skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really?

Oracle guys doing conference decks with sailboats cracking jokes about how they accidentally broke EMEA sales and shipping by shutting off a data center on schedule, but before the apps were migrated.
Intel uses three-letter codenames, so it's probably something like CLX-AP, not CLAP.
>> It's just basic horse-trading

I understand it's all about horse-trading, it's the meaning of the word "everyone" in the claim "a net positive for everyone" that I question.

My understanding of European Union horse-trading is that it's all about "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours". This might well be good for most if not all EU politicians and bureaucrats, it's patently not going to be a net positive for every single citizen.

Example: the travelling circus that is the EU Parliament moving back and forth between BRU and SXB.

"The campaign to end the European parliament's expensive monthly commute to Strasbourg received a boost yesterday when a European commissioner criticised it as a sign of "insanity". Margot Wallstrom, a commission vice-president, said: "Something that was once a very positive symbol of the European Union, reuniting France and Germany, has now become a negative symbol - of wasting money, bureaucracy and the insanity of the Brussels institutions."[0]

"though MEPs have voted to scrap a second parliament, the French government has the power to block any such move [..] It is perhaps the most outlandish of the European Union’s excesses; a £130 million travelling circus that once a month sees the European Parliament decamp from Belgium to France.

Over the course of the weekend, some 2,500 plastic trunks will be loaded on to five lorries and driven almost 300 miles from Brussels to Strasbourg.

On Monday, about 1,000 politicians, officials and translators will then make the same journey on two specially chartered trains hired at taxpayers’ expense."[1]

sources:
[0]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/05/eu.politics

[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/10565686/T...
You're speaking for yourself.

Given a hypothetical button which could perfectly simulate the chemical conditions of self-actualization, do you think everyone would be content to use it every day and do nothing else for the rest of their lives?
That doesn't explain why the instant runoff system will result in a two party system..
I think the thing people have a problem with is the atrocious new keyboard
It's a solution, not the solution, and I think that's an important distinction to make.

Screens could be causing sleeplessness, or it could be that sitting bored without anything to keep your attention is the key to getting to sleep more easily.

And that's important to think about, as without that information, people might try to solve sleep issues by listening to podcasts, which if the root cause isn't the screen, might not help much.
“Rust 2015” does not mean “Rust 1.0.” Editions are a way to opt into changes that would be breaking. New features land in Rust 2015 unless they require breaking changes, and if they do, they must wait until the next edition to land, because otherwise they’d be breaking.
Thanks to Oracle, there is no premium OpenJDK or a hidden test suite as in the Sun days (Oracle contributed the remaining commercial "premium" features to OpenJDK a few weeks ago, including those that came in through the BEA acquisition). There is premium support offered by several companies (Oracle, RedHat, Azul, IBM), and a commercial JCK, which is not the OpenJDK test suite but a Java specification test suite for implementations that are not OpenJDk. The JCK can be freely used by OpenJDK.
Courts make mistakes (in the appealer's view) because people misinterpret evidence/the law. If you get the same people in a higher court the same mistakes will happen again.
Good war story.

One thing I was wondering:

> It essentially showed our layer0 service freezing, and even stop reporting its own internal metrics, only to recover a few minutes later. As we didn’t know how to reproduce the problem, it was hard to make progress.

I don’t know the environment (and not too much about the current affairs of e.g. web development in general), but since the problem was noticeable and lasted for minutes, up to almost an hour according to the graph, is there anything that would prevent them from logging into an affected machine and taking multiple stack shots of the relevant processes in close succession?

That would immediately show which threads are hanging where. The rest of debugging is still required to figure out why it hangs there (especially if you are not familiar with the internals of the code at the top of the obtained stack shots), but at least you know where to look.
> why would this be better than me simply burying his naked body in the forest somewhere

If he's not embalmed? Not much.

If you embalm him first? A whole lot of time.
There are many factors at play. I work for a US manufacturer in the medical industry, and our customers definitely lag behind in technology. Some of the things I see:

Much of the workforce is older and adoption of new technology is avoided by many.

Large organizations move slowly and health care workers don't tend to be among early adopters of technology.

While working individually, face-to-face with a patient, pen and paper can actually be the best option.

A younger workforce, more understanding patient population and new environments centered around technology first will occur eventually.
Why didn't you sleep earlier?
Crossing the Irish border four times in 10 minutes
>On the bright side, now RedHat employees can flash their new IBM business cards at International Brotherhood of Magicians shows in Las Vegas to get in for free, thanks to the terms of a trademark infringement lawsuit settlement from decades ago.

Is this true? I can't find any references anywhere.
The best thing to do in this situation would be to set the maximum memory on the MemSQL server via the `maximum_memory` system variable. The server will then internally manage it's memory usage against this upper bound and fail only specific operations which can't be performed without additional memory.
From experience with an EHR system: these things are so big that interoperating between different pieces of big-ball-of-mud systems is a dicey matter and making any changes requires extensive manual tests, since there are approximately zero automated tests.
It does. I know several kids who suffered severe depression because they had to move far away several times and had no real friend, no feeling of belonging, no home.
Didn’t Apple and IBM work on an OS boondoggle back in the Windows 95 time period?
Yep thats exactly how it goes. I have been in 3 companies that have been acquired and currently in 1yr mark of getting acquired with the current company. Thats exactly how it goes.

Interesting enough I had the displeasure of getting acquired by IBM and the first yr not bad. By year 2 to 3 and being fully converted to IBM culture I can tell you that most of the original employees of the company bought out had all left willing.

I left as well and I couldn't be happier. By far working as a senior level (forgot what band now) engineering consultant for them was one of the worst experience with a company.

They even tried to use legal action to prevent me from switching to another company.They also tried to stall me and BS me long enough for the offer to go away.

I gave them a chance and they matched the offer and terms. 6 months later IBM tried to change the terms of our agreement thinking the other offer was gone and I was at their mercy.

What they didn't know was the other company had been pursuing me for years so I called them and asked if they were still interested. They said yes and I took it. Put in my 2 weeks and IBM tried to stop it with legal actions. Luckily they weren't successful. They even wanted to go after the other company for pursuing me and asking who was the contact. I never told them who it was and said thanks but no thanks I'm out.

IBM was a horrible unethical company to work for IMO.

Run if you can and run early before the max exodus that is surely to come and your industry is flooded.

The funny thing was the day we found out that IBM bought us out one of my colleagues quit right on the spot. Myself and our supervisor at the time were surprised and thinking he was crazy to quit with out even giving them a try. Looking back now I would do the exact same thing if I were to find out IBM purchased our company.

I don't recall ever hearing anything positive from any of my IBM colleagues before,during, or after I left. Actually many former IBMrs called me trying to get out. It was the only company where I had worked at that had a constant bad juju feel about it and inundated with negativity from all the employees.

With other companies that bought us out the process was the same: yr 1 no changes, 2 little changes , 3 you are the new company. I actually stayed with the other companies , the only one I left was IBM. So the acquisition itself doesn't mean that it has to be a negative thing. In my situation the only time it was negative was with IBM.
For Italian addresses it's much better than Google

Also address parsing and normalisation is superior

We recently switched to Here from Maps and have now 98% accuracy at house number level
if it wasn't junk advice they'd be sued in this day and age. Accepting biological differences is a big no-no now.
My first election reform activism was for IRV. It is mathematically better than approval voting.

However, my election integrity concerns came to outweigh the fairness considerations. Tabulating IRV is a pain, requires computers to be feasible, and is much harder to audit.

Happily, approval voting get us most of the fairness of IRV and greatly improves election integrity over both FPTP and IRV (for different reasons).
> The problem isn't that collective action needs to be taken, it's that sufficient collective action won't sufficiently be supported by voters. That's why Democrats aren't proposing it

I think there are other reasons why Democrats don't propose strong climate regulation, such as the large donations they receive from people in fossil fuel.

There is already very strong democratic support for collective actions. Think of all the climate marches, the protests and occupation of DAPL, anti-fracking movements, etc. People who strongly support collective actions way outnumber the people who oppose it. It's just that those who oppose it have all the political and economic power in our society.

The Liberals in power are collaborating with Conservatives and killing collective action solutions by engaging with respectability politics. One is not allowed to protest except for at very specific times and in ways that are chosen by those in power to be acceptable. Any protest that gets too rowdy is decried by both sides. The only other way you are allowed to resist climate change is by buying the expensive stuff in the green packaging rather than the other stuff.
Places with IRV generally still have two major parties, even if weaker, like I said in the original comment. I'm just saying that how this normally plays out is you still end up with 2 major parties (though weaker).
pbhjpbhj also led with "Is it scientific?" which should have cleared things up.
This definitely isn’t a contrasting opinion as I’m the OP and co-founder of Honest Work but for context, the original role Brightcove posted had over 5k unique hits, a lot of which came from the Go subreddit and a highly relevant Go community here in the UK so they definitely had a substantial number of the right people looking at the post.
> restrictions on new housing

Unfortunately they are not making any more land.
It is illegal for a medical practitioner to send someone to the hospital in a non-medical transport.
There was a surprising lack of Alan Perlis on the original list! His "epigrams on programming" should be required reading for every programmer, even if some are a little dated now:

http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
Agreed. Though everyone has said that any graphics API in C++ would be just for pedagogical and prototyping purposes, not to be used as a basis for serious work.
I mean this is a tax problem first and foremost isn't it? The problem being that it's hard for countries to enforce regulations in a virtualized, globalized economy. It's true that it's not just about tax, you also have issues regarding what is and isn't legal in a given country (nazi apology is illegal in France for instance, but good luck enforcing that on the web. Similarly the super harsh "no nudity" rule on american websites is often seen as abusive over here for instance). I mean you seem to agree on that point yourself so it seems that they're not completely wrong to try and fix that.

>They’re just a bunch of jealous incompetent insufferable pompous politicians than don’t understand a thing about the private sector

Talking about knee-jerk reactions.

I strongly dislike this type of empty populist diatribe, that's how we give up on democracy and end up with incompetent fools at the government, just out of spite. Screaming "tous pourris" is not improving anything and is frankly insulting for the many elected officials who are genuinely trying to improve things. Regardless of what they did or didn't do there would be people like you who scream bloody outrage because they're obviously stupid people who understand nothing about nothing. Meanwhile you're not the one trying to balance the budget of a country within the EU.

>let’s fix the tax heavens in Europe then

And how do you propose we do that? Have Le Maire go to the various tax heavens (which in this particular instance would have to include Ireland) and tell them to tax more? How many bottles of Bordeaux would he have to bring to seal the deal?

Having a uniform tax code across the EU would be awesome but it's not like we're anywhere close to something like that.
I used to work for Jet.com, which was acquired by Walmart, and I stayed there for about two years after the acquisition.

It was an OK place to work, and they gave Jet some level of autonomy, but I left when I read that Walmart wants to start "integrating" their stuff ours, which in my case was a lot of Java crap that was clearly at least 10 years old.

I doubt that my experience is atypical with this. Big companies like to buy smaller ones, but don't like having two versions of one thing, and very often they'll view their original version of something as superior to the one they just purchased. In the case of Walmart, I think they bought Jet exclusively for the name.

I'm hoping that IBM is smart enough to sit back and let Redhat do their thing. I don't really want Redhat to become something bloated and horrible like WebSphere.
FAQ has:

>Just pass the coordinates as a latitude and a longitude, separated by either a comma or a (URL encoded) space and the API will automagically work out that you want to reverse geocode.

Is the reverse geocoding based on
1. government-source boundary data, or
2. proximity to tagged points from OSM or other non-authoritative sources?
Ahh, I see, okay, I got it completely wrong then. I thought you voted for a single person and those votes were reassigned, I didn't realize you gave a strict ranking.

What happens if the candidate that gets removed is in the middle? I'm guessing nothing, since it "stops" at your first preference that's still in the race, ie your vote goes to the first person?
Well, if San Francisco's IRV races are to be used as an example, you end up with a one-party system. But more seriously, I think "clone-proof" electoral systems tend to better allow for more than two parties, or at least more than two candidates at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_clones_criteri...
From a European point of view, this whole thread is surreal. Your hand is crushed or your fingers are severed, you are sent to the ER in an Ambulance.

This is impressive how far the US has normalised the concept that health is primarily a financial decision. Especially in the HN bubble that consists mostly of wealthy individuals.
Straight IRV is an improvement in that it removes the third-party candidate spoiler effect and the incentive for negative campaigning, yes, but it can actually make results less proportional than FPTP.

What's needed isn't just IRV but STV - think IRV but districts grouped together and multiple winners. That way, you can actually get results that are proportional to the votes cast because the difference between a narrow win and a landslide changes who gets elected down the ticket.
Google is a great example too. Many of Google’s best-known hits began outside of Google:

* Maps (maps from Where2 Technologies, acquired in 2004; real-time traffic from ZipDash, acquired in 2004; satellite imagery from Keyhole, acquired in 2005)

* Android (founded in 2003, bought for $50M+ in 2005)

* YouTube (founded in 2005, bought for $1.7B in 2006)

* Adsense (Google acquired Applied Semantics in 2003,
DoubleClick in 2007, and AdMob for mobile ads in 2009)

* Google Docs (spreadsheets by 2Web, acquired in 2005; docs by Upstartle, acquired in 2006; slides by Tonic Systems, acquired in 2007)

* Waymo (Thrun's team, 510 Systems)

A long list of Alphabet's acquisitions are on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
https://azure.com/devops
Somehow HDMI audio is still less convenient for me.

I send HDMI to my TV which sends optical to my sound system, and it still works pretty well. Earlier this year I bought a nice sound system with a receiver for the reasons you mentioned, but it added extra lag to my video games, so I returned it. My current sound system also supports ARC but it causes most of the same problems. Decoding those fancy codecs creates lag on every system I've tried, so sticking to LPCM over optical seems to be the only way to enjoy games still.
Reading up on the topic it seems like a lot more compounds than I thought are chemically manufactured. I thought the popular way was implanting yeasts with the genes for making the flavor. TIL.
Yes, but whoever did the hiring would have to come up with some substantial capital in order to set up all the required infrastructure, and there would be a long lead-time before profits started coming in.
> Another mystery is lack of Epyc uptake.

AMD and AWS just announced EC2 instances with Epyc processors a few minutes ago: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13547/amd-next-horizon-live-b...

Edit: Now on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18392834
Just build your site how you like. The customers will definitely tell you.
Refugees need phone credit almost as much as food and water
No. Run.
There's a lot of private information that's valuable to others. Doesn't make it right or ethical.
There is no proof that human brains are capable of deciding uncomputable sets and really no reason to believe that they should be able to.
Is There a Cure for Hate?
I don't see that.

I know I've "voted defensively" before, and I really don't like having to do it. I want to vote for those that I agree with, I don't want to vote against those who I disagree with.

It may seem like a small distinction, but if someone loves candidate A, but they are extremely unlikely to win, most will end up voting for B because they REALLY don't like C.

That leads to A never getting in office until they become more like B.

But with instant runoff, I'm free to know that I can vote for A first, and B second, and not worry that my support for A is implicit support for C.

It not a perfect system, but IMO it's a lot better than what we have now in the US.

Edit: another piece that I forgot to mention is that instant runoff can give more signals beyond the winners or losers. Currently you have no way outside of polling to understand what voters want, it leads to a vocal minority being able to control the narrative.

With instant runoff, the runners can easily see that even though candidate A didn't win, they did get a sizeable number of votes, and maybe next time B runs, they will incorporate some of A's ideas into their campaign.
Unless the XPS can run macOS the comparison will be useless to the target audience of the Mac Mini. Furthermore both are very different product categories.
Actually, just did., and being 1700 miles away from SJ already feel much better.

I guess if you move to SJ from some hamlet 3 hours outside of Cheyenne, it's probably exciting. When I got there from Chicago, I couldn't believe that people actually might think it is a great place to live. Other than some career considerations, it's really a bland suburbia with nothing exciting about it.
Unfortunately, the long billion seems to be going the way of the dodo these days.
I thought so too, but regardless, with this same device there is no hiss when connected via optical. So if I had the option, I'd be using optical vs. USB today, which was what the GP asked.
There's a big unaddressed obstacle to IRV which is that it's a little confusing and complicated to explain. This is a much bigger problem than it might first sound like. It is an absolute requirement of any voting system that voters understand how it works and feel confident in it.
There may be cultural differences affecting your communication. It
could be that you're accustomed to being deferential in this situation
and your supervisor is accustomed to students being more vocal about
their preferences. Does he know you dislike the research direction
he's advocating, or could he be too busy or distracted even to be
aware of it? Are you sure he's forcing you and not just making
suggestions?

Assuming communication isn't the problem, how clearly have you defined
the scope of the research you want to pursue? If you don't at least
have an outline for your thesis having been there for three months,
maybe he's justifiably worried about a lack of direction on your part
and is trying to give you some. The more clearly you have it planned
out, the more comfortable your supervisor should be with having you
run with it.

Assuming communication isn't the problem and assuming you've presented
a well thought out plan that he rejected, you should take a hard look
at whether he has a point. One school of thought holds that Ph.D. is a
time to do what you like without worrying too much about how
fashionable it is, but another regards a poor choice of dissertation
topic as career suicide. What reasons does he have for you to work on
those topics instead of the one you had in mind?

I know what it's like to be passionate about a research topic, and
although you don't believe this now, your interests are subject to
change as you mature intellectually. My own view is that a Ph.D. is
neither a free-for-all nor a matter of life and death, but your
opportunity demonstrate your competence with a decent piece of work
and start your career. The main thing is to do a good job and not get
too hung up on things that don't matter in the long term.
No offense but one of the founder's middle name is Dev
Then is it going to come to desktop machines too, where people often use battery-powered Bluetooth keyboards, or peripherals not made by Apple? What about the tiny 12 inch Macbook?

I don't see how this thing is practical across the entire Mac line.
Redhat was acquired for roughly double the market capitalization. IBM presumably is going to do something with the org chart to make good on that bet.

> I can only understand his anxiety if he is an exec high up the chain and likely will be trimmed and his multi-million dollar salary is affected

IBM's got a long history of layoffs over the past decade. The double edged sword of working remote is you have fewer opportunities in a job crisis like this. That said, line staff's phones and inboxes are probably blowing up with recruiters.
>> There is zero justification for the pricing.

There is a justification for the pricing, but you probably won't like it: More than enough people will buy the product at a high margin price to make up for the price-sensitive people who won't buy it.
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