skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone believe the currently available Tesla vehicles out on the road will be level-5 "fully autonomous" without major hardware upgrades?
I'm not entertaining any new browsers that aren't written in Rust.
Wow, a simple blog post that could be served and rendered to me in less than a second (mobile iOS) takes ages to load with a spinning disc, ages to render everything and some charts are lazy loaded when in view and take a long time, and an unresponsive scroll bar.

I suggest get your posts on your own domain not this coda thing whatever that is. Stick on CDN hosting like netlify for free. Use simple images or svg. Eschew Javascript for showing static content. It’s was too slo to read so I didn’t.

Example: https://superjavascript.com/t/typescript/ - that loads fast!

My connection speed and latency are good by the way.
Longevity mechanisms in old (up to 600 years) Ginkgo biloba trees
Every day we are getting closer to slaughterbots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA)
Which is what Intel/AMD do.
I also use hours to equalise between between myself and friends on low income.

An important trick I use is to take all fixed living costs out of weekly income. Then divide disposable income left by hours to work out your return on time invested.

For example: one friend gets NZD20 per hour and works 40 hours. She only has $30 left to spend on whatever else she wants after living expenses (carefully budgeted in her case). So 0.75 $/hour is what she actually “earns”.

I use this to help explain to her that we don’t need to put in equal $ when we share activities - instead we put in equal disposable income per working hour.

It also means I don’t feel guilty when a friend who has 5x the disposable income pays more than I do for something we share.
I lost my phone on the NYC subway. It was returned to a station and I picked it up a week later.
Independent physicians are free to act as they see fit, some are very profit motivated, some aren't.

Employed physicians are pushed to be as profit motivated as their employer wants them to be, or they get canned.
Mozilla lays off 70
No, it's really not. If I unregister from iMessage the last thing that should happen is my Apple ID swallowing messages from people's iPhones.

Return an error or redirect to SMS, it's not that fucking hard.

The one thing you are right about is that it's an intentional dark pattern on Apple's part to obsfucate Apple IDs and phone numbers. It's an illegal anticompetitve strategy.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced advertising should be regulated.
If Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, What Does?
It also avoids wasting time (and write endurance) shuffling around data which is just going to be overwritten anyway. That could happen either as a result of static wear leveling or just because the drive needed to erase a block with a mix of valid and overwritten pages to make room for new data.
Of those, it seems to me that more time off and less days per week are mostly out-of-scope for seed-stage startups—it's just too hard for them to survive even when people are working full time and focusing hard. More control over the product's direction (relative to BigCos and large teams) seems already to be part of the startup deal, no? As for better perks, I don't know what you have in mind, but the ones that come to my mind are just fiddling with the margins, and I know a lot of cynical HN users who would argue that's why companies offer "perks" in the first place.

This bit, however:

better liquidation preferences that favor employees at the same level as investors because employees _are_ investors if they are taking a pay cut

seems serious and fair to me, and perhaps something that startups could actually do to stand out. I don't know how doable that is vs. what barriers there might be to it, but I'll ask.
I spent more time than I'd like to admit reviewing fonts for legibility and aesthetics. So if you're looking for a new favorite font, hope this helps:

1. IBM Plex Mono

2. Office Code Pro

3. Fira Code

4. Inconsolata

5. PT Mono

6. SF Mono

7. Input Mono

8. Hack

9. DejaVu Sans Mono - Bront

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https://www.cms.gov/files/document/highlights.pdf

33% to hospitals

20% to physicians and clinical services

9% to retail prescription drugs

5% for other health, residential and personal care services

5% for nursing care facilities and continuing care retirement communities

4% for dental services

I can't find any clear answer to what proportion doctors earn themselves:

https://www.medicalbag.com/home/finance/health-care-costs-in...
Thanks for the effort! It looks amazing.

I do hope that more remote opportunities are posted. I am an iOS developer who has worked remotely for the last 5 years, but increasingly noticing the trend towards fewer remote opportunities. In the age of constant high-bandwidth video communication you'd imagine that the reverse would hold true.
The only real application here is killing people with drone-launched missiles.
Just for clarity, iPhone browsers all use Safari, so Edge on iPhone will just be an Edge skinned Safari.
These stories are so common, when I read it, I was thinking it was a precise description of my own brother. My brother who earns 6 times less than I purchases a 1000$ Samsung phone whereas I don't buy any phone at all and just use the handme-down from my wife, for 0$. It's a 5 year old iphone6 but still works Great. His other expenses are much lower though: for example, he has subsidized housing which means he pays almost nothing for rent. and he has no car, since he can bike to work.

Advertisment almost never works on me, so it's hard for me to imagine it's so effective on everyone else.
A New App to Create Meaningful Discovery
When I saw this article, I checked out. Sadly it was a mess that made it hard to find the CH content liked (such as the messages from CEOs skits). That may have been their roku app though.

Still, since that is how I consume content, and since they already laid everyone off, I cancelled my trial.
Not really IMO as that has a certain level of subjectivity that could lead to endless argumentation. What's truly needed from my limited perspective is democratization of medical schooling. I've met MDs who are trying to make it with their startup who only went through medical school because of other people's expectations and an immensely stressful sense of sunk cost that had to be avoided at all cost. If they could have studied 2-3 years and then made the change to programming, for example, that would have made much more sense to them.

I take issue with the closed entrance door policy. I'd rather see selective internships than selective pre-screening.
If you taxed 90% of the doctor's top marginal rate, wouldn't they just work long enough to get to that rate, then take the rest of the year off? You overestimate the lobbying power of doctors and underestimate how much suffering this would cause.
How should they be funded instead?

I assure you their editorial departments would be overjoyed if you've discovered a new business model that works without advertising.
> and soon, a Cap'n Proto RPC interface

This is interesting, and good to hear. Are there still a lot of projects adding capnproto support? It's a great protocol but I've worried it might be dying.
advertising is regulated
I don’t know if it’s still this way, but I liked how Android used to allow returning an app after purchase (time limited I assume), and was always surprised Apple doesn’t have a mechanism like this. Well, not surprised, I guess, there’s an obvious business reason for not making that process easy.
No, apart from who decides what the issues are:

* tools like top format the columns so a very long pid doesn’t fit
* like with IPv6 addresses very long pids are hard to remember, type and pronounce.

Software that can’t handle 64 bit process ids is broken and should be fixed.
I actually gave Edge Dev an honest try for a few months using it as my only browser. At some point it just stopped syncing bookmarks between my various computers (all Windows), and that was the breaking point for me. I went back to Firefox. I may give it another go if they can fix sync.
The article says "learn to squat", not "squat for hours".
in many corporations of this kind it's all about:
- over-billing the customer (see Acc. and their legendary $20-30M site that was not working)
- internal power plays between managers who want to show-off managing as much headcount as possible, as that is correlated with paycheck
etc. etc.
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As I recall, that wasn't quite the case. It was a highly edited version of Mein Kampf. Quoting https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_hoax :

> Affilia put out a statement in response, noting, "The article does not espouse racism, anti-Semitism, or any other fascist ideology; the parallels to Mein Kampf were limited exclusively to word choice in the descriptive text." ...

> David Banks compared the article's text to that of the Mein Kampf chapter it was supposedly based on and "couldn’t find a single phrase that matched." He also pointed out that the message of the hoax article was quite different from that of Mein Kampf: "This isn’t an article demanding concentration camps for men, it’s just a pedantic argument about neoliberalism."
They have a remote workers program.
> It's exactly as type-safe as the unwrapped hash table, which is admittedly not especially type-safe

Yes.

> and it's fully unambiguous.

No, you have any random value flagged as not present (in fact you can forget about or ignore the flag entirely), and no clue if that means anything.
Would changing the interview and selection process to look like other jobs alleviate the case you're laying out?

In a similar way, there are students who spend $200k to go to college, then go to law school, wanting to practice in a certain area of law, and find out at the end that the only job they can get is poorly paying or in an area they don't want to live.
Perhaps what we disagree on here is semantics. When I read,

> you have to make sacrifices to take on an apprenticeship

I understand that to mean that in order to even apply for / commit to an apprenticeship, you have to make sacrifices. In the context of the rest of his narrative, that means sacrificing a safer, better paying, more conventional career for being a gopher for a would-be titan of Silicon Valley.

Obviously, if you have the chance to be the gopher for an actual titan of industry, it's probably worth any reasonable sacrifice. But that's not what the author is promoting. He's promoting the "hustle 24/7" mentality even as a barista in the hopes that your manager will reward your entrepreneurial sprit--or, more likely, a newbie founder who will at best will exit their startup somewhere in the high six to low seven figures and leave you with little more than a few hundred thousand dollars of opportunity cost.
Vulkan 1.2 Specification Release: Refining Efficiency and Development Simplicity
Progressive Web Apps aren't a standard but a Google web strategy term. Different browsers just have different priorities.

For example, Apple prioritized service workers over web app manifests (which BTW are not yet a W3C recommendation). I can only assume this is partly because there have been so many failed attempts at static web app manifests in the past. Them prioritizing other features for earlier release doesn't mean that Web App Manifest support isn't in active development ( https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158205 ).
I've seen history manipulation used really well to emulate page navigation on an SPA... which is why it's always disappointing to see it abused.
This is pretty unhelpful; the case I would make is that it's providing security largely by defining the problem away. For instance: it's usually unrealistic to require that all administration happen through clean-room systems that don't ever browse the web.

The real-world practice of security is in large part the deployment of risky systems with mitigations in place for the likely attacks that will target them. So, for instance, getting everyone to talk to the admin console on a purpose-built Chromebook with no Internet access is probably not a realistic option, but getting every system with admin console access MDM'd and requiring access to admin consoles to route through an IdP like Okta to enforce 2FA is much more realistic, and thus likely to happen.

The patterns in here that aren't unrealistic are pretty banal. I don't doubt that UK NCSC sees systems designed to be unpatchable, but modern engineering norms (Docker, blue/green, staging/cert environments) --- norms that have really nothing to do with security and are common to pretty much every serious engineering shop --- address that directly anyways.

Other patterns don't really make sense; for instance: you should design to make your systems patchable (sure, that's again a basic engineering requirement anyways), but also make sure your dev and staging environments aren't continuously available. Why? Those are conflicting requirements.
One person has already reached out about posting a lot more remote jobs, so make sure to subscribe/follow the repository so you will get updated as new jobs are posted.
No they don't but due to false allegations from passengers (and to a lesses extent drivers) they plan on starting to record the conversations.
1. Many indie developers will not actually be subject to the GDPR. The GDPR effectively only applies to non-EU controllers if they are actively targeting and expecting EU users, or if they are monitoring/tracking users in the EU.

The canonical reference to when that's the case is the EDPB Guideline 3/2018 on the territorial scope of the GDPR [1]. These guidelines are more narrow than widely perceived, e.g. that regional US news websites started blocking EU visitors is totally silly and unnecessary. Mere accessibility of a service, without offering the service to persons in the EU, does not trigger the GDPR.

2. If the developer does expect to be subject to the GDPR, they can hire a representative. There are many lawyers offering this service. It's not a terribly involved job, but it affects which member state's data protection agency is responsible. E.g. if you think Austrian GDPR interpretations are nuts, go look for someone in Ireland instead.

[1]: https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/guidelin...
No, it does not in my opinion. What problem described above would crypto solve?
There is no data presented to back the claim that supercharger-only charging is the norm, and I have cited a source to indicate that most consumers are capable of parking next to an electrical hookup. See link in my original comment.

Given the weird assumption that the calculation is based off of, I feel no need to write a full blog post on the subject; that flaw alone means this analysis is off by a factor of 2-3x (2x going by average 13¢/kWh US-wide utility price of electricity, 3x if the consumer lives in an area with demand-smoothing incentives that give lower electricity prices at night).
There's burnout in every field because capitalism places a higher reward on burning people out and finding fresh replacements instead of keeping your existing employees happy and balanced in their lives. The structural market forces inevitably lead to this outcome in the insatiable quest for efficiency and profits. You can't fix burnout without fixing the underlying structural cause.
I'm pretty sure I managed to create one of these by accident when first using Linux, though with much messier results. Same root cause though: the ext2 and FAT superblocks didn't overlap, and back in the day some of the filesystem creation tools weren't so good at making sure to overwrite conflicting superblocks.
Ask HN: Started job 3 months ago...not going as planned
I started a job at a fairly large software company about 3 months ago. I was fully prepared for legacy code and dated processes, but in the interview process I was sold on “transformation” and “change”.

Three months in and I am far less happy in comparison to my previous software engineering role. I work on a fairly distributed team, which was supposed to be agile. We don’t have a product manager and our manager isn’t involved much. We are told that we will be getting a PM, but nothing in sight.

I have one colocated team member and they are less than ideal. They fall asleep at their desk or during conference calls and don’t seem to care much about software development in general.

Onboarding and training was nonexistent. It has been pretty much trial and error since day 1.

I feel like I was sold something in the interview process that is not accurate.

Long story short, how long do I stick it out before looking elsewhere or even returning to my last job as I left on good terms?
So what is _NSAKEY for then? Does anybody know?
For a few weeks now, the billboards (including video billboards...) at train stations in the Netherlands are blank, due to a legal issue[1]. I take the train multiple times a week and I think it's very pleasant. Unfortunately it won't last.

[1] There was a bid held between two ad companies, a third company sued because they wanted to get included in the bid, too.
Well you mentioned framing, but you aren't even a little worried that the US military continues to kill thousands of people by drone strike with total impunity across several undeclared war zones? This isn't a theoretical. This is going on now. This technology will be used to kill people with absolutely zero accountability. Maybe we should strive for a planet where extra-judicial killings are hyper-efficient isn't where we invest our best minds and our money. I reject the framing where we have to accept this.
Guide for an Eco Friendly Party
I don't know if the title has changed, but "disk image that is simultaneously..." made it very clear to me that this would imply a static state carefully crafted file, not some synchronized dynamic file system driver.
If you uninstall a paid app quickly enough after installing, it's automatically refunded without you requesting it.
Xnor.ai Acquired by Apple for 200m
This is propaganda by the AMA. They are the primary lobbying force on this issue to Congress and they help write most of the legislation. The AMA is the negotiating partner you'd deal with to get this issue corrected.
The great thing is that we can launch WSL bash and even Cygwin in Windows Terminal.
Yes, that's one of the cards that use Broadcom/Avago/LSI "tri-mode" HBA chips (SAS3508 in this case). It comes with the somewhat awkward caveat of making your NVMe devices look to the host like they're SCSI drives, and constraining you to 8 lanes of PCIe uplink for however many drives you have behind the controller. Marvell has a more interesting NVMe RAID chip that is fairly transparent to the host, in that it makes your RAID 0/1/10 of NVMe SSDs appear to be a single NVMe SSD. One of the most popular use cases for that chip seems to be transparently mirroring server boot drives.
Thank you too! This reminds me that I should probably thank people more often (both in private and public). It sure does help to support and spread some positive vibes.

I read HN daily and learn so much more from discussions. Every time I meet someone who could be interested and contribute to this community I suggest them to take a look, and often people get hooked, just like I was.

So, thank you and best wishes to the mods and the whole HN community! Happy 2020!
Simon Donaldson Awarded Wolf Prize for Mathematics
>More importantly, during extension submissions and reviews I did not feel abused as a developer, something which I cannot say about the Chrome Web Store

I suspect that would change if Edge gained significant market share. I think what happens is that as these platforms grow, they get targetted by spammers, malware, and scammers and consequently their processes harden and tolerances go down.
Left side is actually sharp, with subpixel smoothing. Right side is awful (just like many parts of post-Vista Windows) with apparent grayscale AA.

This is something they actually got right; it's one thing that was terrible about IE and the old Edge, and that I'd bet was subconsciously turning many people off (in my case, consciously making me want to tear my eyes out). If you can't see the difference, open dev console on the screenshot and run:

document.body.style.zoom = 1 / window.devicePixelRatio

If this doesn't work in the new Edge, try in Chrome (not sure if Edge supports this zoom mechanism). You should definitely be able to see the difference in sharpness.

Edit: Maybe also worth mentioning, Firefox's bold font rendering is one thing keeping me away from it. Lack of the above zoom mechanism is another. Not sure if I'm alone in these.
One of the things I miss that Facebook killed is... Facebook.

Prior to its attempt to dominate media sharing on the internet, most of the content I saw on Facebook was created by people I know, about their personal lives. People share far less content of that sort now, and the algorithm doesn't prioritize it when they do. Personal updates from people I actually know are probably reduced by an order of magnitude from a decade ago.

If I want to see funny stuff, cat videos, news, political memes, pictures of food, or anything else of that sort, reddit serves much better than Facebook. Nothing has come along to fill the gap for many-to-many personal updates though, and I miss that. There's a startup opportunity here. The hard part isn't technical - something resembling the Facebook of a decade ago wouldn't be hard to build - but attracting a critical mass of users would be a significant challenge.
Mandatory that year but common before that.
I think this is just that terrible America effect, governments are constantly under attack for inefficient spending so they constantly fight to increase revenue sources even when that increase isn't immediately necessary just so they'll have some margin to safely jettison when they come under attack for not spending all the money they're collecting.

It's extremely weird, but seems to be accurate, that the US is the only place on earth where people become less trusted via the action of taking on public service responsibility.
> CollegeHumor is blaming this on Facebook for faking viewership numbers.

This is fraud and Facebook employees should feel threatened about going to jail. This was not a sleazy sales pitch. This was outright fraud to convince content producers that they were making more money than they actually were.