skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think daveslash was suggesting the burger joint runs as the for-profit entity that it already is and that it is the source of the philanthropy, not the target.

To give an example, charge exorbitant prices for burgers knowing there are still people desperate enough to try the burger that paying $30 is fine and then use the extra revenue to give back to the community, possibly by paying for the local soccer club to get a new clubhouse, or possibly by providing free/subsidized burgers at local events where the crowd will be local. In this way the business stays open and isn't overwhelmed by the demand, while not completely isolating itself from the local community that the owner wants to give back to.
> The US car industry is notorious for poor engineering standards and quality, largely driven by profit incentives.

That certainly used to be the case, 20+ years ago. US auto makers have dramatically improved since the mid 1990s.

On reliability today Buick outranks BMW, Infiniti, Toyota and Mercedes. Chevrolet outranks Toyota, Audi, Honda, Hyundai and BMW. Ford & GMC are better than Subaru and Acura, comparable to Mercedes, and slightly better than Volkswagen. Lincoln is better than Honda, Nissan and Audi.

https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/jd-power-201...
BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance – Investor Presentation [pdf]
As a ROOT guru and occasional pythonist, I recommend PyROOT especially if you want to interactively explore what you're plotting.
Huh, when I was looking into Python options I had thought plotnine was dead, but looking at the GitHub that's not the case: https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine

I'll give it a shot! :)
> And you need to make sure you always have enough money set aside to cover the expenses. Therefore, you need to teach yourself to put that money aside, and never touch it.

One thing I do, regarding this, is I have a separate checking account just for paying bills... I have the majority of my paycheck deposited there and never touch it. There's enough to cover everything (mostly set to auto-pay) except for the larger expenses (mortgage, car payment) that I always do at the beginning of the month. I don't have those in auto-pay only in case a payroll check is delayed unexpectedly, in order to avoid overdraft on that account.

It actually helps a lot to have that money entirely separated from any day to day or entertainment considerations. Food, gas, lunches, movies, etc come out of another account with a fixed amount per pay check. This way, I decide based on what I have if I can do X. Or if I should take my lunch vs. going out, etc.

Can't speak to the merits of the article or the poster.
Only if you're using Go's native GC as the Lua VM's GC, which isn't the only option.
I found the best extended stay in Denver and I’ve been avoiding reviewing it. The last thing I’d want to do is bring it to the attention of the people who ruin the other motels of that variety in the area.
Its about offering a service in China, not about the technical act of communicating.
I wonder if you could switch the 'locals only' card for just requiring proof of address on a driving license or utility bill. Might still be a problem with locals offering 'burger tours' - you pay me $10, I buy the burgers for $5 because they'd charge you $20, everyone is happy (except the restaurant).
tldr; Eternal September: Restaurant Edition
I didn't have the physical security keys needed for setup. So yes, that's my fault. But there was no warning that my existing 2FA would be deactivated if I didn't complete the setup. Plus, I only found out about this because I happened to check my security settings. If I didn't, I might not have noticed at all since I ask my devices to remember me so I rarely see the 2FA prompts anyway.
This is a classic humans are rational actors and spherical volumes in empty space economic answer, which entirely misses the point.

The restaurants we love, we love for the entire experience, and price is part of that experience. Even for people who can happily afford the higher price, it still results in a different experience. The people around you in the restaurant will be different. Your perception of the value of the meal will be different. Your willingness to try more adventurous items on the menu will be different. The whole thing is not just quantitatively different, but qualitatively different.

A $20 burger is not a $10 burger, regardless of how the two are prepared. If the former is not the experience the chef wants to create for their customers then, no, just raising prices doesn't "solve" the problem.
I would say it's a symptom of bad management. Why do you need to "show you're doing your job", if the feature clearly exists and works? Why do you need to cause it to be used more, too?

I don't see this happening in other industries. Do people responsible for radios or sunroofs or seat belts in cars take action to cause their features to be used more?
My existing 2FA was disabled immediately not 14 days later.
Brings to mind Paul Newman: https://newmansown.com/
The book "Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager" is a high-level but pretty complete introduction to project management. It has good examples from non-technical projects, such as rolling out a new health program in a hospital. It uses official terms from the Project Management Institute’s infamous "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK) so information learned from this introduction can be carried over to more rigorous projects.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/194163110X/
Isn't this something essentially tautological though?

When we discuss the mass of a neutron and we say "one neutron weighs one u" then we discuss the mass of an electron and we say "one electron is 5.4858×10−4 u" and "one proton is 1.0072764 u" then we add them up and say "one hydrogen atom is 1.00794 u while one helium atom is 4.002602" (forgetting some complications for a moment) are we not just summing likes?

Or is it just that since mass is defined in Planck and time / distance terms that we need to relate it to counts of things? Theres a gap there I don't understand. Can we not just say "we measured a proton's mass and it is u"? Am I making a jump there?
Looks like this change wasn't intended and hopefully stripe rolls back out the functionality you were using.

I'm a huge fan of Stripe so I'd give them a chance to get this resolved for you before switching.

The stripe api is great to work with so you might benefit having a custom web application built to interact with it and make things more efficient on your end and not depend on their dashboard.
"cancer-causing carcinogens"

Oh wow is that what carcinogens are? Who knew!

By the way, nicotine may very well be one of those carcinogens the author is claiming e-cigs do not contain.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/#!po=0....
I mean, why should hard cash have anything to do with the right to live and work in Singapore?

The US isn't the most awesome country in the world but marrying a foreigner at least conveys them basic rights like residency and work permit. I mean, residency! What is a marriage without residency?
http://sites.bu.edu/ombs/2014/03/24/new-study-shows/

I'm in the middle of stuff and can't google a more concise source but I recall it being about 4-5 days
Zero-profit capitalism has another name: hobby.
Lack of IPv6 support is what keeps us off GCP or AWS, HTTP fronting is great, but when it comes to realtime interactive streams to mobile devices, the ability to save significant latency and avoid the hot mess of CGNAT is invaluble.
Will this lead to price hikes (a-la Oracle death by a thousand cuts of "improved plans", surcharges, etc)

Wondering what people think about this.
Honestly I'm not sure I'm sold on any destination burger. Google Kenji Alt's ultra-smash burger, and just make them at home.

I'm unhappy about Au Cheval because the rest of the menu is relevant to my interests, but I can't eat there because it's a destination burger restaurant now.

But, back to the point of this article: my problems != Hogsalt Restaurants problems!
Meet TiDB: An open source NewSQL database
I'm sorry? I listed two specific charities that receive this money and your chosen example, wholly ignoring those two or anything approaching relevance to the topic, is "some rando scam call" you got? I really don't know what you want out of this conversation. So far beyond anything even masquerading as good-faith engagement.
I’m a cancer patient undergoing treatment. Please be careful, you don’t want this.
And in Dukaj's "Perfect Imperfection" [1] occasionally multiples of Planck time are used (with metric prefixes), as the post-humans and "out-of-space computers" can operate on very small time scales.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Imperfection
It's an intriguing idea that language might cause humans to be biased towards exploiting knowledge about common brands rather than exploring new ones. Do we derive utility from having a thinner "tail" on our (shared societal) vocabulary?

Unfortunately, the distinction between "brand" and "corporation" makes this point, while interesting, somewhat moot. Consider that the Koch brothers have been able to consolidate brands ranging from TIME to Sports Illustrated, from Brawny towels to Dixie cups. In a world where users desire a "long tail" of brands, corporations continue to consolidate but simply invest in a wider variety of brand names and marketing for them. There's still synergy to be gained from a consolidated entity operating all of those brands. And so we're right back where we started.
Show HN: Open source native point of sale
What's your point? This doesn't relate to what you originally said, or to my reply to that.
Avalanche looks interesting, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the white paper to suggest how they plan to deal with Sybil attacks. Their safety guarantees are dependent on the number of Byzantine nodes in the network, but what prevents a single attacker from simulating a large number of independent nodes (e.g. with VMs, or a botnet) and exceeding that limit? Can a minority of correct nodes continue to function safely despite a hostile Byzantine majority?
The pictures in that article about NIST reminds me of the adage, "The smaller the measurement, the bigger the lab."

I like to use metrology labs as an example of something people often take for granted (measuring things) and showing how deep that invisible rabbit hole goes.
Folks probably just scroll to '#1 the country' and decide to go

I wonder if this outcome could have been avoided if the list wasn't numbered, or was categorized in some other way - would an 'x best burgers' without a ranking prevent one place getting mobbed?
Electromechanical Lunar Lander
Frederick Banting's painting of lab where he discovered insulin up for auction
> 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;

If you have a five hour lineup for a burger, you need to raise your prices at least a little bit. You'll make more money overall, and your customers will be happy.
Huh. I hit a ton just trying to manage some files and burn a cd or two. Workflow inconveniences, crashes in various applications, little "some KDE service you've never heard of has crashed" messages from the system tray. Firefox scrolling was jerky until I googled a bit and found the right setting to change which is apparently the stop-being-broken switch, which is a thing that exists for some reason. Stuff like that, and on what's supposedly one of the most just-works distros. Weird. Fits with my experience running Linux as my main desktop (and laptop) OS from ~2002-2008, though once I switched to Gentoo everything was less buggy at the cost of having to configure everything manually.
> If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar.

-- Alan Kay
Besides the software compatibility with protocols different from GSM (2G) there is serious hardware problem: RLT-SDR dongles can't operate above 1.4 GHz. This limit is for the better models (i.e. those with a better shielding ). In my experience the cheap models as the one mentioned in the article have problems above 1 GHz. I'm telling you because GSM support ~900 Mhz and ~1800 Mhz frequencies and, as I tested, only the traffic around 900Mhz is visible. So, even in the 2G domain, you can't see everything.
The reason there's so many libraries is that none of them has emerged as a clear leader. If there was one really great library for the majority of use-cases, you'd see consolidation around it, like you mostly have with ggplot2 in R.
IPv6 is not a first-class protocol on AWS, but it is absolutely doable for most scenarios. It still requires having something of a dual-stack network in place (you definitely can't have a v6 only network of anything meaningful).
Oh but the author is upset, just with themselves
Not happening. https://twitter.com/fxshaw/status/1063518498104664064
Oh GOD, you want to get me pissed bring up that cry baby Chang. I could rant. But I won't.

Listen, I get it. I spend 8 hours every few months boiling off a massive pot of bones and feet to make my own ramen broth to store in my freezer. I get that it's easy to dismiss it soup and noodles as just "some soup and noodles".

Food is usually about what you know and are familiar with. It's about comfort for most people, but other people are about finding novel or interesting experiences.
> 2. Since this has happened several times at this point, the point is moot. Since this is familiar territory, why not log it and have the system tell HQ something weird happened?

This has real privacy considerations. 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.
I'm wondering why this is exclusive to Pixel 3 and not made available to Pixel 2 owners? If it's an algorithm that stiches together many images, Pixel 2 should be able to do this as well. The Pixel 2 camera already meshes together many images when you take photos, and already gives users the ability to take "motion" photos.
Scientist discovers organism on new 'major branch' of tree of life
This sounds related to the 'See One, Do one, Teach One' learning concept from medicine, which also sounds like it works very well.
Speed Up Development with Chrome’s Local Overrides
How AI Could Destroy The Universe… With Paperclips:

https://hackernoon.com/how-ai-could-destroy-the-universe-wit...
I think it's both. Lists do practically help us navigate the overwhelming number of options we're presented with, but there is also a large social signaling factor to them. Knowing what restaurants are popular or new or exciting is a way for someone to communicate to other people that food is an important part of who they are. But in order for that signal to work, it sometimes helps to have "canonical" definitions of which restaurants are "in" and lists and critics enable that.

What I find really sad about all this, though, is that it sacrifices the value of our own personal narrative and preferences. The idea that there is a "best" restaurant implies that my experience at it is irrelevant since "best" is apparently a customer-independent property.

That in turn implies that my own stories around which meals I loved are not worth telling to others. I think that's a terrible perspective. I'd much rather read an article about the top ten meals someone had — a narrative about them experiencing the food and not about the food itself — because it's ultimately people that matter.
Fair enough, thanks for replying.
The most luminous galaxy is eating its neighbors
I agree. I'm still an owner & fan of the Bose Quiet Comfort 35 II, but also have the latest Sony WH-1000XM3 (and XM2). I think the Sony's have better noise cancelling, enough that I pick them up daily. I typically work with them on, no music. The QC 35 travels better, being slightly less bulky.

For the above comments about Bose in general, it's untrue for this specific use case. Before the Sony model was released there wasn't a better option out there.
>Learning

In practical terms, any software engineer knows how to work in a POSIX environment, so no issue here.

>setting up

If you mean "installing Linux", then any mainstream distro (e.g. Linux Mint) is ready to go out of the box. If you mean "configuring things up to your liking" then it is no more time-consuming than any other setup.

>operating

Don't know what you mean by this, but a POSIX environment is probably the most efficient/least painful way to do software development.
Hell of an article.
You can do that to a point, but if what you're serving is simply a well-executed diner burger, then, like I said, there's a ceiling. You can't charge $30 for that. Or, you can, but you'll create more problems than you'll solve.

This guy ate at 330 different burger restaurants. He has a finely-tuned metric for what a good burger is (his #3 is also a neighborhood place he grew up with). He's set up to appreciate what Stanich is actually accomplishing with his burger. The average foodie tourist is unlikely to arrive armed with that context; they'll pay $30 for the burger, expect a revelation, and leave unhappy.
I think the GP is making the claim that Avogadro's constant should be 1 (effectively eliminating it), not that there's no need to count molecules.
Traffic acquisition costs
This is also a national security risk. A nation state interested in war will have an easier time shutting down a small handful of things simultaneously to quickly cripple our economy.

For example:

- Shutting down only Visa and Mastercard would disable the vast majority of credit cards.

- Disabling debit cards or withdrawing funds from JP, BofA, Wells Fargo, and Citi would disable the majority of banking clients in the US.

- About 40% of US air travel could be stopped by hacking American and Southwest.

We've already seen similar large scale attacks on large companies:

- In the 90s and early 2000s, Microsoft's weak security allowed worms to cripple Microsoft Office and Windows.

- 100 million JP Morgan accounts were compromised by 3 people in 2015.
People have gotten a lot of Pixel 3 exclusive features to work one Pixel 1 + 2 by install Pixel 3's camera apk. I'm assuming most of the reason for backporting features is not a hardware limitation.
It is now :)
So, true. :)
They controlled for that using transparent glass with real ants on the other side.

https://www.udocz.com/read/are-ants-capable-of-self-recognit...
One thing developers of products like this can do is offer an accessibly priced license for individual users in a corporation. If it's an indispensable tool for me that I use at work, and the bureaucracy for obtaining even $0.01 USD from the company is not going to happen, the individual license can be a nice middle ground. I can write it off at tax season too.
The graph states that it is adjusted for inflation.
I've actually become quite fond of liquids being powers of 2 and lengths being broken fractionally. The base unit doesn't really matter (and you can always use decimal length, as is often done when building precision items).

So, for liquids,

2 tablespoon = 1 ounce
2 ounce = 1 jack
2 jack = 1 gill
2 gills = 1 cup
2 cup = 1 pint
2 pint = 1 quart
2 quart = 1 pottle ( ½ gallon)
2 pottle = 1 gallon

I find it much easier to switch units and do conversions in my head, especially when scaling recipes.

With respect to base-2 fractional length measurements, I just find it much easier to work with fractions than than with decimals. Half of ⅛ is ¹/₁₆ with next to no thought. I don't need to do division of 25 to get 12.5. It's a personal thing, but I find it nice.
Google gets to sell a couple of new Pixel 3 devices?
But it also used to be that new Windows versions came out around every three years so by the time you needed a new computer, you'd be paying the Windows tax again anyway. In practice, not a lot of difference.
Solution may have been to charge very high prices, with discounts if you show drivers license with local address. Then share part of the extra revenue with employees
How do you transfer data from Python to R? I like the look of ggplot2, but most of my data I keep as pickle files.
The main challenge would be the information asymmetry between both sides (as is already the case). It's one thing for the recruiter to be able to scan all your contributions. Would you as a potential recruit be able to do the same, and see what skills and techniques were /actually/ in use by the company. A tool which could generate an anonymised summary for both parties and compare them for mutual compatibility might be very nice.
> 300 million is a lot of money, I wonder if it would have been better spent elsewhere

Aren't you just repeating part of dahdum's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18470584)?
Can you share anything more about this? I'd love to hear it. I think you shared the most relevant experience of any post so far.
A command-line fuzzy finder
China controls world supply of neodymium
This is why I cancelled Netflix.

I've switched almost entirely to watching content I own, whether its iTunes purchases or ripped DVDs. I control the entire experience, I don't have to worry about content suddenly vanishing, I don't have to deal with anyone trying to steal my attention.

I feel the same way about dropping Netflix now as I did about dropping cable TV 5 years ago. I'm never going back.
Does anyone outside of High Energy Physics use ROOT? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm genuinely curious, I'm a physicist by day so seeing ROOT talked about on here amongst popular libraries is like someone recommending my local pub as the best in town.
I've not seen a single nag to upgrade to Mojave. I'm still on Sierra (and will likely move to High Sierra this weekend - I like to stay a major version behind for Mac software for stability's sake on my Mac Mini).
> Sure, but it is completely possible to get a very high score with virtually no practice

Only if you are naturally highly intelligent. Folks of above average intelligence (but not in the upper percentiles) tend to need to work at it (many do and succeed).

> That is exactly why I think the SAT is superior.

Only if you are interested in "g" intelligence alone as a pure metric, in which case psychometric instruments like the Advanced Raven Progressive Matrices should also be admissible.

The SATs give you one metric of preparedness for college, arguably an important one. But the East Asian exams give you another: grit. It's much harder for a smart person to succeed at them without any effort. That said, I'm not condoning them since I believe the East Asian focus on exams often does go overboard and devolves into mismeasurement (i.e. how good you are at taking tests).

But intelligence, measured in isolation, is not a good metric for college-readiness especially in technical fields, where you need a certain measure of grit to do well in the material. I've known stars in high school who struggled when they had to apply themselves.... when you're used to things coming easily to you all your life, it can be demoralizing to have to work at things.
Yeah, we actually don't have a full-time artist yet, so there are quite a temporary pieces of art dropped in right now