skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty interesting. The comments are also interesting. The author of this article was apparently banned from /r/feminism and a well-known ob/gyn feminist disagrees with the author's position. That makes me hesitant to simply believe what the author is saying without digging deeper myself.

I don't think we had more focus on male anatomy in medical school than on female anatomy. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was quite the opposite. There's a whole unit on female anatomy and a compulsory ob/gyn rotation, but not a compulsory urology rotation (most students don't even get to do a urology term). This suggests to me the isn't some conspiracy in medicine against female anatomy.

Though, I can certainly believe the author's claims. Tradition holds too much weight in medicine. Also, it's ridiculous how few lay people actually know what a vagina is. Most times I see/hear that word they are actually talking about the vulva.
the article makes it sound like the approach is so effective that it makes space-based telescopes unnecessary.

is that true? does this mean that we should simply use ground-based 'scopes with adaptive optics?
Be careful, if you do a chargeback on Steam or similar platforms you will be banned.
Glad it’s useful!
> also works the other way around: CAROL does not want to pay ALICE to have premium access.

As others have mentioned there is no extra "premium" access needed.

Netflix pays for their whole upstream, probably a bit extra for redundant uplinks etc.

Customers pay for the entire downstream.

Everyone in between just have to accept the bits and forward them within reasonable time (Netflix has some caching in the client so it shouldn't be to hard unless someone has oversold their capacity.)

> Also, laughable that you call me a shill.

I looked at your recent comment history and I agree.

That said you really seem to defend an undefendable practice to the point where I understand where people get that idea from.

So I'd rather guess you enjoy annoying people on the internet to see them get mad.
Using a virus to kill what antibiotics can’t
Thanks! Will ask my colleagues at YouTeam to fix this!
If I may quote myself from 12 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470247

> It's not just the administration. Every time the EU has levied fines against Google a lot of Americans on HN claim that the EU is doing it because they're jealous of how successful American businesses are.
I like the idea of psychedelics being free to use but only in recognised centers or "retreats", under professional guidance

Holland did the OTC experiment already and there must be interesting data about this somewhere. I don't think OTC would be a good idea, maybe I'm just overly cautious.

At the moment, anyone with sufficient motivation can get psychedelics at the click of a button and here in W-Europe nobody will really face any serious legal consequences for personal use. Testing kits are widely available. The current situation is not a bad one.

> Given how intoxication by alcohol can cause as much social harm as a bad trip.

I don't think (bad) trips would cause much social harm at all actually. Psychedelics have an unpredictability to them that warrants caution in a way that doesn't apply to alcohol (or sky diving, rock climbing ...)

Medical prescriptions are required (in part) because of the potential side effects. If 1% of all paracetamols would drag the person through a mental hell scape, it wouldn't be available OTC either.

Just some thoughts, the discussion is a difficult one.
I find it funny how businesses always complain about not getting the workers. If it's the other way around they're happy to pay bottom rate wages. So in this case they just have to spend 15 or $20 or whatever it takes to get employees.

If they can't pay that then that's the market regulating itself away from too many fast food restaurants.

$10.93/h is still a pittance if you want to live anywhere near Manhattan.

Supply and demand. It's that simple. And businesses always whine around when it's not working in their favor. Suck it, close your Subway if it's not profitable to pay market wages.
Do you remember what supplements and meds he took?
Sadly, the majority of sites linked to from Hacker News are not. Half of them is a form of Medium.com and the other half are abominations ranging from autoplay videos that follow you as you scroll to full page reload / jumps if you scroll down too far. It is a constant UI/UX dark/bad pattern showcase.

I use uBlock Origin and there are 50 websites I mostly fixed with custom css via Stylebot, but still, I see several new pages like that daily.
glad it resonates, painful stuff using waterfall at this stage
Ask HN: Taking part in Research Expeditions as an engineer
I am an engineer and self-taught developer. A few years ago, I co-founded a consulting company. The company is growing, doing well, but I really lost interest in the work, and I am thinking about quitting.

I would love to take part in research expeditions and I think my skill set would be valuable on the field (electronics, workshop tools, multiple dev languages..) but I have trouble finding those kinds of missions. The only platform I have found is the French Polar Institute[1] (I am French), but I wonder if there is any other platform for research missions.

Any help or feedbacks from I.T. professionals/engineers who made the switch would be appreciated!

[1]:http://www.institut-polaire.fr/ipev/recrutement/
Looking at the comment below enumerating the reasons for the ruling, I don't see any overlap between what Google is being fined for and Apple's business practices. Apple isn't forcing 3rd party OEMs to install Safari on their hardware in order to run Apple apps because Apple makes all their own hardware. iOS is not an open source OS meant to be available to third parties, and Apple doesn't have a search engine to pay carriers to mandate.

>requiring mobile manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and Google Chrome browser and requiring them to set Google Search as default search service on their devices, as a condition to license certain Google proprietary apps;

>preventing manufacturers from selling smart mobile devices running on competing operating systems based on the Android open source code;

>giving financial incentives to manufacturers and mobile network operators on condition that they exclusively pre-install Google Search on their devices.
More struts!
Oh, they did learn from MS. We've seen execs kill email threads to make sure position abuse wasn't apparent for future investigations:

https://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-l...
Google's Eight Years of Antitrust Battles at the EU
"Mr. Kaplow has tried everything he can think of to find workers, placing Craigslist ads, asking other franchisees for referrals, seeking to hire people from Subways that have closed."

Everything except paying more.
Probably, but not everyone has the luxury of a great tech person to lead their remote tech team.

Also, if it’s a field where the nontechnical person has some level of domain expertise, they arguably have a better sense of product direction, even if they’re lacking product dev mechanics.

I hope this post helps them get those mechanics!
This is the initial fine. Now they have 90 days to comply, otherwise they will get penalties (up to 5% worldwide turnover of Alphabet) until they do. From the link:

> Google must now bring the conduct effectively to an end within 90 days or face penalty payments of up to 5% of the average daily worldwide turnover of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
Right, so Google develops Android at great expense, they release it as an open source project and now they’re supposed to make even less money from it?

If you think you see similarities between this fine and the microsoft case you should also consider the differences.

For all intents and purposes the market is split 50/50 between Android and iOS, and the fact that Android can be competitive with iOS is largely due to Google’s conditions, as by ensuring quality and consistency they spared Android from the fate of the desktop linux and turned it into a mass market product, not to mention the whole free and open source thing, which is a big deal that is seemingly being brushed aside (what about all the forks?!).

In any other context finnig an open source project for antitrust violations is absurd.

They keep hitting Google with these record fines as there is no political cost for hammering Google in the EU it’s all profit, they get fawning headlines from an approving press and quench the bloodthirst of the politician there who don’t even try to hide their distaste for US tech firms and Google in particular (try and look up their quotes), they can talk up the benefits of free trade all they want and complain about this tariff or that but there is no denying that much of what the EU does is try and hamstring US tech companies.

P.S.

A recent indicator as to the political nature of this action, the fine announcement was delayed until after Trump's visit to europe: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust/eu-go...
I note from the article:
"Mr. Kaplow has tried everything he can think of to find workers, placing Craigslist ads, asking other franchisees for referrals, seeking to hire people from Subways that have closed."

it does not say anything about 'Mr. Kaplow has tried offering higher wages'. This relates to an older HN article - "Employers will do almost anything to hire workers, except pay them more" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506044
What kind of options? They sure aren’t mowing grass. Seems like jobs for teenagers are now the domain of illegal aliens.
Good point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#aHRtbCA%2BIGJvZ...

(I wasn't kidding about needing to shorten those links.)
It feels like if a person can't find a job they are to blame, if a company can't find people the "market" is to blame.
The commercialisation of water is an even better example. You can sell anything if you market it right.
> It's something you always need at some point when the typing is not sufficient to properly account for what you are doing.

E.g. FFI becomes horrendously impractical without something of this kind.
I feel like this might as well have been titled "Where has all the cheap, legal labor gone?"

The answer is probably as simple as they aren't offering enough pay or benefits to attract employees. This is probably an indicator that the average employee is finally getting a little more power in the Employee/Employer relationship, at least in the areas where this is true.

I would love for workers to be able to confidently expect to be able to leave a job that is mistreating them and get a new job right away. As for now, it's relatively common to be asked to work off the clock, not get paid for overtime, or work in conditions that are awful as a low-wage worker.
Genuine question: will people actually get offended if they walk past your screen and get a glimpse of an anatomical drawing?

Or is it seen as a not-appropriate-for-work thing? If so, why not? I'd think more of my colleague for reading this in their lunch break than reading through their Facebook feed. I would be even more impressed if that colleague wasn't a doctor.
I couldn't find the benchmarks for that comment. But the Java numbers seem way off. It must have been a simple toy application, probably with allocations optimized away somewhere - I'd want to see memory allocation rates to see if they are comparable. G1 is usually higher latency than CMS in my experience, too. Try running Cassandra with G1, and see how good your pauses are. Min viable pause time target for G1 is ~200ms (the hotspot default).
I pledged a fraction of this fellow's total in Star Citizen, probably the lowest tier that would result in a digital copy of the game once complete. I was after a modern Privateer reboot, essentially, and figured it was worth the gamble.

I haven't followed the development with anything more than a casual, occasional glance and accompanying eye-roll. I doubt I'll ever see anything come of it. A shame, not necessarily a surprise.

I'm fully aware and prepared that kickstarting a game confers no guarantee, but the feature creep in this case is staggering. I suspect that if this case were to succeed they'd suddenly find themselves underwater with all the pledges clawed back once the precedent was set.
Agreed, fantastic news. And if it raises the prices of fast-food, that's probably a win as well.
Use React in Cycle.js and Vice-Versa
On Demand Taxi Booking App Like Uber
Oh, Apple is a brutal dictatorship that doesn't share anything? That's fine.

Oh, Google, you're willing to share almost everything with anyone for free, but you want to put terms on that? Hey, here's a giant fine.

I just don't understand the logic of this at all.
The Netherlands is subsidizing sex for the disabled.
Notebookcheck also lookedinto it in the recent review
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-13-2018-Touc...
Former Valve Employee Tweets His Experience at Valve
It is going to be interesting in the next few years. We are starting to see a lot more push back about wages.
I had the same thought. But they do write that "Fast-food wages began rising in 2014, and have increased faster than overall wages since."
Tesla – The Amazon and Apple of the Self Driving Future
As someone who used to work on model based reasoning (e.g. for fault diagnosis in industrial systems) I was rather impressed with the contrary view by Brooks that "the world is its own best model--always exactly up to date and complete in every detail."

Edit: Similar ideas also appear in Anathem - although obviously in a somewhat different context.
The Guardian view on Elon Musk: a billionaire in need of humility
Announcing the Azure Cloud Shell Editor in Collaboration with Visual Studio Code
It's sad to see programming effort going into a redundant library that differs only by a license, when it could be used to implement something new.
This probably means that they disrespect users.
As previously stated, Go for video game servers feels like a no brainer.
Yeah true, but C4 is a commercial product, and I've yet to meet someone that used it. But on paper, Azul's C4 GC sounds really great. I think it might require a custom kernel as well, and some other OS restrictions - which would also somewhat limit its usage as a general purpose collector.
From the FAQ: http://www.eso.org/public/about-eso/faq/faq-vlt-paranal/#18

> Q: Could the VLT take a picture of the Moon-landing sites?

> A: Yes, but the images would not be detailed enough to show the equipment left behind by the astronauts. Using its adaptive optics system, the VLT has already taken one of the sharpest ever images of the lunar surface as seen from Earth: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0222/. However, the smallest details visible in this image are still about one hundred metres on the surface of the Moon, while the parts of the lunar modules which are left on the Moon are less than 10 metres in size. A telescope 200 metres in diameter would be needed to show them. [continued]
> there is a very real danger to insufficient paste application on a bare die

So, I've repaired and cleaned many, many laptops and computers over the years. For bare die components (CPU/chipset) I use something like "half a grain of rice per finger nail area". This is already plenty. I sometimes checked after mounting, and there was always some minor squeeze-out. (For desktop CPUs I also use just half a grain of rice. The higher mounting force results in about a ~3-4 cm dia circle; this doesn't extend all the way to the corners of the IHS, but it doesn't have to, since nothing is dissipating heat there.)

> there is no real downside to an enthusiastic application of paste except for making a mess

That's not my experience.

With laptops, the pressure applied by the cold plate is not that much and thermal pastes have high viscosity. (The cold plate is often not that stiff, too, so it tends to flex). Applying too much paste results in a too thick layer of paste, which results in higher temps, hotter laptops, fans spinning faster and thus more noise and annoyance.

Indeed often I found the issue with manufacturer-applied paste was that it was simply too much. I think the reason they do this is that it's harder to get wrong and it makes the product just more annoying, not break it. If they did it properly, there would be some chance of getting it wrong, resulting in a broken product. For the same reason they're using thermal pads wherever they can get away with it: They're practically impossible to misapply.
You have added zero to this conversation.
the only teenager interviewed for this story was doing just that.
A video or a few screenshots would help me understand how it works better and probably help with the number of installs.
Kubernetes Dashboard with kops
Nice site, the search box might look a little nicer if you set outline: none, to remove the garish blue border when the input is focused on MacOS.
Are those CVEs still active or has google/adobe fixed them already?
Are the images natural colour, or have they been 'enhanced' in any way? i.e. is Neptune really that blue?
Do you use robo advisors to invest?
One of the pioneers of Robo Investing, Hedgeable, shut down recently. WorthFM and some more robo advisors shut down a while back.

Do you invest in low-cost index ETFs or do you invest with robo advisors?
At ~1.2 deaths per 100 million miles in the US you would expect approximately ~10-20 deaths over that distance. Adjusted for type of car and driving conditions.

Autopilot seems to be around those numbers which is promising assuming continued improvements. Though it's not currently dramatically safer their is reasonable expectation it will improve over time.
> What Makes a Hit

1. find a hit from the past you really enjoy

2. copy 90% of that song in terms of sound, structure, base melody etc..

3. just change a little of most parts so it doesn't sound like a straight copy

4. have a smart producer who can do this

5. have a great mastering studio to let it sound big

6. use the right channels for promotion (publishing, (radio)dj's, television, social media, etc)

7. have heaps of luck, right timing etc..

Most people in this world have no clue at all that this is what actually makes a hit. It's very rare to see a 'Hit' to come out of nowhere, although it does happen. It's an illusion that a talented musician can achieve this on his own without insane amounts of luck.
Who cares lol - if this fine is a drop in the bucket compared to the gains they made. They should be fined as a percentage of their gains
Monopolies are not illegal, so your argument is irrelevant.
Why is the knee-jerk response to industry labor shortages always to pay more?

It's stated in the article that it's been tried. One biz owner stated there was a $100 bonus in it for anyone who manages to rack up a hundred hours. I don't know how you were as a teenager but when I was a teen $100 wasn't living it large, but it was definitely motivating. Plenty say they offer above-industry wages, so obviously that won't fix the problem by itself.

I believe what's being asked for is an order of magnitude adjustment, and that would significantly change the economics of the industry. I'll hazard a guess and say that nobody's going to really like the quick-service restaurants that manage to turn a profit in this brave new world.

Then again, I've never seen a Chick-Fil-A understaffed. I'd love to see that become the new normal. Demolition Man got it wrong.
> Why not just say, "hey, I prefer React, but it's good Vue exists for folks who prefer a different approach.". Vue's existence isn't a threat to React. It's okay to have multiple approaches to the same problem.

Because I keep seeing folks extolling the virtues of Vue, but when I went and used it I simply found little to nothing of merit compared to existing solutions.

I'm not running around telling folks what to use here, but rather stating my experiences. Perhaps someone might come along and provide a reasonable explanation of how I misunderstood something or a problem it solves better than existing frameworks but all I get is "I look it and you don't so meh."

In short, I'm trying to spur a technical discussion here but all I get in return is fanboyism and folks trying to shut down the conversation.

> but the author didn't really criticize React in any way

Actually, the author criticized React both in direct and indirect ways. He also made incorrect and or misleading claims. Of course the author also goes on the mention that he or she is inexperienced with React but somehow still feels qualified to make those claims.

Sorry for trying to add to the discussion and not just posting "Oh gee, I sure do love Vue too!"

> but I don't think a front end framework monoculture is a good thing

Neither do I.
As a teenager I was working in IT department of a mid-sized industrial company. Which meant helpdesk jobs, assembling server racks, manually installing software on dozens of PCs when it was difficult to automate, maintaining industrial PCs (mostly removing dust or replacing cards), manually wiping HDDs and all kinds of assorted jobs that were tedious but not very difficult with basic understanding how computers worked.

Surely other industries must have similar jobs.
fast.com uses video data from ntflxvideo.net
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You missed my point. Effectively there is more than one kind of monopoly and Apple has just as much control over the mobile space as Google does and abuses it in their own way by pushing their browser, disallowing third party app stores and alternative default mail, maps, etc. Expect to see more of this as Apple starts to rely more and more on services revenue.

Apple currently pulls in an astonishing 87% of mobile profits. Why on earth should they be excluded from anti-trust scrutiny?

https://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple-rakes-...
Would a less-specialized rendering engine not be even less performant if trying to make web-app like things?
It's mostly about having a 80% market share.
Ask HN: Best books about VC's and fundraising
I'm looking for more "hands-on" books that explains the the terms needed to start understanding this world. Thx!
Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1987/
I have a suspicion this generation of parents is not pushing their children into fast food as a way to learn life skills and responsibility. For most, this is a dead end job with a low ceiling.

Although, this has been true for ages. Has anyone ever played Jones in the Fast Lane?