skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to replace YouTube as a product specifically. I meant that this happened over 30 years ago between the networks and cable. Network TV dominated and cable had the same problem with attracting both views and content producers. The point of the matter was to not complain that it is impossible; it is just hard. However, others have already solved a similar issue so the lessons learned can be applied here too.
> The bottom line is I would like to see more women in leadership positions and I am sad to see us lose one.

Absolutely. But let's be real, the odds are likely that Google tried to bend over backwards to make it work. They want more women in those roles and generally.
Wow. Just wow. Because I've actually seen this happen elsewhere (not financial), and I thought it was a one-off.
Couldn't agree more. GCP has focused on building the core services right and making everything work together seamlessly. I would hate to seem them go in the direction of AWS/Azure where they build a zillion different "products" but every one is only 80% of great.
> To the commenters saying Stanich should simply raise its prices: there's a price ceiling for that burger. It's not a fancy chef burger; it's a standard burger shop burger executed well.

That's incorrect. Chef driven burgers are no different from the other burgers - the prices are raised until the price no longer can be raised. As long as Suzi from Chicago is willing to make a trip to Portland and she does not balk at $14 burger, the burger should go up from $13 to $14.
How long do you think such a mechanism would exist before it became overrun by (semi-) automated attempts to game it?
> I've found plenty of non-C applications in Ubuntu's and Fedora's repositories though. [etc.]

You've missed the point. I could go on for quite a while about what the point was, but ultimately it comes down to this: "You can fix it yourself!" isn't really true. Professional programmers who work on Linux for a living haven't even managed to fix a lot of its problems.

> It looks like it supports every major Linux distribution I've come across. Then what's stopping you from using it?

Nothing, except that hardly any applications are available as AppImages and they're a 3rd class citizen at best on all major distributions.

> Make sure to include source code for distributions to build their own version of the AppImage -- including any patches which might be necessary to tweak and support the distributions' different and unique environments.

The whole point of AppImage is that that's completely unnecessary. The only thing that really aught to be done is that file managers should display AppImage icons and not harass the user about double clicking one to run it. My point isn't that such things are holding me back, it's that such things are indicative of the community's attitude towards AppImage.
I'm speaking from what I saw in the LIGO and CERN (Higg's Boson) papers. They spend way too much time on rejecting some questionable model of the background rather than testing actual predictions.

From media interviews, I'll also say on the theorist side of it they seem to harbor all the usual misconceptions about p-values as seen in psych and medicine. But they do eventually fit an actual prediction to the data, like a model of black holes colliding, or whatever. However, I don't personally know how many degrees of freedom they have in these fits...
That's a large exaggeration. Russia deserves credit for what it did. It was not first for everything except the Moon.

NASA firsts: first meteorological satellite, first orbital navigation satellite, first private satellite launch, first interplanetary spacecraft and planetary flyby (Mariner 2), first spacecraft to scan another planet (Mariner 2), first geostationary satellite, first successful flyby and images of Mars (Mariner 4), first docking of two spacecraft (Gemini 8), first photos of Earth from the Moon, first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mariner 9), first spacecraft to visit both Mercury and Venus (Mariner 10), first successful mission to the surface of Mars (Viking 1), numerous scientific firsts related to the Sun (Pioneer spacecraft), first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and fly beyond Mars (Pioneer 10), first spacecraft to flyby Jupiter (Pioneer 10), first spacecraft to flyby and study Saturn (Pioneer 11), first flyby of Uranus (Voyager 2), first to flyby Neptune (Voyager 2), first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, first manned mission to orbit the Moon, farthest away humans have ever traveled from Earth (Apollo 13), first manned mission to land on the Moon, first spacecraft to leave the solar system (Voyager 1), first spacecraft to flyby Pluto, first space telescope. The list continues...
"If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you."
The abstract doesn’t say anything really, only that a meta analysis of existing studies reject null hypotheses that insomnia is linked to death. This isn’t really that useful, and digging deeper requires looking into the details of the studies. When all those results are pooled together, it only takes one bad study to skew the meta analysis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S108707921...
Those folks are wrong, and the correct answer here is for AWS to stop them. Google Drive and Box are appropriate solutions for that use case. Maybe AWS should launch one too.
For most aspiring doctors, it's also worth contemplating the physicians assistant and nurse practitioner routes: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-n.... The number of actual doctors who lament not knowing about, or understand, these routes is notable.
Remember 9/11? Shutting down airspace in an emergency is easish: tell everyone to land.
I'd say there's been long-form journalism that people have appreciated for a long time that describes people, places, life history, and the journalist's impressions. For example, Berton Roueché and John McPhee have both written well-regarded long-form science journalism in The New Yorker that touches on some of these sorts of things, and not just "TLDR; it was lupus" or "apparently, making an atomic bomb no longer requires the resources that it once did". Both of them prominently featured the people who were responsible for discoveries or investigations and tried to give a sense of their stories and their character.

But maybe there's a trend toward too much purple prose in journalism over time, or maybe people specifically want a place to find out about important new discoveries in a less biographic or experiential way that still doesn't require much technical background.
I know it's rational game theoretically. The question is would they ever do this? Likely not.

Why not? Because of the conflicting political ambitions involved on the part of key decision makers.

That's why my idea would be to create laws that make these deals null and void until they are put to a popular vote in the State or City or tax paying entity that will bear the burden of the costs.
> The only hope is to culturally adapt, as we did to other weird aspects of social media.

This rings true. Call me a cynic, but algorithmic/ML efforts to combat disinfo are highly unlikely to meaningfully address the problem or do anything beyond acting as a fig-leaf for Facebook et al to wave around as evidence of how seriously they're taking it. General media literacy is the only thing that comes close to a solution.

I recently heard an interesting interview[1] regarding pre-Internet Russian disinfo; specifically, the "CIA invented AIDS" classic. Of particular interest is the bit about how disinfo is regarded in societies that have had more time to become acclimated to it:

> They've lived under Russian or Soviet rule for generations now. They're media literate. They're skeptical. They're critical thinkers. And they're used to this. It's old news to them. I lived in the Baltic states between 2001 and 2003. And I was always really impressed with the sort of healthy skepticism in those societies.

Anecdotally, most of the people I know who've grown up with the internet are much better at spotting attempts at manipulation than the proverbial aunt who keeps sharing "rapefugee" articles on Facebook. This makes some sense, though is obviously far from universal: if you grew up in an era where media was controlled, mainstream and generally trustworthy, odds are you'll be woefully unprepared for the free-for-all of today, where anybody can at least superficially resemble a "real" media org with fifteen minutes of CSS. In other words, the bullshit heuristics of a large chunk of the population are woefully out of date.

The optimistic view is that as disinformation and other forms of mass-manipulation (e.g. corporate) become even more normalized, the population will become inoculated to a degree.

The pessimistic view considers the history of advertisement and notes the fact that despite lifetimes of exposure, emotionally-manipulative ads are as effective today as they ever were. Media literacy is all very well to talk about, but if a disinfo campaign is well-crafted and short-circuits rationality to jump directly to emotion, it'll probably be quite effective.

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[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668209008/inside-the-russian-...
That metaphor doesn't work because we're both the one selling the car and the hundreds of poor people. The rich guy shows up and he demands that all the poor people chip in to buy him a new car or he won't even buy a car to begin with, he'll go to the next dealership and demand the poor people chip in there. Everyone would be better off if the poor people of every call dealership got together and agreed that rich people should pay the same price as poor people, not less.
I am about to sign up. However, I will be happy also to study research papers together. Specifically, in RL and I have a slight interest in Quantum Computing as well.
and how does he know the course is worth doing since only classes 0, 1, 2 of 14 are released.
How well does that work when you datasets are a sizeable percentage of available storage capacity, though? Is there some sort of deduplication at work?
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I see that contribution is guarded by CLA agreement. I often wonder: if I don't want to sign a CLA, couldn't I just fork the whole repository and keep going on my own?
Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
I would rather Apple not simply get a message sent to me forwarded to them. Is the trade off worth it in this case? That's not so easy to pick for all ~1/2 billion or so users.

All Apple would need to get is the notification that there was a crash. It could be left to the user if the crashed message gets forwarded.
So that's why I had so many extra things to firewall in glasswire!
Show HN: Libvirtd: mount your file system automatically on boot
Woah, now it suddenly makes sense why the a16z podcast interviewed people from CAA a while ago.
Mozilla Fights on for Net Neutrality
Black-box attacks using specially crafted glasses that can mess up the facial recognition software already exist, leading to invisibility and/or misclassification.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sbhagava/papers/face-rec-ccs16.pdf

"In this work, we show how to perform invisibility attacks
while attempting to maintain plausible deniability through
the use of facial accessories. We defer the examination of the physical realizability of these attacks to future work."

"In this paper, we demonstrated techniques for generating accessories in the form of eyeglass frames that, when printed and worn, can effectively fool state-of-the-art face-recognition systems."
Scotty also advises that frugal people avoid turbos.
At this point it's not about earning money, it's about not getting overworked to death.

Raising prices sounds like the best strategy. You keep raising until the workload returns to normal. If you feel you're serving the wrong customers, you now have time to figure out how to fix that. Otherwise, if people eventually get turned off by the price and your workload goes down, you drop the price, and keep dropping it until you reach a stable point with just the right amount of orders.
I'm not convinced that there was a huge difference in Ford Focus build quality between American versus European factories. I experienced both as rental cars and they seemed equivalent. On average European drivers make shorter trips at lower speeds on smoother roads, and they're more forgiving about NVH problems.
It's only a matter of time. As more and more immigrants from US and elsewhere move to Canada, learn skills, get experience and eventually start their own companies, the competition for talent gets intense and thus the salaries.

This pool of talent was the reason for success of SV, then China and more recently India (where people are starting to get USD 100k salaries with 7-10 years experience).

The secret sauce is the pool of talent. Companies follow suit and relocate there.
Yes you can. The restriction is on what can be put into this "upstream" version.
He did this quite often!

"But on the other hand, that's kind of a destructive process because if I name the place - and I don't always when it's a place like that - I've changed it. The next time I go back, there's tourists. There's people who've seen it on the show. And then I might hear from the same person from that neighborhood say, you ruined my favorite bar, (laughter) you know? All the regular customers have run away and it's filled with, you know, tourists in ugly T-shirts and flip-flops. There are times that I have looked at the camera and said, look, I'm just not going to tell you where this place is. I don't want to change it. It should stay like this forever. I do do that now and again."

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/20/558792269/anthony-bourdain-on...
>This is Google's problem. Total and complete lack of long-term view.

Diane Greene only planned to be there for two years, so three years in, this change is overdue. If anything, keeping her longer demonstrates the opposite of what you're saying.

It's the first sentence in the article.
Of course there's a ceiling, but you're assuming the ceiling is based on the burger. It's not. It's based on the demand for the burger, and that demand is way, way higher than the supply, so the ceiling is higher than the current price. Pretty simple.

And yes, you can only raise it to a certain point, but you only need to raise it to a certain point: that certain point is the ceiling.

And you don't need to jump from $10 to $30 all at once. You just need to keep raising the price until you find the ceiling where your demand is more reasonable. It's probably more like 30-50% more, rather than 200% more, but who knows. Or better yet, charge more for peak times (like by offering a killer happy hour special during the slow times) to smooth out demand and also serve people who don't want to pay $30 for a burger.

Pricing that is based on cost plus some margin for overhead is so dumb. Price based on demand!
Much of that is documented in the page called "Getting Started": http://appfs.rkeene.org/web/home/Getting%20Started

I'll summarize it here:

1. To use it to run application:
a. Get AppFSd running; then
b. Run the application you actually wanted to run
2. To package an application:
a. Create a package manifest
b. Run the build script to create a CPIO archive
c. Upload that CPIO archive to a webserver
d. Run the script to publish the archive
3. The package manifest format is described in the README ( http://appfs.rkeene.org/web/doc/trunk/README.md ) -- it's CSV with the format "type,time,extraData,name" where the extraData is depends on the value of "type" for type==file, it's "size,perms,sha1"

If you're looking for something Docker-like then it's different since this is a filesystem based approach which doesn't require any of the containerization techniques used by Docker... which is how this conversation got started. It would also not be available on every platform since not every platform supports the same containerization mechanisms, and for platforms that do they often require escalated privileges.
Historically, the mole predates the acceptance of atomic theory. Stoichiometry of various reactions let you work out that there was some mass of oxygen that would entirely react with some mass of carbon to form carbon monoxide. They didn't have the same masses, but the relative amounts for each element were constant (or small integer multiples, such as twice as much oxygen to carbon for CO_2).

So Dalton took the lightest one, hydrogen, and defined a mole as the stoichiometric amount equivalent to that in 1g of hydrogen. Looked at that way, it's a pretty solid choice.
I have a “data science pipeline” coordinated with a Makefile and run on CI/CD (GitLab) with reports generated as build artifacts. Big stuff checked in with Git LFS.

Why would I use Pachyderm?
> Diane wasn't able to shift the existing Google culture to one where the enterprise customer's needs came first.

Citation needed -- from my knowledge, the culture shifted dramatically -- she did succeed, and now that's done.

Granted, I'm referring to Google culture within Cloud/GSuite... obviously she didn't affect culture at YouTube or Search because those weren't her areas.
> the only ones who has balls to call out Apple.

So courageous!
Or, How to DDOS a Restaurant
Thanks for your pointers. I had actually read (parts of) Resnik's diss and further work, but apparently it had slipped my mind, or I just forgot about it.

Your work sounds really interesting, too. I hadn't heard of Firth's model yet; it sounds like it's in the spirit of distributional semantics. I hope I can find some time to give it a read!
So now packages relying on older values would have to be updated, right? In that case, wow, all those ancient - but usable FORTRAN/C code. Correct me if I am wrong.
> despite Gmail's increasingly obnoxious insistence that you should only use Chrome

Fuck Edge touch support - they don't support the event API used by Safari/Chrome, instead you need to use an MS specific touch API.

I support touch on IE11/Edge (because our business made a bet on Windows Phone) but I have wasted an obscene amount of time to do so (we have very few windows phone/laptop touch users).

I hate supporting Edge more than IE11 - weird bugs and continual problems with the debugger and touch support.
I have a question for you folks, do you ever enjoy not going straight to sleep? I find the time when I'm laying in bed fantasizing to be very enjoyable after a hard day of reality. If I were to immediately fall asleep, I'd lose out on that hour of imagination.
North Korea announces weapons test; will release detained American
Quite the opposite: move semantics are pervasive throughout the library and other idioms; making a lambda without copy is pretty canonical too (though if you're going to use it with locals after returning from the stack frame you'll inherently have to copy in any language!).

And it is very easy to write templates that use this behavior so users don't have to think of it. In C++20 the syntax for this will be very simple (less garish than the old <> syntax).
> “Competition is for losers,” writes Peter Thiel, an American venture capitalist, in his book, “Zero to One”. Monopoly is the goal, he says.

Wow!
There's definitely an element of performativity in food that strikes me every time I see cooking shows.

It can be great food, but you're going to poop it out the same as anything else. So what are you paying for, when you get above a minimum bar of nutrition, sanitation, and taste? An experience. Fashion. Hospitality. With high end ingredients and techniques, scarcity.

And I can see the appeal of chasing after "the best" on both ends. Something that is not just a great experience once, but great on every plate, every service. It's not unlike other aesthetic and cultural pursuits in that at the higher end it becomes about the coloration that you prefer, and most objective measures fall apart.

But then most people aren't even able to describe what they want aesthetically, so a ranking substitutes. And when it's a ranking of something familiar and popular like burgers or noodle soups, it's simultaneously more interesting(more people have comparable experiences) and easier to dismiss(there are many great options).

Earlier this year I visited Tokyo and decided to find "the best burger" (according to some guide) and the place I ultimately visited was, indeed, quite good by any standard, and it wasn't busy or unusually expensive, even. Was it the best? I have absolutely no idea. But I get to tell a story about visiting "the best" regardless.
I work on GCP. Your comment makes me feel weird.

If there is anyone who has no direct effect on the feel or use of the GCP products it's the CEO.
If it pays for your living it's not a hobby.
NASA only uses cost-plus on a small fraction of contracts. It's sometimes unavoidable for high risk work; if they insisted on fixed price contracts then suppliers just wouldn't bid at all.
Vega-Lite author here. Performance is hugely important for us and is covered y the first three points on our roadmap: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fscSxSJtfkd1m027r1ONCc7O.... Some improvements will ship with Vega-Lite 3. Others are being worked on as we speak.
Google Maps Show Methane Leaks in US Cities
There is a nice solution for this problem. I really don't know why it did not take of. Maybe nobody knows about it?

https://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/pm/research/projects/inline.htm...

All this "code portal" features of Inline should be found in any modern code editor! But nobody implemented them in any of the usual IDEs until now to my knowledge. That's a real pity.
How can it be worse than a leader from VMWare? Have you ever seen VMWare's cloud product? It literally has little pictures of pretend computers that you click the reset buttons of with your mouse.
There's a long-standing relationship there.
very picky if you’re on a single user system. If you’re on a shared system, where admin has set default home permissions open, it makes complete sense to require .ssh to be 700.
Hmm did you clean your fish tank with soap nuts or something?
New Report: Body-Worn Cameras in Law Enforcement Agencies, 2016 [pdf]
This isn't financial aid since Amazon isn't short on cash. It also isn't promoting any economic or social policy (unless people see e-commerce and cloud computing as a social policy, which seems far fetched). So it at least fails the first definition.

Perhaps a better way to put my underlying idea into words is that these cities are still acting in their own self interest. Much like a dealer offering a few grand off sticker price, these cities are making a concession to Amazon but are still acting in their own self interest because they would be making even less money if Amazon decided to set up shop somewhere else. "Subsidy" often as the connotation of being something charitable to advance some social policy. These cities aren't being charitable to Amazon. They're acting in their own self interest by making themselves economically competitive. Much like the dealer accepting a lower price, they're accepting a lesser payment but the alternative is not making a sale at all. Sure, an argument could be made that Amazon would have chosen NY or DC with a smaller incentive - but that's more of a hypothetical criticism of the government's negotiations rather than the act of offering incentives in and of itself.

This is distinct from something like offering a subsidy to buy electric cars. This is a scenario where the government is making a sacrifice in order to promote an environmental benefit.
And how did that work out?

Maybe a better approach would be to jack prices up sky high for tourists and open another burger joint with a different name for locals.