.

I.e. this makes me cry - "If they do take time to talk, it's to describe the customer experience so the dev team can connect the dots between their work and real-life use cases." The PO is the new BA. I've only had one great BA/PO. The rest were less than good. Mostly way less.

Anyway, the standups i have seen are either waste of time and/or management getting a daily update.
What does the security situation look like in Taiwan, and how might it change within the next decade or so?

Besides that I <3 Taiwan!! As a tourist I loved pineapple cakes, beef noodle soup, night markets, high-speed trains, and plenty of fresh mangoes and coconuts!
I struggle to understand how this benefits applicants. So long as SAT/ACT is accepted at all, students should (and, mostly likely, will) continue to take them. This is a very obvious illustration of game theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma. [1]

Refusing to accept SAT/ACT scores would cause a profound change. Whether or not that is advisable is a separate discussion. The question begs, if we eliminate the SAT/ACT, and we decry GPAs as non-standardized, then what?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
Happened to me in the throat in Kaohsiung. Otherwise I approve the qualities listed by the the grand parent post. I didn’t know about the Gold Card but I’ll definitely look into it.

I always enjoy taking a break from Japan and going there. People are more spontaneous, food is more varied, it’s refreshing.
> Perhaps we can get to the bottom of this. What are the consequences of being wrong in public on this issue?

Someone living in Germany would be better suited to answer this, but, from my limited experience: the same as being wrong on a bunch of other things. Your statements are not considered sacrilegious, they're merely considered wrong and not worth listening to. For good reason, in my opinion.

Nuanced debate, like how inequality is on the rise in Europe, how to deal with some eastern European countries failing to secure a free press, corruption, etc, is always welcomed. Blanket statements like in the comment I replied to, not so much.
My bank supports both their "shit app" and Apple/Google/Samsung Pay for payment on my Android phone. This allows me to choose the best option, which IMO, is the best result you can hope for.

On Apple device, you have no such option or competition.
From an endusers point of view(who couldn't care less about the internals), killdashnining anything which had open files over NFS resulted in Z in ps, pstree, top, htop etc. in my experience.
> manufacturing buckets for job growth in 2018... It is certainly an important sector for economic and strategic reasons, but you are significantly overstating its importance.

But I'm not talking about jobs, at all. The US needs a robust manufacturing sector so that it remains economically competitive. Figuring out how to translate that economic competitiveness into material benefits for individuals is a separate problem. Confusing the two is itself a risk to our economic competitiveness. (To make this point is a somewhat hyperbolic way: if the goal is jobs, build a canal through the center of the country. Using spoons.)

Also, I think the manufacturing output numbers alone miss something important from my original post. Losing semiconductor manufacturing as a core competency also threatens the most profitable and important components of the US services sector.
Because having a variety of pens in various colors is a privilege or ?
Yeah, those particular drivers were a special kind of terrible. Didn't even run the vertex shaders on the GPU.

They do have regular Linux drivers, Imagination just needs to get it's head out of it's ass and recompile them for x86.
I know the feeling. I think this is one of the major challenges of working for a big company, there is no sense of ownership over the project and you usually can't reuse that code for your own purposes later.

I highly recommend working for an open source company if possible. I find it motivating to think that some people I've never met from a future generation could pick up ideas from my work and continue the mission.
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I suspect the phenomenon is different for each person. Myself, I have little problem procrastinating household chores--they feel easy and not particularly stressful. For whatever reason, it hits me hardest for tasks that I "like" to do, like programming. It's quite paradoxical.

It's certainly true for me that procrastination is essentially avoiding a form of anxiety. But I don't think there's some deeper, larger problem. It feels more like "choking", just a fairly specific learned, maladaptive response. At some times in my life, I've pushed it into the background and become more productive, but it always seems to creep back.

Drinking seems to reliably reduce it, but I can't very well program lit all day.
That is a great article!

Thanks!

BTW: I did write a bit about this phenomenon, here: https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/concrete-galoshes-a5798a5... (Scroll down to "It's Not An Either/Or Choice")
This algorithm is not Cramer's rule, it is analogous to it, but based on the original exterior algebra of Hermann Grassmann.
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I'm struggling a little to understand what HEY does. They're suggesting that they have "reinvented Email" but is it just client side management that they've changed? It sounds like they've brought spam management to the user, "reply later" which I'm not sure what the difference is between that and moving the email to a folder called "Reply Later". Maybe it's just that most users don't customise a personal workflow and this has interesting/sane ideas as defaults.
> Bashing metal and low-tech widget-forming has never really been a core competency of the US.

If you think the far east only dominates low-tech widget forming, you should look into where the iPhone and Macbook are manufactured :)
First 1000 TBB testing tokens were transferred to the first student's account! :) Can't insert an image here, Twitter link: https://twitter.com/Web3Coach/status/1272912331396259846
The Cas9 protein (from the CRISPR system) has 2 functions:

1) It binds to DNA based on where a template RNA strand matches DNA in a genome. That RNA strand has 2 pieces - a piece that attaches to the Cas9, and a piece that matches whatever sequence of DNA you want to bind.

2) It cuts the DNA it has bound to.

(The first property is very special to Cas9. The second property is actually pretty common. The common intention in using Cas9 is to cut DNA at a place that needs editing and hope the cell's own repair machinery fix it properly.)

Important to understand about biology/chemistry, things rarely happen "IFF and only IF", but more often, happen at a rate (i.e. 1 event per microsecond).

So better more true functions of Cas9 are actually:

1) Cas9 spends a larger fraction of time near its target sequence than it does around random sequences.

2) Cas9 cuts DNA ever 1/N timeperiods, and that might be sped up when it is attached to DNA.

So Cas9 should hang out around its target sequence, most of the time, and that the cutting event happens relatively randomly. So _in general_ Cas9 will cut at its site of interest, however, it will also cut elsewhere, purely statistically speaking. And if you want to be guaranteed a cut at your spot of interest, you're likely to get cuts elsewhere ("off-target" cuts to DNA. These are undesired as you really don't want random changes to your DNA that you're not asking for...).

----- now comes the paper -----

If you make it so Cas9 cannot cut because the homing device is kinda kinked or boxy or otherwise not quite right (but it is still able to home in on particular sequences of DNA), you can make it so Cas9 runs around and finds where its supposed to be, but just hangs out there; Function 1 still works, but function 2 is turned off. These scientists made a special version of RNA that only permits the Cas9 to work when light is shined. So the RNA absorbs the light from a laser, breaks a seal, and the Cas9 snips right then and only then (in a matter of seconds). And any Cas9 molecules that did not get light cannot cut - they just continue to hang out and don't do any damage that they otherwise might do, statistically.

If you're trying to cut a specific sequence and only a specific sequence, this increases the statistical chance you are correct by shortening the time period (and spatial localization) when Cas9 can actually take its second, cutting action.
What country is most likely to start World War 3?
Why not just use ICE connectivity checks? That's what they are for.

And I have proposed additions to the WebRTC API to allow control of when ICE checks are sent and how long a particular ICE candidate pair should stay alive (you could set it to "forever"):

https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-ice/pull/22
I think we might not bring up the government in america because our government has not really had a problem getting big things done and has helped us lay the foundation for what the private sector has since built on. For all its faults, the government helped drive nuclear power, the space race, the internet, and biotech. I dont know where the US would be without the bomb, apollo, arpanet, and the human genome project. We had a private sector able to pick up from there to carry on the next steps, but our success is rooted in literal moonshots by out government as well. And we can argue all day about whether the private sector could have done all that more efficiently or whatever, but the fact of history is that the government did it. And, it did it in a way that involved the private sector through contractors etc that seeded talent outside government agencies and gave the private sector a good launching off point.
Why the stupid downvotes?

For a for-profit company spending millions needs a justifications stronger than a penchant for vigilante justice.

A lot of big companies have a proven history of quietly cooperating with cops, three letter agencies and military.

That type of cooperation often leads to multi-million, even billion $ contracts and special favors from political power.

What is facebook trying to achieve?
Remember that CRISPR is just an editing technique, and we have the technical capabilities to synthesize genomes. To get to cellular automata, I think there needs to be much more focus on building rather than tweaking.

Though tweaking is very nice for eukaryotes, where we have no idea how to build and need to learn from small edits.