skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great, thoughtful, introspective piece. How rare. I do miss Stanich's and was actually unaware of what happened. Great place - I hope he can work it out.
What "fiasco" are you talking about? I'm genuinely curious, don't know anything about it.
In chemistry, the molar “mass” plays a more important role than the mass proper. Why has its unit not been chosen to be equal to 1? For the same reason as why the gram is not defined to be the mass of, say, proton. (Chemistry doesn’t normally deal with single molecules.)
Rust's type system is derived from the ML variants, and as such is fantastic for writing compilers and interpreters. ML stands for "meta language", ie. it's named after how good it is at writing compilers in.
Oh this is a huge red flag.

Although I'm not so sure what Google's style is, it's been changing so much in the past few years, and a lot of their slimy stuff has been exposed too.
As someone who installed a bunch of Ubiqiti equipment at a large church, I can see that once we have 1000 phones in the building, there's a non-trivial baseline of network activity that I attribute to Facebook, et. al., phoning home. In my company of 46K employees, it can't be a non-zero cost to have this telemetry activity leaching on our WAN connections, many of which are struggling to keep up with demand already.
A fountain pen is noticeably different from writing with a pencil or ballpoint, because you do not have to exert significant pressure, and because there is a lot less friction of your pen on the page.

Writing with ballpoints and pencils has conditioned us to Press Hard (whether for exam books or carbon copies). This leads to our hands feeling tired and cramped much more easily.

You're very right about the impact of typing, but even now I miss using a fountain pen after discovering them years ago. (I tend to use gel pens, as they are close, less messy, and cheap enough that I don't worry about losing them, but they're not as nice to write with.)
> trying to comprehend something like this in a completely foreign language

Forget that; I'm a native English speaker, with a college degree, and I have no clue what they're looking for. Maybe 5? But that's only a guess.
Ah, for reliability and debugging. I guess that's why they're not too perf-concerned about dispatching opcodes through function pointers: https://github.com/Azure/golua/blob/master/lua/exec.go#L92
How do these researchers justify such a lack of empathy in their product? If I worked for a company that makes a product that does objective harm to society, like Facebook or a missile, I would feel like I wasted years of my life as I would be giving great effort to something where the outcome can only be regression, not improvement of anyone’s life. Exploiting these behavioral feedback loops for profit is cruel and dystopian. I already feel terribly for all the people I encounter who could be so much more focused on their own ambitions if they weren’t spending 4+ hours a day trapped in the infinite scroll of social media. I know how much of a setback that kind of addiction can be, because it used to be me.
It makes a great point about mass tourism in general and what it does to the local population.
If its one thing I have learned about software development, its that you must account for people doing completely non sensical things.

I knew a guy who had MS word 97, 2000, 03, and 07 all installed on the same machine, and he used all of them for various tasks. Insane? Most certainly, but welcome to humanity.
I wonder if those punch cards (or the digital equivalents) for loyalty points are effective at building a consistent customer base. They're not limited to locals but it might encourage locals to come back.
As far as I know, the Windows 2000 source code leak was incomplete, actually; or if it isn't, then not the entire thing ended up getting leaked. For example, the code to the setup program was missing.

To the best of my knowledge, the most recent complete leak was NT 4.0. That one did have a short-lived burst of retro affectionados under the name "OpenNT 4.0", though it's not entirely clear if it died on its own or if a cease & desist helped that along.
The went to great lengths working on this announcement.
I find the fact that she can safely say something like that to journalists somewhat strange. Less odious fascists were taken to the woods and shot in postwar Italy despite the amnesty.
So your alright with Genocide?
(10/24)(100/60)(100/60)=1.1574

Our biggest revolution yet: extending the length of the day by 16%!
I can imagine that in 100-200 years we'll have to adjust some unit because our understanding of some constant was just slightly wrong.
My overall point was, it seems silly to use one manufacturing sector to make a determination about the entire industry. The US is home to some really cutting edge technology/manufacturing companies.
The question of how businesses should treat long term customers is something I think about a lot. When I worked in a cable company call center I used to hear people complain about rate increases being unfair because they had been customers for such a long time. Which doesn't really matter in a duopoly. Compare that to a restaurants where there's so much competition that efforts to maintain loyalty seem almost futile.
As well as questionable payload requirements such as carrying the Centaur upper stage...
MiSafes' child-tracking smartwatches are easy to hack
A Beginner's Guide to Maven
Vox Media just published a video about the negative impact of Instagram and photo geo-tagging on nature sightseeing. The "Leave No Trace" organization now recommends that people not geo-tag their nature photos so as to limit the number of visitors to remote or sensitive nature areas.

"What happens when nature goes viral?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itjc14Fm-gs
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Considering they have measurement history on that particular object going back over a century, I guess they will continue to regularly measure it to see what happens.
Unfortunately, I can see its infection of physics is in progress. And testing 0.05 vs .000005 makes no difference if you are testing a model other than the one you believe. It just makes it more expensive and time consuming to draw an inappropriate conclusion from the p-value.

On the other hand, thankfully, in physics areas they usually also test actual predictions of their models. But that is part of the process you can see happened in psych, then medicine. If you sample the literature going back to 1900 or so:

Stage 1: Science
- Test the predictions of your models

Stage 2: Hybrid
- Test the predictions of your models and also strawman null/background models

Stage 3: Pseudoscience
- Test only strawman null/background models

My guess is during stage 2 there are still people untrained in NHST in important positions who hold back the wave of BS by demanding actual science (testing predictions of models someone thinks may work). Once they retire you get stage 3.

One day I want to write this all up, its really quite interesting to read the old psych and medicine papers where people were coming up with mathematical laws, etc then the slow progression to "is there a significant correlation/difference?".
There is also Ubuntu Core for Raspbery Pi [1]. There used to be official builds of Ubuntu [2] but they weren't created for the Pi 3.

[1] https://www.ubuntu.com/download/iot/raspberry-pi-2-3

[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi#Ubuntu_.27classic.27
"hope he's able to adapt to Google's style and not the other way around"

For some areas, I agree. But Google does need some outside influence on how to sell/service the Fortune 500.

They are ceding business to Amazon not because Amazon is great at it, but only because Amazon is less terrible at it.
I've had nothing but problems using Windows, Linux and iOS. But that's not very solid in a thread with people talking about ads and privacy violations.
Good question. For 90+% of things a simple template languages works. But, there are cases where you need something more. For example, the features that were baked into Helm v2 to support installing OpenStack in Kubernetes were complex. IIRC, no one on GitHub has used these but they are complicated and in use privately. That complexity should be pushed to the chart rather than Helm. Helm shouldn't need to hold that complexity, which is in the direct line for everyone, for those complicated apps. This is where Lua comes in.

Lua provides the ability to have the language embedded easily (it was designed for that) for use in cross platform situations (Windows included).

Does that help?
If you want to love windows again, find the Eurpean LTSB version, it is incredible. No app store, no cortana, none of that shit.

As for linux, I went through a bunch until I found my love for fedora. It still requires some tinkering, but for the most part everything works.
So does Canonical when you download Ubuntu.

That being said, you really want money to go to developers making the software. Not to discredit the work of packagers and integrators (mostly at Debian) but actually writing the code at the end of the day is the deal breaker.

For that you can donate to Gnome, KDE, specific projects like Krita, or Software in the Public Interest that funds a bunch of the non-umbrella projects like LibreOffice and Postgres.
Goldman, JPMorgan Hit Pause on Intern Recruiting ‘Madness’
And ℤ. The reason these double-struck symbols are in a weird place (U+2100-214f, separate from the rest in U+1d400-1d7ff) is because they all have commonly used special meanings in mathematics -- they're used to represent the sets of all numbers of various types. ℂ = complex numbers, ℍ = quaternions, ℕ = natural numbers, ℚ = rational numbers, ℝ = real numbers, ℤ = integers.
science having its own logistic curve ?
Funny thing is that the only way you can achieve this is by installing free, open source operating system.

>Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd

Yeah, this is surreal.
People are lemmings.

Franklin's BBQ in Austin has hours long lines. It's very good brisket.

The hill country of Texas is FILLED with equally good brisket joints that don't have lines.

People who wait in line for 4 hours won't admit this. Cognitive dissonance kicks in, and Franklin's is unique and better than everyone else in their minds. Try telling a person that their Bose headphones are overpriced and overrated, and you will see this in action.

Lists are indeed stupid, but only because people aren't rational decision makers.
I was part of an experimental neuroimaging group that tested Pachyderm OSS years ago and at the time we were really impressed with the versioning capabilities it provided. For us at the time it made it easy for each researcher to grab and change data as needed for their own development without requiring support from eng.
Shake Shack began as a hot dog stand, but a hot dog stand created for a park being developed by a successful NYC restaurateur who owned a hospitality management company. If you're the sole developer of a new downtown park, and you own the only hotdog stand in that park, and you have lots of resources, it's going to be a success. When later there's the opportunity to develop the park further, you may pony up the cash to build a building to sell even more food. And later, when you see how successful it is, and you see the opportunity to branch out, you can do that, too.

Some restaurants become popular because people with money are in the right place at the right time, and not because it was an old-school authentic eatery discovered by a food writer and put on a top-foods-list.
Alex Stamos is a big part of the problem.

The excellent and thorough NYT piece eviscerates FB leadership for employing the same sleazy disinformation tactics to defend themselves that FB failed to stop when weaponized by political actors.

Stamos has the gall to deflect Facebook's culpability by blaming responsible media outlets for getting compromised by the very disinfo that Stamos himself utterly failed to detect or stop during his tenure.

It's beyond irony or satire, it's fucking ridiculous that this guy still has a platform.

"Delay, Deny and Deflect" indeed.
There was also a push to have pain as a fifth vital sign:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth...

> In 2001, the Joint Commission rolled out its Pain Management Standards, which helped grow the idea of pain as a "fifth vital sign." It required healthcare providers to ask every patient about their pain, given the perception at the time was that pain was undertreated.

My parents have complained about this; my mom's an RN, who's been everything from a home health nurse to an ICU nurse to a clinic nurse in a podiatrist's office, and my dad's a CRNA, and they talk about people who are likely drug-seeking and people who just don't like any discomfort, even stuff that, if you felt like that on a normal day, wouldn't cause you to take anything for it if you were a normal person.

So you have a mandate to Take Pain Really, Really Seriously. You have someone in a clinic, or on a table, groaning about how it hurts even though there's nothing, objectively, wrong with them. What do you do?
It was not money. The story made that obvious.

No, it is inability to deliver the intended experience.

Some people identify with that very, very strongly. Steve is one of those people.

Nail it, or don't bother.

He has a hard choice. Franchises are very hard to get right, and no matter what, they are shadows of the original. Like Vegas presentations are.

Or, go big. In n Out Burger us a potential example. They are growing, and own the culture, experience, even the food ingredients.

Both of those things are very different lives for the family, who prior to this story, were living one they held dear.

I applaud Steve for not placing blame. He knows it was good intent gone bad, and we cannot always know. Good human. And he also closed the loop, sharing it all.

The writer, having come to realizations, did right by telling this story, and Steve seemed to understand the value in all of that.

I enjoyed this piece. There is much to think about, and both writer and impacted person appear to be solid people, sharing their experiences in honest, frank, high value ways.
I think its more that if the owners of software respected you at all they would not be trying to sell it you in a proprietary form to begin with. It should be no surprise that those trying to exploit and abuse copyright in an era when it makes no sense don't respect you just because you participated in the scam.
Cannot agree at all.

I switched to Arch Linux when RedHat was swallowed by IBM. KDE Plasma 5 is my thing. Windows 10 is a VM guest in Arch host. 32GB workstation, multiple monitors - 2 24 inch Dell monitors, 1 Haeir 55 inch, SSDs and Western Digital Caviar Blacks and Transcend External HDDs... no issues to report.

Same experience with Fedora for more than 2 years.
FreeBSD with Xfce 4 and TWM on my laptop. No crashes, no issues.
Dont feed trolls.
If unemployment is low, the employer is going to have to offer higher wages anyway.

If the numbers don’t make sense, either the employer is going to automate or capital os going to move up market and to jobs that are out of reach for the unskilled.

If Apple bought iPhone manufacturing to the US for instance where it would be more expensive, they would invest in ways to automate more before they would hire the same number of people as FoxConn does.
Volume license is slang for "Torrent", right?
Founders got rejected from YC four times – How they finally got in
May I point at my own implementation: https://github.com/arnodel/golua
I looked through the referenced document, didn't find anything about Microsoft.

Are you sure that pro-Microsoft agenda is against the community guidelines?
Our algorithm starts working as soon as you enable the "Find Study Buddies" feature. Also, it starts working anytime you add a new course.

At the moment, it takes about 10 seconds to complete. So if you haven't gotten any suggestions within 1-3 minutes, then there may not be anyone else looking for a study buddy for those courses, yet.

I just launched this feature today, so the number of potential suggestions will be as low as it will ever be. I plan on getting the word out on several different sites, which will increase the number of potential suggestions.

We'll send you an email when you have new suggestions, so you don't need to continuously check back in with the site.

Also, for which courses are you looking for a study buddy? I can make sure I spread the word to people and communities who have similar interests.
There's an easy solution to having too much business : raise prices. I think this is one of A16Z's big insights into most businesses[1]: they don't charge enough.

If you look at the best restaurants in America like the French Laundry in Napa, they charge astronomical ridiculous prices and they still have reservations for months ahead of time. The oldest restaurant in Paris requires you put down a 400 euro deposit just to make a reservation! That these burger joint owners shut down instead of raising prices seems like a huge business mistake. They could have put 50% off coupons in the local newspaper or something if they wanted to make the place available to locals at reasonable prices.

[1] https://a16z.com/2016/08/13/pricing/
Mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181116180324/https://ethicsofa...
Yep. That's a fair point to say.
AI tooling and infra startups have raised $1.6B from VCs
"Too much love will kill you, just as sure as none."

It's an interesting reflection on the effect of the internet hordes that can be called up by a careless article or tweet. A similar thing happens to restaurants that receive the Michelin stars and to single individuals that end up being in more popular demand than can be sustained (this happens to some consultants). Not all of the typical defenses are available all the time, such as raising your prices or other ways of limiting the influx. Besides that not being fair to your original customers.

Hard problem, the internet mob is like a bunch of locusts, they devour that which they visit and leave it devastated.
I think raise prices AND hire more people. Staffing could have solved lots of the problems. Restaurant owners are often penny-wise, pound-foolish when it comes to hiring...
... and hopefully programmers realise that building all those things and shipping them is harder than just supporting a directory with the plugins in it. Or maybe even just punt with a wrapper that does it at startup.

Honestly: the defence of shit software and user-hostile developers never ceases to amaze me.
I resurrected my late 2012 Mac Mini recently and "upgraded" it to Mojave.

I can't even SSH into the box. The SSH daemon accepts connections, firewall is off, and login sharing is enabled. But the daemon refuses my key, my password. I can't even figure out how to get it to display the reasons for the denied access.

At least on Linux I can turn off the daemon, turn on logging, turn the daemon back on, and get somewhere with denied access.
ulisp is an interpreter for very tiny machines and it really runs with very tiny RAM sizes from 2kybtes (!) onwards.
There's this recurring problem with certain strings which crash the Messages app in iOS, leaving a big hole in functionality and making iOS look pretty bad. I've pointed out that this is inexcusable for any language where you have exception handling. The standard reply to that on HN is to point out that you want the process to die once it's gone into undefined behavior, then downvote me.

This puts me in mind of interviews, where I point out to the candidate that their update routine would go into an infinite loop if there was a 2 node cycle in their data. So then they give me an if statement that detects only the 2 node loop. I've even then asked what would happen if there was a 3 node loop, and gotten a 2nd if statement for that as well.

Apps which might crash due to processing untrusted data should be reading that data from a queue. Then a 2nd process can monitor the 1st process, taking problematic data off the queue if necessary. This way the 1st process can die, but be restarted, and your smartphone OS doesn't have to look completely broken due to a primary function just dying, requiring the user to reboot.

I hope someone tells me Apple has already done this. It's been something approaching a decade, at this point.
Notwithstanding that they are 3rd in terms of revenue, GCP has gotten to a great place in the last few years. The products are fantastic. Great docs, super consistent APIs and products, great pricing. Really a joy to use. The bet on GKE really paid off too.

During her tenure it moved from something I wouldn't even consider using, to first choice for my new startup.
Scott Adams has been quite controversial long before the elections, ever since he got busted as a sock puppet "plannedchaos," posing as his own biggest fan, praising himself as a certified genius, and calling people who disagreed with him idiots, etc. Not to mention his mid to late '90s blog posts about women.

But at least he wasn't using analogies, huh?

http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe...

>Dilbert creator Scott Adams came to our attention last month for the first time since the mid to late '90s when a blog post surfaced where he said, among other things, that women are "treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It's just easier this way for everyone."

>Now, he's managed to provoke yet another internet maelstorm of derision by popping up on message boards to harangue his critics and defend himself. That's not news in and of itself, but what really makes it special is how he's doing it: by leaving comments on Metafilter and Reddit under the pseudonym PlannedChaos where he speaks about himself in the third person and attacks his critics while pretending that he is not Scott Adams, but rather just a big, big fan of the cartoonist.

http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adam-sexist-mens-rights/

>Dilbert's creator Scott Adams Compares Women Asking for Equal Pay to Children Demanding Candy

Hmm, that sounds an awful lot like another analogy to me, actually... Oops!

So maybe Scott Adams isn't the most un-hypocritical guy to quote about the problems of analogies.
Its not new whatsoever. I'm sure double dipping predates newspapers who combine recurring billing and ads in between the articles. Cable TV today is a really obvious offensive case of it because unlike with the papers you aren't as constrained by recurring distribution costs.
Snapcraft?
Show HN: alify.me – extension to put relevant AliExpress products on Amazon site
Hey,

I just finished building a first version of a browser extension: alify.me. It puts the relevant (hopefully) AliExpress products on the Amazon website, while you are surfing it.

The idea is to get the often way better prices on AliExpress for the same or similar products that are on Amazon. Obviously, doesn't work for all products, but some - as for some categories it doesn't really make sense to buy in China.

Now, I'd hope for some feedback. I wanted to put out a first version asap and see how people liked it, before I keep developing it. So, please let me know. :)

For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alifyme/jmkpahegcf...

For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/alify-me/
Also missed my Veusz GUI plotting package and library. https://veusz.github.io/
If you use Windows 7 on modern processors (Ryzen/Skylake), Windows Update stops working so you won't get security updates.