skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a unique problem for a subset of front-end developers. In the rest of the software engineering world, "old" software seems to work just fine if you're not easily distracted by shiny baubles, and in some sectors (e.g. embedded systems) the state of the art hardly changes much in any single person's career.
If I could change the article's title, to reduce ambiguity, it would be, "The BUSINESS Strength of Being Misunderstood".

It's ambiguity that I wish Sam would have anticipated, and adjusted for, but the content is nevertheless good advice, once you contextualize where Sam is coming from (a VC spotting market opportunities):

In a certain context, misunderstanding IS a strategic advantage, if you're spotting a market opportunity, and have the resources to exploit the mismatch. You keep a window of opportunity open as long as the misunderstanding persists among those with resources who would otherwise compete.

In another context, interpersonal communication, misunderstanding is NOT a strength, if your goal was to convince people to be on your side. It means you need work on your communication skills. The title is a poor personal maxim to live by, and I hope not the takeaway people had.
If you view the “Nest” brand as a thermostat brand, it doesn’t make sense. But if you view it as a “smart home” brand, it makes sense. However, rebranding to a different product name never makes much sense. It just confuses the public.
Entirely this.
Of course. And just think of all the free labor that will evaporate if we abolish slavery; kiss your cheap and cotton-comfy textiles goodbye!

But that's just a justification from carnal pleasure, the same reasoning people have uttered over maintaining their harem of enslaved concubines.

That "but it tastes/feels so good" carries any water with anyone is one of my lamentations. I was with you when you said milk, but giving up yogurt and cheese? That's just too much pleasure to lose!

If that argument works with dairy, why doesn't it work with rape and sex slavery? Or keeping a Gattaca clone alive so you can enjoy some spare organs?

Though I don't think we actually believe this argument when we use it, it's so indefensible. I think we usually come up with kneejerk decisions and then make a bunch of splashes trying to justify it, perhaps without even realizing that the decision was made before the rationalization.
How so? It's a body of land surrounded by a body of water!
Passed 75k at weekend
This is one of my favorite types of HN comments: admits the bias upfront, offers a meaningful technical answer, and links to relevant documents for a deeper dive. Thank you so much!
astra zeneca is 90% effective as there are two doses needed, much like pfizers
First sentence in [1]:

Amnesia is an application written in java and JavaScript and should be used locally for anonymizing a dataset.

[1] https://amnesia.openaire.eu/about-documentation.html
I can see that. If I took "across" as "everywhere", it's clearly not. If I take "across" as "in many places in", then I think it is, even in some places with high population density, with the exception being fiber and some locally owned wireless providers.
I don't know why you've been downvoted, because this is really important to point out. The vaccine does not, as far as we know, prevent you from spreading COVID; it simply tries to prevent you from having any symptoms. So while it will be effective at keeping people out of hospitals, it may not actually do anything to stop the spread of the virus.
I'm with you on network monitoring, but what MDM gives more info than basic device information? I'm unfortunately ignorant.
> Most companies use this type of information only when the employee is suspect of leaks or misconduct

This opinion based on what?

You may not be aware of this management theory called Taylorism, taught around the world in every MBA and undergraduate business program, which spouses tight measurement of worker productivity as a way to achieve "efficiency" (not the naive engineering definition of efficiency you are thinking about, but the maximization of profits/revenue per monetary unit spent on payroll).

While it is not the only, or even the most popular, management doctrine around, it is far from uncommon. The shortest stint on my career was at a certain Fortune 500 company. There I was expected to chronometer my coffee and bathroom breaks, as well as all other activities I undertook while on company premises. This as an IT worker (tech support, required programming but no full software development), which is a sort of protected species in terms of the workforce.

Since this was self reporting, there was a lot of wiggle room; and I'd even say most of it was not due to employee dishonesty but just fatigue. It is hard to remember to keep score of the exact times when you start any given task when you have urgent and actually productive duties to fulfill, so sometimes you had to give an estimation. But I am sure that company would jump right at the chance to use Office 365's surveillance tools to refine their record keeping, and maybe root out some lying slackers as the icing of the cake.
It really is just important to discuss the context. Usually, if a disadvantage is discussed in relation to a "minority", it generally has less to do with the real world diaspora they belong to and more the fact that they are in the minority.

For instance, the fact that "minorities" are more susceptible to COVID in the first place (in the US, at least) isn't because of racial makeup or ancestral heritage, but rather because marginalized people in the US are more likely to be in "front line" jobs that come in contact with large groups of people (service workers, hospital janitorial staff, food workers, the like) and much less likely to be in a position to remove themselves or work from home.
That doesn't seem right - the Starlinks go up to 53.8 degrees. That means that you should have quite a few satellites above your horizon, once that first shell is finished.

After that, later satellites will be at 70 and 97.6 (retrograde) inclination, so the entire world should be covered upon completion.
And thus, the voice-assistant-SEO wars began.
Why is it so much more common for companies to backtrack on privacy violations instead of proactively respecting privacy in the first place?
Siri is the world's most powerful AI-timer-setter.
I wonder if BSL becomes the new standard for open source commercial products. It's a good trade-off between freedom and real world business pressure.
YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad.

I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music.

YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes.

It also randomly inserts YouTube parody videos into my playlist. Why the hell would I want to listen to stuff like this
https://youtu.be/-5jWtz3rzco ?

I hate Google so much now. They're like evil 90's Microsoft, but incompetent. They've got their ad monopoly / web destruction engine to sustain them, but they're Dilbert Pointy Haired Boss bad with everything else.

No gamers will be surprised when Stadia gets canned.

It'll be hilarious when they decide to shutter GCP. Remember when it leaked that they were internally threatening to defund it if they couldn't hit growth targets? Imagine all their B2B relationships getting hit as hard as their consumers do.
Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers: Shafts, Gears, Cams (1953)
It's coming, have patience. The beta has already started in Canada, and they are launching more sats every month.
Once you get into this kind of special purpose microwave gear, it's all made to only operate at a very specific frequency. So in this particular instance, no the dish really isn't able to be used or repurposed for anything else. The only thing it is ever gonna be capable of doing is listening or talking to Starlink. There's no shifting it into a nearby amateur band as you can do with some wide bandwidth LNBs or old commercial radios.
The Dutch said they would consider vaccinating people aged 20-29 first if the infection rate had dropped low enough once the vaccine became available.
I really like how Slack states all this in their analytics. They give you just enough data to satisfy your craving for making sure people are using the app, and then they mention "message count has no relevance to actual productivity".

They definitely stay hard in the platform category.
UIStackView Padding
A $36B revenue business makes Google's non-ad business roughly the 94th largest company in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_t...
That's cool, thanks for the response! So the idea is you only move your eyes to three columns? Do you also find that you gather the same amount from your reading?
Yes. It is enabled by the website owner. I can that on many russian sites that ban all non-russian IP's.
I’m partial to John Cage’s 4’33
“ Now, Microsoft says, it will removing individual user names from the productivity score entirely.” - only to be added back in as a “premium” feature.
I don't think I'm being generous, "this century" unambiguously means the current century starting from year 1 (19th, 20th, 21st) not the previous 100 years. See for example the usage in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
Suppose you have normalized your data schema, up to at least 3NF, perhaps even further up to 4NF, 5NF or (as Codd intended) BCNF.

Great! You are now largely liberated from introducing many kinds of anomaly at insertion time. And you'll often only need to write once for each datum (modulo implementation details like write amplification), because a normalised schema has "a place for everything and everything in its place".

Now comes time to query the data. You write some joins, and all is well. But a few things start to happen. One is that writing joins over and over becomes laborious. What you'd really like is some denormalised intermediary views, which transform the fully-normalised base schema into something that's more convenient to query. You can also use this to create an isolation layer between the base schema and any consumers, which will make future schema changes easier and possibly improve security.

The logical endpoint of doing so is the Data Warehouse (particularly in the Kimball/star schema/dimensional modelling style). You project your normalised data, which you have high confidence in, into a completely different shape that is optimised for fast summarisation and exploration. You use this as a read-only database, because it massively duplicates a lot of information that could otherwise have been derived via query (for example, instead of a single "date" field, you have fields for day of week, day of month, day of year, week of year, whether it's a holiday ... I've built tables which include columns like "days until major conference X" and "days since last quarterly release").

Now we reach the first problem. It's too slow! Projecting that data from the normalised schema requires a lot of storage and compute. You realise after some scratching that your goal all along was to pay that cost upfront so that you can reap the benefits at query time. What you want is a view that has the physical characteristics of a table. Meaning you want to write out the results of the query, but still treat it like a view. You've "materialized" the view.

Now the second problem. Who, or what, does that projection? Right now that role is filled by ETL, "Extract, Transform and Load". Extract from the normalised system, transform it into the denormalised version, then load that into a data warehouse. Most places do this on a regular cadence, such as nightly, because it just takes buckets and buckets of work to regenerate the output every time.

Now enters Materialize, who have a secret weapon: timely dataflow. The basic outcome is that instead of re-running an entire view query to regenerate the materialized view, they can, from a given datum, determine exactly what will change in the materialized view and only update that. That makes such views potentially thousands of times cheaper. You could even run the normalised schema and the denormalised projections on the same physical set of data -- no need for the overhead and complexity of ETL, no need to run two database systems, no need to wait (without the added complexity of a full streaming platform).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland%E2%80%93Un...
Doubt it. Lots of aversion to the license given its limited use and some ambiguous terms/education around the various windows.
If you're using Duckduckgo, just search ''!drive search-term'' or ''search term !drive'' or ''search !drive term''

More !operators here - https://duckduckgo.com/bang
So now we know that Bobby Tables grew up to be a musician. (https://xkcd.com/327/)
The principle of "free at the point of use" is the critical factor in the NHS; while other countries manage to achieve that with different organisational structures. (4) is critical. Any whiff of ineligibility by payment is completely unacceptable, and rightly so, or we'd end up with the US disaster. From a political point of view, we have to defend the existing system because otherwise the US one will be forced on us. Nobody in UK politics will give us the Swiss system.

> tax funded status means the private health sector is seriously throttled in the UK

This doesn't make sense? Bupa exists?

Private health insurance is quite cheap in the UK compared to America because anything complicated or expensive can and will be dumped back on the public sector.

> this is achieved partly through building up large maintenance backlogs which is hardly sustainable: true cost of the NHS to the UK should probably be higher than is actually reported. The government has tried several times to force the NHS to spend money on maintenance and upgrades but usually fails: the NHS takes whatever money was granted to it for this purpose and immediately spends it on daily operations in violation of their agreements. Nothing happens because to Brits the NHS is a holy religion, so NHS management don't really feel accountable.

Unsourced Tory propaganda.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" - Napolean

I am sure they're working on improving it. We've not yet reached late stage capitalism with voice assistants.
Two Global Efforts Try to Trace the Origin of the Covid Virus
Belated thanks for the info!
The other day a song called S01E02.Return.Of.The.Arsonist.720p.HDTV.x264 by Blood Command appeared in my Spotify Discover Weekly. I thought someone messed up, but no...that's the name of song!
Guess the name simple storage service gave many people the idea that you could use it without a basic idea of distributed systems.
For the highest socket license.
That's why rga comes with a cache. I've occasionally used the Tesseract adapter with good success (results-wise), and after the inital rendering and indexing, it's fast enough to use.
Humor on HN depends on 3 things:

1. Is it original?

2. Is it clever?

3. Am I in the mood for humor?

In the extremely rare cases where these three points converge, a black swan event occurs, the crystal is healed by Gelfling hand, and your comment gets upvoted.
Alexa is mostly good with timers/alarms, but occasionally will swap 15/50 or 8/80.

If you miss hearing the distinction in the confirmation, you'll miss the scheduled event

Edit: They also have distinct classification of alarm/timers. You can use either word to create one but checking what you've set or trying to cancel will result in 'no timers/alarms' set if your request doesn't match their system design.
Ah, still alive.

Then again, Sceneform was the nicer high level API, with Studio tooling integration, here is still pretty much DYI.
How to Prevent Unintentional Data Loss in Web Forms
9Mbps download / 0.84 Mbps upload here in the boondocks of New Mexico. And that's the recent new faster speed. Just got the bill: $110.60 last month, which is normal. I plan to buy Starlink as soon as they'll sell it to me.
Alternate reading; you're just not funny.
Yea, a leak said $2400, ordering 1m units from ST. ST covered the factory spin-up costs.
I did a quick back of the envelope calculation of what MIT means by "racial minorities" in the context of this global pandemic. They mean more than 85% of the population of the planet.
I came from Oracle, not SQL Server, but the largest benefit to me, is at a previous job, I ran Oracle Standard (that cost About $25k for our 2 core servers) and one of the critical limitations is you can't build an index without locking the table. The ability to do it 'online' was an enterprise only feature (that would have cost about $700k on our hardware), so we were unable to do any index changes on our tables, since it would take 10-12 hours to rebuild some key tables, and we couldn't block all our transactions for that long. SQL server also makes that an enterprise only feature.

PostgreSQL has the native ability to do that. There are lots of other benefits, but that is the first that comes to mind.

When they come out with Babelfish for Oracle, then stuff is going to get crazy. EnterpriseDB has some limits to its functionality, and its cost is pretty high.
It's called a home screen. Never heard anyone use the term "phone desktop".
This is where the good stuff is gonna happen.

Still though, phased arrays aren't all that complicated conceptually. The little chips are probably TX/RX switches and the larger chips probably do block up/downconversion, mixing, and provide controllable phase delay.

It is the overall integration and combining of 600+ signals that is the real impressive part. ST Microelectronics deserves as much credit on this as anybody. Truly stunning.
> Really the best way to prevent state level actors from developing exploits is to hire and repatriate or assassinate their talent. Seems to work for nuclear secrets.

It tends to get used for nuclear secrets, but it doesn't seem to be as much effective at that goal as it is at providing a momentary salve on the feelings of impotence that go along with not having an effective method for that goal.

The only thing that really seems to work in that regard is altering the (international or domestic or both) political context to remove the motive for seeking the nuclear weapons technology in the first place, whether by externally-imposed regime change (Iraq) or a combination of resolving international tensions and domestic government transitions (Argentina/Brazil).
Formatting and Colors in Common Terminals (ANSI/VT100 Control Sequences)
Looks interesting, particularly libraries for Vue & Svelte. Will give a try in my upcoming projects.
Great Britain is an island, as are a few other islands that are part of the UK.
How are you going to do COVID-19 research with generated test data?
It would be great if Apple and Google had a setting to disable 2G and 3G at the very least.
Depending on transmit power it could possibly be used for short range active radar. Tracking comms with any moving source, e.g. UAVs, satellites, etc. Localization of RF sources. Possibly MIMO-type operations to build more resilient RF point to point networks. etc. etc.

Lots of this depends on the RF architecture of the board though. The device clearly has high bandwidth but we have no idea what the tuning range is or if those subassemblies can be operated independently to build multiple beams. Also it is very high frequency (12GHz+) and uses circularly polarized antennas which may limit utility with existing terrestrial RF infrastructure.
I hooked up Kalliope[1] to Home Assistant to do exactly this, except for the ad skipping voice command.

[1] https://github.com/kalliope-project/kalliope
I don’t think the regulators would particularly like the idea of people playing VR games on an airplane. Or do you mean something else?
Video games also have another use (if approached properly): fighting depression. They are essentially the antithesis of the depressive cycle. You have a goal, you do something to meet it, you get another goal... This active approach can actually be used to rewire the brain out of passive descent into proactivity (now go exercise, go learn, go eat properly).

The knife-edge their is the addiction factor for some games. So it depends.
"If you go to a Linux forum and ask for help fixing your WiFi driver, everyone will ignore you."

"If, instead, you say 'Linux sucks, you can't even get a f*&$ing WiFi driver working!' thousands of people will solve the problem for you."
apologies - you wrote the price is $ so I assumed. my bad!
There was a band named 'Various Artists' but no one could find their albums.
My dad used to take me mushroom hunting for morels here in the US when I was a kid, and this is actually the truth. He would take me on the weekends to the more public spots, and when he didn't have me during the week because I was staying with my mom, he would go to his best spots and I'd come back the next weekend to him having giant bags full of mushrooms.

He died when I was 13 and I know literally 0 of his best mushroom hunting spots.
Explaining the Protein folding problem and why Alphafold matters
The irony is that this article is in itself a form of competitive signaling since thats essentially the purpose of hacker news. People would say that its to get information out there, but I doubt most people that post on hacker news wouldn't do it if it didn't help their "brand".
If you take a look at recent neural net papers for dialogue and question answering you'll see amazing things. It is really mind boggling they don't improve the commercial product, maybe it's still too expensive to run for the general public.

Similarly, they say English language Search is powered by Transformers. But when I want to perform searches it often switches the intent to something wrong. It's a blunt tool, not a precision instrument.
State of the art chip fabs require some of the most advanced technology we've developed, the purest materials we can produce, and the most stringent environments we can maintain.
I only have N=1, but I know my LG TV doesn't do that, given how my child loves to grab the TV remote and press the Netflix or Hulu buttons, which opens the app and then complains the TV has no internet access.
>whatever reason, whole teams of people at Microsoft proactively decided to build a workplace surveillance tool.

Maybe the reason was nostalgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System
The public wants something impossible, there are no time machines or time compressors, there are no regulatory changes to make, you can't get the same results as past vaccine trials from this vaccine's trials conducted with many fewer people and far less time.
Apparently, Intel's RST is not just RAID, but it's also supposed to help when a laptop is equipped with two storage devices, one small and fast (SSD) and another big but slower (HDD): https://superuser.com/a/1578326

IIRC there were Dell XPS models like that in the lower price segment. Never tried one personally.
Lactose intolerance in adulthood is the default for most/all mammals. There is some subset of humans who grew to depend on drinking milk from cows who have adapted to continue producing lactase for their entire lives, but this has no spread to all humans.