skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His perspective on the election was pretty entertaining.

Since then I've found his political commentary to be chock full of spin, guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I feel it's partly because Juul is "mainstream" vaping. So you have a weird "hipster" thing with people who vape. They want to talk to you about amperage, coils, batteries, and whatever. It makes them feel smart to a degree. With Juul, there's none of that. You get a small, discreet device, you replace pods, and that's it. It does the job it is designed to do, vaporize liquid.
It's not that I'm not worried in the sense that if I had infinite resources I wouldn't allocate any to improving this particular situation. It's just that previous news coverage made it out like this was a huge crisis when in fact if it is then the greater crime it that we're ignoring several other crises that are even larger (the other cities mentioned where levels are even higher).
> What's the point of having a centralised blockchain?

It allows execs to do something other than stammer when investors ask them what their "blockchain strategy" is. It also allows them to be "AI-first, Mobile-first, and blockchain-first" all at the same time.
I think the problem for us is that not all users are equal.
To embrace devops/gitops I really want most of the company involved through our GitLab instance, but only a subset of the license seats would actually use the kubernetes features for instance.
Most of our users would not venture beyond the features of the community edition (except for the LDAP auth we use).

So while we enjoy GitLab and do some software development, we are not a software company. I think this is becoming all the more common.
> I took Ambien for four months

Every night for four months? Yeah that is stretching it from everything I've read. I started using it off/on when I went through a period of insomnia almost a decade ago. The doctor was very strict that it was for not more than two-four weeks and that I should try to only use it every second night.

That insomnia passed, but I since used a half dose (5 mg) on average once every 7 days (that's the average but it's more like 2 or 3 nights every 2 or three weeks). I need it when traveling or during anything stressful going on at work. Nothing else works. In a new hotel room I can just lay there all night long unable to sleep because it's an unfamiliar environment. Or if I know I have to be up by a certain hour and give a presentation or have a possibly conflicting meeting the next day - no sleep.

I do wonder what the long term impacts of even this low intermittent usage is though. But the alternative is not working or traveling.
This sums up in a nutshell the 40 year slide in Mens wages:

“When he first started working iron, Hartnett was making about $43.90 in today’s dollars. On his last project, he made $16.93.”
To be fair: The patent (around Nic Salts) is specifically useful for the delivery of nic in low output devices. Imagine it like this: You've got 12 mg/ml in a high output device which can vaporize 90% of the nicotine, versus 50 mg/ml in a low output device (like a Juul) that can only vaporize 30%.

Essentially, the patent is mostly useful in shrinking the size of the device, not necessarily delivering more nicotine. And, truly; if you put Juul-equivalent liquid (50 mg/ml) in a traditional sub-ohm device, even high tolerance users would probably black out or throw up.

That being said, anyone who has done a variety of vape devices would concur that Juuls hit harder than anything else out there. And despite their marketing that they're trying to help smokers quit, they still don't offer any refills lower than 50mg/ml, which is an obscene amount of nicotine even for a low output device. Less talk and more solutions from Juul; let's start with 35mg/ml and 20mg/ml refill packs.
Because it's easier to just eat in a parking space after the drive thru than to take the food inside. Lots of people do it. McDonalds even has designated spots for this. I also just find it a lot nicer than going inside - I'm in my own space, radio's there, climate control is how I like it, dog's with me in the passenger seat, and when I'm done I can just immediately go.
The Next 10 Years Will Be About “Market-Networks”
It is. You’re right. I never take Ambien recreationally.

Here’s the path I went down:

It quickly becomes this cyclical pattern where if you don’t take it, then you don’t sleep for days, so you’re forced to use it. And when I mean forced, I can’t go to work sleep deprived, especially in my line of work. You’ll build a tolerance quickly, then you begin ramping up your dosage, and this helps for awhile. But like a lot of long term ambien users know, you don’t fall asleep as easily anymore. Then the side effects really begin hitting you because you’re awake with a 30-60 mg of Ambien in you.

And if you have a history of drug abuse like I do, you do the dumbest thing possible and drink wine with ambien. This will knock you out for sure, but before that happens, you’ll begin doing extremely destructive things.

I’ve taken a considerable amount of drugs in my life, but Ambien is something else. It’s not a black and white drug as people say to just take and fall asleep. That’s how my first 6 months were like, but after 7 1/2 more years, it becomes something entirely different.
Even in a cold environment it doesn't make sense to idle your car to warm it up.
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letting people in the car listen to the radio without draining the battery

Unless you've got a booming system with several large subwoofers, you aren't going to excessively drain your battery by listening to the radio with the ignition in the accessory position.

For A/C, take the kids inside. For dogs, park in shade and get an accessory window fan. On all but the hottest days (L.A., Phoenix, and similar places excepted) they'll be quite comfortable.
In response to your second question, it's been said the American justice system is the worst possible justice system, with the exception of all of the world's other justice systems.

I think the root problem is that the world is not fair and never will be. Justice (like health/immortality) is an ideal to be pursued, not a destination to be reached. The system we have is at least a somewhat reasonable approximation for fairness in that both sides have their points borne out by an invested party.
There are certainly real-world applications, just not with the current level of overhead that known algorithms require.

The real-world use case is being able upload data to a cloud provider and do queries and computation on it without the provider ever knowing what's inside. e.g. "How much did I spend last month?"
In summary, youth is a problem.
I know, I read it. What the actual fuck is this? Who would spend money on this? How is this not an insane product concept?
Yup. Mortgage lenders do their own valuations on houses. Student loans companies should too. You'll see a rapid decline in shitty degrees. Goodbye Art History.
With regard to your first paragraph, I don't think there are any American universities that admit students by advisor. As far as I'm aware, your admission is a decision made solely by the graduate admissions committee. Even if you have an advisor ready to take you on the most they can do is recommend you to the committee, not supplant it. When you're admitted there are still criteria aside from research to work on.

I think this is a fundamental difference between American and European universities. In European universities, you can hypothetically join a PhD program without any prior degree at all if an advisor chooses to take you on personally. No such sidestepping can happen in an American institution, and regardless you'll have to take some courses (even if you're only auditing them in effect) before you can begin research. Unsurprisingly, American PhD programs are longer.
I think it's fair to say that this map of the fly brain will be extremely useful in validating models of neurons.
One slight challenge may be that we are certainly not close to being able to build a physical robot fly that resembles a real one, but perhaps a simulated one could do.
The OP's point is, I'm afraid a valid one. Attempting to find a statisticallly significant to report on in time to meet a conference deadline means experiments are fudged, results are cherry picked and discrepancies are swept under the rug. Conference and funding deadlines coupled with the need to generate a publication record are almost entirely responsible for the dubious nature of the average scientific article. It's a classic case of Goodhart's Law.
It is all part of what is known as the 'Adversarial System' that we use for our legal system. There are lots of arguments for why it is used, and in fact, one of the main purposes is to mitigate that kind of 'tribalism' you describe. The alternative system is known as an 'inquisitorial system', and puts the state in charge of everything. By explicitly acknowledging that the defense and prosecution are working against each other, you can help make sure that the motivations are clear and not misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system
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Edit: In answer to your response. Yup.
Energy and motivation declines with age though.
I would say the exact opposite. Shouldn't it be the case that Amazon (retail) should have to use the same escalation mechanism for AWS as any other user of AWS? If the escalation/support mechanism is good enough for Amazon Retail, then that's a strong selling proposition for anyone considering AWS for their mission critical operations. And, on the flipside, if it isn't good enough for Amazon retail, then that creates tremendous feedback pressure to fix it.
> Gasoline engines don't produce all the particulate pollution that diesel engines do

With injection engines this simply isn't true any more.

> made a big mistake by adopting diesel

The small injection turbo diesel engines offered much higher efficiency and thus much lower CO2 emissions (~half) compared to contemporary gasoline engines (they still do). Other parts of the emissions profile (e.g. NOx) have almost exclusively to do with how efficient the engine is run, e.g. gas engines that are close to efficiency to diesel engines will produce similar amounts of NOx.

Broadly speaking, as more aspects of the combustion are externally, forcibly controlled, differences between diesel and gas engines become a lot less.

(The average German car has a 1.6 liter three or four cylinder engine doing something like 4.5l/100km ~ 50 mpg; basically no one is driving big cars with six or eight cylinder engines).
It's very good that you've recognized that programming is not for you. Congratulations! you have a chance to save yourself.

You shouldn't feel bad or try to apologize or try to "make it work" - those are all wastes of time. Get on with life, and find something you have the opportunity to excel at! Being stuck behind a glowing screen 8+ hours a day isn't ultimately rewarding or really sustainable - so find a way to make software-fiddling work for you, or get out now!
If we can't trust doctors then we have a much bigger problem that can't be solved by banning medicines which the FDA has determined to be safe and effective for treating certain conditions. While there's room for improvement in medical care standards, issues with a handful of drugs aren't sufficient evidence to provoke distrust. Most doctors get it right more often than wrong.
That one is exactly ours, too. We have 275 users in license, bought when GitLab Enterprise was the thing. We set up GitLab to help establish innersourcing (e.g. https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/07/trends-version-control-i...), where all employees are users -- no exceptions. We run a GitLab introduction as part of onboarding of all employees, whether techies, marketing people or recruiters.

Our 275 users are an eclectic mix. There are a few projects that really pound the product, there are lots of internal playground repositories, and even a few non-technical documentation repositories. The requirements are scattered.

I think that that perhaps 25 of the 275 users have need for Ultimate Edition, but that is not possible, we'd have to pay $325.000 for the pleasure. And that is going nowhere.

An interesting question then is what do we do next? Perhaps our innersourcing strategy has to go, and each team will get to choose their own platform. People will chose what they know, and soon most will be on GitHub.
Uhh, isnt this what advertsing does?
No worries. For some time, before fully transitioning to Notmuch as a MUA, I was running Gnus with just Notmuch (using nnir notmuch search backend). So no Dovecot or Sieve. A pure Maildir.

I'm not sure whether you'd loose any feature like this, I don't think I did. But perhaps it's much simpler and quicker to switch to Notmuch for Emacs.
I bet a detailed post about how that system works would do well on HN...
Damn, I used to really enjoy the Dilbert comics. Not that I'll enjoy them any less now, but I didn't realize how smug Scott Adams is - there's certainly some lesson about being humble in here.

I did find his comments on Trump's campaign interesting. If you didn't see them, he found ways to compare every controversy to former statements and writing (e.g. "The Art of the Deal") and made a case for everything being a planned stunt to manipulate the general public.

Still, I became more confused when he joined the Trump train because Hillary supporters were too "mean" to him. On his blog[1] he mentioned policy and Clinton not appearing healthy (which is ironic because that was something Trump was pushing) among other reasons for why he changed endorsement, but I was listening to a podcast some time in the last year where he ended up saying it was mostly because of Clinton supporters.

[1] http://blog.dilbert.com/2016/09/25/why-i-switched-my-endorse...
I blame cultural marxism and the liberalization of our schools.
I've had a 7 since launch and only now from your comment learned about the text selection feature. What a perfect illustration of the discoveribility issue of 3D Touch.
Love, Simon was a really good movie but (yoohoo spoiler ahead)it kind of made me feel bad because of what a twat Simon is for most of the movie and when he finally gets his guy after never decrypting the letters and finding out who only because of a salt in the form of Blue making out with a hot chick I was like meh.. and the whole ferris wheel had no emotional impact - that and I wanted to punch the antagonist so badly the whole movie and I am not a punch in the face kind of guy
anyone know a decent replacement for trello now that atlassian has bought them
Hi author here, I won't lie, it's rough. I definitely built this whole website and wrote the blog during my "compile breaks". On the bright side, typechecking is super fast so I only really have to wait when making algorithmic changes. Still, especially for anything that does code generation, you'll be tweaking the algorithm a good deal.
Ever lived in a cold environment? You idle to let your heating system get up to temp. I grew up in a cold area and no way was I going to jump in my car right away in -20 degree temps.
> How do you fix that? Raise wages.

Raise (net real) incomes on the bottom end. Doesn't have to be wage increases.

But, yes, politics.
Has "Sable" been spoken about externally before? I found a few details about it on a LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kokamd/.

"Sable has been hugely successful in the company: it provides storage and computation environment to over 850 teams, running 2450 unique applications, hosts 10,000 data-sets comprising of 2.05PB of (replicated) data across all retail regions. It handles about 2.2 trillion transactions per day with average client-side latencies of 3ms. In the first half of 2016, there were two outages of the cluster in North America due to operator errors, and this brought down multiple lines of business, not just Amazon.com. Leading the project to reduce SABLE blast radius. This involves segregating the data-sets and providing seamless fail-over to alternate storage solutions (for example DynamoDB) for data that is very critical such as Amazon catalog."

"SABLE is Amazon's e-commerce storage and computation platform. It hosts some of the most important applications running on Amazon.com. Altogether there are about 400 teams (including Shopping Cart, Items, Prices) that use SABLE within Amazon.com for high performance storage, caching, and new business object derivation services.

Part of the team that built SABLE from ground up. SABLE uses BDB (Berkley Database) for persistence and Libevent for non-blocking I/O. My specific feature contributions include: repartitioning support (add/reduce fleet size without any impact to live production traffic), SABLE reactors (computation platform for propagating prices, availability to the website). I optimized SABLE reactors by eliminating worklogs (which is the bookkeeping mechanism used to keep track of the amount of work that needs to be done in the system) which resulted in 30% reduction in our fleet size.

As a manager, I had five directs, and our team launched: Quality of Service for SABLE reactors (this helped in faster prices propagation to the website), Shopping Cart on SABLE platform (increased the availability of Shopping Cart application, more than what Oracle could provide)."
I don't quite understand what you mean... is it that the logical complexity of the fly brain is lower than the hardware complexity so it should be possible to replicate the "algorithm" to fly without simulating the hardware of the fly brain?
> I don't think this is The Great Filter though. More likely our civilization disintegrates until it reaches a level of complexity we can handle again, but it's not going to be totally wiped out.

I think people assume it often, but I don't think the Great Filter actually requires destruction of the species/civilization. Maybe it _is_ nukes, or bioweapons; or maybe, the Great Filter (or _a_ Great Filter) is #7 on Hanson's list[0], "Tool-using animals with big brains". So there could be plenty of species out there that use tools and even have civilization, but not enough or the right kind of brainpower for developing space travel. So the Great Filter could be a rigid wall that prevents further progress towards space travel, or an elastic trampoline that keeps pushing civilizations back whenever they get too close to it (what you said). Or it could be a wood chipper. We can only speculate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter#The_Great_Filter

[note] I say "space travel", but this also includes remotely-detectable signs of intelligence (e.g. signals, or Dyson spheres), and if our remote sensing gets good enough, of life.
I think the two subjects are very different. Math has a much longer history. To get to the edge of knowledge you need to know a lot more because people have built proofs upon proofs for much longer. You need an undergrad plus a year or two of grad to get both the depth a breadth of what’s been done in the past.

In CS the edge of the field isn’t as far away. New knowledge invalidates more of the old, and you don’t even need a CS undergrad degree to be near some of the edges.
Are you Fred?
3.75 is a very high bar. I don't pass that bar. At that point I'd expect to be filtering work ethic much more strongly than skill or talent.

There may be some grads that have the problems that you describe but there are also many that have those skills. Look at the ICPC regional contests. Many students competing are very highly skilled in algorithms and hacking things together quickly. That does not always make them good employees.
Quiznos have been going out of business everywhere for several years. I think this dead rat commercial was the beginning of the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrks-BPeLQ (I'm sure the exhaust didn't help though!)
Yes, that's right, sorry for the typo.
That whale was just an unfortunate whale that tried to communicate with others on a different wavelength (literally) due to something physically wrong with its pitch.
Wait, somebody has and uses the domain command.com?

TIL..
IANAL, but I assume there's huge risk if Apple allows phones to be fixed by third parties. For instance, a nefarious repair shop could do who knows what(download all the data, install a rootkit, use defective hardware, install tracking devices, etc.) to the phone and the consumer would never know about it until it's too late.
No, it's just that they want to control what goes into their phones.

For instance, I had my Moto G5 screen replaced at a non-offical repair shop here in Poland.

I told them to use the cheapest thing they could find.

The screen sucks. It's dimmer than the original, and the camera hole doesn't even align properly. Most importantly, the glass is not at all reinforced, and it already cracked.

For me it's fine because I don't treat my phones well anyway and it was bound to happen and I saved money, BUT people that see it will think a Moto G5's screen is dim, prone to scratching, and easy to break.

That's what Apple is trying to avoid.
be prepared to move where the action/great people are and optimize for learning. the connections/friendships and knowledge you acquire now will compound over the rest of your career.

i'd rather work with people i like working with on interesting things, than "dig holes" for slightly more compensation.

disclaimer: current 25 year old.
There's a cynical part of me that wonders whether this big anti-vaping push is funded by the cigarette companies, because these products are cannibalizing their business.
> "I'm confident we'll deliver an even better experience next year," he wrote in the email.

"Even better."

Ugh, I detest this kind of PR-written language. Acknowledge failure.

"We failed, and we're sorry we let down our customers. We'll try our best to provide a shopping experience that's up to our standards, as well as our customers' expectations, next year."

This is not that difficult.
When you've been handed everything in life, eight weeks is an eternity to wait.
FWIW, in Poland some banks started using 2FA (many different types) several years before Google or any other site I know of.
Security vulnerability concerns over the DRC's electronic voting machines
Tutorial – emulate an iOS kernel in QEMU up to launchd and userspace
Something like U2F is never going to find mass success in a consumer application. Every enterprise auth provider supports it, which is its major use case for now.
Give it time and they'll give you a two month heads up that they'll be astronomically raising the API costs. Whether something you were paying $50-70 a month for would now cost you closer to $15,000 a month for the exact same thing.

Because that's what they just did to Google Maps API.
This sounds a bit stupid, drivers will wander instead that creates more emissions than idling.
I quit a phd in philosophy to be a lousy full-stack web-magician. Dunno which was better, but at least I can afford a nice meal these days.
Linux is a kernel. GNU is an operating system, and so GNU/Linux is what most people are actually using.

The DFSG and OSD are criteria for evaluating free and open source software and more specifically their licensing terms. The discrimination against fields of endeavor means you can’t make a license that says “the government can’t use my software” or “no military use” and call it free software or open source software. It has absolutely nothing to do with being able to run non-free software.
My physician won't prescribe these to me; I've asked a number of times. In lieu of the Z drug [1] I was given a prescription for temazepam [0]. At first temazepam was great but lost effectiveness after a few weeks and made me feel anxious the morning after.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temazepam
[1] https://www.tuck.com/z-drugs-nonbenzodiazepines/
Regardless of what's technically possible, the fact remains that US standards for particulate emissions and nitrous oxide are quite a bit stricter than European standards. So much so that, as we discovered recently, at least one major European automaker apparently felt the best way to get their diesel cars cleared to sell in the USA was by, in effect, lying.