skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lot of confidence in Apple even if they are less than 100% all the time. They put a vast amount of effort into catering for diverse users, their iOS accessibility, for example. So I would bet that the Watch sensors are solid. Or will be, as the feature appears to be coming soon: https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/08/apple-watch-blood-oxygen-satu...
Also, that assumes a platform, no? This wouldn't build on Mac/Linux/Unix machines, without a Mono setup, would it?
Apparently the first state to release an app based on Apple and Google's API: https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/appl...
it does seem like insect populations massively fluctuate for entirely natural reasons

Spot on, this is usually the real explanation for the typical 'I saw none'/'oh but I saw a bunch'/'I saw more than ever' rethoric applied to one single year or even multiple years of observations. Thinking of it, goes for basically all slowish trends related to nature. Unless you're approaching it scientifically, i.e. actual systematic counting which is hard btw, it's oh so easy to be fooled. That being said, see other post: yes fireflies are in decline (just like many other insects unfortunately) and light pollution is a factor.
Every time I've removed my skin, it has been most unpleasant.
Show HN: CheerpX – x86 virtualization in browser using WebAssembly – Python Demo
Inherent in your statement is the idea that privileged people choose to live in urban environments, which is probably false half the time. I choose to live closer to work in an apartment to minimize my costs and travel time. I would love a backyard.
Nice to see some Zune features making their way to Android. ;)
Sounds like a good time to use shadow DOM, perhaps. That could isolate your IDs… although it would complicate the style cascade...
That still makes no sence, no-one stores whats essentially a small nuke in the most populated city.
there's a saying better safe than sorry. i definitely don't see this as excessive
My experience:

A LOUD, constant hissing and crackling noise when nothing's playing (also audible during podcasts or quiet music). Like 3x worse than my $40 truly wireless buds.

They are buggy. They would sometimes disconnect with no way to reconnect, requiring a factory reset (which you need the case to do).

It's too bad, in a lot of way's they're better than the AirPods. I prefer the "open audio" design to the transparency mode even, and they're more comfortable and secure in the ears.
Part of Reza Shah's nationalism included viewing his dynasty as being the continuation of a monarchy first established by Cyrus[1], around AUC 200. The roman empire wouldn't be founded until AUC 727.

In many parts of the world, 200 km is a long way. In the US, 200 years[2] is a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great

[2] When I visited עיר דוד/وادي حلوه‎ one of the notable features was its easily defensible water supply. That's an area which has had over 6'000 years of history, with the architecture suggesting very little of it was peaceful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_David
I read recently that NY was the state where the highest number of people moving to Raleigh were coming from as well. The migration seems real from over here.
I unfollowed everything on twitter and few other sites yesterday. I got tired of manufactured content on my timeline.

(I found some newsletters and trend sites that happened to be the cause of everyone doing the same things at the same time)
> so code can take advantage of newer hardware / degrade gracefully on less capable one

I never user variable-length SIMD on CPUs, but I have substantial experience with current SIMD up to AVX2, and GPGPUs. I’m not sure I like that variable-length stuff.

1. Variable-length SIMD is only suitable for vertical operations. Many useful algorithms are only possible to vectorize with shuffles and such.

2. With registers size unknown to compilers, it’s impossible to create a calling convention to pass data in registers, as opposed to RAM. RAM is slow on modern hardware, and is becoming slower over time (in relation to compute speed; nanoseconds are fine). GPUs are OK with that because they are massively multithreaded, they switch threads instead of waiting for data from memory. CPUs can’t do that, they only have 2 hardware threads per core.
The authors created Bertifier (project page [1], demo [2], paper [3]); the paper has comparisons to other tools.

There was a paper at IEEE VIS last year ("Guiro: User-Guided Matrix Reordering" [4]) about a tool that implemented > 70 matrix seriation/reordering methods, but I don't think the code is available. There was also a State of the Art Review on matrix re-ordering methods from 2016 [5, 6]: it is mostly about the algorithms rather than available implementations, but it mentions reorder.js [7].

[1]: https://aviz.fr/bertifier

[2]: https://aviz.fr/bertifier_app/

[3]: https://aviz.fr/wiki/uploads/Bertifier/bertifier-authorversi...

[4]: https://vcg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/guiro-user-guided-...

[5]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cgf.12935

[6]: https://bib.dbvis.de/uploadedFiles/MatrixReorderingSTAR.pdf

[7]: https://github.com/jdfekete/reorder.js
Sheets and Docs aren't really scaling apps. Docs scales globally by adding more docs, not by adding editors to a single document.
This demo requires WebAssembly tail calls support. Instructions for how to enable it in Chromium are included.
That's fair.
Here is another example where it eliminates since 5.1.

https://godbolt.org/z/3oGc3P
So, you wear gloves at the grocery store, then you touch your phone with them? Wearing gloves isn't going to help unless you also wash everything you touched with gloves.

If you're concerned about touching things when out wash your hands when you get home (and anything else you've touched while out).
I was so glad to bet one of the early adopter of the Google pixel 1. I broke my screen and gladely bought the pixel 2 and was so satisfied with it, gladely showing off photos. Both version had the best cameras on the market. Had amazing customer support inside the phone, and unlimited photo/videos cloud storage. iPhone owners were jealous.

But then starting the 3rd , everything declined. Camera became average, they stop the unlimited storage, battery became really bad. They went backward, and couldn't keep their competitive advantage or stay ahead of the innovation. Original early adopters starts getting disappointed seeing better cameras[1] and battery life flooding the market.

Hopefully the 4a will help them regain the heart of us (and me)
Lilly Wachowski confirms 'Matrix' series is a transgender allegory
Big Tech and the Global Balance of Power
This requires "change all data on the websites you visit", right?

When I get asked for this permission for utility function, I just refuse to install it. Only if I really trust the extension and know it needs that permission, is when I give it.

As for other extensions that asks for this permission, I keep wondering why don't they define domain whitelist where this extension applies...
> This makes sense, of course, because people will always prefer to hear viewpoints that reinforce their own

They might just be keeping up with competition.
> PS: To Jackie and all support representatives in the world. If you lie to customers to protect your cheating company you are not “just doing your job”. No, the bad karma is on you.

What an ignorant view. Sometimes, support represantitives cannot go off script, for fear of losing their job. Perhaps they spoke to their manager and were overruled. A support representative is not responsible for their companies products that they had no part in designing. Given a choice between lying to my face and them losing a job they may desperately need, I would much rather be lied to. If I can afford a $300 luxury item without researching it and checking reviews first, I can afford to be dissapointed.
"Just not officially" is a simplistic view. You don't know how long the phone is still going to be supported, and you have to have the skills and the patience to go through unofficial documents and procedures in order to make the whole process work. I know because I'm in this situation, and I do support this approach (to "fight against the market"), but it's not an easy feat.
Coca-Cola Using Hyperledger and Ethereum
Huh. I've been using a Jabra Evolve 75 (in particular, Jabra Evolve 7599-838-199) with my 2018 MacBook Pro and it works just fine with built-in bluetooth. I can even have it simultaneously connected to iPad and laptop and get audio from both. I wonder what explains the variability in quality.
Remote Work Plays a Role in Rebalancing Power in Society
Epic Games Announces $ 1.78B Funding Round
it was useless gimmick already at arrival, nobody ain't gonna buy phone with such huge bezel in 2019 in times of punch holes, small notches, pop-up cameras and upcoming under the screen cameras
The Bitter Lesson of Machine Learning
Member of Heritage Foundation Takes on Reporter Duties on Air Force Two
Hello,

> Even if you give up on Rosetta, there’s all the other MSRs you’ll need to patch–there’s not a huge number of these, but since EL0 has direct access to at least one of these you can’t just patch the kernel.

APRR can only remove permissions, not add them. As such, it can be stubbed out. The other MSRs are tunables for CPU errata workarounds, which can just be stubbed too.

> You know, I don’t think Apple really uses the backwards-compatible encodings at all. Probably since they don’t need to?

You just need to trap once for each time you see them and then patch it there.
Thanks, I'll check these all out!
Have Google grown bored with Android or what?

They don't seem to be treating it with the level of care and attention that perhaps you'd expect for what seems like a key part of their business.

Stupid stuff, but an example is with the closing of Play Music, Wear OS won't have a first-party music player until the new Youtube Music app is ready. Couldn't imagine that happening to watchOS.
Quick check-in: who here is still supporting IE? Please provide as much detail about your website (industry, audience, usage) as possible.
In the case menctioned in the article, LibreOffice is on par with Excel. Don't believe it? Open up LibreOffice, type "MAR-1" or "SEP-2" in any cell, and look how easy is your data corrupted.

I have meet some other glitches: identifiers in the form of "1E123" get turned into scientific numbers. The column was something like "1A123", "1B123", etc. Those things are sneaky: you can have thousands of rows, and Excel/LO doesn't mind if only the 0.1% matches its rules for smartness. They just change without notice, leaving the others intact.

I'm a bioinformatic, and this kind of stuff is a daily issue. IMO, two problems colide:

1. People with very rudimentary knowledge of computers. I've meet some people way smarter than me, with thousands of papers written, that cannot open a CSV with R with a gun to their head. They can cut you, put three robotic arms in your heart, remove a tumour, sew you and send you home in three days. But R is just too much.

2. People that needs to collect and analyze data, and Excel is the easiest tool they know, but at the same time it's no lame toy: it sorts, it sums, it filters, it makes stats, it graphs... You cannot ask this people to use SQL, specially if it involves foreign keys. They just use Excel for data collection, storage and analysis.

Excel (and LibreOffice) are to blame. This shit could be avoided if they had a "scientific mode" to not be smart with your data, and be the default mode for any file in CSV/TSV mode. Unless you explicitly turn the file into a XLS/ODT or ask "turn this range of cells into dates for me" or "this cells are scientific numbers", they should not change a single dot.
I am reading these negative neural impacts ranging from bad to worse, and I cannot help but think, how come there is not something in nature, a virus or bacteria, on the whole planet that can do something good?
I do not know help boosting confidence, making people happier, increasing cognitive abilities, maybe improving your sense of smell or direction, gain muscle... at least something, instead it is always a very long list of destruction.
Sorry guys, I am trying to offset, reading this paper made me depressive.

EDIT:
After reading all the answers, I remember a quote, probably answer to my question. It is not possible because we are very complex organism, and regardless how some virus or tiny bug can find flaws in our complexity, in the same way as randomly injected piece of code cannot improve application, the same way, is an equal chance that a virus will introduce positive change in our genome which will improve parameters we desire.

Quote was Hoyle's Fallacy used for something completely different: "the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747"

So it seems we need to wait for few million years or to really on marvel of genetically engineering.

p.s. Thank you guys!
The latter.

I am. I'm using uBlock Origin, but apparently this redirect got through. Then the DNS lookup of guce.advertising.com failed because of the filter I have set up on that end, so my Techcrunch experience ended on an error page.
Retrospectively assessed chances of loss of the space shuttle
...so don't touch your face with it.
> There are plenty of other, more specific ways to do that, no? The problem with light traps is they are indiscriminate.

Well you do usually want to kill as many as possible. Bringing up mosquitoes because it's one of the most common. I cannot go out and sit down in my garden if I have insects flying around. Unless they keep an appropriate distance as to not be intimidating.

> Not to mention that if you apply some repellent

If you mean the skin applied kind it's totally unsatisfactory.

There are chemical sprays/diffusers that work very well, but even though they are marketed as "repellent" they absolutely do kill mosquitoes and many others. That's what I usually use.
This is the direct link to the image, but I got the title " Retrospectively assessed chances of loss of the space shuttle following each launch" from the source page
Sorry I misread your comment. But is it not easier to write an CJS wrapper around ESM given that its format is a lot looser?

From what I have seen seems pretty typical to simply export the named properties using a fresh module.exports = {...} and then use default as the main export?
Ransomware support chat log [twitter thread]
gloves have a pretty strong effect in preventing you from touching your face, when you remove the face mask because you get into a car.

Your skin does not.
"Prove it."
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So what is the fastest JSON library available? orjson claims they are the fastest but they don't benchmark simdjson. simdjson claims they are the fastest but did they forget to benchmark anything?
Despite our government repeating it over and over, it turns out that Hydro is actually worse than all fossil fuels in terms of GHGs (over double coal) depending on what you flood. If it's forest, it's the worst. For the W.A.C Bennett dam in BC, 350,000 acres of former forest land was flooded.
I'm a heretic who uses incandescent light bulbs (but no car). No shortage of insects in my room. All in the middle of a city.

How do those insects mate in the city if light prevents them from doing so?

I wonder why we are still alive. According to the Club of Rome we should have been extinct by now. But these things are a nice diversion from the real problems and a good income stream for the pundits.
Tbh I think its a case for multidisciplinary research. You wouldn’t only hire one skill set to run a company, even a tech one, so why should research be any different? That’s probably where the deep insights are.
I'm still using an iPhone 6 and it works great.

Nowadays 5 years is really not that old for a phone.

Phone manufacturers should release the specs and/or an open source version of the phone's os so people can provide their own support.
> And darker coloured textiles are less visible on people with darker skin. Grass is green and bananas tend to be curved.

The point isn't that people have different skin. It's not even that this one common device works better for some people than others. It's that the practice of medicine, having grown up around this cheap and effective device, turns out to be discriminatory in ways that we wouldn't naively expect.

That's worth talking about, because it's a problem that should be fixed.

> apply Hanlon's razor when in doubt - it's not always malice like people often assume

Nowhere in the article is "malice" alleged. You added that part yourself, precisely because the bias described has infected you too. Reflexively arguing that "black people get bad O2 readings" is an argument that shouldn't be made in journalism isn't helpful to anyone, most especially the patients needing better care.
The page does address the issues you speak of [0]. Having said that, I do agree that the disclaimer is critically important and should probably be placed at the beginning rather than the end of the document.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/suicide#data-quality
"Pulse oximeters give less accurate results for people with darker skin" would have conveyed exactly the same information, but probably would have yielded fewer clicks
I think that self-directed and self-motivated learning for _programmers_ is critical. All the best programmers I know are almost entirely self taught. I think the best way to go about it is first motivation (they have to really want to be able to make things) and then an introduction (here's a REPL, type 2+2, hello world, here's a function, here's Google, stackoverflow) and then provide help when needed.

Every time I've seen kids take this path, it's very black and white - either they quickly learn to learn on their own, and succeed, or they need guidance/lack motivation and fail.

For non-programming, I think learning on your own is far less critical.
A thread of “advanced” React interview questions
So in the city of the future you gone have 1000s of self driving cars going full speed threw the city? It makes much more sense to open up the city for people and ban cars for the most part. Move the transportation under ground.
Yeast and Lactobacillus are the best friends you never knew you had.
As long as everyone keeps using Chrome and its Web Store Google won't change a thing. They don't exactly have a track record of listening to their users, to put it mildly.
It could be interesting to create relational symbols to connect emoji
Same here. I used to buy Google hardware exclusively for my mobile needs because I wanted the pure AOSP experience (without all the crap the other vendors load), but it was very hard (Nexus 5X) to impossible (Pixel C) to get hardware replacement parts, and the premature end of security updates were the final straw for me.

A friend recommended Android One to me [1]. Basically, it's pure AOSP on third-party hardware.

I bought a Nokia 5.2 just to try it out, with the intention of getting the 7.3 when it comes out and I liked the Nokia experience. And I do -- it's simple AOSP.

Nokia promises 3 years of software updates and 5 years for security.

[1] https://www.android.com/one/
I'm a pretty big user of Twitter, including in the capacity of a journalist. But I'm highly skeptical of this reasoning. When I look at the Twitter profile of any given mainstream (e.g. ostensibly left-leaning) journalist, I'll find that I have dozens if not hundreds of mutual followers (e.g. "Followers you know"). If I look at the profile of an ostensibly right-leaning journalists (e.g. a Daily Caller reporter), the number of mutual followers is inevitably fewer [0].

I think you misestimate a few variables. For starters, journalists and most mainstream Twitter users are not inclined to doing gruntwork, such as curating a list of people to follow and then mute. Similarly, the use of Twitter lists, which also involves the manual gruntwork of curation, is very rare among the many personal accounts I follow. For 99% of everyday use (i.e. not specifically investigating someone's social media activity), journalists and mainstream users also lack the interest in analyzing a given user's followings list. Occasionally I see people mention FollowersAudit/BotOrNot. Can't remember the last time I've seen someone mention a purported political audit tool. In fact, I can't remember the last time I've seen someone mention tools like https://doesfollow.com/.

You also underestimate the perceived value of following-to-followers ratio. Almost all of the big name Twitter accounts (again, not just journalists) follow a relative handful of accounts versus followers count. It's widely perceived that a small accounts-followed number is a signal of prestige, or at least self-importance. Thus, an even lower incentive to pad that number in hopes of boosting a hard-to-perceive impartiality metric.

Anyway, the proof should be in the pudding. Are there any notable accounts that obviously stuff their followings with people they politically dislike/hate, for the purpose of pretending to be non-partisan? Shouldn't we see this in the brand accounts, like @nytimes [1], which have a desire to be seen as fair and also have no obligation/expectation to actually engage via retweet/reply?

[0] In this case, I don't think the reason is primarily caused by ideology; the number of right-leaning news outlets are far and few between, which reduces the potential of direct personal/professional ties. I find that the few former DCaller reporters who have moved to larger outlets and who I follow do not have a disparity in mutuals)

[1] Here's a CSV dump of @nytimes ~900 followed accounts, which are almost all NYT employees: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sW_ZmgONfsAIy1IKsETJ...
The X was only discontinued when the new one was available to buy.

Discontinuing the 4 means that Google will be without a flagship phone until whenever the new one is released.
NASA to Reexamine Nicknames for Cosmic Objects
Yes, async await is a bug, introduced to workaround the lack of proper concurrency in the runtime.
> Imagine being told "access denied" when you're running the command prompt as "administrator".

Coincidentally, I run into this on macOS due to System Integrity Protection.

But what I like about SIP is it's easy to turn off and never be bothered by it again...
>2020-08-06
I've just switched to 20200806. Let it be an int and be done with it.
My entire C/C++ development cycle. I haven't touched it in years because of this. If what you want to do is bang out a GUI in Xcode you'll have a pretty good time, if instead you want to interact with your hardware or other software in ways Apple didn't predict then you're probably just not going to be able to do it.

I can accept that this works for most people. They don't want to mess with the UI and want to "solve problems." But for me the two were linked, and I had to ditch OSX. I had similar problems on Windows but Windows lets you work around the OS if you really need to.
Hey Gleb, congrats on the launch. This is an interesting tool.

Myself being a founder of a product in the space of tools for data-driven companies, I wanted to ask -

Is you product aimed entirely at data engineers? The description seemed very technical and a problem that mostly very large companies would have. Did I understand correctly?
A spreadsheet is a database you haven't yet performed a migration on yet. I think the argument is less around better spreadsheets and more around migrating that data into real datastores once constraints are encountered (whether that's a desire to support large amounts of contributors, not run on Google, the dataset has grown too large, etc).

It's hard to go from Google Sheets to a web frontend to Postgresql and a snappy shared frontend. That is the problem statement to solve for imho (interface, schema, data portability).
To be fair, x86 Debian will happily run on a Pentium II from 1998.