skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only Google could make their own phone or phone OS so they were in control over these kind of issues.

Wait...

These are issues totally within their control. These excuses shouldn’t be acceptable.
Regular developer code-signing, yes. But I'm talking about the code-signing that's done by Microsoft (rather than by your own Microsoft-signed cert) on the Microsoft Store backend; or the code-signing that's manually done by Microsoft when a third party submits a driver package to them for inclusion as a Windows update.
Moderate opioid use is possible if you take long enough breaks to avoid physical dependence. That of course requires the self-discipline to say no to the psychological pull. As far as I recall, I felt some mild withdrawals after about 3 consecutive days of poppy tea use, so the physical dependence does set in pretty quickly. But if you know your boundaries, it’s easy to avoid. I would wager a guess that you could do strong opioids once a week indefinitely without any negative repercussions.
And you have to choose between readability and whitespace. Doesn't matter for most usecases, but you can't blindly write it out. You have to choose ahead of time:

1. Potentially shoot yourself in the foot with tons of extra whitespace.
2. Unreadable mess.

TOML is better. You can choose whitespace if you want, but you can always go back to dot notation. Though I (sadly) agree JSON is better than YAML. One of the few times I've changed my mind from A to B and then back to A in tech.
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> that can encourage racial segregation.

Unnamed critics state things "can" do things, while the following sentence shows there is no evidence. Then there is a follow up statement that the racial demographics show that HOAs tend to be richer (A major point of HOAs is to improve and maintain neighborhood values), and less diverse. The second part on its face might seem upsetting but, you'll find largely suburban communities ARE overall less diverse. It would maybe be relevant if they found and stated "HOAs in the same zip codes as non-HOA neighbrhoods of equal value are less diverse", that might show some racial differences, but then not even necessarily bias.

In short, bloomberg is a rag and should be used to pickup your favorite pets droppings with.

edit: forgot a word
FWIW, I didn't downvote you; I share your curiosity here, just with some additional context I wanted to provide
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The article seems nonsensical in the same way, though.

> For plants, blue is achieved by mixing naturally occurring pigments, very much as an artist would mix colours. The most commonly used are the red pigments, called anthocyanins, and whose appearance can be changed by varying acidity.

It's just saying the same thing, "a red pigment appearing blue", without any explanation. (Also, as artists know, blue and red are primary colors, you can't get blue by mixing red paints.)
> half of their employees would plug in a USB drive that they found on the ground in the parking lot

If that didn't work, StuxNet wouldn't have gone anywhere either.

Sometimes the right hand requires the left hand to fuck up.
Physics describes how oxygen saturated blood looks in the infrared, but using that information in a device is engineering. The engineers who design these devices should have better understood how something obvious like skin color would bias the measurements. It seems like the physics could be exploited again via a visible light sensor that detects darker skin.

This is absolutely bias, and it is entirely due to engineering choices made by people, not nature.
This article doesn't seem particularly balanced. Unless I'm missing something, the author doesn't really give any generalized details about the amount of bias (for example, mean bias).

The author cites one study where doctors noticed "a bias of up to 8 percent", which sounds high, but if you click through to the link provided, it says:

>The mean bias (Spo2 − Sao2) for the 70%–80% saturation range was 2.61% for the Masimo Radical with clip-on sensor, −1.58% for the Radical with disposable sensor, 2.59% for the Nellcor clip, 3.6% for the Nellcor disposable, −0.60% for the Nonin clip, and 2.43% for the Nonin disposable.

Basically, the amount of bias varies by manufacturer and type of device, and it is not always a positive bias as implied by the text of the link.

This seems to be more of a case of measurement error bounds inherent to any measurement device, rather than "a popular medical device encod[ing] racial bias" and all the other rhetoric in the article.
If knowingly + intentionally spreading HIV isn't a felony (thanks, California [0]) why should not fully minimizing the risk of personally contracting and then spreading COVID be one? ("mandate condoms during anal sex to reduce the spread of HIV" is actually pretty comparable to "mandate masks when outside to reduce the spread of COVID", incidentally)

Not to say it's a good thing to do, but that doesn't mean it reaches the level of "crime".

0: https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/07/health/california-hiv-bill-si...
So, like tech twitter...
No, the phone was still usable, just slower.

If Apple didn’t throttle, the phone would restart every time it’s power requirements outstripped the batteries declining capacity.

I think it’s pretty clear which use case is better.
That does not seem very enforceable. Surely their internal DNS server and routers keep logs for example.
What is right today may not be tomorrow. It's not the case of "nobody actually thinking" for them to take in new information and make new decisions. It's just the opposite.
Hey! Looks great! Is there an example of the Github integration - how does it looks like?

I'm one of the developers and maintainer of the DVC project and we recently released CML.dev- which integrates with Github and can be used to run some checks on data as well. But in our case it's about analyzing files more or less. I'm curious how does that integration look like in your case.
Question is, what's it doing when you use client software that doesn't support the spammy popups? It appears that for a third party client user, it auto-injected URLs the sender didn't expect or even see. So someone creating a Zoom invite had no idea their coworkers might see a Meet link.

Also, Google could/should recognize that a meeting invite with a competitor's room URL in it is somewhere it shouldn't inject its own. Especially since it opens up yet another avenue for an open and shut anticompetitive case against them.
The countryside is mostly reserved for agriculture.
It's possible that some policy changes are working.

One of my favorite memories of cycling through the midwest in the early 90's was watching the redwing blackbird population slowly recover.
Habitat loss is a key factor, probably the key factor, but the reasearch around artifical night light and fireflies/glowworms goes way beyond 'recall more than they were kids' - not sure why you'd pick that as main argument from a Wikipedia page. See e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339213788_A_Global_... page 4 and beyond which reads

Observational and experimental studies provide evidence hat ALAN adversely affects firefly populations. Several studies have shown negative correlations between high levels of ALAN and firefly abundance.

and mentions several studies regarding the subject (though also warns it's hard to pinpoint the main cause amongst the variety of other negative factors).
MS has done this before with a short exclusivity window for Samsung devices since they are a preferred partner.
Be transparent.
I don't think that's true. Coming from Germany I feel that in the average US citizen living as an employee has less rights and freedoms than the average German citizen. In principle you can live a very free lifestyle in the US but you either have to have lots of money or check out from the lifestyle most people live.
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It's crazy how little Google's marketcap benefits from things like this. Zoom's here sitting on 75B (~1/15th Googs) as we speak and Google Meet probably isn't even legitimately used in pricing Google. Wonder what Google's market cap would be if each individual service got the VC future growth pricing.
> To go back to the ladybugs, specifically the Asian ladybugs, last year they were everywhere. Every corner would have a bunch of them. They'd get in the house and then smash into the ceiling near every pot light leaving discolorations (blood or something). This year I've seen barely a dozen or so all season. It's just a complete 180.

To me, it sounds like your area experienced an intentional release of the Asian Lady bug last year. TBD if they kill off all your fireflies, obviously that's pure speculation on my part.

As far as firefly decline, I don't live on the edge of a city or town. I'm actually quite rural. There are two places I've seen the decline. My home and my family's cabin 2 states away, both very rural. There has been no significant habitat change in either area, both having forest and established farms, very little development over my lifetime.

This is not an effect I noticed gradually or recently. It was about 15+ years ago now. Fireflies basically just disappeared, all at once. The colors of the remaining fireflies in both locations are also different. They were previously a yellow-green glow, and have been replaced by a more white-bluish glow.

Anyway, I don't know what caused their decline, but it's very apparent, and light pollution has nothing to do with it in my area.
"There’s no easy fix, either. Excel doesn’t offer the option to turn off this auto-formatting, and the only way to avoid it is to change the data type for individual columns. Even then, a scientist might fix their own data, but as soon as someone else opens the same spreadsheet in Excel without thinking, errors will be introduced all over again."

These are easy fixes. I have this problem using excel. Just format your data as text. If you do that and give the excel file to someone else the errors will not be introduced again. The quote above is at best misleading and I would say just wrong. The problem only happens when you import data in a non-excel format like comma delimited. In that case you have to click on a button when importing to excel to import it as "text" instead of automatic excel formatting. It would be great if you could set this as the default (maybe you can, but I don't know how), but it is something you get used to very quickly.

Think of all of the financial people that use excel that would have this same problem. I'm sure there are some mess ups, but I don't think that industry has the same endemic problem with this excel file formatting issue. There are definitely problems with using excel, but I don't think this would have to be one of them.

Edit: Of course it is not an easy fix to get everyone to use Excel correctly, but these types of bad data errors come from all over the place if the person using the data is not careful.
I'm not saying that Google couldn't make their own processor but it is a serious undertaking. I don't think we can scoff at them for not doing it yet.

Even in their datacenters they use third party CPUs. It's not surprising that they haven't made their own for phones.
I have trouble understanding why this prevents anyone from taking legal action. Maybe the action cannot be directed against the schools, but surely in this case you can challenge the CDC guidelines, because there seems to be direct proof of personal injury (i.e. getting ill) as a result of this? How does this work?
Sometimes they can even make a key by sight reading, peering down the keyway; this is especially common (for good locksmiths) with wafer locks (often seen on cabinets, and autos but those are usually too complex to sight read).
I still rock an OG Pixel. I haven't seen an update in a while, but hardware-wise the phone is solid.
I thought it was Docusate Sodium[1] a stool softener, laxative. Getting the matrix bull shit out and whatnot.

[1]https://www.drugs.com/imprints/scu1-18739.html
Going on a tangent, I think most of us missed Bill English's passing a few days ago since I think because people only noticed it on the weekend when there are less HN users active.
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I changed my mind about DNA acquisition / privacy concerns after reading the backstory of the Golden State Killer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo

Officers uploaded DNA from a rape kit and got back a family tree, then investigated all 2,000 possibilities. Problem solved.

He’d eluded capture till the ripe old age of 77 or so, after having raped around 50 women and murdering several by beating them to death with logs.

Can someone help me understand some concrete scenarios where DNA testing is clearly a bad thing? Because it seems to be a net win for society. Leave your DNA at a crime scene -> you’ve left your ID.
Are you going to blame the the Nazi regime and the Holocaust on the WWI victors who refused to make a reasonable deal with a defeated Germany? It’s hard to imagine WW2 without the horrid WW1 peace terms.

But we rightly lay the blame squarely at the feet of the Nazis and their supporters.
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I'm really happy with my Pixel 3a purchase. I don't really care about phone specs as long as the phone runs smoothly and the 3a definitely runs great for it's price point. Had it for about a year now and the battery is still going strong as well.

I think google is just really bad at making flagships, I'm really interested in how the 4a will perform over time.
Sure, and some of the rats are probably fine too. But it still skews studies...
Re: "big-government right wing administration," I have always found it amusing that people tend to tag the Democrats with the whole "big government" attribute. Last I checked, the only major new federal agencies that have been created in the past 50 years (EPA, DoED, DHS) came into existence under Republican administrations:

* EPA: Proposed, authorized, and implemented under Nixon.

* DoEd: Authorized under Carter, implemented under Reagan... and we all know that if you implement it, it's your responsibility (/s by way of comparison with code).

* DHS: Authorized and implemented by GWB in response to 9/11.

I guess you could also count the Space Force (Trump) in here. Am I missing any created by Democratic presidents? This is all off the top of my head.
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A significant portion of phone users are there for aesthetics and status. Those same people are unlikely to have a phone past 1-2 years after paying it off with their carrier.
I didn't mean to imply my Pixel 2 is unusable by any means. The phone is still perfectly usuable but it is certainly not as snappy as it used to be despite its ridiculous overpowered specs. For instance, bringing up common applications like the camera or dialer has noticeable lag now under current Android 10 that wasn't present in previous versions of Android.
They provide some value but they also attract control freaks who want to shape everything in the way they want. Most people don't want to engage in HOA so the people who do (and often are control freaks) have a lot of power.
Looks impressive, I love how serious tools back in the day still had visual embellishments and interesting interfaces that gave a glimpse of the inventor's personality.
> Yup, and to that point, the fix is really stupid simple, push the drivers into the linux kernel mainline and give google (or whoever) a kernel build profile for your device.

"If only the bad people would just stop being bad!"

This mantra continually assumes goodwill from people who continue to show that they have none. At some point one needs to stop gaslighting themselves and their users and make the system more robust to bad actors. Manufacturers don't want to mainline their drivers? Fine. You can work on getting drivers mainlined while also stabilizing the interface so that it doesn't injure a billion customers when they don't.
In my country after a small number of students from one school tested positive they sent everyone to quarantine and tested them. They reached 220 cases in total. This school doesn't have mandatory masks, it didn't shut down, and it isn't quarantining the close contacts of those infected. They are all going to have COVID-19.
I'm not the person you're addressing but I seem to remember this pew research article that sort of fits the bill of what he's describing.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2012/03/12/social-netwo...
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I maintain the priamry website for a winterguard association in south texas. (Colorguard: choreographed waving of flags, usually alongside a marching band or performed to recorded music.)

Because it's an educational organization, we must assume that members are operating on outdated solutions behind weirdly restrictive firewalls. I don't bother to fully support Internet Explorer for all features, but I do need to make sure the critical path at least functions on a basic level, and I'm careful not to rely on any dependencies (analytics, etc) that I cannot self host.

Of course, it's the directors who insist on doing everything on their iPad that give me more trouble, as I don't actually own one to test. :)
Yes, you could. The limit is for the source dataset size but you can prefilter it (there is an option to pass in free-form SQL query instead of table name when creating a diff).

For the majority of diffs we see with sampling applied, sample sizes are <1M rows (more is often impractical in terms of information gain for higher compute costs) especially if your goal is to assess the magnitude of the difference as opposed to get every single diverging row.
Get out spook.
How is this all that different from a cruise ship? Schools are designed to rotate kids to several classes throughout the day ensuring that any sick child will sit in class with several different groups.
Chicago used to be orange at night, now it's blue. I wonder if the color temperature and intensity changes in the shift to LED street lighting played a role. They certainly do in human sleep.
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Apologies if this is overwhelmingly general.

I took quite a good full stack eng job at a fortune 500 about a year ago, and have had a good time of it. I've been fortunate enough to connect on a professional and personal level with a colleague of mine, who I regard as an exceptionally talented programmer and generalist.

We both actively entertain the pipe dream of running a small SaaS that is both a passion project and pays our bills.

Due to some unrelated timing/life events, we are both planning on resigning from the corp within the next two months, and intend to start something up together.

I've worked in various startups before, both as a founder and as a "regular" eng. What we want to avoid is bad ideas, and bad people.

What we've got is a very solid engineering skillset between us, and I'm confident we can build just about anything, outside of niche tech areas.

People often say that finding the idea is the easy part, but we've actually had quite some trouble settling on something. We have a list of working ideas, but would potentially like to connect with a non-technical cofounder. I'd be very happy to kick off conversations on here, or also receive any sort of tips as to where likeminded cofounders might connect.

It may sound funny, but we sort of want to avoid the ycombinator/AngelList types of people – we're looking to organically build and grow a sustainable business, most likely without external investment.
Does virtualization work?
I don't really get the sense of this from the movie. The movie is straight up Gnosticism in a cyberpunk form, in the sense it appeared in during history. Kind of an offshoot of Christianity. You even get the main villain being the demiurge with Neo as the Gnostic Christ who frees us from the evil God's reign through his death. there's a lot of gnostic concepts, such as the world being an illusion that is only revealed through secret knowledge, and the need to awaken people to reality.

I kind of feel this is more Lily's transition coloring her past. If it were about trans even if the studio were against it, you'd see a lot more body fluidity or the focus would be a lot different.
I don't want highly specialized pigeons and rats, thank you.

And at any rate, specialization only works if the problems stay relatively stable, or temporary. If we aren't stopped/don't stop ourselves we will keep inventing new insults every ten years and nothing can adapt to anywhere near that rate of change.

You're also forgetting the Carboniferous period. It took 50 million years for anything to puzzle out how to benefit from surplus lignin. In 50 million years are we going to be around? In 50 million years is anyone going to remember that Alpha Centauri is a system humans used to live in (before we used it up)?
> Of course, it's the directors who insist on doing everything on their iPad that give me more trouble, as I don't actually own one to test. :)

Shouldn't they give you one for testing?
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Today’s phones are cheap.

Even expensive phones are cheaper than their wireless service contracts in the US. A good rule of thumb is they depreciate about 50% in their first two years (at least for iPhones).

That means your $800 phone is costing you less than $20/month: A $1400 phone less than $30/month.

Right now I’m paying over $40/month each for service for four phones right now.
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Person 1 and Person 2 are integral to the analysis. They can’t be forgotten since the entire thing is about them lol
Surely threat to safety - real or perhaps even only perceived - would affect this?
Yeah, Bret Weinstein mentioned something similar regarding lab mice in a Joe Rogan podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4q-1D_Ajo
I am wondering, is there any benefit to having insects in cities specifically? I would understand if this was a law specifically for rural enviroment but what is the benefit for this in the city?

Also, other than bees, which insects specifically benefit humans?
I love bugs!
Agreed. My screen cracked on my 3a and it wasn't even being roughed up or used daily, it was a backup phone to test images/roms on and other stuff.
It was mentioned in this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059231, but not in an obvious way.
how many pictures or angles are needed to produce good results? I get that landmarks have an abundance of source material, but whats a reasonable amount of data to reconstruct scenes?
This is literally running the Ubuntu x86 packages for python in the browser, by dynamically recompiling binary code to WebAssembly.

This demo is indeed just a Python REPL, but the technology is fully generic. On top of this you can make _any_ binary run. We are actually working on using this to preserve Flash content by running the official Adobe plugin safely in the sandbox.
Just bought my daughter the new SE for her birthday. It’s amazing for the price!