skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For desktop I would say SUSE is the way to go. You can get different levels of support. Much more worth it than Windows license - which is the price you pay to get Microsoft stickers on your machine (and to have their spyware on). Calling MS support was the worst experience ever for me.
You shouldn't really use RHEL as a desktop OS (they even dropped KDE recently). On servers if you have the money RHEL is the best you can get.
cough LSB cough

I don't really think it's an issue though, if you really want portability you shouldn't rely on any software provided by the distribution unless you want to depend on that specific distro.

Flatpak runtimes are basically interchangeable base systems, it seems silly to commit to any one in particular when you can use any number in parallel.
I'd love to have a Linux distro with the frontend of Elementary OS and the backend of Nixos. And I say that as a Microsoft employee. Are there efforts to make Nixos grandma-worthy? Or are the only pretty distros all reskins of Ubuntu?
Okay, you are correct, let's not say she was fired, she was separated from the company.

Separations can happen for several reasons and they have different terms, I recognize that most people associate "fired" with incompetence or misconduct and that likely wasn't the case here[1].

Generally, with senior leaders, they have a set of objectives that they are tasked with working toward, and every year is a negotiation over whether or not they are meeting their objectives. When they aren't meeting those objectives (or perhaps enough of those objectives) then there is a discussion about next steps. Which is a euphemism for "this isn't working for us, we need to replace you with someone who can meet these objectives."

Now is that getting fired? or laid off? I think it's semantics. At the end of the day you don't have a job with the company any more. Few senior leaders that I've interacted with have ever called out the company for telling them they were going to lose their job. If you have reached that level you should have the maturity to understand that it is a fact of life that this happens. Scott McNealy used to send congratulations to people who were promoted into the senior ranks with "One step up, one step closer to the door." That reflected the reality that there are few alternative positions within a company for someone who is leading a big chunk of the company.

When the separation is the idea of the employee (which is to say they quit), the notification pattern seems proactive on the employee's side. A press release that the employee is moving on and that the company is working on finding a successor, and then sometime later we get the "I'm actually leaving now, and here is my successor." press release. But there is no hard and fast rule.

Bottom line is that the term 'fired' has the connotation of malfeasance and that doesn't seem to be the case here, I should have used "likely involuntary separation" but that seems a bit wordy, although it avoids the baggage of the word fired.

[1] As we can see from documents about Andy Rubin's departure, all of the press at the time read like Andy was just moving on to bigger and better things, when in fact he was being separated from the company because of credible accusations of sexual harassment. My point being that we on the outside can't know why a senior leader is leaving really, the copy in the press releases is carefully crafted regardless of the actual reasons.
UML used to refer to an entity/relationship+methods modeling language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
I'd argue fusion is actually overfunded, if you go by its likelihood to actually deliver a competitive source of energy. A clean sheet energy R&D program would invest very little in nuclear fusion.
What’s the benefit of being “not connected to Amazon retail?” Serving a large customer that demands scale seems useful for driving the platform forward—what is the downside?
The CIA sabotage handbook details pretty much this.[1]

[q] https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
Cheap intermittent sources are sufficient to destroy the economic case for expensive baseload sources. The latter have to be able to sell their output most of the time or else their economic case collapses entirely.
> until EMC took over and with it EMC management style/structure. She was just along for the ride the second the company was sold to EMC.

This is not true. Diane was the founder of VMware. VMware is a virtualization technology that runs independently of underlying hardware and infrastructure. It could succeed only because it was able to convince its customers and partners that it is neutral to all forms of infrastructure, whether it is compute, networking or storage related. Most of said partners - companies as IBM, HP, Netapp etc. - are direct competitors of EMC.

This is the reason that EMC allowed VMware to operate independently, be listed on the stock exchange as a independent entity and have its own operating culture. And Diane was the main reason that VMware maintained this kind of independence. Source: I was a VMware employee.
Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence?
I am particularly sensitive to this issue as I live in a beautiful tropical metropolis which everyone on the planet knows about and is the stereotypical vacation spot and which sees more and more tourists every year. I'm 100% behind OP. If the owner of the business wants to scale, that's their job. If I've found a truly amazing place, I keep it to myself and only maybe tell my closest friends after a lot of careful thought. One word to the wrong person and it will be gone. Loads of stuff here is ephemeral, even if loads of other places are institutions. It's best to just enjoy it while you can. The city and county here are well-known to shut down popular areas that two months ago were a "best-kept secret" before Instagram got a hold of it and now it's almost destroyed by foot traffic. I could post a link to an article in our newspaper from just last week about something being closed for repairs of which, if you are actually from or living in Tokyo, you may have seen pictures making the rounds on Instagram, as it was very popular with Japanese tourists. I live at the far end of that slippery slope and it definitely happens.
But when it does, it rm -rf /
Please don't try to collect them.
>It’s incredibly interesting to see how few people understand that someone may open a business with priorities other than massive growth potential.

It really is interesting, but hardly surprising, given the demographics of this forum. :)
> "There is a general STEM push that is sweeping many of the kids up."

This is awful for science though. It is much better for it to be thought of a "nerdy" thing so people who aren't really interested in it stay away.

EDIT:

I'd like to hear from a downvoter who has tried to convince someone who actually doesnt care too much about science that they should test their own hypothesis rather than a strawman hypothesis when the latter gets them more rewards. It is infuriating, and you do not want them informing doctors/etc on how to advise you:

"We are quite in danger of sending highly trained and highly intelligent young men out into the world with tables of erroneous numbers under their arms, and with a dense fog in the place where their brains ought to be. In this century, of course, they will be working on guided missiles and advising the medical profession on the control of disease, and there is no limit to the extent to which they could impede every sort of national effort."
Fisher, R N (1958). "The Nature of Probability". Centennial Review. 2: 261–274. http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/fisher272.pdf
The US didn't adopt the metric system because it was considered blasphemous since the French used it. I'm not joking. We got screwed by a bunch of demagogues.
Recently I have been thinking about if any of our units makes sense in cosmic perspective. Let's take speed of light for example. It's approximately 300000 km/s. But then what is a second? It's 1/60 of a minute which is 1/60 of an hour which is 1/24 of a day(and so it goes) and all those numbers are arbitrary. A day doesn't make any sense outside our planet anyway, I doubt that there is another celestial body in the universe that takes the same time to complete a rotation. Period of some natural phenomena (like atomic electron transition) sounds better as a unit but it's a really tiny period of time so we have to scale it to make it practical for us. We will use decimal numeral system to do that, another arbitrary choice. What if we had 12 fingers or 8? This can be extended to all kinds of measurements so I wonder if any of this would make sense to another civilization. What would a cosmic system of units would like? Any reading about this would be greatly appreciated.
An unanswered question was whether the voltage would just jump across the edges of the fractal or follow the surface of the ceramic. Which would likely vary with humidity. I'm sure that General Electric & Siemens test in all kinds of weather conditions - another thing I couldn't do. ;)
You are definitely (and thankfully) not the norm. Imperial units are awful. They're more ... human, maybe, in that a foot is about one human foot long, and that an inch is about one human thumb width, and how 0F feels "pretty cold" and 100F feels "pretty hot", and to me the charm of imperial units begins and ends right there.

Those are literally the only redeemable qualities about imperial units, and they have nothing at all to do with their utility as a tool for measurement.

I am glad that you like them. Use them all you like. I won't.
Here is a video about why imperial system is convenient for everyday practical usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
For most things, I think metric makes more sense, but I fully agree about temperatures. Fahrenheit is a superior scale for humans.
I hadn't thought of some of these advantages. Some are subjective, but it's hard to deny the intuitive nature of others. I say bring back the span and the rod as well.
I applied for a software developer role through this recruiting agency and was offered a contract to full time. After I quit my job, I was told my contract was terminated because the company had budget issues and as a result I was left jobless. I spent two months looking for a new job and finally found one at a startup company. In the mean time this recruiting agency keep contacting me and tried to low ball me with a salary that was significantly lower than what my previous companies offered.
The lastest news about that seems that the feature is actually not working or bugged out :
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/471124
> The idea I'm putting forward is that the language in which you communicate (and think) actually shaped your world-view.

That's not a particularly original view. It's called the linguistic relativity or Benjamin-Whorf hypothesis, and it has a very long history. But so what? It's not even a problem. It's simply a feature of thought that it is inherently interconnected with language.

What I don't understand at all is your proposed solution. While entire communities have strived over millenia to create linguistic tools to suit their particular needs, you propose to do the same, and better, by yourself, in a few months or years, by "hacking" (whatever that means).

No offence, but it just sounds slightly juvenile.
That's how it works where I live. You show your driver's license, you get the local discount.
> The difficulty of learning a new programming language is overblown.

This is a value judgement, ripe for disagreement.

Why do you think learning a new programming language is not difficult, as others perceive?
> I've had the sense before that the Internet is turning our society stupider and meaner.

Taking this slightly out of context and ignoring subtler points of the article, but this is obviously false.

I got access to the fast internet when I was 15-16 years old, so I remember what it was like without it. I shudder to think what my mind would be like without HN, Less Wrong, PG essays, RSD, and all kinds of courses, books, videos, and influences I have found online.

There are all sorts of negative effects and unhealthy behaviors that came with the internet too, but I just want to point out that despite all that internet is life-changingly awesome.

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More to the point of the article, sure competition among a lot of ideas will bring ideas that are better at competing to the surface, but:

- If you make even the basic effort to filter your information responsibly and look for stuff thats good for you, you can filter out a lot of the low quality noise that rises to the top only because it's goot at being viral. Good example - open youtube's hot videos page or the front page of reddit, and compare what you see to the content you usually consume deliberately, through HN/RSS/whatnot, there's a difference in quality when you try to seek out good stuff.

- Smarter content/ideas are generally good at competing. Internet forces teachers and smart people to get more engaging and entertaining in order to succeed, which is not necessarily a bad thing. My favorite creators make stuff that's very enjoyable to consume, without dumbing it down too much. As hard as internet may be selecting for memes and viral videos, clearly there's plenty of space for quality too.
I need you to understand that those phrases are still used all the time in English speaking countries that have adopted the metric system.

Changing your scientific measuring system doesn't necessitate a change to your colloquialisms; commonly used phrases don't change.
> I never said the word inequality, and I don't understand why you're bringing it up in a discussion about suicide risk factors.

Then why did you respond to a comment that mentioned inequality to begin with.
This is not only untrue, this is almost ridiculous enough to beggar belief.

If geography has no impact on how productive a business is, why would any business operate in New York and San Francisco? They are incredibly expensive. If there's literally no difference in value, then businesses should choose based on cost, and you should never see hubs like San Francisco or New York where businesses tend to cluster together. You can only handwave about market irrationality and/or conspiracy theories so much, and even then, why would our wicked corporate overlords do something devious that pointlessly increased their expenses when all the other devious things they seem to do are in the service of ruthlessly decreasing their expenses?

B&M retail did end up not being centered in NY anymore for cost reasons (Target is headquartered in Minneapolis and Wal-Mart is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas). So obviously it's a concern; it's just that managing the marginal cost of your headquarters real estate and headcount is a bigger deal for Wal-Mart than it is for Amazon, while recruiting the kind of talent that tends to cluster in NY and Seattle is a bigger deal for Amazon than it is for Wal-Mart.
It's the other direction.

UML runs Linux kernel in ring 3. It emulates hardware protection mechanisms in order to make debugging easier and to run VMs when there is no kernel access.

UKL runs userspace apps in ring 0. It discards hardware protection mechanisms in order to make processes run faster, decrease boot time, and decrease management overhead.
> No mention of any targeting beyond what has been on user’s profile for a decade,

The story about Cambridge Anal. was specifically that they had build a dataset that could infer a lot of information, such as sexual orientation and political affiliation from a small set of apparently harmless information.

> Political advertising represents less than 5%

A market's reaction to such variation can be widely different. For bread, it's probably nothing. If it's the last batch of the only medication that is effective against some just-discovered deadly pandemic, the price could rise from %1 to a billion.

> That’s unlikely to be the election unless people spend money for three months after. That’s more likely to be US Holiday Season.

The chart & data here are average over 40 different worldwide elections. Unless elections cluster around certain dates, the data should be pretty well spread out over the year.
"That you didn't learn anything is a reflection of you, not your professors."

That's a little insulting, isn't it?

I'm glad you learned a lot in your CS program, but going to university was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made. There were a few good courses, and a few good professors, but the vast majority of what I learned was out of school - weekends and summers with textbooks and lecture videos of my own choosing.
I hear these every so often.

Just curious if noticing or more so, even being bothered by them is the norm?

Example Mint, the font heights I wouldn't have noticed and definitely something I would not be consciously aware of if I used it. And I still don't know what's wrong with the render beyond it looking at bit outdated.

Am I the odd person here or is it a vocal minority that have issues with it?
Agreed; it seems very unlikely that night shifts cause cancer. Seems more likely that the people working night shifts are either (or all of the below plus):

- more in debt than people who work day shifts (the primary cause of debt in the US is medical), and are working night shifts for the differential pay;

- that people working night shifts are less qualified than people who work day shifts at the same salaries, lower qualifications are easy to associate with relatively lower class origins, and sickness goes up as class goes down (lack of preventative care, tougher living conditions)

- or something as trivial as that people who work night shifts smoke more. At night, there are fewer customers and there's more time between customers. There's generally lower staffing, so both fewer coworkers to annoy with your smoke and fewer coworker conversations to distract you from your need for a cigarette. Also, poorer people smoke more.

Why does everyone assume that any correlation is causal, direct, and (a specific callout) completely unrelated to class?
> Do you have any examples of teens / young adults being discouraged from going into science because they are white and male?

I know a post-doc who was told to hire at least one female undergrad, even if there's a better man.
As of today, they are both implemented using fundamental constants. ;-)

But indeed, most people worldwide are surprised when you tell them that there is no standard inch or standard pound sitting in a vault somewhere. Most machines, and most design software, have a button that switches between US and metric, and the machine itself doesn't care. More and more new products in the US use metric fasteners unless it's for something where a standard applies to exactly one thing, such as spark plug thread. I have used my metric tools more than my US tools in the process of doing repairs around the house, on my car, and my bikes.

One fastener on my bike uses Whitworth threads.

For all intents and purposes, it has ceased to matter.
Google App Engine is the OG serverless cloud product. Ten years old.
Consensus is at least as hard as crypto.
Where do you live and work? I live and work in Seattle, and although I wouldn't rule it out, I would prefer not to cross Lake Washington to work in Bellevue even though it's technically closer to me than certain parts of Seattle that I regularly visit. Boundaries and regional identities have sometimes irrational emotional impacts.

Also, NJ is very close to NY by the standards of everywhere in America other than NY. Density and urbanization affect our perceptions of distance: a famous representation of this is "View of the World from 9th Avenue" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...)
"Gosh, we want a better alternative, but alternatives keep on getting squashed," is a pretty strong indicator. Doesn't every monopoly claim that the situation is due to market forces and that they're not a monopoly?
The ARC reactor would have a net power output of something like 190 MW(e). At $5B, that's $26/W(e), which is an order of magnitude too high, especially given how high the operating costs are likely to be.
SEC’s Statement on Digital Asset Securities Issuance and Trading
You forgot to ask for their public PGP key!
Aren't most Singaporean Chinese Hokkien and Hakka, not Han?
What are the redeamable qualities of metric units?
The definition of a second isn't based on the Earth's motion, but some natural phenomena like you recommended. "The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom." [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-one-arri...
I do.

Thanks for sharing the link :)
Thank goodness we hear almost nothing about UML any more.
"The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom."
Askscience: How do scientist decide on how to create flu vaccine for each year?
Fusion is going to look a lot like fission, only much more expensive and much less reliable.
I have to confess, I've been thinking of implementing Smalltalk in Go, using its native GC as a very unoptimized GC.
HN is a den of health quackery and orthorexia.
Borg can’t be a public product. Look at the way people complain how hard it is to use EC2 then multiply by a large factor. No isolation, sudden death, zero local I/O resources. It’s technically marvelous and dirt cheap but the masses aren’t ready for it.
> a flaw in society

All societies have flaws. The issue with the word 'toxic masculinity' is that it is ultimately lop-sided. When did you last hear the word 'toxic femininity'. I'd argue that it's more a propos to our day than ever. For example, anti-vaxxers are overwhelmingly women. My wife is about to give birth, and the number of mom's groups that act as if it is a personal failure on behalf of a woman to have a C-Section is astounding. Better yet, they blame men for the very existence of C-sections! Having lost our last baby, the last thing we need is more pressure on my wife. Where is the condemnation of this female 'macho' culture? It's nowhere. Feminists are completely absent on a major issue affecting women. If anything, men are still blamed for all these things, despite men being basically non-existent in the professions surrounding birth. How ridiculous.

> means that masculinity can be toxic

Almost anything can be toxic. The issue is when that label becomes a cultural meme that then gets used in ways it is not intended.

> persons like yourself to mean

Not the OP, but ad hominem attacks are considered poor form.

Finally,

> that masculine culture doesn't allow men to display emotions as openly as women, especially when those emotions betray a sense of physical or emotional vulnerability.

Feminism can sing this tune all day long, but it does not match my experience as a man. Went to an all boys high school too. Lots of male friends, I wouldn't say any of them bottle things up. They've cried on my shoulder. Told me their inner thoughts. I dunno what to tell you, other than that this is just a cultural meme that does nothing to actually help people.
There's a lot of good things to say about ggplot, but I feel like the best thing is RStudios ability to auto-complete column names of the input dataframe throughout your pipe of ggplot commands / functions.

I think I would enjoy Python just as much if I figured out how to auto complete column names when writing code for my plots and pandas operations.
Earthrise: What It's Like to Escape Our Planet [video]
Intelligence Brief with James Clapper