skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho, gnome is quite nice. I think I'm in the minority maybe but I would be pretty sad if gnome went away one day (or had another memory leak/slowdown issue)
What a weird thing to say when the whole point of this OS is a focus on consistent user experience, with a negative focus on "does it tickle a power user's tech stack fancy".
Chicago never had it in the first place.

It was always going to be NYC and NoVA.

Jeff just wanted to see how much he could get by window shopping around.
Probably as often as they’re asked for the time of day when they were born. So likely never.
That's kind of comparing apples and watermelons. My truck tips the scale at between three and four times the tonnage of such a compact car. And still I'm getting better than half their mileage.

It's a far cry from the 90s model of the same truck, that was getting single-digit mileage.
I don't recommend wasting the time to do it. I have already done the experiment twice and the way it works is that some topics/stories on HN are under careful scrutiny for unwanted ideas.

I'm not talking about prejudice or other backward ideas, but simply ideas that challenge the dominant world view that I'd describe as Silicon Valley Establishment Democratic Party Loyalist.

There was a point during the 2016 campaign when Sam and others involved in YC decided to become openly and unabashedly partisan. Notably, not in an idea driven way but in a way that is power oriented.

This emboldened those with partisan aims in the HN discussion to reach out to mods to help them rid the community of people critical of the establishment Democratic Party and its sacred cows.

It's really too bad.
This is just so lazy. Yes many of the 9/11 guys were Saudi citizens, but you can’t draw straight lines between that and the Saudi government. Toppling the house of Saud is an explicit goal of Al Qaeda. It’s like suggesting Snowden is clearly acting on behalf of the US government because, duh, he’s a US citizen.

As for people in power making the Khashoggi case a big deal, that would be the Turkish government. They have many reasons for disliking the Saudi leadership, so many I won’t even try.
IBM edition
You can now demo BigGAN in an official Colaboratory notebook (backed by a GPU) to create your own AI-generated nightmares: https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/hub/blob...

Examples from the notebook by the article author: https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1062067001504321536
The fact this was down voted proves the historical illiteracy of HN.
I was hoping for an article on nuclear physicists, and how working with radioactive materials when it was still not well understood has left some residual radioactivity detectable in their hair to this day, long after their deaths.

I was disappointed.
Why not give up on Unicode and retreat back to reliably parsed simplified ASCII?
What support did you contact if you weren't paying? Support isn't perfect but I find it hard to believe you got no response at all. Staff and community is also active on the gce-discussion [1] group and StackOverflow [2].

1. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=EN#!forum/gce-discussion

2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42380626/how-do-i-disabl...
Writing a linux debugger
I used to work for Microsoft on Edge Browser. Our tests ran on a clean version of Windows. Seeing the ads pop up in start menu, MSN homepage on Edge, little squares ads on bing page made me a bit miserable, day by day.

The default experience was garbage thrown in your face.

The leadership had to drive revenue growth and msn/ads were a money maker. That’s how they get promoted and we had to play their game.

Seeing that ladder chasing culture made me quit.

Very few companies actually legit give a shit about their users and the user experience. It’s so easy to blindly do things that annoy users but make a quick buck.
Stop lying.
Only if you squint and ignore the rest of the sentence? It's an alternative to both macos and windows for people who not just not care about what their OS is, but have better things to do with their life than even bother to know what OS they run. As long as it's a pleasant, stable, consistent UI, and lets them do "the things they want to do" rather than "install the apps they need to do the things they want to do".

And yeah, that means if at any point you might go "but it doesn't have X and that's okay, you can download the source and run make" then you're already way beyond who this OS is for. It's supposed to be "as dumb" as MacOS with the app store, or Windows with the windows store.
For a person he surely did cause a lot of problems, killings and expenditure. "Martyrs" want to take as many as they can before they go and he surely a lot of damage
It looks nice, and it may be a replacement for ChromeOS or some other limited system, but it's not a replacement for Windows and MacOS.
Which is completely wrong. The top selling cars in the 90's had 4 and 6 cylinder engines.
History is awesome at judging mistakes (pretty easy once you know who won). 50bn is not that big as % of the the top 10 automobiles sales combined.

With that said I hope history will acknowledge the impact that Tesla and Musk have had/will have.
I don't think Linux will e... okay, probably ever, be a replacement for Windows or MacOS. Linux is Linux no matter how you dress it up. The first time a non-crazy person has to decompress and unpack a .tar.gz to install a program that usually comes in a .msi they're done. Forget about the fact that they'll be running down dependencies and the programs themselves don't usually work as good. What is the benefit they get for all that time and frustration? Then one day their keyboard will randomly stop working or they wont be able to get connected to the internet because of an update.

Smart people do dumb things sometimes. Trying to get the general public to use Linux is a perfect example. It's not even Linux under the hood. It is Linux.
For me support is:
1. Reasonably priced (especially now, with role based)
2. Fast
3. Helpful

That was my experience when we needed something.

Dont get me started on docs and operations.

Eg: Using Azure we found out the hard way that the Firewall was cutting connections after 5m of inactivity. Changing that setting? Their docs are wrong, stack overflow kindof helps, but to fix it we had to use windows based tooling in a vm since their linux based stuff didnt work.

I know this will happen sooner or later with anybody, but on average the experience with GCP was superb.

I do agree re: certs. That is the only thing I really hate, doing LE when they could run this for you. But they will launch an SSL solutio since they have one now for AppEngine.
Why cant you accept it as it is and appreciate the fact that his work benefits the public? No one cares about your political beliefs.
> Do you have some data that supports this claim?

Only that I don't know anyone who is happy if their phone ever connects over 2G.

By "hardly anyone uses that", I meant end users, not phone companies. I am happy to agree that 2G infrastructure still exists, it's just that most phones aren't using it.
Jupyter supports Haskell too though. As well as OCaml and Scheme...
Think of an item, that you're purchased within the last couple of years, that was not made from oil but was manufactured in Russia. Ok, I wait. You can't think of any? OK, then what about from of the Arab speaking countries? Yes. I can wait. Take your time.

I hope those countries have a plan B for when the majority of the world's car run on something else than oil.
That logic applies to leaks abkut you too? What have you been up to all your life?
What applications are you talking about? Just for a general example of the sort of thing I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/EWqThb9Z1jk?t=137

They're resurfacing a surface plate, which has to be very flat. If you listen to the exchanges between them, everything is being done in millionths of an inch.
I'm starting to think the whole is plotting this weird conspiracy against me... I think linux is very comfortable, I think it looks pretty, it gives me power to make it prettier. Windows comes with fucking ads in the UI how is that any prettier? OSX is supposed to be polished, but I constantly experience problems like my screen randomly flickers, it forces me to login twice every time, sometimes all windows suddenly lose focus and the only way to come to a good state is to go to a non full screen window... I don't know man, having used all three I'll take linux any day and it's because it's prettier, UI is more functional, and the system actually doesn't have handcuffs.
You are in "hipster news", they have their own reality with no knowledge of actual IT trends.
Grabbing phones off people doesn't scale, and is reasonably hard to pull off since you need to first map from the online identity to the exact physical location, then actually physically get there yourself.

Much easier to just social engineer the provider into giving you a replacement SIM.
Ha. Even if it’s true (don’t know if it is) it’s impressive to see M$ come back from the dead.
Interesting article, but the subject of the article (the amazing images) are only shown in tiny thumbnails, with no links to the full-size images. Seems to sort of defeat the purpose.
F is not superior to C, your argument for it makes very little sense, even from a plain human "everyday" (non-scientific) point of view. Can anyone sense when the temperature changes by a single degree in F? I doubt it. With C you have a chance. With C when it's below zero you know there could be snow and ice.

Each set of 10 degrees in C is a pretty clear temperature range.
30-40 scorching.
20-30 hot.
10-20 warm.
0-10 cool.
-10 to 0: cold
Did you read the article? The person interview specifically mentions aerosol injections and possible unforeseen consequences of bio-engineering. It seems rather stupid to duct tape your leaking ship knowing that you’ll arrive at the port soon.
It seems strange they didn't use DTR since RTS/CTS are usually used for hardware flow control. I can see the point of DSR, which tells the computer the modem exists... but there is no point in the modem looking for the computer. In theory the PC could have asserted DTR whenever it wanted to activate the control channel.
You can go with Manjaro if you want a better experience with pre-configured desktop environments.

There are official editions for XFCE, KDE, and Gnome and there's community editions for i3, openbox, LXQT, and so on.

You still have access to the AUR and the official repos mirror the official Arch repos but lag behind by a week or two.
In the mean time, France is about to see nation-wide grassroot demonstrations all over its territory over fuel tax, highlighting the disconnect between cities and urban area.

ICE vehicles are not going to the junkyard anytime soon.
This is a "device to catch IMSIs", but the thing commonly called an IMSI catcher is much more than that - those are entire fake cells that MitM the traffic and can actually intercept calls. This device can't do that, making the title highly misleading.
Machine Learning from scratch: Bare bones implementations of ML models in python
Reminds me of looking at the Volkwagen Beetle's MPG as a timeline and how it sadly started getting worse over time despite having a respectable 30s decades earlier.
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As someone with chronic neuropathic pain, there are some times where pain does need to be eliminated in order for you to live a fulfilling life. Not all pain is necessarily related to direct communication, sometimes it's just there for what seems like no apparent reason.

I'm curious as to whether or not there could be applications for people with spinal cord injuries
If you think Linux is prettier you need your eyes checked. You're confusing functionality and reliability with prettyness.
I assume new leadership means they'll be rebranding again?
Finally the Pied Piper is revealed. This stuff is nothing but drivel that someone creates after being in the right place at the right time in history
> If [TK] fails, I guess the next guy will be a 4-star Marine general.

James Mattis will use his knife hands to convince enterprise customers of the seriousness of Google’s support team.
No I mean for sure they are pieces of shit to other companies and only care about money, but "who cares" compared to google/facebook level evilness.
Nissan makes more EV's than Tesla by a bit.
I don't disagree that 2+3=5 is inadequate, but to be fair you do hit a complexity wall pretty fast. If i've understood correctly, Haskell has two main datatypes for collections, lists and tuples. Using [1], if I was a 5 year old (or a 50 year old) to find the length of a list or tuple i would do this:

λ length [1,2]

2

λ length [1,2,3]

3

No problems here. Now tuples:

λ length (1,2)

1

λ length (1,2,3)

No instance for (Foldable ((,,) t0 t1))
arising from a use of ‘length’
In the expression: length (1, 2, 3) No instance for (Num t0) arising from the literal ‘1’
The type variable ‘t0’ is ambiguous
Note: there are several potential instances:
instance RealFloat a => Num (Complex a)
-- Defined in ‘Data.Complex’
instance HasResolution a => Num (Data.Fixed.Fixed a)
-- Defined in ‘Data.Fixed’
instance forall (k :: BOX) (f :: k -> *) (a :: k).
Num (f a) =>
Num (Alt f a)
-- Defined in ‘Data.Monoid’
...plus 7 others
In the expression: 1
In the first argument of ‘length’, namely ‘(1, 2, 3)’
In the expression: length (1, 2, 3) No instance for (Num t1) arising from the literal ‘2’
The type variable ‘t1’ is ambiguous
Note: there are several potential instances:
instance RealFloat a => Num (Complex a)
-- Defined in ‘Data.Complex’
instance HasResolution a => Num (Data.Fixed.Fixed

A quick googling does not tell me how to find the length of a tuple. The closest thing to an answer is, 'you probably don't actually want to do that'.

[1] https://www.tryhaskell.org/
>When I am up at night the world takes on a different hue. It is quieter and closer and there are textures of the dark I have begun paying attention to. I register the thickening, sense-dulling darkness that hangs velvety as a pall over deep night, and the green-black tincture you get when moisture charges the atmosphere with static.

It’s all too rare that I get to read text that activates the same neurotransmitters as does listening to a piece of music.
Stimulus to scalp is non-cultural sensation, short hair allows symbol sets, cultural modes, to rule life. Too connected to the physical and obedience to norms is revealed as feeling wack compared to exploration of freedom and a life based instead in the senses.
Put that hair upside down, you get UNIX beard...
The train picture reminds me of some of my botched attempts at creating perspective by combing two differing horizon line sub-images into one. I suppose that sort of rendering abstraction is the same in terms of accidentally producing weirdness - even though different processes were used.
A numbering system based on human fingers would be base6.
> we need a sense of pain

The article addresses this:

“Now, the thing with pain is, it evolved for a reason. It’s an indispensable tool for you to feel if you’re doing something to your body that you shouldn’t be, like holding a scalding cup of coffee. Of course we want to alleviate pain, but might that be problematic if it’s too effective?

For people with knee pain, not really—the injection is targeting a specific area, so the rest of your body can still feel pain. And for end-of-life care, a central injection can bring long-awaited relief.“

https://www.wired.com/story/resiniferatoxin/
Just a small correction. He was the applications VP. That's business software such as Fusion / EBiz. He wasn't responsible for the database.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Applications
You would replace quarterpounder by hectogrammer. A quarter of pound is approximately a hectogram anyway.
You think that Amazon has 25,000 jobs that are going to be transplanted to NY? Come on.
Then how will we have unicorns or find employment for marketing mbas?
The article wasn't specifically linking the decline to the Model 3 at all. They give electrified buses the primary credit among vehicles, noting that EV passenger vehicles are expected to have a large impact going forward.

I'd bet that diesel vehicles had more to do with the big decline in Italy, and the smaller decline in Germany, than anything else.

For example, this EU diesel consumption chart showing a correlation on timing between the drop in gasoline consumption and the rise in diesel previously:

https://i.imgur.com/qV3CxY1.png

I'd be very curious to see if Germany's drop in gasoline consumption coincided with an increase in diesel consumption.

The large diesel vehicle boom perfectly coincides with Italy's drop in gasoline consumption:

https://i.imgur.com/UGVFxt6.png

Italy went from ~33% of new cars being diesel, to ~60% in only four years.

Germany went from ~30% of new cars being diesel, to ~48%, in just seven years.

The UK went from 15% to 50% over a decade.
A yard is three feet, or about the length of a man's stride.

A quart is about the maximum amount of whiskey one can drink without dying.

A pint's a pound, the world around.

My favorite is the cord, which is 128 cubic feet, or more often a stack of firewood 4 feet tall by four feet wide by eight feet long.
I have a project where I need 3 wooden blocks, each perfect squares, to fit width wise in a 10” wide gap. I don’t want any space between these blocks sides of the gap they fit in. It’s an important project to me and I’m willing to pay a substantial sum of money.

But from what I am reading it sounds like you’re not able to do the job, the blocks need to be 3 1/3” wide each. It’s a no-go if I see someone try to cut them to 3 5/16”

What kind of system doesn’t let you cut such a fundamental length into thirds. Crazy.
I think the author is speaking about Linux Mint[1], which is a flavour of Ubuntu with some quality-of-life additions.

[1] https://linuxmint.com/
The 'Geno-Economists' say DNA can predict our chances of success
Dude... I was reading all these comments mega confused. I installed Pop_OS a few months back and it's a million times easier to use than Windows.

From installing applications to changing my background.

One terrible experience I had was when Windows did something to the Linux bootloader and I had to try work out how to fix that, but I can't really blame Linux for that.

Honestly I am so much more productive on Pop than on Windows. I can spend more time actually doing my job and less time manually creating PATH variables for every package I install. As a Web developer Windows is a disaster.
In my experience, if you're a support guy, then you are a cost center, and the only purpose of a cost center is to get reduced to zero. Increasingly Herculean efforts can stave off that pressure for a period of time, but that's just the basic fundamental nature of the game on that side of the fence.

Of course, those product guys really do need a lot of support, and sometimes they arrange to have their own internal support because they can't get what they need from the guys who are supposed to perform that job. That can be a good gig, at least until the Enterprise discovers that the product guys had set up their own shadow IT group and get all that stuff merged back into the central IT group.
xps 13 for me as well.
Even the largest images produced by the network are only 512px x 512px and most are smaller — adding more pixels to these kinds of networks is fairly expensive and not at all worth it if you're training thousands of them over and over again while doing research.
The full images are only 512x512.
On pay gaps and snacks: I've seen the opposite! Companies that pay less tend to have more spartan (and dated) facilities, cheap toilet paper, and no snacks. I've heard of some companies even having "water clubs" and "coffee clubs" where you opt in to having some money taken out of your check for water/coffee to be provided for your team!
Older than the internet.
I dont need to draw any lines, there is more than enough of that work already done for me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Sa...
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according to the article, dogs treated with this need a re-injection after 5 months.
I did a six month contract for Apple Retail Software Engineering in Cupertino.

Most of the guys there were great and I loved working with them.

But I found too many people in the larger organization who expected me to be their own personal Steve Jobs and to know what they wanted and needed before they knew it themselves, and if I couldn't magically deliver that in advance, then I was useless to them.

IMO, I managed to dodge a bullet there. It was a great experience, I learned a lot, and I'm happy to be an Apple customer. But knowing what I know now, I wouldn't want to work there.
Its a lot smaller than 50% but if the improvement is minimal then you might never offset the production emissions but if you are switching to an electric car it only takes about 2 years depending on the car and your location.
I'm in a position where I succeed by not playing politics. Since i'm not playing politics (which others in the company are doing), i am spending my time doing development work. I am now building a team, and my only concern is to deliver results on time. My CEO thinks I'm competent and has expressed interest in helping fund me a startup, when the time comes. I'm not going to say that I didn't strategize the a politics "meta game" (picking a place to work where I would be visible, choosing to work on projects where I can have an impact) but the amount of time or effort I am spending on it is vanishingly small.

In any case my point about science is that playing politics is MORE important than delivering quality results. In my lab as a grad student, there was a grad student who delivered extremely sketchy data and then won the grad student of the year award and now he's a tenured professor at a top 50 US research institute.
For taxis, you really need an ICE at the moment. For delivery vehicle not so much. Every delivery vehicle that I've seen in cities is electric.

Very interesting. Where I am in North America, nearly every taxi is electric, and I think I’ve seen two electric delivery vehicles in the last five years.

I wonder why our transportation is so very opposite.
I feel people are speculating, but you're correct. I had old school, cut your knee cap in half ACL surgery. Exactly half, the right half, of me knee is completely numb. Not only have I hurt my skin a few times without noticing, I've had bad knocks/bruises that probably would have kept me from walking comfortable otherwise.
Last taxi ride in Shenzhen I took was in an electric car.
No, that's not the part we disagree about. Yes, I know, Avogadro's number is a fixed constant now. It's not a _fundamental constant_:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_constant

A fundamental constant isn't just any fixed constant. It's specifically a constant that describes a fundamental property of the universe.

For instance, c describes the speed of light in a vacuum, and is a fundamental physical property of the universe.

Avogadro's constant isn't the same thing. It's just a number that humans decided would be useful. We could have fixed it to any other number; there's nothing fundamental about the number ~6.022e23.
General Chemistry by Linus Pauling.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Philosophy).
Clearly, people do think in 12s, because it's been a common thread in mathematics and measurement and calendaring through many different cultures going back to the Sumerians.
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Yes, it always seems inefficent to put controls on the rate of pollution rather than on the amount of pollution.