skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears to have been a perfect storm of events. A family problem in a family business can be very stressful, been there, got the tee shirt. Then add on top of that an explosion in business you never really wanted and as a result of the overload, a decline in customer service. That then turned into vitriolic reviews and nasty/hateful answering machine messages. Imagine all of that happening in just a few months. What an awful out of control ride that must have been. No wonder Stanich pulled the plug.

And if people were paying attention, they would have noticed a lot of drug talk from Stanich. Why was Stanich so fixated on talking about drug problems? That usually happens when stuff hits close to home. All speculation on my part but I found it an odd topic for a burger restaurateur.
The Future of Learning Is – Personal
That may describe the professionals training and intended role in the ecosystem, but it does not describe most patients' experience of the pharmacist.
I don't care to "hunt" for shills anyway, but it's real frustrating to make a comment against Google, get hit for it, and the best "response" is a wall of text just making it "OK" for them to kill products off left and right early. As if this company-wide behavior should just be discounted because "Google".

There's a reason they are 3rd in cloud tech.
Engineering Management: Lessons learned in first year
So it's the equivalent of removing a magic number from your code and putting it into a const variable.
>>>> Which google cloud projects have shut down this past year? Or Ever, for that matter?

>> Apigee API BaaS, Fabric, Google Search Appliance...

Curious, what usually happens to the engineers on projects that get shut down? Do they get redeployed to other areas? What if the team is in a small office?

I've walked past the Apigee office in Reston, VA...what would happen to those engineers...i imagine there arent many other options for redeployment short of moving cities...
xfce is quite beautiful the default theme is just dated. you pick something else and its fine
tl;dr: The cause is the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) for cross-hyperthread Spectre mitigation on Intel processors.

I'm not sure why Michael thinks this is a surprise, performance regressions were practically on the box with these mitigations.
Will you ever apology for your mistakes?
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If both parties are withholding the truth from the public, revealing accurate documents is removing the distortion of truth (at least for one party).

If WL had information about another party and chose not to release, it's not a distortion: the distortion already existed. But it would arguably be unethical to not act to end the distortion, if WL was capable of doing so.
This whole thing has led me to wonder - does crowdfunding encourage crappy products?
None of those are part of Google Cloud. But really; I don't see a CTO making an informed decision on which cloud vendor to use by the fact that they liked Google Reader and Orkut 10 years ago. Just like I would not expect a good CTO to base their decision to not use AWS on Amazon discontinuing the Fire Phone in 2015.
https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/oklahoma-senior-from-j...

https://www.tulsaworld.com/goodnews/how-i-got-here-how-sarah...

Oklahoma senior from Jenks High School accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools

Sarah Cameron boasts a long list of extracurricular activities, including academic clubs and an impressive tennis career. Now she can brag about her eight college acceptance letters, all to Ivy League schools.
Oh the humanity! The NYT has established themselves such a great reputation of publishing high quality interactive data driven articles, that now people expect them to include a fully functional flight simulator that lets you relive the doomed pilot's last few minutes, like the Kobayashi Maru!

That sure would be cool, but some readers might find it a bit too shocking.
> Unless the new definition was based on the current IPK and set its mass as of today as the standard, and that standard now will be unchanging?

Correct. The current IPK will still be 1kg to within margin of error at the time the new definition comes into effect, but any further changes to it will make it, for the first time, drift away from that value.
Identifying good XSS research [video]
Soundation: Web Based Music Production and Collaboration Tool
One way to divide people on mathematics is to separate those who see it as a technology (have problem -> apply mathematics -> problem is solved) from those who see it as a way of interpreting the world (eg, the stock market /is/ a set of correlated random variables, adding things to a heap /is/ addition, geometry /is/ how the world fits together).

Usually there isn't a huge amount of difference between these competing philosophies, but it really rears its head in probability and statistics where a huge amount of damage is done, eg, p-value-hacking by people who think statistics is a technology rather than a perspective.
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Never understood why the reference weight was one and not a maintained average over several or tens. This could have included aperiodic less used reference weights stored differently, different washing cycles &c.

I know several bipm participant nations had clones but they were always understood to be daughter weights.

Level surfaces (for instance) used to be made as triplets and never pairs: pairs can form lenses.

Not that a kibble balance definition isn't better: I just don't understand why the kg definition was a Singleton and not statistically satisfied.
I don’t understand. If you sell the car, you get money which has the maximum utility, because you can trade it for other things. Donating and trading are essentially selling, so what would an alternative that provides positive utility look like?
In order for this to happen, leftism needs to make a very strong comeback.

Unfortunately, the recent trend has been the opposite.
In the microwave frequency range for TWTAs but not so much at lower frequencies. I worked with MRI amplifiers for a while (64 MHz or 128 MHz, depending on 1.5 T or 3 T) and things have gone solid state there. Broadcast seems to have followed the same path.
Nah, I think this is just typical Amazon corp speak.

It's a phrase often parroted within Amazon that companies that run with "customer obsessed" mentality succeed the most. And that while following competitors works it isn't as successful.

Another example of Bezos saying basically the same thing is in a previous all-hands when someone asked about "Day 2".
I'm generally like that, but occasionally a game comes along that grips my interest. Thus why I'm likely the oldest expert-level Guitar Hero player that is also active in the community, at the age of 38.
The tricky case is a bucket which is otherwise private but contains individual files that were uploaded with a public ACL (or had the ACL modified, of course). This is not made apparent anywhere in the interface (by which I mean there isn't some big "public" sticker), and is part of what this feature is trying to address.
If you support HTTP2, the long poll requests will generally reuse a connection. Websockets consume a connection, which can result in hitting issues with opening a lot of tabs. There was a proposal to make it compatible with HTTP2, but I don't believe it went anywhere.
Tracktion DAW Engine Open Sourced
Seems pretty interesting, I might try it out later. Does anybody have experience using this to revive an old computer (ie make it faster and more useable)?
The problem is that a lot of their telemetry and data comes from the Windows Insider program. These are the users who get the releases early to test. I don't know an average person who would want to test new features early, and deal with buggy releases and more frequent updates. And I don't know any power users who would even try to use an insider build for daily production use, since it's going to interfere with day to day work. If I had to guess, the insider builds are put mostly on people's secondary computers, where they will log in and fiddle around, then go back to doing what they really need to on a stable build. Seems like their data is biased from the beginning to me.
That's a great example! Obviously depends on your definition. Wikipedia seems inclusive of "demands, orders, or commands".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
It may have been a rather silly idea but it wasn't on the same level of impracticality as the Air Force's "launch into a polar orbit, capture a satellite, and land in one orbit" requirement. The first Shuttle-Centaur launch was scheduled for only a few months after the Challenger disaster occurred, so it was at least something that would have been used. On the other hand, the Air Force never even finished building a Shuttle launch complex at Vandenberg, let alone use the once-around capabilities.
This is why I tell no one of my favorite spots. My second favorite bars, restaurants, and nature spots are where I meet coworkers, dates from apps, and acquaintances. Only close friends/partners/family get to know my true favorites - keeps them healthy as long as possible.

For example, I know of a cheap, quiet bar in the heart of a major west coast city. It's not perfect, but it's got wifi and cheap drafts and is relatively clean despite beinga dive.

I not only take no one there I don't really like, I will actively discourage people if someone notices it on Yelp when we're debating where to go.

(Luckily, it has a deceptively low Yelp rating due to the hordes of techies who think being told "buy something to get a key to the bathroom" is equivalent to being spit in the face so I can invoke the magical word "sketchy" and steer my party clear)
Hi. I am currently taking David Silver's Reinforcement Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning Course from Berkeley. I would be very much interested in joining you for reading research papers and possibly working on projects too.
You should read the source you are linking to instead of being needlessly snarky.

The function you call emits IR, and it's doc block says:

// EmitIR compiles the Lua script similarly to Compile but instead
// uses the long listing options to capture the compiled IR dump.
// EmitIR returns the Lua bytecode encoded as a string or any error.
Is SublimeText an example of successful shareware?
I don’t really understand the appeal of D3. It’s basically just a thin wrapper over SVG, so thin in fact, to do anything interesting, you’re stuck manipulating SVG elements yourself.

There’s a good idea there, but D3 just isn’t quite right.
I've known some folks who've worked for SpaceX, and more who'v interviewed. My sense is that the webcasts are fairly representative of the youthfulness and diversity of the company.

(Context: I started getting involved in space activism as a teenager in the early 1990s. The first conference I went to was a bunch of mostly-veteran Apollo and Shuttle engineers. I remember looking around the room and noting that I was the youngest person in the room by 2 or 3 decades, and also that there wasn't a single woman or non-white face present. Nothing against these guys at all -- they were great! -- but demographics like that will lead any movement to extinction. So I find it enormously satisfying to see how those demographics have changed.)

You're absolutely right that Japan's biggest challenge is its collapsing population. However, excluding half your population from meaningful participation in the workforce -- at the same time as your population is collapsing -- makes a bad problem significantly worse. In fact both problems have pretty much the same solution, starting with changing the culture such that it doesn't force Japanese women to choose between between being a mother and having a career.
CIA Concludes Khashoggi Was Killed on the Crown Prince’s Order
That's not true at all: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208330
Desktop Linux isn't really that difficult. It could be easier. The thing is that the people who want "really easy" probably aren't going to bother installing any new OS. Microsoft and Apple work hard, not just to make their OS easy but update their OS to whatever random hardware or software thing has come out (games and printers, say). Not being able to do "this one thing" is the main complaint I hear from friends who randomly wind-up with desktop Linux from computer recyclers mostly (it's my complaint too at times).

Also, elementary OS looks a lot like the "gnome shell" and latest Ubuntu thing. Mint/Mate has become the main Linux shell by staying with Window 7-like-shell. The newer shells are easier but less powerful. So it would win for those who want easy. Except those who want easy will do nothing and stay with MS/Apple. After they are "free" too or seem like that to the average person.
Finally a useful petition
Show HN: A rap song making fun of the *bad* recruiters we all love to hate
It's a complete mess. I tried to switch from macOS to Linux Ubuntu running wayland gnome. HiDPI is sort of ish there. Spotify definitely isn't and weird stuff going on in other apps too.

The touch pad is not even remotely comparable with macOS. No inertia scrolling and overall a clumsy feeling.

Shearing when scrolling is common. The entire UI stutters if I compile some rust in the background.

Key bindings are inconsistent and all over the place.

UI defaults are totally weird with screen estate given up to absurd use cases.

System tray icon are stretched. Debian just released a glibc that completely broke electron. So no slack, vscode or spotify until that was sorted by a third party ppa.

I'm running screaming back to the Mac.
You conflate "losing your exclusive status" with the push to equalize representation in workplaces.

There isn't an infinite amount of jobs for any particular field or workplace at any one time, if you pursue a campaign of equality of roles going to men/women in a male dominated field, your going to have to reject some men who otherwise would have qualified.
> Even for this SI overhaul, we didn't really even need to redefine the mole, except for the fact that it was previously defined in terms of the old kg. This was just "fixing a glitch".

I came to complain about the article calling the mole a "base unit of the SI", and this seems like an appropriate thread.

Why is the mole a defined unit at all? As far as I understand things, "one mole" is the same thing as Avogadro's number -- neither can be a unit, because they're both dimensionless constants (well, they're both one and the same dimensionless constant). Applying actual units, "one mole of water molecules" is the same thing as "Avogadro's number of water molecules". Avogadro's number, and therefore the mole, is the conversion factor between atomic mass units and grams. Similarly, 3 is the conversion factor between feet and yards, but nobody thinks 3 is a fundamental base unit of the imperial system. The foot is a base unit of the imperial system, measuring length, the yard is a non-base unit also measuring length, and 3 is a number with no special relationship to the system at all. It would be total nonsense to say that yards are defined by reference to 3. How is Avogadro's number different?

Wouldn't "fixing the glitch" be abandoning the idea of calling the mole a unit in the first place?
The book Dreamland[1] chronicles a lot of this history... but a belief in science means that if scientific studies challenge some of your preexisting beliefs, you accept that evidence.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem...
This is a pretty common practice in the arts - Louis CK and Radiohead both used this to great effect.

Indeed, my recollection is that Radiohead made more money on their album In Rainbows doing 'pay as much as you want' than their label paid them on previous records.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-cyberwar-commentar...

"...Vice President Joe Biden said on NBC’s Meet the Press that “we’re sending a message” to Putin and “it will be at the time of our choosing, and under the circumstances that will have the greatest impact.” When asked if the American public would know a message was sent, Biden replied, “Hope not.”

This statement has haunted me since I first watched Biden's interview in 2016. What are Biden's plans to avenge Clinton's lost campaign? I've always thought it has something to do with Assange, but aside from discretely murdering Assange, I can't think of anything the US could do to avenge Hilary's loss that the public wouldn't know about. Clinton asked why we couldn't just drone Assange. Maybe they'll make his death look like an accident or a health issue?
Do you know this person's name? Have you seen their resume? Have you read anything they have written? Have you listened to any interview they have done?

How do you know what they are thinking?

Did you read a headline written by a source you don't know and assume it was true?
What is C0?
If there is transparency with regards to the algorithm used, name one good reason why anonymized data is verboten.

Not alleging there is such transparency here, just raising the question. It always seems like even anonymous telemetry is considered harmful, and I don't understand why that is from a conceptual standpoint.
I'm thinking this could be a solution that various businesses could adopt temporarily. And not a turnkey solution for each business.

These stories also keep coming out of various businesses in Europe with the influx of Chinese and Indian tourists, eager to pay them but the businesses have no infrastructure to "shape" the inflow of customers.

If this is indeed a big problem, this is also a big opportunity.
Unless you're making high quality prints I would recommend staying away from matplotlib. That's it's purpose and if you ever use large amounts of data it slows to a crawl. It's a real shame that it's the default plotter for pandas. I imagine I've wasted a full 24 hours in total for plots to show up over the past few years.
How will you feel if it goes out of business from not enough patronage or if the owner closes it because it's not meeting his financial requirements for retirement?

If the owner just wants a quiet cozy place that's certainly great but maybe the owner wants the place to be 3x as busy or maybe she want's to open a bigger place or 2nd place as soon as she gets enough people and funds.
I always thought of it more like conjoined triangles
A lot of 'money spent in science' has not really been spent. Just offered with lots of requisites that nobody can reach and then recycled for other projects. If granted, the money can be blocked for months (instead to pay an entire year to scientists, you pay 7 months... for one year of work), and can be partially siphoned off again using bureaucracy. Some politicians are very fond of this 'miracle of bread and fishes' trick.

"In the last ten years we spent '10 millions' in science projects". Looks great.

"In the last ten years we flashed the same million 10 times before to put it again in our pocket". Not so great, often the real thing.
Oh man I get just a glimpse of what the Windows team has to deal with when applying patches it's absolutely insane. Never in my life have I had to worry that yum update was going to trash my system.
Question: This may pertain more to GTK, but does gtk/elementary os have an equivalent to macOS's core animation libraries? Particularly to support interactive / fluid interfaces (see https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/803/ )? I did a cursory look and couldn't find much.

I've been fairly familiar with macOS development particularly for trying to do more experimental UI (fluid animation) the past few years, but have been staring at linux/elementaryOS more.
Repo: https://github.com/Tracktion/tracktion_engine/

Skimming the code, looks like around 90K LOC of C++, based on JUCE framework.
Except they are taking things like file names, e-mail headers, recipients, and even in some cases they are taking documents. The recent recommendation from them was as follows:

From - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/16/microsoft_gdpr/

"...[Microsoft] also recommends simply not using the web-only version of Office 365, or SharePoint Oneline. And it recommends periodically deleting the Active Directory accounts of VIP users and creating new accounts for them so that the diagnostic data associated with those accounts is eventually deleted."

Seriously, we should be deleting and recreating accounts in our own fucking domain to keep the data anonymous? Why is that on us?

They have you AD account info, and diagnostic data directly tied to it. There's no anonymization going on here at all. They're gathering it recklessly.

Also from that link:

"Much of what Microsoft collects is diagnostics, the researchers found, and it has seemingly tried to make the system GDPR compliant by storing Office documents on servers based in the EU. But it also collected other data that contained private information and some of that data still ended up on US servers."
Solaris is dead. I looked at Nix and it has postInstall actions which can run arbitrary commands and scripts, so it doesn’t fit the description.
Maybe you've been working on different codebases than I have. Whatever might be in the libraries, what I see among the users of those libraries is a ton of careless copying. The idiom is what the majority do, not what some authority says they should do.
I agree. I would be using Linux full time if the experience was not so jarring all the time. Fonts and themes are off, stuff gets jumbled around, things are wildly inconsistent. You end up spending lots of time doing weird hacks to make everything look alright. Even Elementary will break if you move outside the core applications - it cannot be helped in this ecosystem.

When Linux works for you it's so damn great but I cannot fully enjoy a UI that is so inconsistent and ugly so often.
Commentary: Don't be so sure Russia hacked the Clinton emails
What does Joe Biden mean when he says "Hope not"? What action could the US Government take against Assange or Russia without the American public knowing? Why would Biden hope that the American public doesn't find out? Is he afraid we would disapprove of the action he is referring to?

This statement has stumped me since I first watched the interview in 2016. What type of covert activities could the US take part in to remedy Clinton's lost election?
It's not just burger joints. I tremble every time I see my town mentioned positively knowing that too much publicity will drive out the people who made it a great place with ghastly land valuations.
Not to mention the fact that the academic institution usually takes a hefty "tax" on any grants awarded. Where I work, they take around 30-40% I believe.
Mark Wahlberg's Insanely Crazy and Impossible Daily Schedule
That's great!

For some reason I thought it was an incompatible new platform.