skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the gp comment doesn't say that OCR is used. It says that the devices have the capability. Which is the case for recent iPhones : https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/10/how-iphone-live-text-ocr-work...

There is so much rich information in your photos, from memorable places you’ve visited to handwritten family recipes. iOS 15 uses secure on-device intelligence to help you discover more in your photos, quickly find what you’re looking for, and relive special moments.
Seattle requires takeout containers to be compostable or recyclable (they mostly seem compostable in my experience).

https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-a...
> I do agree this is depressing but isn’t this also the selling point? A lot of people just want food, etc. with no interaction with other humans or any effort involved. In exchange, they’re willing to pay a slight premium.

It's been great for food delivery when the languages you speak don't completely overlap with the worker's at the restaurant. And it's much easier to build complex orders on an app rather than over the phone where the recipient is right next to a busy kitchen.
Bleh, sorry to hear that. Never had any trouble with mine. Maybe you had too many college students? :)
It's really cringe. I feel like we'd all be on something like Freenet right now not giving a shit about some company's web hosting server if Napster wasn't intervened.
Live demo of new OpenAI code writing technology tomorrow
> Regarding gamedays specifically: I've found that many company leaders don't embrace them because culturally they're not really aligned to the idea that incidents and outages aren't 100% preventable.

So. Much. This. Unless leaders were engineers in the past or have kept abreast of evolution in technology, the default mindset is still "incidents should never happen" rather than "incidents will happen how can we handle them better". This is especially pronounced in politics heavy environments since outages are seen as a professional failure, a way to score brownie points over the team that fails. As a result, you often have a culture that tried to avoid being responsible for outages at any cost, which (ironically) leads to worse overall quality of the system since the root cause is never dealt with.
This is my take too. Bootstrap and foundation's float hack grid systems kept us alive while CSS caught up to "OMG we need to display websites on mobile devices"
Then grid and flexbox came along and gave us a native css solution.
Then everyone moved on to figuring out SPAs - or as I call them "OMG we need to display websites on mobile devices 2.0"
Not really, although bureaucratic decision making is (sometimes!) a subset of stupid decision making as described in the article.

Ever dealt with statistics? Take someone who assumes all phenomena can be described by a normal distribution---in those cases where it isn't, they will consistently come up with an incorrect answer from perfectly correct math.
I have contacted directly one of the journalists that wrote the piece to see if this was just a temporary report. As this was reported in several media, they must have made at least some kind of press release. In the meanwhile I noticed this other study from last year, with a much smaller sample with similar results:

"Rapid Decay of Anti–SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Persons with Mild Covid-19":

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025179

Has an update/correction:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMx200017
I love the effort on spinning "wildfires" as a good thing - even calling them "wildfires" hides the human factor behind them. If a fire happens on North America on Europe, it's a "wildfire", if it happens on a developing country in the southern hemisphere, it's a reason for international intervention. (I'm not claming that the former form of fire is good, but the hipocrisy on this is huge)
Just learn to code!
The most awkward delivery meal is the pizza box, which is totally reasonable to transport on a bike with the right setup (I do it all the time).
There's a Green Cross branch in Bend and the prices are what you say they are. Low to mid-weights mostly, however.

I think I went into this shop and it was all prepackaged and jarred like Cali is now. Like visiting a Walgreens, so I walked out. Not sure if it was this place. I'll visit again.
Can I ask, is this a real, actual concern? Why do I need to sign and verify my software is my software? Why is a hash not sufficient integrity verification?

I have never heard of a good argument for this besides the Apple-esque control of remotely disabling the ability for software to run based on certificate authority, which is not a feature I'm interested in.

Further, I'd like to not see this as possible, since year after year more and more software companies seem to think they're entitled to more and more.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210416052902/https://www.econo...

https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-treat-social-media-like-the-...
Why is it novel? War with the soviets/russians was avoided. Its was always going to be lose lose. Same with China.
I absolutely don't understand all the physics but are "barium titanate" and "strontium titanate" rare stuff ?
I'm not sure about the brand, but their stock seems to be doing fine. Barely a dent.
What is recolonization in this context? Does it just mean growth of a new forest?
You're Doing IoT RNG
In the region I live, it gets down to single digits and near zero for at least a week a year. Heat pumps still work, just reduced efficiency.
This is not disobedience this is beanbag shaped, mayonnaise filled tech bros talking about freedom they've never lost but also never wanted.
It takes two to tango. The west was happy to hand over manufacturing to China, but only because the China was even happier to take it - [0].

Prosperity comes with responsibility. China has been the largest automobile market since 2009, with annual grow rate 45%. Almost 1 in 3 vehicles sold in 2020 is in China. The majority of them are personal vehicles.

You're right though that there are really no "others" here to blame. We will be doomed if we can't fight pollution and climate change collectively.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_Chin...
That _publicly listed company_ sounds like... the government.
These categories don't reflect any kind of reality other than maybe at the margins.

Most people follow basic public health policy guidelines, almost everyone begrudgingly so on some level, as nobody actually wants to wear a mask obviously.

Outside of required guidelines, some may wear a little more often than others, surely older people might be more likely, and those who are vaccinate less likely.

That's it.

It's not a social signal or an indicator of anything.

You can't deduce anything from someone's mask unless they are doing something truly awkward like literally not wearing a mask when they are clearly supposed to, or over protecting such as wearing an N100 while alone in a public space. Otherwise, it's just a normal thing we are resigned to doing in certain situations.
Hydrogen gas leaks through everything, and embrittles most metals. It is not an easy substance to work with. Combine that with having one of the widest ignition ranges of any flammable material, and I'll just stay on the dubious side of it ever getting used as a large-scale lifting gas again.
Don't forget the substantial costs to clean up. Just think about growing up in a world full of EOL nuclear plants left by generations before you that need to be cleaned up... In a political unstable world due to an ongoing climate crisis.

Even today we as a whole struggle with decommissioning nuclear plants, and the costs are astronomical this is already a huge problem now, let alone in a post climate change world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning
Also can build up pathogens.
Nothing in this paper seems surprising. Of course self-reported race/ethnicity corresponds very well to ancestry, and ancestry is related to different traits, and these traits are detected in medical images. The social justice concerns brought up do not really seem relevant, the system is operating as expected.
> If you want to solve complex problems bet on Darpa or academia or bring back the corporate research lab whose demise is one of the real big problems today.

Isn't that what FAIR, Deepmind, and Google Research are for? (mostly AI focused, though the latter also dabbles with Quantum Computing and tons of other stuff)
This is where the whole unconsious bias can be a world of crap comes up. Does requiring relocation discriminate against older people? Absolutely. Does highly favoring multiple cofounders discriminate against older people? Yep. But there are perfectly valid reasons to favor these properties that have nothing to do with age. That doesn't make it discriminatory, it makes it a bad fit for old people (myself included). So instead of trying to fit your square peg into YC's round hole, go find money elsewhere.
You seem to have raised money before almost 20 years ago. That sure must help.
Will do. Did go to str8fyre the other day and was impressed with price/quality, but Green Cross is far cheaper if the website is indicative.
if it sails away from the wind, the lift is pushing it sideways, not forward
> “I think climate change is no more than 20 to 25% responsible for our current fire problems in the state, and most of it is due to the way our forests are,” Stephens said.

Directly in contrast with Gavin Newsom vs. Trump argument last year. I’m not aligned with Trump at all, but I have qualms about how we as liberals are easily strapped down by the media. Trump said “Mostly due to forest mismanagement” while Newsom said “With all due respect, Climate Change is the fundamental reason for forest fires”. I clearly remember how the entire media pounced on Trump. Not good.

We ought to isolate character from facts. If you challenged Newsom in any way last year, you would have been labeled a right-wing Trumper instantly.
So you want to write a GUI framework
> No, it isn't. It's a private company determining how and who it conducts business with. Being a 'patrician' of your own property is completely fine and in fact a basic right, and if you don't like Mailchimp's content policies, go to a competitor.

Correct. They can do what they want. However, the title of the article is still correct.
> actual grid based graphic design

Got any suggestions on where to start? I could Google, but I wouldn't know if what I found was "actual" grid based graphic design. I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm sincerely interested in non-web-based graphic design resources.
I completely understand your desire to avoid sales of your long term investments that may have huge capital gains. To deal with that, you can configure us to sell shares in a tax sensitive way, where we will sell shares with a low tax burden first, so if you have a greater inflow into your account than outflow (which would be the case for a SDE DINK), we will usually just sell recently bought shares that haven't accumulated any capital gains, and all the shares with a high tax burden will never be touched.
was just browsing today. If you are into ambient :

https://cdm.link/2021/08/grab-these-unhyped-releases-on-band...
Title needs a [2019] tag.
And where is the energy to be jammed into those transmission lines going to come from. That is a zero-sum question. You can't get electricity for free or by magic. And especially not the baseline.

What power sources actually could ever fit the bill?? It's NOT Green - it's nuclear. Period.
It seems that the lipid delivery was trickier than the mRNA payload:

> Over more than 3 decades, promising lipids studied in the lab often failed to live up to their potential when tested in animals or humans. Positively charged lipids are inherently toxic, and companies struggled for years before landing on formulations that were safe and effective. [0]

Lots of other details in this article of the problems they had over several decades finding lipids that worked and weren't toxic, wouldn't accumulate in the liver, etc.

The lipids used in the covid vaccines don't go back that far:

> The first time the FDA approved the use of lipid nanoparticles as a drug delivery system was in 2018, when the agency approved the first siRNA drug, Onpattro.[56] Encapsulating the mRNA molecule in lipid nanoparticles was a critical breakthrough for producing viable mRNA vaccines, solving a number of key technical barriers in delivering the mRNA molecule into the host cell. [1]

So they had something approved in 2018 for shorter siRNA payloads, but had to scramble since then to figure out something that would handle an mRNA payload.

[0] https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-delivery/Without-li...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine
Just a quick clarification that my comment was only pointing out that a16z isn't a media outlet in the journalistic sense, nor in that the media outlet is the product itself. Their media content is just marketing manipulation.

But I'm still interested in addressing your point:

> if some investors gain enough market power that they can change the outcome of businesses that seems deeply suboptimal and runs counter to the core conceit of capitalism

If a VC's media channel becomes powerful enough (ie monopolistic enough) to decide winners w/o the opportunity for competition, then sure. Though this would require substantially more power consolidation than there is currently. There's enough Tier 1 VC's and of those, the media outlets they operate are certainly not monopolistic enough as to change the business outcome in an unfair way, as currently defined by law wrt monopolistic practices.

If you mean more like "if some investors gain enough market power that they can change the outcome of businesses because they invested so much money", then I still think the same point is true - there's enough capital in diverse enough hands. The most ready example being ride share; there's plenty of them.
Absolutely -- inequality has brought us to this pass, continues to be an obstacle, and will make the consequences far worse. Should we, as individuals, eat less meat, drive more fuel efficient vehicles, fly less, and other such activities to reduce our carbon output? Yes, but as many have pointed out in this and other discussions, that doesn't come anywhere close to being enough. It's the dynamic of the rich scolding people for a Starbucks latte habit, writ large.

Should the elite aggressively pivot their companies to carbon neutral strategies, divest their substantial investments from greenhouse gas producing holdings, put their political muscle toward laws that will get us off our current disastrous path, and fund this change via taxes on their wealth? Yes, and this would do far, far more to change things for the better.

If you can figure out how to make this happen, well you'll be some kind of sociological and political genius.
What I want to know is if there is a correlation between breakthroughs and severity of the reaction to the vaccination.
Theoretical geosync means zero velocity in any direction relative to ground. Zero up, down, forward, back, left, or right. You're stuck above a single point of dirt/water, over the equator, at a fixed altitude.

The only way to "fall" (lower your altitude) from here would be via some sort of acceleration force towards ground (like a burn). So yes, your speed would have to increase.
Purely the justification of their own job. Open up any settings window in Windows 10. The title bar and the window contents are the exact same color, making it impossible to tell where exactly you need to click to drag the window. In a sane world the programmer responsible for that would be out on their ass.
Anyone remember Kozmo [0]? It was hilarious to order one candy bar with free same day delivery and know that this ridiculously uneconomic service was being paid for by credulous VCs. But the joke is less funny when it’s 10% of the workforce…

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
Donate a few dollars monthly to https://asahilinux.org on Patreon. We'll get Linux running smoothly on the M1 within a year or so.
>A typical plant takes ~20 years from decision to productionized

If this were truly "code red" and people really believed that, we would find a way to push the bureaucrats out of the way and build nuclear capacity way sooner than 20 yrs. Humans can do amazing things under dire stress.

This is not happening, so I will assume "code red" is hyperbole, something that the IPCC is not entirely known to shun.
I think it varies by region at this point. https://www.outsideonline.com/podcast/future-fire/
Apparently the median age at which founders start "billion dollar businesses" is 34 [0] (the same article references a HBR study that says that mentions an age of 45 for "successful" entrepreneurs). That would also generally correlate to an age where one's peers have ongoing obligations (financial, family).

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/27/super-founders-median-age-of...
Noted, but the point of the drill is precisely to uncover these failure modes and attempt to fix them. e.g. you might have automated runbooks to fix the problem rather than access the DB directly. You might have frequent backups and processes to easily restore from backups in case of database wipes.
Right now there's more money out there to be invested than there are good businesses to invest in. If those businesses were out there and were profitable enough to hire people more productively with a higher standard of living... where are they?

This line of reasoning seems like a hand-wave.
You may have things switched up.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

> Communists agree on the ultimate withering away of the state but disagree on the means to this end, reflecting a distinction between a more libertarian approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and a more vanguardist or communist party-driven approach through the development of a constitutional socialist state.

I think communism is the ultimate utopia and it is unlikely to be ever achieved because people are generally unhappy to have the surplus they produced to be redistributed. Without coercion of a socialist state you won't get redistribution.

At the same time, a government is not an abstract entity. It's just other people who make decision in your place and often get some extra privileges on top because of it - negating the communist goal of achieving a classless society.

That said, I understand your point of view. Socialism is an economic philosophy based around social ownership and doesn't dictate anything about privacy.

That said, the centralisation required to achieve socialism (similar to what we see in our society: you need a taxman to forcefully steal profits from all the citizens and build some roads) implies the creation of a strong state who has all the interests in surveilling citizens.

Socialism and redistribution imply authoritarianism.
All the socialist libertarian and left wing anarchists doctrines can't work unless you have perfect, not greedy, law abiding and honest citizens happy to give away exactly the surplus they produce. Which is to say, it will never work in a normal society, it may work in a small village with like minded people.
I'm not moving the goalposts. I, one, have empathy for people other than myself and two, I am not deluded enough to think that fascism will never return to the West. If you don't care about citizens in other countries, that's on you.

>You know what would help people in regimes? Governing bodies that stand up for them in other countries... guess who could change that.

What would also help is if Apple didn't build tools for those regimes to suppress opposing political bodies.
I had a convo with an angel who was asking me (for some reason) for advice on breaking into the YC investor network.

The most surprising thing is that angels appear to be semi-excluded now. I don’t have anything more than two datapoints:

1. That angel who reached out to me

2. The fact that the YC investor demo day application explicitly excludes angels.

Of course, #2 is misleading. You can certainly submit an app as an angel. You just can’t fill out >5 of the fields, because they begin with “If you represent an investment firm…”

The takeaway for me was, ironically, there may be an opportunity for angels to band together and take some risks. YC is all about risk analysis. If they don’t want to risk it on a 58yo solo founder with satellites in orbit, perhaps others will.

But you’re right about YC one-itis. Right now it’s hard to see any alternatives. They do exist, though.

EDIT: By the way, a word to OP: don’t take rejection so hard. (http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html helps with this.) One of the key features of YC is that they invest in people who look like a good bet. As I was reading though your post, I couldn’t help but think that pivoting a few times may not be a good bet. It’s true that startups do pivot, but not having a clear idea of who your customers are is also a warning sign.

As someone else said, put some contact info in your profile. You’ll get dozens of people reaching out to you from this thread if you hurry.

Of course, you could be right about the discrimination aspect, which is different. In that case, rejection would be personal.
Mattel creates Barbie doll of scientist who designed Oxford coronavirus vaccine
This isn't about users' entitlement to run software, but about publishers and users' ability to confirm that everyone has the same version of the software -- to mitigate supply-chain attacks. This is a real, actual concern because governments and probably organized crime are interested in attacking supply chains in order to attack end users, for example by hacking software developers or publishers in order to substitute a slightly modified version of code.

It could be useful for software distributors to have their version history memorialized somewhere outside of their own control, for example to reduce the attractiveness of governments trying to compel them to secretly tamper with some users' versions of a program, or to make it meaningful and more straightforward to check later on whether they published what they thought they published.
I worry that we may committing a historical fallacy. Fires were good, back when the climate was very different. Can we extrapolate that forward given rapid changes in climate. Maybe there are other ways to accomplish similar effects. Logging gets a bad name, but maybe in today’s ecosystem and the ecosystem as it will be in future years leaving it up to fire to do naturally is longer optimal. We are no longer in the garden of eden. Some things do change.
I don't think an app has the kind of low level access required to actually wipe something from memory. Unless android has an API with a function to do so. I assume you are just telling the OS to delete the file and the OS does that however it normally does that. Truly wiping a file from storage requires overwriting it with random data.
I'm talking about the app, not the Kindle device.
Given how impossible it is achieve global consensus on policy, I'm pretty inclined to believe that a technological breakthrough is the only solution. Maybe a series of them.

In the best case, carbon removal and sequestration tech.
In the neutral case, clean and efficient energy tech.
In the worst case, climate-catastrophe coping tech.
> The files that iCloud Photos stores are encrypted to your account and Apple can't access them.

This is false[1]. Apple can decrypt them, and they can decrypt them and send them to law enforcement should they get subpoenas. They're encrypted at rest with keys that Apple has.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51207744
How should ww feel about this? On the one hand if math is the thing that intimidate people from pursuing science then this is encouraging. On the other, papers are supposed to be useful and truthful and I don't know if that can be achieved if the authors are mediocre at math.