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If you just search for any legitimate extension, you find so much junk. One well-known example: Search for uBlock Origin and you will find a sketchy one name "uBlock."

This seems something super easy to fix, but Google already has problems with apps on the Play Store, so not sure if I expect much better on the Web Store.
>But killing all clover, morning glories, and other broadleaf flowers in lawns has led to the near-extinction of bees in residential areas. Herbicides and pesticides in agriculture wiped out the rest.

Is that the case for sure?

I thought the state of the bee population wasn't quite that well understood...

I have no doubt that various herbicides hurt, but I'm not sure that just that science means their current population is entirely due to such use.
But you seem to be suggesting that we ignore skin color as a relevant factor, despite the data, out of a belief that any correlations drawn from that data must be distorted to further a political agenda.

The article presents what appears to be a plausible, evidence-based hypothesis as to why skin color in particular (not exclusive of other factors) might lead to inaccurate results for dark-skinned people. It then mentions studies done to either confirm or reject this hypothesis, and that the results seemed to confirm it. They link to a follow-up study done here[0].

You're only giving vague, general dismissals. If you believe the conclusions reached are in error, what evidence do you have that pulse oximeters are not affected by skin color?

[0]https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/fulltext/2007/...
LibreOffice also explodes (or at least did a few years ago) if you try to open a few hundred mb csv file. Definitely can’t do fast filtering on columns in large files.

Should those things be done in sql? Yes... could this data be sent as SQLite files? Yes... were they endemically sent as csv and nothing could change this? Yes...

Excel is by far the best of “spreadsheet” apps I’ve seen at munging through multi-hundred-mb csv files.
The tricky part is the timescale.

For a crisis-response, an approach may reach maximum impact within days and really only be needed for a short duration (a week to a month). Migrating a system with intense user/volunteer churn (and keeping two databases synced as you transition) can be tricky. Handling permissioning at the same time is also a challenge.

At FindTheMasks, we expected the government to have supply chains and epidemiological response (testing/contact tracing) together within two or three weeks. When that didn't happen, we kept bolting on new tools and strategies to double the lifetime of the endeavor, expecting the government to get its poop in a group by then. 20 weeks later, supply chains are somewhat improved, though the entire situation is compromised by the lack of overwhelming success at the epidemiological scale.
I expect it would replace the need for the burst compiler, and likely reduce the complexity of the job system (especially its need for special types.) There is also an observed performance gain switching from IL2CPP to CoreRT, which would be 100% free.
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I thought it was off the record like the old Pidgin plugin or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging.
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typo for 'or'?
It also doesn't use the decimal separator I have specified in my user profile, so it doesn't handle me pasting data from another application...
The OS isn't the problem. The binary blobs from Qualcomm is the real problem.
> Some European countries, only very recently cared more about insects than people

Is not a "us or them" dichotomy. The only possible alternatives are insects-win/humans-win or insects-lose/humans-lose. We can't have agriculture without insects.
This is amazing, but I wish they would do more, this is like 5 years old.
I was thinking the same thing the other day. I just updated my parents' computers (which are 10 years old) to Windows 10. They still work great for their needs and they're up-to-date. I'm running a 7 year old ultrabook also on Windows 10. I'm planning to upgrade this year, but at least it's secure with the latest updates. I feel like we've been able to get a ton of use from these devices.

Meanwhile, I have a Samsung Note 2 phone which is 8 years old. It's fast enough for what I do (browse the internet for 10 minutes a day, send a dozen WhatsApp messages, book an Uber). That thing was released in 2012 and could no longer upgrade to new Android releases in 2014. That's pathetic. I need to replace it this year, not because it's too slow, but because it's insecure and no longer supported by anything. I was going to buy a smart scale the other day, but the app doesn't support my Android version. Also wanted an app for syncing the time with my Bluetooth GShock. Not supported. Sonos speakers? Not supported. It's a garbage phone now not because of the hardware, but because of the lack of support.
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Yes, I still have AMD Duron 800 which runs on Linux
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Wanting to help and being able to are very different things though.
Every time there is a discussion on Covid on HN, an army of trolls come out to pooh pooh everything. We are supposed to be better than Reddit here. It's about discussion not dissing. You don't have to agree with everything, but you also should not be ruining the thoughtful discussion.
This news has nothing to do with software. It's the hardware that's getting discontinued.
Silverlight was good for it's time but nowadays I would rather code in whatever popular JS/HTML framework - the live reload beats any C# flow hands down in iteration time and the fact that I can just reverse proxy my local dev env while working on something to a designer speeds up design tweaks a bunch.
> There's nothing utopian about universal healthcare and that's firmly established by now

Universal healthcare necessarily means rationing of healthcare resources. Universal healthcare does not mean that every person who has an ailment gets treated. A market naturally matches supply (healthcare infrastructure) and demand (sick people). When you remove the market it's up to government to do this matching process which means rationing.
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Also, the NRA is split into two groups, a 501c3 and 501c4. These are organized at the federal level. It's not clear how the NY Attorney General would have jurisdiction to break the whole organization up; seems like that would require a federal lawsuit and Attorney General Barr to be involved (lol). So at most NY might be able to suspend the NRA's state operations, and most likely the NRA could just form one or two more New York nonprofits and re-affiliate to the national org if this happened. In other words, this seems like toothless posturing and a waste of taxpayer money in a state that can't afford to be wasting any more money at this time.

This will also turn into a huge fundraising opportunity for the NRA ("donate to help us destroy the far-left NY AG with logic and facts"); in effect it will be counterproductive to actually hurting the NRA. It's literally just posturing.
Besides keyloggers, another reason people want this is because law enforcement has USB keepalive devices that will simulate mouse movement/keypresses to keep your computer from going to sleep.

They do this to make sure your computer stays on and your RAM doesn't get powered off, which will allow them to read any decrypted data in memory whether or not your data is encrypted on disk.

When they raid you, they come with massive UPS devices that they plug your computers into to give them as long a window as possible to get your data.
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The hyperbole here is amazing. You're saying that a 40 year old computer program that runs exclusively on windows is as un-changable as a _law of nature_.

The english comparison made in a peer comment is more apt, but wow.

The tech industry is so self-centered we think that Scientists should change their fields because of our bugs.
Last time I've seen a firefly must have been at least ten years ago.
C# has exactly that FWIW:
using foo.lib = libfoo
I don’t understand your point that Nvidia (or ATI) would have gone under if it weren’t for deep learning or crypto.

Crypto on GPU was only a relatively short lived flash in the pan, and deep learning has only been a meaningful revenue generator in the past 5 years or so.

GPUs were doing just fine without that.
JSON encoded logs are really only useful if you’re putting them into something like splunk.

The problem with splunk is that it’s way less expressive than perl, grep, etc, so there are certain useful analyses that simply can’t be run.

To work around that, I see applications duplicate information over and over in their log output.

The end result vs text files is a 2x blow up because of JSON, then a 5-10x blow up because of splunk.

It’s not hard to implement a distributed log processor on top of ssh, and I think open source solutions exist. I don’t know why more companies don’t do that.

As a side benefit, your log files stay human readable. In addition to being more flexible, in practice, the result is something like an order of magnitude cheaper and faster than splunk.
I think it's aimed at scenarios in which the attacker is not aware of this utility running. Otherwise they could just kill it before inserting the USB.
I'm seeing the same thing in my Chicago neighborhood. We just had our alley lights changed to the new LEDs, maybe that has an impact?
When we're talking about agencies whose entire existence is about ensuring the War on Drugs continues (I know the article is about the DoJ, but talking about the DEA works too), they don't care of the morals, only the law. Things like the DEA need these kinds of busts to justify their budgets and show they're worthy of an increase come next fiscal year.
It's a nonprofit, this happens frequently. That they aren't following their charter or state law is why they can have their nonprofit status revoked. You've never heard of a charitable organization getting in trouble for misusing donations to enrich board members? This is that.
The automotive industry is still majorly ruled by paperwork - selling/buying, insurance, titles, registration, ownership, license, etc. Logically that’s where digitalization can make the most noticeable difference. Digitalization can make all this data handling faster, more accessible, and more transparent.
I still have my Pixel 2 and love it. Finger print reader is in the perfect location and I don't want to change XD.
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As someone who has bounced back and forth between iPhone and Android over the years: my hate hasn't seemed to have been fixed over the years. Sure Apple will push updates for 5 years, but after about 3 years somehow the latest update makes the phone so slow as to be unusable. It's happened to me with every iPhone I've owned (3G, 6, and I guess we'll see on the latest).
It sounds great in theory.

The problem is that people want 30 different types of food (Chinese, Italian, Ethiopian), they don't want it cold, and while NYC is dense it's not dense enough.

Even in a building with 100 apartments (which is much larger than the norm), at most maybe 2 apartments will want the same type of food in the same half-hour slot. It's not going to be much different from what a delivery driver already does, which is take out 3 orders from the same restaurant to 3 different buildings at the same time.

And remember that's just the delivery aspect. The costs of food prep are massive too.
> Avoid tonymacx86, insanelymac, and any software with the word "beast" in the name.

Huh. When did avoiding tonymacx86 become a thing? I built my first Hackintosh in 2010 and relied on tonymacx86 but I haven't paid attention to the community since 2014-onwards.
Fusion seems like a rare opportunity to do remarkable impact for human society while also making a remarkable profit. Frankly, if I was a billionaire, I would treat fusion investments as half-charity. That's why I don't understand how so many billionaires have pledged to give a large % of their wealth away but the most promising privately funded fusion energy project only has $200 million in funding. That kind of discrepancy increases my respect for tech evangelists, Ray Kurzweil, etc...because marketing the future might bring it closer. We need more of that.
Is it corporate IE policies mandating the use of IE11? I find this so fascinating.
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My point wasn't to suggest that skin tones are the only thing in the world that aren't considered by all the people during all product design phases. It was more that we know that this is a problem in our bubble of communication, we know it just as much that we know that grass tends to be green (or yellow-ish when it doesn't rain for a while and the sun is out).

It's more that having a higher quantity of a known problem doesn't make the problem go away, and neither does trying to find a single source or single instigator of a systemic problem. It's not a new problem either.

If we take skin color and replace it with finger length for devices that require you to grip it, or with distance between the eyes for things that you look through, we have the same issue. In that regard this is just another facet of ergonomics in design. Even if we were to test for a lot of things in a lot of places in the supply chain you still can't catch everything.
I've also been wearing gloves out places just so that my hands don't get too dry from using so much hand sanitizer/washing. Washing or sanitizing the gloves doesn't dry out my skin which is nice.
Suicide mortality might be correlated with geographic location (roughly speaking: latitude) rather than (or in addition to) income inequality.
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We're using Netlify's GoTrue (https://github.com/netlify/gotrue) for logins. For the providers they already support (bitbucket, github, gitlab, and google) we are aiming to release this month.

For other logins, we will contribute back to the repo wherever there is demand.
Equity is an interesting goal because it’s ephemeral. The pattern of history is: ...insane inequity, a brief moment of equity gained through violence, a long march back to insane inequity, insane inequity, a brief moment equity gained through violence...
"View" was in that list though; is there a way to let more than 100 people view a sheet?
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We're a big eCommerce and we're still supporting IE11. We're close to dropping it but it still shows up at about 4% to 5% of our users. And it's not that hard to support IE11, just need the right Webpack configs and polyfills and etc.
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> higher-order functions make heavy use of closures

No, you're conflating higher-order functions with closures. Higher-order functions that use closures make use of closures. Higher-order functions that don't use closures do not.

> I don't think there is even a purpose to higher-order functions without closures.

I'm not sure how anyone can say this with a straight face, let alone someone who considers themselves to be in a position to challenge somebody about whether or not they grok functional programming.
Its been downhill since the Nexus 5 imho.
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I agree they could and should be supported for longer, but regarding your comparison to Apple:

> Love it or hate it, Apple still supports the iPhone 6s Plus. A phone which is almost 5 years old now.

You're comparing what Google guarantees up-front for all devices to what Apple has done for the one device. Did Apple give a guaranteed support date for the iPhone 6s Plus at launch? In a quick search, I couldn't find one. I did find articles (eg [1]) from January speculating if Apple would include the iPhone 6S in the iOS 14 update or not.

Google still may support the Pixel 4 for longer than three years.

edit: forgot to add the disclaimer earlier that I'm a Google employee. I don't work on Android or hardware.

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/ios/story/don-t-ditch-y...
This is exactly how Arabic works today. It's a huge impediment, not a benefit.
We are looking for people to make 90+, 92+ if reasonably healthy. 75 is super low, and apart from exceptions is a _very_ concerning value. See the dissociation curve of hemoglobin/O2 to know why.

However yes, in my experience I never had enough difference in dark-skinned individuals to be clinically meaningful.
My pixel 3 XL, which is coming up on 2 years old, gets me through the day just fine on the original battery.
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> Drop according to whom? The people whose jobs depend on the alleged drop?

Speaking as an ecologist here, colleagues of mine were authors on one of the recent studies on insect decline in Germany (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1684-3). Believe me, we'd rather study other things than how fast nature is disappearing.

Also, foxes and rats have nothing to do with insect levels.
In Germany you can generally call the city office and complain and they will put some metal there to block the light from falling into your house. It might be an option in other locations as well.
... ok?

I mean the animation suggested would be over before most people could react, a couple of millimeters of movement To show it can move and that's it.
any suggestions for a poison ivy patch? I'm doing the rounds of vinegar and placing tarps/boxes over the area, trying to avoid the nuclear option.
I live in the suburbs of Austin, and plan to stay where I am at. I like having everything I need with in a 5 minute drive.

While my current job has gone permanent WFH, my next one might not. So I wouldn't want to move too far out anyway.
I preordered the Pixel 4 XL at launch, upgrading from a 2 XL. I lost the 4 XL in April, when I unknowingly dropped it at some point during a bike ride, so I reverted to the 2 XL. This made me realize what a completely unremarkable phone the 4 XL was, and in some ways, it was actually a step _backwards_ from the 2 XL. I really did miss the fingerprint scanner on the back of the 2 XL, and for me face unlock will always be a gimmick. The camera on the 2 XL is still really good, even by today's standards.

Every smartphone I've had since the gnex days has been Google. I really want Google to make the best Android phones. The appeal of Nexus was that it was so cheap. With Pixel, prices have gone up, and the increase in functionality between generations has gone down. Maybe that's a general smartphone trend, but I think for the first time in a long time, my next Android phone won't be from Google.
That fact does not directly explain why women products are more expensive.
I knock the monopolistic-capture by organizations like Ubereats who have to take a huge chunk to justify their VC investment. Restaurants need every ounce of margin they can get if they're ever going to have a hope of adequately compensating waiters, linecooks, and other staff, who are extremely exposed to covid and poorly treated in general - not to mention drivers.
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I live in a fairly rural area in Germany and even if the nightsky is perfectly clear the cities in the distance cast a bright haze into the sky. They aren't that dark...
Honestly though, dates make more sense being month first, that way if you are trying to discover which one comes first, 10th of february or 10th of january, you only have to go to the first parameter in format 01/10 vs 02/10 instead of 10/01, 10/02. Logically, the most broad data item should go first.
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I don't see how that's in any way comparable.

Apple actually has custom SoCs that they build, so they very much depend on TSMC.

Whereas the 865 was already happily producing last year. Not only that, the Pixel 4 sony camera sensor was actually in 2018s flagships. Pixels are kinda old, overpriced and outdated. The 4a seems okay for the price.

The Face ID like thing they replaced the fingerprint scanner with in the Pixel 4 actually caused a lot of people to skip it.
I'm not sure that would be proportionate.

It's not great, but it's better than before where this kind of crime detection had much less regulation.
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On that note I just did a Google search for "more fireflies this year" and got news articles saying as much from 2018, 2019, and 2020.
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The newest phones are so overpowered for their actual use. They should last years. The only thing will be switching out batteries from time to time.
Toxoplasmosis does a whole host of negative things, but a few that could be considered positive, e.g. "Toxoplasma-infected male students are about 3 cm taller than Toxoplasma-free subjects and their faces are rated by women as more masculine and dominant." (https://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/1/127)
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got crucified for saying this years ago
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If the rumors are to be believed, the 5 is significantly delayed because they wanted to figure it out.

Bathtub notch aside, the 3 series are excellent phones and hope in a few years when they need an upgrade that the 6 or 7 is equally good.
agreed fully