skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s kind of weird. The FDA, and agencies in other countries modelled after it, usually have two jobs:

• for drugs, such agencies verify that new drugs are safe/effective in concept (rather than in any particular manufacturing implementation)

• for food, the agency looks at specific manufacturers and distributors of a food, and—given a particular food they’re claiming to be producing—the agency verifies that their product meets the agency’s own definition of what that named food “should” be (i.e. you can’t sell Cheez Whiz as “cheese” because it doesn’t contain enough [whatever], though you can sell it if you don’t try to call it “cheese”; you can’t sell beef as “beef” if it contains toxic levels of thyroid hormones, though you could sell it as something else, e.g. as a hypothyroidism supplement, since those levels would be expected for that product; etc.)

But, strangely, these agencies don’t have any mandate to to apply the “food”-type rules (checking manufacturers and distributors for their output being within tolerances to a definition) to the drugs—even when those drugs are known to be produced through a process that can leave harmful reagents in them if not cleaned properly.

What’s up with that?
Sure, you may get a ticket for not using a pedestrian crossing if there is one nearby, but if you get run over it's still probably the driver's fault. You can have both.
Recent NetworkManager versions on Linux do the same (I don't remember if it's on by default or not, though).
It's not moving as much as I expected given the number of shares released from lockup.
Yeah, they are good at hiding profits
and they are an ADV company which dominated the mobile market because it was strategic, they don't need to profit from selling (and manufacturing) the HW, they just need your screen time

You think Google lied under discovery? Oracle wasn’t just counting their meager hardware sells but they were also counting as sales, Google Play revenue etc.

And it's almost impossible to own an android devices without Google SW on it.

There is a country that has over 1 billion people running Android with no Google Services.

That's not really true, and iPhone revenues are declining every year.

And it’s still about the same as MS’s revenue last quarter at 38 billion

If Apple loses the mobile market, it's finished.

Apple is far more diversified than Google. Almost all of Google’s profits come from advertising, 48% of Apple’s revenue come from the iPhones.

The Mac business by itself is about the size of McDonald’s the last time I checked.

Estimates for Youtube is that it’s barely profitable if at all.
Cool! As for “fake” info, I mean something like “look for the pink rocks next to the waterfall”. Something innocuous but you can point to to prove origin of their content.

Also, I’m a big fan of “if you can’t best ‘em, join ‘em”. I’d try to work out a deal with them rather than just take down your content.

Good luck!
Ask HN: Viable Career in Web Dev?
After almost 8 years, I am trying to switch career from customer service to web dev. I am learning Python in weekends.

What should I learn for viable career in web dev?
What's on my software engineering bookshelf
This was five years before a 10000 dollar dedicated speech recognition card would be available for home PC's, I remember when we got one for testing when I was working during college at IBM and it was huge like those double slot graphics cards one can buy today, now we can do the equivalent on our phones - it's hard to predict sometimes how fast or where technology is going to advance.
In the winners within your examples (I'm not sure why Spotify and Airbnb are on that list), the economics around their unit costs were fantastic, because they aren't selling physical goods or services. That's the main difference between those companies and WeWork/Uber: There's no way to drive margins low enough at those companies to justify valuing them like Google.
High Throughput Connectomics
> Seriously? A huge cultural meme when it comes to Trump being elected was this idea that rural America was disaffected and disheartened because it had been 'left behind' economically.

I don't know where this meme came from, but I don't think it was from rural people and to the extent that it's true, I think it's more a response to the contempt ruralites have felt from the urban elite (ranging from the incessant depictions of rural America as backward and racist to the general neglect with respect in response to the most recession to the pro-illegal-immigration stance which entails competition for the rural/poor and cheap labor for the urban/elites).

Another problem with your argument is the attitude of "why do you choose to live there?" implies that people elected to move to rural areas in a time when these globalization issues were reasonably foreseeable, and it implies that it's trivial for everyone (including the rural poor) to uproot their lives and move to a city.
GPS being underpaid is not that different in the USA. For instance, when Medicare got together to decide upon reimbursement rates for services, they gave ONE seat at the table to each group of doctors. So, the eye doctors got a seat, the foot doctors, the kidney, the liver...and ALL geriatrics got one seat. Think about that...a government program for healthcare for the elderly, and geriatrics is by far under-represented in setting reimbursement rates?!?!

No wonder preventive care is extremely undervalued. Special interests dominate healthcare in the USA, and in other countries too, it seems.
We're not talking about inalienable rights. That's implied in the title of the linked post.

If you don't care about "good"/"bad" decisions and just care about the legal bounds, just say so and dismiss the article out of hand. Your roundabout question just drags discussion down.
Also cool: the device you travel with doesn’t need any company secrets. I imagine some would find that important when dealing with border control/TSA.
I wonder how much cost offloading was done to make ridesharing look profitable and everything look like a loss. Uber needs a positive narrative of some kind
The privacy and security sectors are pretty consistently aware of ways things can go wrong. But they were overwhelmed at the time by the popular consensus, that openness is super important and it's terrible that social networking companies don't have more of it. Remember when Tim Berners-Lee criticized Facebook for not putting all your data on the public web? (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8151101/tTim...)
This is really interesting to me, how are the crash investigators able to pinpoint the exact cause of failure in such circumstances? I'd imagine a small piece of wire would be just another miniscule piece of debris at a crash site, and unlikely to still be in the location that caused the crash.
Does not compute. I regularly hit objects while driving my car. Such as: potholes, twigs, paper bags, plastic bottles.

The deadly assumption here is "doesn't clearly match a category" => "safe to ignore"
An 8 gig stick of ram costs about thirty dollars. It doesn't make sense to run 4 these days.
From what I’ve seen in those doctor review sites and some pharmacy experience, what makes a good doctor in a lot of patient’s minds is whether they get whatever they want or not.

Telling patients that a requested test/referral/intervention isn’t supported by evidence really upsets people.

And being nice goes a long way.
Interesting. I didn't know that using "Open" was any different than double clicking. Thanks for the tip.
From the video, the road has sidewalks, so it's reasonable to expect pedestrians.
What surprises me is that so many tech companies issue huge amounts of RSUs and their stock price hasn't tanked. Do people actually keep their RSUs in their employer? I sell asap, I'm not going to be Enron'd. One day this whole house of cards will collapse.

Would be great if anyone had some figures on how many employees sell vs keep their RSUs.
How much wealth was redistributed upwards? Who benefited from Uber other than the founders and maybe 1% of the entire business?

I find it highly unethical for such a business to be able to ignore so many laws most of which protect the have nots to build a system that moves most of the profits to the haves. Then dump the broken business to IPO for fools to buy up and loose as well.
I'll ignore whether or not it's morally sound to bring him back, since in the US putting reprehensible men in positions of leadership is par for the course these days. What moves would Travis make to attain profitability?

Remember that Steve Jobs helped Apple by killing a lot of products and simplifying their offerings. In the latest numbers release, rides were "profitable"; Uber Eats wasn't. I would agree that if Uber focused on the core product, and eliminated all the side projects, in the long run it would work best.
it's a combination of the right to free expression and free association, not just for journalists, but for everyone. I should not be prevented from hearing things i might be interested to hear, or from hearing things from people i 've chosen to associate with because someone 3rd party thinks they re not nice.
We can't be sure about this, maybe the airport mask the data to a relay
I'm not oppossed to frat bro culture tout court. As long as employees aren't being harmed and productivity is high, then the choice to work at a place with just such a culture is like the decision to choose to work anywhere. Pretty standard stuff.

However, people can mistake a frat bro culture with actually high productivity (leaving aside questions of whether employees are harmed by the culture). Zenefits pre-Parkers-leave might be an example. Employees can't be getting drunk and having sex in stairwells during office hours and retain a high level of productivity.
RDP will require much higher bandwidth and come with much greater latency as compared to VSO.
I also love the AlternativeTo as a resource for alternatives:

https://alternativeto.net/software/typora/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxoAWTBlRs
Nice write-up! Thats the beauty of scale, explain a part in detail, then go with the 30,000 foot view.

IMM, the security orchestration may actually become the "app" as speeds continue to increase, compute costs go even lower and losses incurred from compromised data/networks increase.

A true zero trust platform that keeps all of the doors closed or "instances/vm" offline until (the milliseconds) they're needed is the security symphony we might see on the horizon.

Data silos and walled gardens may never go out of style, they'll just take on new acronyms.
This is already happening on a large scale (but not yet being revealed to the victims) thanks to testing for inheritable diseases.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/31/oneperson-10-mis...
> I think they've just given up on the OS war

That's an odd way of putting "have been winning so hard for so long that they probably can't even lose now if they tried".

...unless of course you mean the server OS wars, in which case that statement is a lot less wrong.
Yeah, not that hard to do manually--I have a nice script for that. But I haven't looked into the logistics of hooking into the wifi connection process and doing this automatically :)
> You could travel with a cheap throwaway Chromebook and know you can still get work done. If it gets stolen or lost, you can get a replacement the same day and get back to work.

If I'm traveling light, a 1.5KG Macbook Pro or X1 Carbon Thinkpad is not going to cause me problems, and I'd much rather go without extra t-shirts or sandals (which I can buy and toss) than my laptop.

OTOH, one of my biggest issues with traveling, especially to foreign countries outside the West, is lack of decent internet. Numerous times I basically just had to work offline the best I could using my real IDE and local git repos, and then sync up at an expensive hotel or restaurant with decent wifi, in which I wasn't staying or eating (i.e. use it quickly to sync, not sit there all day).
The Librem 5 is another price point and I think its trying to achieve another goal. I dont think they are in any real competition. For the pinephone, if one of your main goals is the final pricepoint, how much % of your devices cost (and development time) are you going to invest into a (unfortunately) niche feature? And are you risking the robustness of your phone for it? I think the way its done is the cheapest, yet still functional way, which this phone is all about.

The Pinephone is at its core a proof of concept made cheaply available to jump start development for open source linux smartphones. Once its shown to be working we can talk about every day competitors to existing smartphones, but thats at least a generation away. Librem is trying to achieve this to begin with by marketing it to privacy and security conscious users. I am really curious if that will succeed, but i fear people will expect it to match the comfort of their current smartphones at that price, which is a really difficult thing to do. Looking at history, it took a while till Linux became a realistic option as an OS for a home computer for people who dont consider them self geeks. The pinephone isnt reaching for the moon but makes the first step.

To the other point, this will be my first smartphone as well and is intended for daily use, just not with GPS, LTE and SMS.
Head in the Clouds: Our Infrastructure Migration to AWS
Turing is the easiest because he's the only one that makes any sense. You have to get incredibly philosophical to have Hopper or Lovelace on the list as they very obviously did not invented the computer.
Another way to look at it is that we keep reinventing the wheel.

Why are there so many filesystems? Because everybody starts from scratch.

Then everybody writes code first and later a description of the filesystem.

We need a way to learn from previous mistakes and then find a way to fix those problem.
I obviously expect EU to come hard against the Spanish government for trying to exclude people from their fundamental freedoms such as freedom of the speech, protest and the right of peaceful assembly.
I have often thought it would be a good idea if employees had a voice in the salaries of their bosses. That would prevent mediocre executives from looting a company like that. If an executive is really good and benefits the company as a whole, sure give them a high salary to keep them on board. But if they're mostly profiting from the hard work of the rest of the company, and don't want to reinvest the profits back into the company or share it with the employees, then why should they be getting these massive salaries?
If your son has good grades and test scores, there are lots of merit scholarships available if you're willing to look below the "top tier" of universities. I had multiple friends who chose to accept full-rides from regional state universities rather than pay full price at their flagship state university, and their career outcomes have been excellent. There are definitely trade-offs, but they benefited from being a "big fish in a small pond", and were always the first in line for research opportunities, internships, etc.

University of Alabama in particular has massively increased the amount of merit aid it awards to out-of-state students, and it now attracts a huge number of students from the Northeast and the Chicago area that would never have considered it before. There are other schools using similar strategies.

As I mentioned in another comment, the cost of any given school is very unpredictable until you actually get accepted and get your financial package. The winning strategy is to research schools which are known for generous financial offers for similar students, and then apply to as many of them as is manageable to increase your odds of a winning "lottery ticket".
>Oh god! They divorced in 2015. I am sure if Google had any such plans, it is just as likely with any other CEO up there.

Any subsequent marital issues or extracurricular activities of the individuals concerned cannot erase the fact that the venture was literally bootstrapped by Sergey Brin and Google.

https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/18/all-in-the-family-sergey-b...
A word in the title needs a spelling correction, please :)
Did you ever have any problems with the function concurrency limit?
Red Dead Redemption 2 is reportedly having back-to-back crashes on PC
I'm not American, so I'm not endorsing the same belief, but isn't the main criticism against the treatment of H1B visa holders related to workplace treatment (i.e. work longer hours/accept extra work or you're kicked out of the country) instead of pay?
Rankings are awful. They give the impression of constant distance between the ordinal values, e.g., #10 is as far below #1 as #310 is below #300. In reality, things are much more tightly clustered. There are about 20 truly superior schools, and they are much closer to each other than a 1 through 20 ranking would imply. There's not much difference between a 20 and a 10 or even 1.

Then there's about 100 second-tier very, very good schools that are similarly clustered. After that, something like 1000 schools are good, solid schools with little tangible difference between number 900 and number 300.

Ordinal rankings throw all of this out the window, and students & families end up worrying about choosing between a school in the top 25% or top 27% etc.

Non-ordinal ratings instead of rankings would be better, and better show this sort of clustering, but it would still ignore extremely important differences. For example, there may be a school that's fairly middle-of-the-road, okay but not great on an all-around basis, but their proximity to New York City makes their performing arts programs a stand-out top 5 program in the region. But all you get from a US News ranking is that they're rated #768.
It's still a 45B company...still the largest and most successful company to come out of SF this decade.
Just to be sure: He had $2000 and he lost $100000?

Are there any proof that these post are real? Is it possible that it's just a troll? (Not that I think that there is a lack of morons in the universe.)
tl;dr: using outdated benchmarking tools optimized for the latest Intel chips and not the latest AMD chips. GROMACS 2019.3 v. 2019.4, the latter of which is the latest but still came out over a month ago and addressed AMD Zen 2.

Source is still a good read for explanations on why this is impactful.

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Disclosure: I'm long AMD
China is doing well wrt infrastructure.
I hate to be glib about valuations. There are a few people out there who have done the hard work:

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2019/04/ubers-coming-out...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/02/22/br...

And Bloomberg had a good one, though I can't find it now.

I am not endorsing any of these, but the difference between a bull and bear (or, if you will, a valuation higher than what we have and lower than what we have) is probably how much you think additional business are worth.

So if you think that food delivery, logistics etc will amount to a large, valuable business, I think you are bullish.
The amount of RSUs isn't that large compared to the company valuation.
It depends on the context.

For a music player, "index occurrence in release album" is thoroughly useless data in every situation other than playing albums in order. So it's more elegant to hide that information and specifically design the sorting features around the use case.
Right. I understand what MAC addresses are. In addition to the characteristics you named, they are also entirely at the discretion of the client and therefore are trivially spoofable so long as no one else on the same media currently has the address you're spoofing. And because the advertisers and the trackers are a step removed from the LAN, they have no way to detect an attack where someone just shits tens of millions of nonsense addresses at them.

So I'm suggesting that if we know what they are using those for, there could be something fun (like a CCC talk) to be gained from tainting their data in a creative, easy way. Like a few hundred dollars worth of junk devices in a suitcase sending a bunch of carefully crafted MACs :-)
Sure, but the same could be said of Tesla. Horrible employer, constant exec churn, unbelievable cash burn, what appears to be structural losses.... But Tesla still has a 56B mcap today. Uber is 46B. These VC/equity issue cash furnaces can go on longer than most can fathom if a subset of investors believe in the long term vision.
I’m an REI member so I may be a little biased but they tend to be pretty respectful to people. You may want to write this up on their forums and see if you can get an admins attention.
I'm not sure whether to interpret Uber's branching out into many different verticals (flying taxis, autonomy, food delivery, general logistics, scooters, payment etc) as an act of desperation or genius.

Generally, I'm fond of focus
Well, that's a big if. Moreover, an if that has "nope nope nope" written over it with literal human blood. RIP EH.
Alan Watts talked about how one should consider their own death every so often in his lectures. I think he would approve.
even by science standards, isolating the virus counts as discovery unfairly as some would look upon it not isolating the virus counts as failing to discover it. and that goes way back to the early 1800s
Why does Uber use an SUV?

These vehicles are widely known to be much worse for pedestrian injuries and fatalities. They should use an ordinary car.

(Frankly, I'd like to see all SUV drivers considered legally negligent in any pedestrian accident due to their choice of vehicle.)
Sorry about late response, but I’m using 1Blocker Legacy (free).

It seems to be quite good.
It's crazy that in 2019 investment banks are still using such a blunt instrument to manage shares becoming available for trading. It would be trivial to let insider shares trickle out for some period of time enabling insiders to monetize while avoiding a plunge.
Have some empathy.
Does this mean that support from my Samsung printer will now come from Xerox? I was appalled to discover I had to contact HP for support.
“ Wie Tausende von seinesgleichen, machte er es aus der Vorstellung, dass ihm zu jeder Stunde der Weg in den Tod offen stehe, nicht bloß ein jugendlich-melancholisches Phantasiespiel, sondern baute sich aus ebendiesem Gedanken einen Trost und eine Stütze.”

Excerpt from “Traktat vom Steppenwolf”[0] by Herman Hesse.

Paraphrasing: Like thousands of his kind, he [der Selbstmörder “he who commuts suicide”] doesn’t just use the idea that the door to his death is open at any time as a youthful and melancholic phantasy, but as consolation and a crutch.

(I really can’t translate)

[0] https://sanelatadic.com/media/DIR_15301/96989bdc407a2ecbffff...
My company has people doing work through web apps that they access using RDP to a VM here at corporate because there internet is bad and it is faster and more responsive that way.
I agree. Breaks are a necessary part of the sitting hygiene no matter what chair is used.
Looking good, will check this out!
Or you could just look at what happened with WeWork employees as a recent example. I don't see why anyone (especially in your 20s with significant net worth tied up) would hold onto this once the lock is up.
Most countries don't rely on bulk buying groceries at warehouse stores like Costco. That'd be bizarre to most people outside America.

A lot of cultures you go up to the grocery store to buy what you need for what you're cooking that day. Not going once a month to fill a truckload of year long supplies.
Not sure what you mean here. The only thing running locally is the lightweight shell. Builds/indexing&search/language services/etc. all happen on the remote host.