skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gitlab capitalizes on fast-moving DevOps world and weighs possible IPO in 2020
The issue is that Apple is not allowing cheaper app stores even in theory. Android does.
> Is it possible for users to easily install alternative app-stores?

No, not on iOS

> Wouldn't that solve the problem?

Yes, because Apple will cease to be a monopsony for iOS apps. That is, if SCOTUS rules that Apple does have a monopsony. Kavanaugh only suggested they might have.
This is amazingly concrete and understandable from a technical perspective for a government security document. Where can I find more like this?

Everything I’ve seen in ISO security standards, for example, is written at an abstract theoretical level about the design of security bureaucracy rather than the design of actual systems.

One bone to pick: basically all tech companies expect you to be oncall for your services via your laptop. They’re not paying anybody to sit in the office overnight, and commuting in when you get paged with seriously delay mitigation. Is “browsing down” even possible under those circumstances?
That would be amazing. It's easy to turn CrossHair into an absurdly slow fuzz tester (imagine hashing or printing your inputs early in the process). I think the ideal product would be good at both symbolic and concrete tactics, and the minimization logic of hypothesis would be really nice to have too.
I will be in touch!
It's even worse in Pediatric ICU. They're one of the lowest paid doctors due to ICU not being profitable. They have the mental/emotional stress of really sick and dead kids. They have to work 24+ hour calls with little to no sleep. I know one who worked 36 hours last weekend and got 2 hours of sleep. That can't be good for outcomes, but they can't hire more because again, the ICU loses money. They don't get big salaries from drugs like anesthesiologists.

It's almost like healthcare shouldn't be run like a normal capitalistic business.

I imagine burnout is much lower around the world and would love to see the data on that.
These days there's no excuse for not OCR'ing the payer name and address.
I think I agree with you somewhat, but I think you can't argue that noise floor raised. Either way one must remember Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap.
FAS is correlated with low socioeconomic status of the parent(s).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860552/

Likewise, poor educational outcomes not caused by FAS are also correlated with low socioeconomic status of the parent(s). And we already have the "content by being" drugs -- tobacco, alcohol, and television.

If that doesn't look like a permanent underclass that we're snowing with Soma, I don't know what would.
> is also one of those politically and socially charged phrases that tend to "generate more heat than light"

And that seems to be quite popular on HN recently
It didn't work out that way. The vast majority of these publishers were chasing views without any increase in monetization from their direct-sold campaigns. Add in the increasing cost to promote video on FB itself and they were constantly losing more money.
If there were an internet what routing algorithm would it use?
>Employed physicians in an integrated health system and plan (like Kaiser or Geisinger), in theory don't have to deal with those aspects as much, and can concentrate more on the patient.

"Employed" physicians no longer deal with patients, they are called customers. Helps to keep customers happy and physicians focused on the profit motive.
We should always be careful of drawing big conclusions based on observational studies...
There are a lot of problems with the EU, but one thing that Brexit has done is that it has actually stopped all sorts of talks about leaving the union in most other countries. People might not be happy, but the alternative just seems worse.
Vote by mail like we do in Oregon. We dont have voter ID issues, or other issues like other states.

More states should be doing it, but are not. I do not understand why.
"Five-starred Red Flag", indeed ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China
Show HN: JamTemplates – High-quality free themes for Gatsby
The better analogy for this scenario is "it's like when you make eye contact with the squeegee guy at the corner so he starts cleaning your windows with a dirty mop despite your shrill screaming & then demands you pay him or else you don't wanna know or else"
>OS might get an update once in the device lifetime if at all.

And some how the lifetime of those phones were much longer than the iPhones, until they had to stop forcing updates which degraded performance.
Surprisingly, Tesla hasn't optimized the processes for handling rare errors that affect 5 out of every 100,000 customers.
How much RAM do you have? And how many Chrome tabs?
Judge+blocks+Trump’s+attempt+to+let+governors+refuse+refugees
The browser becomes the VM for all apps.
So basically "only buy American"? ;)

I don't want to defend that company or the product, or the country they operate from, but the source code is all on github under a permissive license and thus can easily be auditioned for government backdoors. Where's the problem?
I don't doubt it.
Maybe you should conduct a study into you garden/worship hypothetis and test if it can be replicated.

https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/srff/deBrito-Floor-Ris...
> Compilers in the real world aren't that complicated

Shhh - need to keep us compiler devs' salaries up!
> But you've given a "solution" (that involves separating me from my money) to a problem that you created in the first place.

When did I create a problem? Yes, some advertising invents nonexistent problems and I thought I was clear that this shit is evil. That's a different thing from saying "that headache you have sucks, doesn't it? here's some tylenol"

> No, you wouldn't, because doing so will make people unhappy, not happy.

Way to miss the point, dude.
Study Suggests Milk Doesn't Strengthen Your Bones - It Ages You Instead https://www.sciencealert.com/study-suggests-milk-doesnt-stre...

> We’ve been brought up to think that drinking milk is good for our bones, but new research suggests that not only is this false, but the sugars in it may actually be accelerating the ageing process.
I have a coworker who has had tons of problems with a Tesla and has had a terrible time with their support and repair services. I agree that it's becoming the norm even for higher priced products to have shit customer service.
> Public relations != advertising.

Not a distinction I care to make. The problems with both are fundamentally the same.

> Ed Bernays != spokesperson for all PR professionals.

Okay, but all PR professionals and advertisers are trying to manipulate people. That is literally the job. Everyone else in the industry has the same goals--Bernays may have been willing to do more unscrupulous things to achieve those goals, but the goals are fundamentally unscrupulous.

> There are shady people in every industry.

But some industries, the purpose of the industry itself is shady. Advertising and PR are such industries.
Petryna Advertising, my agency. Thanks for coming out.
No, the correct analogy would be that you're working on millions of independent software projects and are having trouble handling them all. In which case it would obviously help to add engineers.
Try get into I-Banking (Big 4) without a big school.
I've been working in the field (software side) for a while and it is a little bit complicated. Some medical procedures absolutely require constant practice to maintain a very high level of quality and safety. Others don't. If you grow the number of residents by 10x, the total number of cases won't follow and you can end up with a more dangerous situation overall as every physician will be less qualified by virtue of practising less. That varies by specialty.

There is also the money. Sure you can train 10-100x physicians, but total compensation won't grow as fast, and so you should see lower overall wages (supply and demand). But it's still more complicated than that, because some people choose not to undergo X or Y procedure for various reasons, insurers don't cover or whatever. So even if you could train enough doctors to fulfil the whole population's needs, that doesn't mean you will have: 1. enough equipment, material, operating rooms, etc to do the procedures 2. enough supporting staff, and on and on.

The most common reason I hear from MDs against training much more doctors is the first one I gave you: less practice means a more dangerous practice.

My own opinion is relatively simple. Medical schools should stop screening applicants as much and let students join freely.

Medical schools are all about getting well-rounded individuals who did extra-curriculars etc. They usually view it as a good thing that you have life experiences outside of medicine, like working or studying an entirely different subject. However it works one-way: you can't (generally) just go to med school, learn the subject matter and then move on to another field, enriching _that_ one with your experience. I have come to believe that if we are to see any improvement, med school will have to open up just like every other discipline. The current system of stressing out students for a few years before even being allowed in the classroom is, IMO, partly responsible for the job dissatisfaction that you see.

Now freeing up med school admissions does not mean allowing everybody to _practice_ medicine. Prospective students would actually get a chance to learn the material for a few years before having to interview for internships. So instead of filtering _before_ med school and forcing a huge sunk cost psychological barrier to students, you can let the students figure out by themselves if they actually enjoy the subject matter. It's not a perfect solution but I am quite certain that society as a whole would benefit. It is entirely unfair that medical knowledge (not practice) is restricted to a lucky few.
"SapphireDb also supports running in an NLB with multiple instances and scales very good."

In English, when speaking of actions you must say "well" instead of "good", ie. "scales very well". While there are a million weird things about English, this particular mistake is used as a cultural marker of "childish" or "low-intelligence" speech, so you probably want to fix it ASAP.

Also what is an NLB???
That's right! We pick different choose execution paths arbitrarily and accumulate constraints in an SMT solver as we go. It's implemented with special objects that look just like ints, strings, etc; this might help:

https://twitter.com/pschanely/status/1176151748844691456
Impressive list of projects in parallel. I'm impressed with your drive to get so much done. My experience has led me to believe that the average person has trouble starting and actually finishing (shipping) projects. Best of luck!
https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-...

this explains it better. They never said anything about 'made up pronouns'. Rather that as a writer they are meant to write from a neutral perspective regardless of gender. SO said it was against a policy and has failed to provide such policy. It's clear to me this is a result of either grossly incompetent SO mods or a targeted attack.
When killing the "bad guys" is more important than feeding your own people. I love how they use the term "target" instead of "person", they're not even trying to hide it.
Consider the difference between these two (true) statements:

""Fortune favours the brave" is a famous saying from Pliny the Elder.

""Fortune favours the brave" is the famous last words of Pliny the Elder, as he headed towards the erupting Vesuvius, where he died.
Doesn't carry the same weight IMO.
Ok, I've studied the Flash storage (most SSDs these days) technolgy and can be understood like this:

* At the "lowest" level, there's a little cell that it's very much an EEPROM (but better, because newer tech). This little cell can hold 1, 2, 3 or 4 bits, depending on gen/tech.

* You group a bunch on those cells together and they form a page. Usually it's 1024 cells a page.

* You group a bunch of pages together and they form a block (don't confuse with "block" as in "block oriented device"). Blocks are usually made of 128 pages.

* You group a bunch (1024 usually) of blocks together and you get a plane.

* You get your massive storage by grouping a lot of planes together. Think of it as small (16-64 MB) storage devices that you connect in a RAID-like manner.

* Operations are restricted because of technology. On an individual level, cells can only be "programmed", that is, a 1 can bit flipped into a 0, but a 0 cannot be made a 1.

* If you need to turn a 0 into a 1, then you must do it on a block level (yep, 128 pages at a time).

* That's where the Flash Translation Layer kicks in: it's a mapping between the (logical) sectors (512b or 4096b) and the underlying mess. The FTL tells you how you form the sectors (which would be the blocks of a "block oriented device", but I'm trying to avoid that word).

* You also have "overprovisioning" at work - that is, if your SSD is 120gb, it's actually 128GB inside, but there's 8GB you don't get access (not even at the OS level), that the device uses to move things around.

* Wear Leveling/Garbage Collection mechanisms work to prevent individual cells from being used too much. Garbage Collection makes sure (or tries) that there are always enough "ready to program" cells around.

* The firmware makes everything work transparently to the world above it.

That would be a very (very very) simple explanation of how Flash storage works. Things like memory cards and thumb drives usually don't get overprovisioning nor wear leveling.
That's a good way to erase a disk, but horrendously expensive if all you want to erase is a single file.
Both of my parents are doctors. In high school I had real thoughts of going into medicine. They strongly discouraged me towards going into that field. In college I was pushed towards a MD/PhD program by my lab's PI. I thought about graduating at 28-30 and decided against it.

Jr year I interned at Amazon after that experience I knew I made the right decision. It is a really, really hard sell for this current generation to do another 5 years of school with residency and then specialization when you can quickly make 100k+ at a tech company. All of my friends who went into medical school are working hours like 6am-6pm or 8pm-8am. They get like two days off every two weeks. I think there are a bunch of possible solutions but the easiest one is making 5 year medical programs (2 years undergrad, 3 graduate) more common in the US.
I'm guessing the most serious impact will be non-browser certificate-based authentication, such as RDP or line-of-business apps that use standard Windows APIs. Local files (ex. fake codesigning) can be detected using anti-virus and third-party browsers are not quite common in the workplace and for home users.
They're used to listen to different things. The diaphragm is in my experience much more important. TBH I never even use the bell. Some pediatricians like it for infants because it is physically smaller (but they put a smaller diaphragm over it). Lots of stethoscopes don't even have one.

Funny article about the bell: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1790765/
What bizarro world do you have to live in to think advertising is what's wrong with the world?

Oh right: the tech industry. The one that thinks everything it does is going to change the world for the better.
Excellent and to the point. I see this apply to many technology SMB companies as well. We once compiled a few actionable recommendations for smaller companies that host on AWS and that post ended up being our most popular article https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/11/21/security-recommen...
If you don't know what monoposony is, ask a farmer.
I like the name 'murex'. The first thing it makes me think of is murex shells - as in the sea snail - which we used to find on the beach all the time when I was a kid. And as you say the 'X' at the end conjures up Unix.
Yes. Z3 is impressive. I intend to do a write-up of how I chose to model Python values in it soon.
I reckon TDD would get you at least part of the way there, because it enforces a discipline of making smaller, meaningful changes. Hard to learn though, and some things genuinely do need longer.
maybe we shouldn't saddle new grads with $1M in debt if we want to incentivize more people to go into the field
What software does Tesla sell that costs $4000?
I agree that the new permission doesn't seem worse as much as different. I already think of Sheets/Docs/etc as basically being the filetype UIs over a core of Drive. This change shrinks "see, edit, and delete" down to "see", at the price of broadening to "all filetypes"

But I can definitely see issues with the change. Most obviously, forcing users to re-grant causes alarm: they don't know about the version update so it looks like the app is trying to behave differently. And even if an equal percentage of users would grant each permission, they may not be the same users with the same use cases; your existing users are all people who agreed to the old version and may not continue to agree. Beyond that, "edit and delete" is a major permission, but not necessarily that dramatic for an app with other powerful permissions. Whereas it seems very possible someone who trusts Drive might have boring app-friendly spreadsheets, alongside much more private text documents or photos.

(And yeah, across the board OAuth seems to demand way more power than apps actually want to use.)
It's what motivated me to join SuperUser back when it was new almost 10 years - pure hatred for expertsexchange.com results always coming up in Google results.

All good things come to an end. :(

I believe theoretically someone could fork the entire site, but I haven't studied the recent license changes.
American software developers also get paid multiples of their non-us counterparts. Same with many other professions.
For the content creator, Google's Takeout service will give you an archive of your videos, so if you know you're shutting down, you can get them before then.
The concept of processing necessary for the performance of a contract is interpreted extremely narrowly by data protection law. Rightly so, because otherwise it would give entities far too much latitude to stuff as many different processing activities as possible within that ground, even though certain processing activities aren't at all necessary to provide the service.

With Grindr, they only need to process data to provide the service by making it available to you and to other users. What they definitely don't need to do in order to provide the core service is to share your data with third parties who can then use it for their own purposes.

Any argument that the processing is necessary because it's an ad-funded service would not be acceptable under data protection law.

On that basis, performance of a contract would not be a relevant ground. You're also looking at e-Privacy Directive considerations in the EU where either a cookie or similar is essential to provide the service, or you need consent. Similar for location data, you will generally need consent.

So you not only have GDPR issues but also e-Privacy Directive issues where your processing grounds are actually incredibly limited anyway.
There are some licenses effectively like public domain, such as zero-clause BSD, CC0, WTFPL, Unlicense, etc.

GPL does not restrict commercial use any more than non-commercial use. What it does restrict is adding additional restrictions, it requires source code to be distributed, and it does not allow disallowing the user to substitute their own version.

If the source is available to be perused I think it is called "shared source" (or "source available"); "open source" is a subset of that, and is according to the OSI definition. "Free software" is also a subset of "source available". "OSI approved" is a subset of "open source" because OSI approved does not include public domain, even if it is still open source (which in some cases it is) (also some stuff that meets the OSI definition (by both words and intention) might not be OSI approved because OSI has not looked at it yet). And then there is also "FOSS".
Judicial Watch Finds Millions of Extra Voters on Voting Rolls in Multiple States
Infrastructure Scale Review
Oh yes. I’m not contesting that. And I agree with the fact that the “good stuff” (from a geek’s point of view) is harder to find. I just don’t want to blame everybody for not sharing my interests and enjoying the Internet how they like.
It really does sound like a utopia. I was part of that community as well.

Perhaps when things are small and the people can relate to most of the people directly, they're able to act in a more altruistic manner.

When we explore this thought experiment further, it has pretty bad consequences for politicians at a national or global stage.
I absolutely cannot stand dotted zeroes. I really wish it were slashed.
I still hope to have something like Kinect for exercising.
Wasn't Vimeo a byproduct of CollegeHumor or am I mixing up my 2000-2005 internet history?
You can’t have a mobile presence without dealing with Apple.
https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-...

I fail to see how this is excuses under those circumstances. Basic assumption of good faith goes both ways, and fast growth does not mean throwing your very important users to the curb without good reason.
What about the new fluent design language? Where is the fucking transparency in the tab bar MS.
So is drinking 0% milk better than 1%?
There needs to be a process within customer support teams in which they can escalate problems if the rules feel wrong to them.

If a purchase was unintentional and very large ($4,333) a refund should be offered. This feels like common sense to me.

That's a large amount of money to lose. Providing annoyingly bad customer service to people and then signing off with "Warm Regards" is likely to make enemies of customers.

Edit: Somebody mentioned that Taleb might be bullshiting about there being no confirmation, however, to be honest, I still think at this price level, customer support should be able to refund purchases. Keep your customers happy (and they will eventually purchase upgrades from you)!
Wasn't this a massive software patent thing? Didn't we talk about it incessantly on Slashdot like 15 years ago, complaining about them patenting something so obvious and arguably useless?

Good to see they agree with the latter now...
Medicine burned me to the ground
None of the touch scrolling or gestures are as smooth as the old Edge, it's a real shame.
Watching appsheet's video demo, really impressive.
Will the patch include any kind of auditing mechanism to determine if your system already has files w/spoofed signatures? Or is there a recommended procedure to execute this audit?
The traditional home with a stay at home housewife readily delivers this result. I was raised in one, growing up all my childhood friends would visit once and never want to return saying things like "your house is like a museum, everything's clean and you're not allowed to touch anything or make any noise." Which didn't bother me one bit, I wanted to play at other homes anyways, they were absolutely correct, it was miserably dull.
Ah yes, snark. This is helpful.

In case you missed it: I didn't say advertising got people to invent jack shit. I said "aspirations" did. The research paper claimed aspirations are what make people unhappy, and then said advertising increases aspirations, so therefore advertising makes people unhappy.

I'm defending aspirations. The research paper is the one saying advertising leads to aspirations, which I consider a complement, thank you very much.
It seems that consuming fermented milk products like Joghurt or Kefir is a lot better
Io schedulers would also understand the geometry and reorder commands to minimize seek distance (and therefore seek time).