skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a free-market answer to the FDA problem, I don't think any real libertarian would argue otherwise (note: I'm not a libertarian).

The solution is having a brand, and building that brand based on trust. Additionally, 3rd parties you subscribe to could verify the claims of brands and their integrity.

This is similar to things like Fair Trade [1] certifications, or Kosher certifications.

I often buy brand-name drugs OTC for QA purposes. I know that for the most part, Tylenol is going to contain 500mg of the primary ingredient when I buy it. Those portions are likely to be of good purity and uniform size. The off brand, might have more or less, of similar or dissimilar quality. I trust that US-based business for the most part actually care about their customers. It's a web of trust. Do I trust non-US business with manufacturing operations overseas? Not really when it comes to medication, no.

1: https://www.fairtradecertified.org/
Much as it's maligned, the original did attempt to solve some genuine problems and narrowing the audience / focus seems sensible.

Given a lot of the negative points were around the reaction of others to having a camera pointed at them, I never got why they didn't make it easy to flip up the camera part as a way to physically indicate it wasn't in use. Perhaps a little less of a concern in a professional use environment, but it still helps if you have an easy way not to wind people up, eg if you nip away from the place you actively use it in but don't want to take them off completely; would be a Glass equivalent of not going to talk to a shop assistant with your headphones blaring away or whilst on the phone neither of which are particularly polite!
Since this comment gathered steam at some point, I'll also leave this here. I really want to stick with Project Fi. Whoever is in charge, please please pretty please fix the coverage issues. Work with T-Mo to just send me a booster or something. I'm ready to pay for it. Your international rates are great.
Can they awk at them too?
He works for Facebook (via Occulus).

That said, I do wish he'd put out the blog posts as .plan files as well.
do beginner bash guides not tell you to "set -u"? all the system scripts on my system have it

it causes the script to terminate with an error if it encounters use of an unset variable
Why are Indians falling out of love with gold?
Project Binky, from Bad Obsession Motorsport

Two rally car fabricators and lifelong friends in Shropshire who, over the last five years, have been fitting an AWD turbo Celica into the rusted out shell of an old Mini, while adding an air conditioner and a stereo. The craft and attention to detail are absurd.
If you prepay, costs around $400 to $500, but that is not involving private insurance.

https://www.mdsave.com/

Not affiliated, just interesting to see prices of various diagnostics around the US.
> systemd was not a port of anything. And its immediate inspiration was Upstart

Its motivation was perhaps upstart's shortcomings, but systemd was definitely inspired by the design of launchd and that was repeatedly and explicitly mentioned in Lennart's very first blog post introducing it:

> But first, let's clear a few things up: is this kind of logic new? No, it certainly is not. The most prominent system that works like this is Apple's launchd system ...

> For socket activation we support full compatibility with the traditional inetd modes, as well as a very simple mode that tries to mimic launchd socket activation and is recommended for new services.

> More importantly however, it is also our plan to experiment with systemd … to make it the ideal session manager… The problem set of a session manager and an init system are very similar… Using the same code for both uses hence suggests itself. Apple recognized that and does just that with launchd. And so should we…

> Writing Daemons:: … The list above is very similar to what Apple recommends for daemons compatible with launchd. It should be easy to extend daemons that already support launchd activation to support systemd activation as well.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
this only applies when you "know" that what you're building will stick around. If you are quickly iterating on an MVP it's more likely that code you write is going to need to be totally revamped.

Acquiring tech debt in an early stage startup often results in never having to pay back that debt
Thanks again, I've updated the page with your recommendations.
Our anecdote: My fiancee was prescribed generic Exemestane. We 100% believed that “generic is exactly the same compound, just cheaper”. Her joints became stiff and sore. All over. It was debilitating. (It’s a known side-effect of the drug.) Took the generic for two years. Then the supply of generics ran out locally and we had to get brand-name Aromasin. The exact same compound. We had no expectations of different effects or less side effects. Her joint pain mostly cleared up. By like 90%. The difference - once it dawned on us - was shocking.
A fairer comparison will be the restaurant selling what you look like to an advertising firm that will later find you back and push an ad to you.
It depends a lot on the topic. For example, their reporting of Supreme Court decisions is generally factual and straightforward with decent analysis. But there are definitely a lot of stories like you describe. I often get bored with it and switch to something else.

My local station plays BBC News for an hour in the mornings and the contrast is strong. The BBC still does those kind of stories, but a lot less. The most remarkable contrast is interviews. NPR seems to believe that the purpose of interviewing someone is to give them access to an audience so they can say what’s on their mind. The BBC seems to believe that the purpose is to question them and extract information from them.
2d interface on the inside of a cylinder that surrounds the user, it seems. Perhaps not all the way around.
The bit at the end about `goto` and Dijkstra is wonderfully written -- I almost wish it were a separate post so I could point people at it directly.

An interesting note about that, by the way -- there is a notion of a "loop-nesting forest" in the literature, which is basically a way of taking a flowgraph with cycles and deriving a tree of loops, essentially recovering the "original" lexical structure of the loops. This works best when the flowgraph is so-called "reducible", for which the definition is slightly technical (and I don't have an excellent intuition for it myself). The upshot is that a CFG is reducible if you only use the usual "structured" control flow operators.

In the sense that you can recover lexical nesting from a reducible CFG, Dijkstra is right on the money: the dynamic behavior and the static behavior are in much closer correspondence. But once you add goto, you admit the possibility of irreducible CFGs, and it's no longer clear how to recover any hierarchical structure. (There are several types of loop-nesting forest out there, but they focus on recovering different aspects -- there's no perfect solution.)
Anyone remember when NPR had correspondence in Syria with rebels?

I thought it was odd at the time.

Now in retrospect, NPR was cheering on the now Terrorists.
That is true at least some of the time. Some close friends were selected for a renovation of their living room and at the end it looked nice but things like electrical outlets weren’t hooked up, tv mounted on new wall but no plug, etc.

Looked good on the show but there was definitely work to be done to finish it so it was livable.
What irks me is that I either have to agree that they track me or I'm redirected to "text version" of the site, but in the latter case they redirect me to the list of articles, usually even without the one I came for, as if showing that without tracking I'm completely useless for NPR and I could as well go away. This attitude speaks louder than words.
The same way publications made money for two centuries without tracking and “personalization”, by displaying advertising relevant to the content and the publication’s target audience.
That is just blatantly not true. Companies can be, and frequently are, legally required to offer services that they otherwise wouldn't.
I’m sorry , why are you presenting these as if they are the only options? And did you just defer to a common saying to make an assertion about how the world works instead of making a genuine argument?
Battery tech is fine today if companies like Tesla and other EV manufacturers weren't so against open standards. You should be able to pull out your battery and swap it with a full one at a gas station, just like you do with a propane tank (and the gogoro electric scooter).

You don't see a car manufacturer making a proprietary gas inlet that only takes a proprietary pump, but that's exactly what EVs are currently doing because they can squeeze more money this way at the cost of how good the tech could be for people.
State of the art MRI machine costs $3 million up front. Would take 20 scans a week, every week, for 10 years to break even on that investment at $300 per scan. Not counting physician & staff time or cost of capital.
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
Cylindrical panels, TimeWarp, Medium, Quill

What is he talking about? Do Facebook posts not allow links?
> Would you rather have a well-designed flop, or a poorly-designed hit that you can't scale fast enough?

Poorly-designed hit any day. Was this a trick question? :-)

(Obv, I'd prefer a well-designed hit, but I'd rather move fast and validate my market with a hack, than spend too much time and energy building something good that'll never be used.)
There are no official ties between Alpine Linux and ungleich.ch.
We at ungleich are simple people liking simple systems. And we think it is important to support systems that are not mainstream.

That's why we endorse Alpine Linux.
So you drive a "dead end job" (your words) just to get enough to buy more trucks, making other people work for you in dead end jobs. Are you providing jobs or part of the problem?
This whole comment section certainly supports that observation. Massive amounts of "you're doing it wrong" instead of compassion.
"Would you let your mom online shop at a store using this code?!"
Note that the first RTB complaints were actually about the contextual parts of the specification. They specifically went after the parts that only use website subject data.
My understanding of the situation is that there is enough damage already done that a significant portion of the population, if not all of it, will be dead in the next half century, regardless of what's done. Didn't you see the new data from Mauna Loa last week? Plus there's the methane runaway theory, and the oceans are desalinating at an exponential rate due to the ever-accelerating glacial melt that is causing a feedback loop.

We go extinct no matter what. Where's the easier option? Good luck to the plankton or whatever that succeeds us.
The real problem with printing these materials is that the part isotropy is poor, so you get the expected strength on the x- and y- axes but the z- axis (where all of the layers are stacking up) is quite poor. Turns out that printing things in a layer-by-layer fashion has its own cost.

I'm quite involved in this area, happy to share more if anyone is interested.
That makes sense -- switching depths is more taxing (and gets weirder in VR, since you're not actually changing your eyes' point of focus), but a 2D cylinder gives you as much horizontal space as you could possibly get.
The climate threat

The plastic threat

The self-destruction threat

The AGI threat

Seem like the most important threats to humanity, in order, by my understanding.
How are pharmacists going to make 60$/hr if you don't pay them for every transaction? /S
This is forcing a company to provide a service. Unless the govt is going to subsidize it, it's not going to work. And in this case, if they require your consent to process data to provide service and you don't give it, then they can't be forced to provide the service in violation of the same law.

GDPR is vague principle-based legislation and this part is not what people think it means.
The usage examples in the promotion video embedded below the headline look pretty neat. Live streaming, hands free manuals, personalized information.
Name an example. You can't force a company to provide something at cost without any subsidy or provision in return.
Man, I feel for you. You could be working with an ex-colleague of mine, from all you've said. I inherited _his_ codebase when he was let go, and had to re-write most of it, there was no way to fix that in a reasonable amount of time, if even at all.

But the same type of things on the PR comments, the over-architected, highly-coupled monstrosity that never quite worked.

In the end, we ended up with 6K fewer lines of code (out of a total of 16K or so), and the thing actually works now. Go figure...
It's oddly enough not consistent. Often enough, it redirects me to the article, but not always. Maybe they don't do it for all parts/categories of the site?
Hey! Could you pass me my Glass Enterprise Edition 2, please?

I'm a big fan of the technology so I'm happy to see that it has survived the various speedbumps.
Probability a box of a dozen donuts picked from 14 flavors has no more than 3
> What the drivers are doing is not bidding, it is colluding to hide the true market price, i.e. what the lowest bidder would actually be willing to accept. That is illegal.

Is that what's happening? The drivers have no ability to coerce other drivers. It seems to me that if there were a driver willing to accept a lower price, they would do so. But not enough drivers are willing, so Uber/Lyft is forced to increase its offer.
What a simple solution.

Hope that doesn't cause a black market of effective, expensive drugs.
They eat vegetables instead. What are you getting at?
I like mailgun but I only use their free tier.
Sounds good to me. Software companies are no longer independent of the local government. Doesn't make sense for a country's companies to be beholden to software from other countries that is riddled with backdoors for their intelligence agencies.
He probably doesn't care if non-Facebook people don't read his posts.
No, that was the one thing G+ got right. It just wasn't good enough to make up for the other deficiencies.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2019/05/msg00008.html

> I can only comment on the OpenJDK 11 backport in Stretch since I'm the
one who uploaded it last month. Debian 9 "Stretch" is far from being
usable with Java 11 (we poured a lot of work into Debian 10 to make this
possible) and this backport can only be reasonably seen as a technology
preview aimed at gathering feedback.

More at link, but that’s concerning. We’ve been using the “OpenJDK” images but maybe we should look at using a different set of them.
It's 2019 and Go still has a much weaker toolchain and infrastructure story than C (which has a 30 year head start).
A time capsule full of tech and design history was just cracked open at MIT
Nobody is telling kids to stay in their lane, so that’s a straw man.

However some people are proving that they don’t understand the risks other people face, and recommending that they take them anyway.

Advising someone to take a risk that you don’t understand is not leadership.
>Why can’t I charge a cost per view for everything shoved in my face on the way to work, or at the cinema, or on the train, or in any other situation where I’ve already handed over cash?

Because you don't own whatever is being used to advertise. It's not your decision to make. They can charge you and then show you ads.

>In short though I believe there has to be a fundamental shift from the belief that ads, tracking, and shadow profiles are the path to profit in an increasingly connected world.

Belief doesn't mean anything. What matters is what pays the bills. If alternatives worked well, then I'm sure we'd have plenty of sites that would already be doing this. You could argue that crowdfunding is one such route, but I don't think that will ever work on a large scale. The amount of money required just isn't there.

The reason ad-tech is so common is because people are unwilling to pay any amount of money.
In good cities, there's an inexpensive train or subway that goes straight to the airport.
I've been working in AR/VR for a few years now and fairly convinced of this. In fact, beyond the OS interlace I'd say this is true of presenting most data. The usefulness of most interfaces is that they abstract something real. Part of the value of abstraction is the removal of most the extraneous aspects of a problem. Removing a whole dimension removes a lot of data that may be extraneous.

Maps are one very good example of this. A map is partially so powerful because it removes a ton of information you probably don't care about. Occasionally would you like to know a house is up a steep hill before you drive there? Sure. But most of the time who cares. And if you really need elevation data, there's a special map for that. A map which actually shows you information about grade in much clearer way than even a 3D model would (being as humans are actually really bad at guessing a grade by looking at a real slope).
> Completely ignoring the topic of bias

Colloquially, people say "bias" when they want to say "agenda" but scientific-sounding, and that is probably fruitless to discuss.

I think bias is useful to consider in terms of cognition and process.

A journalist has a perspective and there are simply parts of it that he's not consciously aware of, especially missing knowledge.

But the process is also important. A news operation needs to attract readers and their readership's interest is what dictates what is "newsworthy." (They also need sponsors, and this can get bad enough that some trade publications essentially just reprint press releases. But that's less NPR's issue.)

It sounds like NPR is playing to their readership, and this can be a vicious cycle: you can start out with a more diverse audience and more diverse reporting, but by playing to a majority and losing your minority audience over time, you wind up with a monoculture.
>The bankruptcy thing is irrelevant to this discussion.

Well if we are talking about the American educational financial system then it's absolutely relevant to the discussion.

Cars, houses, credit card debt etc. are all discharged with bankruptcy which keeps the markets in check. Student loan debt is the only debt that cannot be discharged when it becomes impossible for the debtor to repay. As a result we are with in a 1.3 trillion dollar[0] debt bubble. And with the government printing IOUs for the students, the universities/profit education centers take full advantage. If the students were able to discharge the debt then the market would correct itself and education would be affordable and there would be less economic risk.

Right now the government is projected to go to a 30 trillion dollar deficit by 2030 with its government job programs and these education 'loans'. Even if you do not have student loans or work in the education system, you should be aware of the large debt bubble that's forming. And if Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. decide to trade oil on different currencies... well then things will get interesting...

It will affect everyone just like the mortgage crisis in 2008.
launchd doesn't break nohup. It doesn't have any opinions about processes started from shells. systemd does, which is completely inappropriate scope creep.
Maybe it was downvoted when you saw it, but it isn't now. Maybe it will be downvoted again next time someone sees it. Who knows? This is why it's a bad idea to complain about downvotes.
For reference, I recently went to an MRI ‘center’ and their business hours are 7:30am to 10pm 7 days a week.

So, even charging $500 and booking every 30 minutes, payback on investment is much less than a year.
Show HN: I am excited to show my new Blockchain job board
https://callaride.com is launching next month (local to the Tampa Bay, FL area only for now), and one of their key differentiators is giving drivers the ability to set their rate. There will be minimums and maximums in-place, but they will have more control than with Uber or Lyft.

Note: I am a third-party PM working with the web and mobile application teams.
Hi Geoff, congratulations on the new role. Do you have any thoughts you can share on YC's presence outside of SF? Any plans to move the core operations or setup hubs in alternate geographies?
I want to buy a car without emissions control or catalytic converter, running on leaded fuel. I want to burn that old smokey coal in my home and factory again.

All things laws have forced makers not to do. This is just the same, except it concerns misuse of personal data.
I agree with your analysis. This seems in line with the "feeling > facts" ditch our society seems to be slowly sliding into.
That is the genuine argument.

Not Everything is cheap.

Did you want a third option where old people get medicine, but young people pay higher taxes?

Pick your solution, someone loses.
CT scans still have higher resolution than MRI for certain vascular and cardiac imaging studies. The down side is radiation exposure.
I think it is going to take a while to see how / if enforcement plays out.
There's a lot of truth in what you're saying, but I think you have "Motte" and "Bailey" backwards.
So, you basically want cable TV for the internet? Yeah, we all know how that's going to work out, don't we?
This article had great impact in commercial data processing at the time. I was just entering the programming workforce and my bank programming manager considered our shop very progressive due to strict guidelines on the use of statement labels in our COBOL programs. GOTOs were allowed only to the paragraph label - to effect a loop continue, or to an exit paragraph label - to effect a loop exit.

Waves of consulting firms during that decade promoted structured programming in COBOL, which lacked block structure.

The utility of Dijkstra's approach was drilled home time and time again by my maintenance of unstructured third party software whose GOTO statements followed some stale lost flowchart.

My favorite COBOL label from the FORTE Burroughs database package, recalled vividly 46 years later...

JIMS-HOPE.
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media molecule's Dreams has the most impressive user interface i've ever used. it uses 2d panels laid out in 3d space but the panels can be anchored and resized in screen space, object space or world space and it's extremely intuitive. i highly recommend people interested in ux/ui check it out
Metro's hours are usually the problem for me, usually getting to the airport after the last train has left.
If one or two drivers pick up the fair before the surge they are good for 15+ minutes of being not at the airport driving someone someplace, then the surge can just happen then after they leave.
My insurer pays like $450. The hospitals seem to be doing ok, if anything there are way too many MRIs out there.
You can simulate the slider behavior you describe by thumbing up everything for more variety, or thumbing down everything for more restriction.
Nice. Came here to mention Paul Sellers too.

Humorist Adam Carolla has pointed out several times on his podcast that guys who work with their hands (his examples have been car guys and carpenters) don't have time to worry about the drama-filled escapades that the creative types or the white collar types engage in every day. Having worked in both there seems to be some validity in this.
Rewriting piecemeal is a great idea but extracting microservices adds a whole new set of problems that likely aren't worth the tradeoff, especially when your team is just you or only few other people. eg: Now your devops responsibilities aren't just deploying and keeping 1 app up and running, it's all of them.
An even better example is UL (Underwriters Laboratories), which directly tests products for safety.