skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snarky conservatives who never heard of energy storage would say - "And nights too?"
Thanks Jay. If you could change or respond with a direct link (that link points to an Elon Musk article)
You care, but the sclerotic government(s) and their poltical power blocks that are an absolute time waste to deal with make you realize you can't do shit and you ignore it to keep your sanity.

You might say that all government is sclerotic, but the ones in california & SF are extra sclerotic compared to others around the world.

Look at prop 13, $500k 'environmental reviews' for a $5k mural on a wall, how an HSR project is super expensive compared to the rest of the world and will probably fail, how the sf city council denies anything that would make building housing better, a fucking buslane on geary can't get made or a 1.5 mile subway takes 20 years and on and on it goes. And california is an incredibly wealth economy on top of it that can easily afford this stuff compared to other countries.

Also there is a dynamic in places like LA or the bay area, where many newcomers are on visas or green cards, are a significant % of the population and can't vote on issues as a result, skewing the political power base.
Personal attacks are not ok on HN. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and do not post like this here, regardless of who you're attacking.
Oh man, I couldn't stop giggling looking at the Microsoft and Oracle org charts. Those two pictures capture those two organizations completely.
Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20190712120132/https://twitter.c...
> I’ve never seen a protest go well for any company

Went well for SpaceX, which won access to Air Force contracts through the courts. (It’s now re-litigating [1].)

In any case, this is commercial litigation. Not protesting per se.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-lawsuit/musk...
> people stop underestimating what users actually do with computers

Oddly, this is the factor that underlies most of my personal beefs with both Microsoft and Apple. What's wrong with my wifi? At least I can look in journalctl on linux. My laptop doesn't have enough screenspace - I can use i3wm on linux. I want double-click to include '*' and '/' and ':' in a "word", hey I can change xterm config. I want left-mouse-button to start a selection, and right to continue it, and middle-mouse-button to paste, and I want F2 to paste, X11 can do that. I don't want the focused window to pop to the top? Can do on Linux. There's so many things that Windows and MacOS make the decisions for you and make it very, very hard to do otherwise that really cramp your style on a basic level.
I bounce back and forth, usually using Gadfly for most plotting but Plots.jl is convenient for some stats plots (see StatsPlots.jl, which extends Plots.jl with nice built in functions for working with stats).
> There really is no meaningful way to know that the data being put in is PII, or to regulate how the orgs that use it, do so. And even if we did put in any such safeguard

Since you advertise that your tech is suitable for lead sourcing, you obviously don't see anything wrong with mining and linking databases of PII information, as long as it's done by "the good guys".
John Oliver isn't any better.

In his segment on Libya, for example, he didn't mention that Obama and Hillary (or even the US) were responsible for the mess there.

In his special on mandatory minimums, he ignored the Clinton Crime Bill, while showing footage of the first Bush.

News sources slanting their coverage for political reasons isn't limited to Fox and Sinclair.
I think of all the types of data, it’s workout data that’s freely moving between systems. I use Apple Watch, Garmin, Peloton, Zwift and Cyclemeter. I have various ways to move data between them. Of course there are gotchas but it mostly works. Apple health drops GPS data and heart rate when synced to. Strava is my primary hub and the bulk export feature neatly exports all the workouts as is. Zwift syncs to Garmin and Strava and Garmin syncs to health. Peloton syncs to health and Strava. And so on. I use strava as the hub. Primarily because of the bulk export feature and their ability to maintain the original
Workout upload as is.
Yes, but in all the recent Touch Bar hatewagon pile-ons, many commenters try to suggest moving to this or that Windows laptop, without understanding that it is Windows we want to avoid in the first place.
Sadly, I don't have 16GB GPU memory...
"We identified that our rolled-back election protocol interacted poorly with a recently-introduced configuration setting to trigger the second period of degradation."

Damn what a mess. Sounds like y'all are rolling out way to many changes too quickly with little to no time for integration testing.

It's a somewhat amateur move to assume you can just arbitrarily rollback without consequence, without testing etc.

One solution I don't see mentioned, don't upgrade to minor versions ever. And create a dependency matrix so if you do rollback, you rollback all the other things that depend on the thing you're rolling back as well.
the article in link is about elon musk not bird scooters
This link takes us to a Tesla article.
I think if you're just plugging together reasonably "vanilla" components from python / R libraries, and only using vectorised operations, those languages are fine and you can get away with using vectorised libraries wrapping C++.

The moment Julia shines is when your workloads can't be phrased by stringing together the limited set of vectorised verbs that python / r libraries give you: this is anything stateful and loopy like reinforcement learning, systematic trading, monte carlo simulations etc.
It's also useful if you really care about performance and are doing "vanilla" computations at a truly large scale. If you want to avoid copying memory (i.e. doing vectorised operations), or want to tightly optimise / fused some numerical operations, it's great.

The other issue with python / r wrapping c++ libraries is that different libraries will generally not play well together (without coming out into python / r space, and doing a lot of copying / allocation). This tends to encourage large monolithic c/++ codebases like numpy and pandas, that are pretty impenetrable and difficult to extend / modify.
my bigger problem is how unstable all of the apis are. every single time i try to follow a guide/tutorial i get compilation errors because packages have shifted.
The End of the Free Internet Is Near
May I ask what ROCs is and why is it making Nvidia drivers better?
Are you talking about hosting your own smtp server?

The issue is that you need to put lots of effort into getting off of blacklists, or your email won't be delivered.
Usage of AWS services is a conscious decision, absolutely. However, the product architecture that uses these AWS services is subject to careful review for design and functional components integrity. Any of these components must be replaceable as issues/bottlenecks are identified. For example, if AppSync is proven to have issues as the company scales further, AppSync can be replaced with self-hosted GraphQL clusters. Additionally, other components in the architecture can be similarly replaced.
> They've been around for years and probably aren't going anywhere.

Even if they don't go anywhere, all it takes is to not support certain devices, block some other services, maybe focus on a different market (They didn't use to be as into fitness trackers), etc.
Or having the waiter ask to fuck your daughter.

My dad does shit like that sometimes. It's not cute.
The discussion is about a Windows build node — you can't even run MacOS on typical datacenter hardware!

These are just the incentives that capitalism creates. Microsoft's abusive ad practices, Apple's abusive hardware lock in. C'est la vie. The only stack that isn't structurally abusive to users is Linux, but of course it's Linux.
Framer Motion, successor to Popmotion an animation lib for React
>> Bird charges each vehicle once every five or so rides, or roughly every 10 miles. That suggests Bird isn’t making use of the 30 miles or so it says its scooters’ batteries can last.

that makes sense. Any growth oriented company would much rather lose margins by prematurely charging than risk having an user run out of battery and churn. I don't see that changing much post-saturation.

I could imagine this flaw in unit economics being overlooked by investors and omitted in pitches. Doesn't this destroy the unit economics? Only way around it would be paying independent re-chargers per % refill rather than flat per charge? But I think I remember some firm trying that and the re-chargers would just run it down in their sheds...
>Americans are, on the whole, unwilling to pay the prices required to provide people with a living wage and proper labor protections.

I would frame it as, "Americans are, on the whole, unwilling to pay higher prices for ethically-sourced food when lower prices can be had elsewhere." The solution is to eliminate the cheaper, unethical alternative.
> which only run in IE for whatever reason.

Java Applets (and Flash) were built on the NPAPI APIs (as "plug-ins"). Historically NPAPI was supported by every major browser.

NPAPI/Plug-ins are insecure/cannot be sandboxed. After Flash died, browsers quickly dropped NPAPI support (namely Opera 2016, Chrome in 2015, Firefox in 2017, Safari in 2018, etc) and Edge never supported it.

Internet Explorer is the only browser with a large install-base that still supports native plugins and by extension Java Applet. It is essentially Microsoft's "compatibility" browser, a safe haven for the last remaining ActiveX/NPAPI Plug-ins/Flash/Java Applets/etc.

Extensions by contrast are much more secure, as they run completely in a browser's context and can be isolated/sandbox/have permissions, but aren't suitable for running a full speed virtual machine (although Web Assembly could change that) like Java or Flash.
sure! bare-metal would be awesome. But isn't it a shame not to take advantage of all the virtualization/containerization goodies out there? After all, the virtualization overhead nowadays is only referring to I/O (network & storage). CPU/MEM are being virtualized using hardware extensions at (near-)native speeds.
I guess I'm one of those old people now who actually does remember reading about software patterns on the c2.com wiki, and being amazed by it, before Wikipedia even existed :)
VCs are generally greedy and stupid at the same time. They follow the herd more than any other industry. The fact they invest in something means little as to how savvy they are or how successful the product will be. 90% of all startups fail, and there have been plenty of spectacular implosions in the past and there will be plenty of spectacular implosions in the future. Bird will be the WebVan of this business cycle.
They still retain the global rollout for the other use cases detailed in the write up, so its generally tested, though not for this one use case as you point out. I suspect the tradeoff is reasonable, however having a short pre-stage deploy before global in all cases would be a more conservative option that would prevent an emergent push from becoming an even bigger emergency!
Costa Rica has a large hydro capacity, so nights too :)
A country of 5 million people with mostly a tourism based economy.
I've gotten way too addicted to DxO. But it runs fine in a VM.

That said, I only use it a couple times a month. If I had to run it professionally, I'm not sure I'd be down.
Or, say, 90% certain that you are perfectly sane?
The offer is made, but the reason for doing so isn't made clear. I didn't understand it at the time; I availed myself of it in a minimal way. Most don't do that.

Some of that is the accident of geography: it simply wasn't necessary. Today, we are more connected to our Spanish-speaking neighbors, and the value of learning that language is becoming increasingly obvious. I don't know whether the schools are doing a better job of stressing that than they did when I was in school.

I have indeed chosen to learn other languages, several of them. I wish I'd done it in school, at a time when my brain was more open to it. Unfortunately, that was also a time when I didn't know very much and put my priority on other things that ended up making less of a difference in my life.
You should've just stopped after number 2. I trust the intelligence community as little as the next techno-privacy-nut but obviously no one can come to any decision on a complex question with ONE data point.
the publisher has authorized HN to view it. the guy who works there has commented about it on another thread.
> how did they ever get valued so highly?

Bird isn’t WeWork. Yes, they’re unviable on a unit basis now. But that’s a hardware problem. They’ve grabbed market share; now they must build margins through R&D. The traditional model is R&D first market capture second, but there isn’t a fundamental reason not to go the other way when the R&D is reasonably feasible.
goto: http://wiki.c2.com

it's like http://harmful.cat-v.org but saner
Organizing mobile machine learning projects
I live in SF and though I can back-up your experiences I do want to point out that tourists often get an above average exposure to homelessness in this city for the following reasons:

1) The tourist hotspots of Downtown and Civic Center have a disproportionate amount of homeless due to their proximity to homeless services in the Tenderloin as well as begging opportunities around large corporate conferences. This is in contrast to North Beach, the Outter Sunset, Golden Gate Park, and many other areas (I'm not saying there are NO homeless in the latter areas just that IMO it is an entirely different experience). I wish tourists would get outside the basic areas more, but that is largely SF's fault because without a car it can be difficult.

2) Tourists usually choose below average accommodations in terms of cost, which usually takes them directly to the Tenderloin. This makes sense because hotel costs in Downtown are insane and geared towards corporate travelers.

3) European tourists are much more capable of taking public transit and as such spend more time around major transit hubs (like Bart at Civic Center) which is known as one of the worst stations in the Bay Area.

None of these points make what you experienced ok or acceptable. But it highlights IMO the most important issue that so many people are running around with only partial context and heavy biases towards the issues.
For what it's worth, I'm not sure about the actual paper itself, but the posted article makes it seem like no one knew that TH588 was not primarily acting as an MTH1-inhibitor.

> “This is an exciting paper for two reasons,” says David Pellman, associate director for basic science at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, who was not involved in the study. “First, Yaffe and colleagues make an important advance for the rational design of drug therapy combinations. Second, if you like scientific mysteries, this is a riveting example of molecular sleuthing. A drug that was thought to act in one way is unmasked to work through an entirely different mechanism.”

Since my startup compiles all genomic knowledge from the published literature, of course the first thing I did was search the literature. The first article that comes up with a quick search for MTH1 and TH588 was from 2014 [0], which basically says TH588 is a first-class MTH1-inhibitor effective in treating certain cancer cells. Then in 2016, another article says that's not its primary mechanism of effectiveness [1]:

> In particular, we identified tubulin as the primary target of TH287 and TH588 responsible for the antitumor effects despite the nanomolar MTH1-inhibitory activity in vitro.

Tubulin of course is part of the mitotic spindle which the posted article claims was discovered as the actual target upon which TH588 acts.

I've found around 10 other papers between 2016 and 2018 that further conclude that TH588 doesn't act primarily as an MTH1-inhibitor.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24695224
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27210421
I bought a used Xbox One for the sole purpose of some exclusives and for multiplayer with a few people I know who use Xboxes. There are a few nice points like it being totally separate from the stuff going on on the PC but I'd have no reason to own it if it weren't for the two primary reasons I mentioned. It doesn't even support my new monitor's 1440p res apparently and there's no way I'm buying a new one just for that.

I'm hoping the rumors about Win10 eventually supporting all Xbox games natively are true.
If the scooters would solar charge and return then somehow automatically, it'd help immensely. Self driving scooter is somewhat further in the future then a self driving car though.
The scooters usually even have enough charge left to slowly return home.
I agree that a single supplier is always bad. It is basically walking into a customer lock-in situation.

However, among the major cloud computing providers Amazon is definitely one of the best in terms of offerings, maturity, and stability. Microsoft is not far behind Amazon, but I do not have any experience using Azure to know how it compares.

For "military-grade" cloud computing, I would choose Amazon.
Generally if you disable updates, you disable them all

That isn't necessarily true at all. Indeed, the basis of this very story is that Microsoft has been providing updates for older versions of Windows that included only the security patches (i.e., not new features, telemetry, and any other stuff that might change the behaviour of system in ways its user doesn't want). In terms of your "vaccination" strategy for the Internet, these patches are the ones that matter.

However, in this case, Microsoft might have bundled one of the things that people have been trying to opt out of -- telemetry -- into one of the updates labelled as security only. If they really have, that would be a further significant breach of trust, and given their recent track record with pushing telemetry, GWX and so on, a lot of people are no longer even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, to the point that some people are no longer applying updates from Microsoft at all, in some cases including security updates. That is bad for almost everyone, and it's been directly caused by Microsoft's repeated abuse of the update system to push user-hostile changes.
That is definitely the case in my community. We are not a big city, and we have essentially zero visible homelessness. But the stats for my kids' elementary school says we actually have a fair number of homeless kids. Turns out that's because they are living somewhere that does not qualify as their own home. They still have a place to eat & sleep.
I love how HN is so diverse and how many submissions' titles can be read in many ways.

Tip: this article is about a human, real-person garbage collector, and garbage is the real, physical waste that people put inside bins.
> and that the explanations you give for why "some people think pointing out that IQ for blacks is lower is a racist statement and others do not think it's a racist statement" are both something that a racist - perhaps different racists - might agree with.

The implication here is that I'm racist. You then go on to explain that having an opinion that a racist would agree with is problematic.
Dunno, maybe they have it set up this way to build something, and one of the tools requires IE/Internet access?
I HaveThisPattern.
But drumpf!
Just because people have money to burn does not mean they earned it or acquired it through hard work and good thinking. Most people with money are absolute idiots just like everybody else. In fact, in many cases, and especially with wealth inequality as it is, they can afford to be stupid.

I am not joking-- I'm willing to bet that there is a direct correlation between inequality and stupid products/business models making it to market. When you can just keep trying new things until something sticks, you're not going to try very hard or act with much caution.
I agree. A lot of this problem stems from the deiinstitutionalization of American life in the middle of the century. Which generally was a right minded and compassionately motivated thing to do. And I agree that cities which see this as a real problem should begin building the proper administrations and institutions to deal with this. But usually when cities begin to see this as a problem, they don't do that. They revert to using the only tool they have at the ready. And they bring the hammer down harder than they ever did before any relaxation of its use.
no I don't.
In my opinion, it's an unfortunate accident that Python became popular for numerical / data-ey workloads. It's good for some things, but fast low-overhead loopy code is definitely not one of them!
Didn't know Cisco is Chinese...

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1804
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/02/cisco_vulnerabiliti...
Profitable minus CapEx on a capital intensive company seems like some creative accounting. They’re going to need a path to real growth or their next raise is going to be a down round.
It's very easy to incur high costs here. We implemented cost analysis dashboards that allow us to monitor costs per each event, device, with visibility into each AWS service we use, with charts showing historical data. Fiscal planning is now part of our architecture design and implementation.
Probably the biggest one ever - Boeing successfully protested the awarding of the tanker contract to NG/Airbus [1]

[1] https://www.industryweek.com/public-policy/us-gao-upholds-bo...

edit: spelling
I hate this trend on sites that show you buttons when you highlight text. I use highlighting to follow the text and it interrupts my line of site every time those buttons pop up.
I would argue that as an entity when communicating with other entities they may be able to refer to the data they store as "their data", but the data itself is still yours.

It's kinda the whole point of GDPR and stuff...
I never lived in a city with these types of scooters, but I'm just now finding out you don't need to stow them at a docking station.

Guadalajara has a "mibici" bike program ($20/year) where you undock a bike, get 45 minutes on it, and plug it back into a rack somewhere, else the costs mount up. Always assumed these scooter programs worked like that.

Being able to dump the scooter anywhere makes me realize why people consider them such an urban nuisance. Not really something I'd task the average person to do with forethought or courtesy unless it hits them in the wallet.
Birdsong and anthropogenic noise: implications and applications for conservation
Bird also had horrible problems with fraud from chargers. I gave it a try and the number of high value birds that were locked up in people's houses and garages was astounding. Just blatant outright fraud, a house in the burbs would have 20 $20 scooters showing at the location. I think they finally have it under some control as high dollar scooters never show in the app anymore, that probably also means they have less people charging.
> 90% of all startups fail

There's no way it's that low. Maybe 90% of VC-backed startups, and even then I think it depends on how you massage the definition of 'fail'
Ask HN: Engineers in Tech, how do you vet jobs/companies?
What?
I am doing customer development interviews to understand how engineers search for jobs and vet companies/offers.

Why?
I’ve had so many friends and family accept a job with a company because the interviews said one thing, and then when they get into the environment it is totally different. I am trying to dig at how we might be able to help illuminate more about what it is like to work somewhere before you even apply.

The Ask?
Any chance you would be interested in sparing 20 minutes to answer some questions and help me test some assumptions?
First bikes, then flying cars: 3D printing of carbon fiber composites takes off