skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

graycat's comment contains several details that go against your interpretation. For example the fact that Fran "had a smile" and patiently explained to him why his "little PL/I routine" would be slower than her state-of-the-art optimization work is clearly intended to depict the narrator as naive, and Fran as the expert. The mention of PL/I means that this anecdote likely took place fifty years ago, decades before she Turing Award winner. And the story makes it perfectly clear who ended up being the explainer and who the explainee. Indeed, that seems to be its main point.

As for the marriage bit, the strongest plausible interpretation is simply that it's interesting. Anyone familiar with computer science history would be interested to find out that the two of them had been married, and certainly that goes both ways: an anecdote about Schwartz would be enhanced by mentioning his marriage to a famous compiler optimization researcher. Indeed, it's not hard to find web pages about Schwartz that do this.

I don't think your points are entirely ungrounded, but they weren't the most plausible or good-faith reading of the comment. The cost of introducing an ideological scolding into a discussion like this is non-zero, so there needs to be a bar to clear. That's one reason why we have that guideline, which has proven to work well in situations like this: it basically leads to scolding for egregious cases, forgiveness for borderline cases, and open-mindedness in unclear ones.
And yet individual teachers still have to go out and buy supplies for their classes because there is no budget for them. There is a huge, huge amount of money being wasted.
You can't. It's like the folks who say "just don't use Facebook." Well, that doesn't prevent other people from tagging me in photos.
Observation due to current venture: not much of the strategy content applies to hardware companies (particularly hardware companies not manufacturing consumer or IOT widgets). Similarly, not much of the funding and regulatory advice applies to cross-border startups.

Regarding deep tech hardware, on the one hand you have PG stating his support for from-scratch thinking[0], on the other hand you have this de-facto "ship and iterate" model from the SaaS world which just doesn't apply to nontrivial hardware projects.

I have to say this problem isn't specific to YC: the vast majority of advice liberally distributed to founders by VC and early stage investment world actors can range from irrelevant to dangerously misleading for founders in some of these spaces.

The lesson here is: take what you will and treat nothing as gospel.

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1172430190401572864
The bias is smaller than the actual measurement error. The measurement error is around +/- 1. So a 96 reading means actual blood O2 of 95-97. The bias introduced by skin color is around 0.5. So a 96 reading means 95-97 in a white person and 94.5-96.5 in a black person. The bias from skin color isn't significant because the measurement itself is pretty inaccurate.
It's been added to the "honorable mentions" section, as I do not use it myself.
Now we just need to package it into virus and make it contagious, then mob will go after us for ruining their business :D
How are the compression and decompression speeds compared to e.g. turbojpeg?

Is there a poly fill js/warm decoder for older browsers?
I've cracked a 3a screen and had pieces of it just fall out exposing the hardware behind it from a 6 inch drop off my lap onto my patio with one of those transparent cases on. This is the first time I've broken a phone screen in my life.

All of the used ones I've bought have huge scratches on the screen making me believe it's compromise glass at a cost reduction. I buy phones used because I like recycled instead of new, and usually there are small scratches like swirl marks in a car, but never huge scratches like all of my 3a's so far. That's fairly anecdotal however.

I keep buying them though, they're absolutely excellent value for a Pixel device and I do recommend them. A 4a is on my radar.
How much do you pay in storage costs for storing all those photos? What about the bandwidth costs?
I'm not German, but I'm in favor of reducing light pollution in general. I like being able to at least kinda see the night sky.
A lot of US schools start in early - mid august and go through late May to early June. It varies by locality though.
I was watching a review of the Pixel 4a on YouTube last night in which the reviewer likes the Pixel 4a and calls the iPhone SE “trash” in comparison because it has bezels. Nevermind that the iPhone will run circles around the 4a in terms of performance and probably receive OS updates for 2-3 years after the 4a is EOL’ed. But no, bezels = “trash”.
That's terrible. Everyone's experience varies, my Pixel 3A has been great, no problems, no noticeable scratches. The killer feature of the 3A for me has been ability to take night time sky photos and show something. I got a usable picture of the comet.

I really don't want to ever buy a phone without a headphone jack. At least the 4A still has one. Only reason to buy a 4A now would be to get 128 gig storage.
"Happily" is a stretch. I ran Damn Small Linux (because puppy actually wouldn't fit) on a 233mhz pentium II, with 32mb of RAM and it was..... semi functional (including allowing the USB 1.0 ports on the motherboard to work!) but multitasking or complex tasks caused it to hard lock up and I was too young and uneducated to diagnose the problems
Define risk. If we're talking about acute death, then sure.

However, there is also evidence of organ damage and anosmia among those who recover.
I downloaded it earlier, it's great! I'm going to use that, thanks.
One man’s DISC is another’s memetic immune system.

Communicating new ideas is hard, and the burden is carried exclusively by the originator of the idea.
yes i love entr!
Wait, Switch was a man in the real world and a woman in the matrix? That's awesome. From the Matrix wiki:

> In the original script of the Matrix film, Switch changed genders upon entering the Matrix, which coined their name, Switch. In the real world, Switch would be male, and in the Matrix, Switch would be female - a very clever and critical point of the 'residual self-image' idea. When the actress, Belinda McClory auditioned for the role, she was going for only half the role - Switch's Matrix form.

> Warner Brothers made the decision to cut this and give Switch one form for both environments.

> Switch's presentation is deliberately androgynous to pay homage to her original concept.

I love the Matrix (and the Animatrix stories) because of neat ideas like this.
That it's foolish to have your genome in a database because there is no guarantee with regard to how that data may be used or misused in the future, or even who will own it.
Does that built-in method lookup table contain all the re-rendering and general state management work that React does with its hook?
I'm not talking about mask policies. I'm talking about "get employees back to work at all costs to save profits" policies.
I admit I'm not great at legal stuff, but the article I read stated the broadband industry is involved:

"The Trump administration and broadband industry are resuming their fight against California's net neutrality law, with the US Department of Justice and ISP lobby groups filing new complaints against the state yesterday."

"Now that the Trump administration and broadband industry have filed amended complaints..."

"The broadband industry's amended complaint was filed by the major lobby groups representing cable, fiber, DSL, and mobile Internet providers."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/trump-admin-and-...

Here is the complaint itself, with plaintiffs "AMERICAN CABLE ASSOCIATION, CTIA – THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION, NCTA – THE INTERNET & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION, and USTELECOM – THE BROADBAND ASSOCIATION, on behalf of their members":

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.344150...

If I'm reading this right, the FCC filed a separate complaint. So you're right: I (and you) am paying to hurt myself, twice! Awesome.
MISIM: An End-to-End Neural Code Similarity System
Yes, we'll make it open-source, but not right away.

We're working on building some more modules (of which we'll monetize some of the enterprise ones, to bring sustainability into the project). Post that, we'll be releasing this as Open-source.
Lobbying is a thing so in a way the money they're paying their ISP is also going towards the fight.
A man who ruined the Soviet warplane industry in less than a decade
I would say in Germany that balance is a little different. Herbicides and pesticides in lawns and gardens aren't so widely used as in the US (agriculture of course different story). At the same time, light pollution by streetlights is a lot worse because streetlights are in every street and overall the streets are more brightly lit. In the US its comparably fewer streetlights (and people often leave on their porch lights to light the street).
As an Apple Face ID user, I'm quite happy with how they improved the responsiveness of showing the keypad in iOS 13.5, presumably if half a face is detected [1].

Face ID continues trying to find a face for a few seconds if the sensor is pointed elsewhere.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21265019/apple-ios-13-5-o...
Alternate perspective: your trying to assess demand for a feature you’re curious about building, but the community already spoke. That’s a much stronger signal than people responding to your feature-vote thread.
I got the chance to play with Datafold and I would have loved to have had it when I was working for Facebook on data pipelines.
I agree with more or less everything you've said. However I still think adding a union to the balance of power is the lesser evil in a good number of cases.

> I personally believe unions are long overdue for reform and modernization.

Are you thinking legislative or otherwise? Also, what do you think of the German model (labour representation on the board, etc)?
The 8051 is a decently capable CPU (it is the cpu at the heart of the furby toy). At one point they built whole computer ecosystems around it. Remember the point here is to take over the computer not have a full out modern OS. They USB manufactures use them because they work well on low power and are decently cheap and small. Now most usb sticks do not do much more than like you say. But that would not stop someone from reflashing the firmware in it who is making one of these things. The use case here is different than what most people would use it for. Sometimes you will see an older ARM design too.
The threat model in corporate espionage is absolutely one of theft of property. It’s a lot easier to steal somebody’s laptop than to hack it.
The point is that Chrome and Firefox auto-update, meaning people without the latest version are very rare, enabling the web to move more quickly.
> In other words, they're looking for patients going from 98 to 75, not 98 to 95

The problem is that that '95' might really be a '90' - surely a drop from 98 to 90 is a cause for concern. If that information is being hidden, it needs to be fixed, regardless of other, more subjective fallback methods.
> ... "if we get it we get it"...

This fatalism exemplifies the lack of viable options available to the town's populace. Parents can't homeschool and work at the same time in the absence of external support from state or Fed, combined with the cited lack of basics like computers and connection in family's homes for remote learning.

Is it attitude or ideology issue? To me this rings more like a social and economic disparity issue, not just in the given town/state, but on the nationwide scale.

Simply speaking, it's a fatalism that is driven by poverty.
It's becoming pretty clear they're going to get rid of the filibuster if the Democrats take the Senate - probably rightly so.
This is their regular schedule. The Fall semester usually begins in early-to-mid August in GA depending on the school district.

This year some districts are delaying opening; some offering virtual as an option; some offering virtual-only.
Congress's job is actually to represent the people of their individual states. That the net effect of doing so is often to "sabotage everything" is a second order effect.
There's a setting you can turn on called "Automatically add Google Meet video conferences to events I create"[1].

I tested on a new account and the default was on, which you might argue is bad, but when I tried to create my first calendar event there was a popup that told me that it was on and gave me the option to turn it off.

Plus when you create a event the option to include a Google Meet is right there and it's one click to remove.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/9898950?hl=en
So does this change in pricing now make New Relic more affordable than DataDog?
Feel free do drop me any question: https://twitter.com/alexpignotti
And that is a big difference - Christianity views suicide as disgraceful, punishable, and cowardly. Seppuku on the other hand is honorable and courageous. I've also heard of older Japanese committing suicide to ease burdens on the next generation. I would imagine just this difference in perspective would lend itself to very different rates all else being equal.
I'm taking a look at it now, thank you very much!
makes sense!

fwiw, i have not tried to use libreoffice for any heavy lifting, unfortunately (fortunately?). i tend to use bash utils for that, and i 100% do not think telling people to "just use grep / awk / perl and csvcut" is by any means a solution.
So have fossil fuels somehow made the planet bigger?
We have first hand experienced this - we couldnt induce disease in the same mice when our lab moved universities and we all knew the temperature was one of the biggest culprits.

But there are others too - gut microbiome and other microbiomes/viromes change from facility to facility and this is a huge deal for pretty much every topic except hardcore neuroscience. Probably. Who knew the bugs inside us are a big deal for everything that happens in us!

All of this notwithstanding the growing knowledge that no, you can't just give mice cancer/MS/autism and check if a drug works there, expecting the same result in humans. I'll chalk the majority of problems in our drug pipelines to this fallacy.
It pains me to see Google trying so hard to make hardware. Stick to what you are good at :(
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/dna-database-sea...

That the primary consequential use of these databases will be for law enforcement, not to tell you about your families history.
We started with the JavaScript version of Muze, which is open-source (MIT). Hence the .org. For the WASM version also, we'll open-source (just not right now - waiting to build a few more modules, to monetize the enterprise ones, to bring sustainability into the project).
Most smarter magicians think that it is a waste to show off things like this as demonstrations. There is a number of extremely clever card tricks that use the principle mentioned by you as one of their components, but you won't notice. It can be hidden in clever ways.
I just remembered something, another arguable thing.

There is some tick, or insect whose bite/sting makes you allergic to eating meat. Forcefully vegetarian, so to speak.

edit: [1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syn...
Use insulated tools and a steady hand to cut into the power cord and splice in the UPS. The UPS is configured to match phase with the power that's already in the cord.
whoa thats a great idea, I'm not familiar with the term slow fashion, what does that entail?
Have been using OC without issue for around six months on my Hackintosh.

Throughout initial set up and upgrading through different releases, I have been very impressed by the quality of the documentation.
Good post, but this is a link to the third page of the article. This is the 1st page: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/apple-explains-how-i...
I think the commenter is referring to browsers that auto update on relevant (non-package managed) platforms.

If IE 11 auto-updated to Edge, then it would be considered Evergreen under this definition.

I am not sure how good of an adjective evergreen is in this case, if it is being used how I imagine it is being used.
> The windshield phenomenon is the observation that recently fewer dead insects accumulate on the windshields of people's cars. It has been attributed to a global decline in insect populations caused by human activity.

> The research also found that modern cars, with a more aerodynamic body shape, killed more insects than boxier vintage cars up to 70 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon
We support IE11. Mainly high end websites and web apps about employee benefits.

I think one of the main drivers of IE support is clients who will test in IE because it's their default browser or only allowed browser at work.
I was just curious and asked a genuine question but instead got the HackerNews downvote. Maybe it is because of my username people think I am trolling?
Yes, that's specifically what newacct583 called out as the major issue:

> The thing to worry about with school openings is the classroom, not the hallway. The fact that this hall is so packed tells me that the classes are probably at capacity too. That's worrisome for sure.
The number of parents it sickens is relatively small, since many will have minor or no symptoms, and only a very few will die. The way they see it, the economy will soldier on, and we can afford to lose, say, a million random people. It probably won't be them or somebody they care about, and it would just be on a par with, say, cancer or heart disease.
Price Action Trading Is Pure Form of Technical Analysis
You have to train the feed. A few days on Tik Tok aggressively disliking things you don't want to see and liking things you do, and it becomes an unending stream of interesting content. A single dislike won't do it alone though.
> No big sales on the Pixel 4

Not from Google itself, but for the past months third party resellers can't seem to lower the price enough to get rid of their stocks.

Also the Nexus 5X was not a flagship, and was plagued by LG's mainboard/bootloop issues.
I've added mini-clover to my back yard. It's only been 2 months but the yard is already much healthier.
Amazing how you immediately assume that they're making a comment on whether they're transgender or not.

Personally, I thought it was silly wearing that type of top - it looks much too tight for them.
I'm in a very similar situation. My partners have other business besides the startup and I believe this is one of the main problems that's blocking our growth.

I suggest you:
(1) to define tasks for your partners on a board (like trello), then just follow the tasks if they are being executed.
(2) to have a limit date for the startup to profit and grow, and if the date is not met think about leave the startup.

Time is the most valuable asset. Use it wisely :)
Why would someone insist on it? Seems like an odd thing to be focused on.
I'd say you need to be comfortable with how the rules of chess work, but you don't need to be a chess player. The time travel rules even out the playing field for amateurs who play against actual chess players.
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Not just downvoted, but flag killed. I don't agree with the comment you're referencing, but I vouched for it to get it unflagged. The presentation may be a little hyperbolic, but it's not an insane position prima facie.
As someone who is interested in genealogy it's a bit frustrating to have so many different services competing to hoover up various data sets and hold them in their private fiefdoms, each of which requires a fee.

FamilySearch is the one major exception, mostly I believe because of their deep religious obligations. The Mormons microfilmed a staggering collection of data over the decades and it has all been getting digitized. The problem is, some of their digitized collections are now no longer available because the custodians of the original records seem to have signed deals with some of the private genealogy services.

Ancestry and companies like them, do provide the service of indexing many of these records which is no small task, but most of these documents are public records, and I don't understand why they shouldn't be available to anyone. I know for example FamilySearch has digitized images of all the Scottish censuses back to the 1841 but you can't look at the original records any longer. There are many other examples like this... original WWII draft cards for the US used to be available there, now you have to go to Ancestry and pay a fee.
They don't have a "guaranteed support" lifetime, because instead they just have a track record of supporting hardware well beyond the (2-3 sigma) x (average) person keeping their hardware.

When you see "guaranteed support" by a manufacturer, you can be sure that it actually means "guaranteed end of support" timeline. Which Google follows exactly.
Original author here. AMA!
Safari still doesn't support WebP.
Watching this demo makes it very stark how much our single page webapps are regressions in fluid performance.
+1
Summary: https://podcastnotes.org/portal-with-eric-weinstein/bret-eri...
> The research also found that modern cars, with a more aerodynamic body shape, killed more insects than boxier vintage cars up to 70 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon#United_K...
Ah, IntelliJ-Rust doesn’t use the RLS, as far as I know, so I wasn’t sure how its performance compared.

rust-analyzer is way way faster.

Thank you for elaborating!
> This IS NOT BIAS! This is physics!

You sound pretty emotional, maybe tone it down and try to think objectively.

Just because there's an underlying physical reason for the device to be inaccurate on a subset of the population, doesn't mean that it's fair to use that device on the impacted population. It's been accepted by the medical community, despite the additional training required to correctly use the device -- amounting to guesswork when the medical personnel remember that it's necessary. Accounting for human error, this means that affected populations will receive a lower quality of care.

Just a hypothetical. Would it be accepted if it was accurate for black women, and required guesswork when treating white men? Because there is a long history of significant bias in medical studies. Just because "it's just physics" explains the device's flaw, doesn't mean that acceptance of a flawed device isn't a result of systemic bias.
I wonder how much it would cost to make one of those, may not be far of what that price and that is ignoring the historical value - seems kinda cheap and if I had the disposable I'd of snapped that up.
The Wachowski brothers plagiarized the Matrix from Thomas Althouse https://redpillrising.org/

Everything they say about the film is nonsense
I've always stood by the principle that a computer should never "correct" human input without asking and this is a great example of that. There should be a prompt asking if you want to convert the data, and there should always remain a way to undo "corrections," but it should never happen without the user knowing about it or wanting it to happen.
The flip side of that argument plays out, at its worst, in what gets charged as 'negligent homicide', or even 'voluntary manslaughter'.

If you can take reasonable precautions that barely inconvenience you, but could easily prevent potentially fatal infections, what does it say about your morality that you choose not to?

It's a choice between doing small things that can easily benefit many more people than yourself, or deliberately choosing to risk others' health just "because".