skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FCPA (the law Walmart violated) specifically allows such "lubrication" bribes, where you're basically just paying a lowly government official a small amount to do his/her job a little faster. The forbidden bribes happen when you pay a higher-level official to make a decision in your favor that they otherwise might not have made. Huge difference in the eyes of the law.
1 to 2 weeks turn around? Incredibly ridiculous as many rely on this as theit primary dev machine and Apple is telling people to stop using it...
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Even the people that take all of the things... maybe they need them, so I wouldn't judge someone harshly for it.
The iPad gives you a lot of functionality for audio and video production, nobody has produced any mobile apis on par with apples core audio for audio production. Support for creative media on Android is so limited compared to what you can do with iOS whether it's an iPad or iPhone. Google underestimates the importance of media production and focuses on very basic use cases.
I wonder if the root cause in Tokyo is more their aversion to immigration than any zoning problem
Is tidyverse really the only option? I'm a big fan of data.table + magrittr as a very powerful data munging combo.
Professional DMMs are nice because they've thought through all the failure cases.

This meter is nice, but the relay on the current range select (K2) is set up so that there will be a break in the current when it switches ranges. On inductive loads, this would cause arcing and can damage the relay. It could also shoot through D6 into the voltage rail, potentially frying the meter. On digital loads, this blip in power might be enough to reset the circuit you're trying to measure. A better way to put the relay is to always have the 10 ohm resistor in series, and switch in the 1 ohm in parallel when needed. Of course the resistance will now be 0.909 ohms instead instead of 1, but that can be calibrated for in software.
I guess I misunderstood the benchmark chart. The Java line shows it taking 500mb, which is absurd, but I assumed that they were running on the target platform and therefore had 500mb of RAM.
Probably takes that long because you can't just replace a battery in a macbook because its glued to the rest of the laptop so a battery replacement is essentially pulling the screen and mobo from your macbook and putting it on to a new macbook.
My Mac's battery actually exploded (more of a <<<pop!>>> than me running away and diving to the floor with a huge fireball in the background) but it did take out my laptop with the skill of a high level assassin. Apple repaired it all free of charge but it was still very inconvenient.

If your serial number is on the list, I'd say get it done asap.
i don't think it's equianimous what you do. you essentially selectively enforce the rules and thereby normalize such smugness - case in point my response was -1 or 0 for most of today. if you're going to moderate some kinds of antisocial/antipathic behavior then you need to moderate it uniformly - it emboldens and reinforces those that get away with it - they feel validated by the community in their smugness. if you look at my comment history you can find so many of these that i've debated against just over the last few weeks. it's gotten to the point where i'm dreading working in this industry because of the smugness so many people here put on display.

in this case there is a dead comment that further sheds light on the nuance ("The bite of the comeback gets lost in translation. It was pretty good given the context and the language."). why is it dead? what is offensive about that? you encourage this kind of downvoting behavior.

there is another comment (i can't see the score but i'd bet that it's high - as high as the first smug comment's) that responds to the smug comment and concurs.

your pretense to idealism simply biases comments towards articulate arrogance/smugness rather than actual curiousity. imagine being the person that posted the root of this thread (the apocryphal story) and their reaction to the lovingly posted insight into their culture (aliswe - ali swe). why would you ever share here again? and it's such an interesting comment too, something that neither of us would ever discover on our own since we're not arabic speakers. you should have come to this person's defense, not the smug person's. this is not unlike what we see today socially - intolerance of intolerance is more strictly punished than the intolerance.
The solubility of oxygen in water just isn't high enough to make it practical to extract enough oxygen for breathing. You would need something like 50 gallons per minute just to satisfy your basic resting metabolism, which in turn would require a ton of power and/or surface area for gas exchange. (Multiply that by a factor of 3 or 4 if you intend to actually do any swimming.)

So you would have to bring a supply of oxygen gas with you, and at that point you might as well get it into your body the old-fashioned way instead of relying on a dangerous and fiddly ECMO machine.
Most food, especially the sort that'll keep in a little box outdoors in even SF weather, probably doesn't have much value either, so far as the second hand market goes. If someone's stealing $0.49 cans of beans to resell for $0.10 each they probably really need the money, and the ones buying the $0.10 cans from some someone off the street probably really needed the beans.

But for animals and the elements, we used to keep food (especially canned) outdoors year-round all the time, as a totally normal part of life. One of my grandparents was still doing it as late as the 90s. Granted that was done underground, but still, isn't that what technology's for? What good's all this newly-cheap democratized high-tech futuristic maker junk if it can't keep racoons and heat/cold from ruining a few cans of tomatoes in a box without having to stick it under the dirt like our very-recent-ancestors did?

As for liability, maybe this'll have to be reserved for freer places than us, in the end. The US (and a couple other countries) love our huge signs covered in tiny magical-liability-deflecting words, after all. They'll be a key feature in our reconstructed religion when future archeologists are trying to figure out WTF was going on with us. They're not so far removed from the long formulaic texts you find on/in Egyptian tombs, actually, and in the same ballpark so far as silliness goes.
A $330 million settlement for a company with a $500 billion per year business. That's a business nearly the size of Poland's entire economy. It's a very small settlement. It's entirely plausible that what they did was not as bad as what the mob would like to believe, and that also they're not innocent.
I think the best single observation about cognitive load is in Ousterhout's book A Philosophy of Software Design[1]. In the book he promotes the idea that classes should be "deep", such that their top-level surface API is small relative to the complexity they hide underneath.

This applies to the microservice/monolith debate as well. And it basically boils down to the observation that having lots of shallow services doesn't really reduce complexity. Each service may be simple unto itself, but the proliferation of many such services creates complexity at the next level of abstraction. Having well designed services with a simple API, but hide large amounts of complexity beneath, really reduces cognitive load for the system as a whole. And by "simple API" I think it's important to realize that this includes capturing as much of the complexity of error handling and exceptional cases as much as possible, so the user of the services has less to worry about when calling it.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ouste...
I’ve been out of the loop, why the makerbot no-love? Curious.
Google is fine with expensive (they sunk many billions into Maps over 10+ years and only just started monetizing it). But humans don't scale. If you want to have ten thousand data points about every business on Earth, you can't get there by relying on humans. You need to automate everything from top ot bottom.
Sounds vaguely like the Somersett neighborhood in Reno (though I don't recall if it's entirely 55+; there are some kid-friendly amenities, which suggests that families with kids are allowed to live in at least some parts, but for some reason I remember it being mostly retirees).
wow very nice. what did you guys use to build this?
You can't, and it gets trashed. We had just such an honor system set up by well-meaning folks here in Gilroy, and it lasted for all of a few weeks before the first time everything was taken and the box trashed and smeared with feces.

The majority of the people who needed to use the box did so respectfully and properly. There is a huge need, particularly here in the bay area of California, where the number of people forced into homelessness has exploded over the past several years.

The problem with systems like this is that they have no oversight, the bad apples find them and take/destroy with glee, and it doesn't take many of those folks to ruin it for everyone else.
Indeed. I don't understand why they think that's a good idea. Just replace the parts in store.
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What's a good resource for a R user looking to jump over to Julia?
Commenting to read later. But I'd love an example
How would one go about making an educated guess as to how many species of human in total existed, given what we know about the probabilities of discovering evidence of one?
Seems silly to me if that's the way it works. Why not have a "dumb" reader and verify the fingerprint on the main CPU?

You're just adding complexity with having to have a secure channel between the reader and the CPU.
I was heartily downvoted for making this exact suggestion on the last HN thread about `Oumuamua. :P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340314
My experience is that almost all of my physics profs use chalk (that's the classrooms that we have, but no one's really complaining). Depending on the room and class size some engineering is still chalk, but more are migrating to whiteboard/digital.

Definitely not as much fervor for chalk, especially as it seems to do less well in larger classes/classrooms, but I do prefer it.
> low wages, overworked employees, stressed vendors, killing jobs

I'm not defending Amazon here, but Walmart has literally been criticized for all of the exact same things...
Well that's Apple's problem to solve. They can't just say 1-2 weeks oh well.

I have a Genius appointment and if they tell me 1-2 weeks I'm telling them to bugger off.
They should pay the price in proportion to their share. Jail time for 1e-9 ownership is ludicrous, but something like the following might actually be a proportional deterrent.

> A very practice and effective solution would be to seize some chunk of the shares/value based on the size of the crime and auction them off. The proceeds going to victims or the like and weakening or removing irresponsible investors in favor of someone else. But this option is simply unthinkable and instead there's endless debate on the CEO's culpability.
Edit: Never mind, I misread the article. This recall is for some 2015-model MBPs that were sold in 2017, not the 2017 model. I guess I still don't know which recall my battery was part of.

Edit 2: It's probably this recall from 1 year ago: https://www.apple.com/support/13inch-macbookpro-battery-repl...

Wow, I think I may have had my battery replaced under this recall 2 weeks ago (i.e. a 2 weeks before this announcement). Last year, I had the "service battery" warning, and took my 2017 MBP in to have them look at it, and they confirmed my battery needed replacing (and were going to charge me for it). The battery life was still more or less adequate at the time, and at the time I couldn't afford to part with it for a week, so I said I'd bring it back some other time once it got really bad. That some other time was 2 weeks ago, and this time they confirmed the battery needed replacing, and as I was getting my credit card out to pay for it, they informed me that it was covered under some recall. The store representative didn't have any further details, just "apparently it's covered". I assumed it was some previously-announced recall that I just hadn't heard about, but apparently it was this recall, which they only announced today, a week after I got my MBP back with a new free battery.

FWIW, my turnaround time was 6 days, IIRC. Friday of one week to Thursday of the next. On the other hand, I presumably got in before the rush that will follow this announcement.
In many (most?) countries in the world, the rule of law is not strong enough that you could expect these laws to be meaningfully enforced.
It's like in ratatouille movie, everyone can cook doesn't mean everybody can be a great cook, but that a great cook can come from anywhere.
I’m curious — how does this compare to Contrast Security?

See https://www.contrastsecurity.com/
"Only" 5 days? I think 5 hours is unacceptable.
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This is for 2015 MBPs only, so no. Apple does replace some batteries if they are well-documented to have failed because of manufacturer issues though. Also for swelling.
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I agree for the most part, but R does have a few things beyond the tidyverse: built-in dataframe support, lots of domain-specific packages, more consistent interfaces for basic statistics and machine learning models, etc. Python is definitely better for matrices (because of NumPy) and anything involving custom gradient descent methods (because of TensorFlow).

I think 90% of data science content is for beginners because anything more advanced isn't best described as data science. As soon as you get beyond the initial stages of data analysis (cleaning and processing data), you're doing something best described as some other word (statistics, machine learning, etc.) - although, granted, there isn't much content in these areas if you don't know _exactly_ what you're looking for.
I’m curious as to your feelings on words such as bark, chirp, meow, splash, and mumble.
Oh, I misread the article. It says "sold between September 2015 and February 2017", but it's only talking about 2015 models.
Dammit! I had a 2015 15" Macbook from work that I upgraded from 2 months ago because the battery life sucked (less than 1 hour). I had to upgrade to this terrible 2018 Macbook Pro with the absolutely disastrous Touchbar which I hate. The only reason why I upgraded was because of the battery life. I could have gotten a new one for with this recall, dammit!
Yes, it’s simply outrageous. Apple is getting worse by the day.
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You enrolled in an optional program for personal use. It’s different if Apple coopts that for a different use and the set is likely incomplete.
I kind of agree, but I was being generous with 100.
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/

https://juliaobserver.com

The website is decent. Read the standard library https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/stdlib

search github for cool projects https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl
Great point. I don't have $2500 to just tie up for that time.

It's stupid. Just fix it in store.
What I take away from this is the idea of each post having its own identity and feel (each post with its own unique stylesheet). Contrast to a blogging platform like Wordpress or a SSG like Jekyll where every post is generally formatted and styled exactly the same way. The author's blog posts are now these unique time capsules.

Obviously a blog at scale isn't going to do this, but I do think there's value in what the author is trying- where each post is styled and formatted independently with care instead of unceremoniously dumped in with a one-size-fits-all stylesheet.
All of the CS classes I've taken (at Waterloo) have featured professors who lecture while they write on the board. On the other hand, some of the stats and financial math courses I've taken relied heavily on slides.

I prefer no slides, personally, though my current instructor in differential equations is totally disorganized and frustrating to follow, despite using no slides at all.
In what way is chromeos an expense to Android?
Funny. I’ve lost mine in Switzerland. Some cash, credit card and driver’s license. Never heard anything back directly or from city’s lost and found. Heard of many with similar experience, not to mention pick pocketing...
It's because the glued the damn batteries to the top case, which is also the part which everything else is screwed onto. So replacing the battery either requires replacing the whole top case (A LOT of manual work, and more costly in parts), or engaging in the potential fire hazard of removing the glued battery.
That is a great story, at Blekko my first attempt at getting rid of people trying to exploit the index was to ban any address that did more than 100 queries per second, that got a bunch. Then they start showing up again, at 99 queries per second :-). So I lower it to 50, same pattern but now 49 qps, then set it to 10 qps, they would limbo in under the wire again. They would also start using bot nets to send their query from different PCs in different places (all the same query though, typically looking for ecommerce or wordpress templates with known exploits) We would nail them by finding all the machines that made the same query, then we could just start killing any query that asked for more than page 10 of the results, etc.

For a while I pondered if I could use my ability to change their behavior by changing my rules, to get them to actually create a set of behaviors that would unmask their C&C servers but not enough free time for that.
You’ve got to admire Japan- they face a problem for the welfare of their citizens, but they’re grappling with it in an intelligent and informed manner. They’re not particularly close to solving the underlying issues but, from the sound of it at least, steps are in the consistently right direction.

In the U.S., in contrast, this kind of problem wouldn’t even come up- because everyone involved would be living on the street, and no one in a position of civic authority would consider it their responsibility.
I'm using Hugo and I only write html, Hugo supports it, forget about markdown it sucks if you want to do anything complicated
I agree, but it seems the copyright/editorial use comes up a lot more for 3d model platforms. It seems to differ from typical github usage. I feel it puts it closer to a stock photography type site, except more often the popular works are actual copies of copyrighted/trademarked products. Any thoughts on this?
That is only true with a very small, very richly valued group of technology stocks. You're talking about a few dozen companies max per year. Using that small group to extrapolate a claim that therefore IPOs are now primarily used to exit shareholders, is clearly a dramatic overreach.

Pharma & biotech companies as one example (the market has seen far more IPOs in that sector over the last year than it has large tech companies using their IPO as an exit), are still very frequently doing IPOs so they can raise operational cash to burn and to use their public stock for funding and acquisitions later.
I disagree. US companies can have such an outsized impact
by the volume of money they bring, that it can create a moral vacuum that sucks up all the air in a place. Everyone has a price, and when the price is in dollars it may be surprisingly low for the less well off. Someone ought to police it.

Furthermore, bribery abroad may undermine US interests and policies. It’s easy to see why companies would want to pay a bribe to build a store in Brazil (mentioned in the article). Compared to the other costs involved it’s probably pretty cheap and can really speed things up. But that million dollars (or whatever) feeds a system that seeks its own remuneration over serving it’s constituents. It’s not just someone else’s problem. It helps to paper over the enormous drag this rent seeking behavior has on everyone.

Furthermore, the law gives employees a basis to stand on to say no. Now I don’t know if there’s really much to that- I’ve never been propositioned for a bribe, but I imagine that being able to say I can’t, it’s illegal, would help me to say no.
You aren't wrong — indeed, many static site generators are capable of doing exactly that — but I wouldn't go so far as to say that no other existing solutions were adequate.

As for Hexo, it looks like a great option, but it's written in Javascript — a language and ecosystem that I'm not terribly familiar with. While I could certainly learn it, doing so specifically to use Hexo (which I'd then need to configure, and possibly extend to my liking) adds an extra yak I'd need to shave to get started. I'm sure I could use it without learning Javascript, but troubleshooting or extending it would be more difficult, and I'd still need to adapt to the workflow it was designed around.

I was looking for a static site generator with all of the features I knew I wanted (like table of contents generation and seamless image compression/scaling), and all of the features I didn't yet know I wanted (like specified/fixed table column widths), so it needed to be easily extendable. I also wanted to get off the ground quickly, so it needed to written in a language that I was already comfortable with. Lastly, and most subjectively of all, the workflow needed to feel right.

Ultimately, it came down to the choice of (a) spending my time learning how to adapt to someone else's ideal solution, or (b) spending my time creating my own (or something like it). I chose the latter, and like you said, it was a great learning experience.

Thanks for taking the time to have a look.
I found that study. It's pretty neat.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1791.html (PDF link near bottom)
I'm always surprised people don't mention Orkut more often in such arguments.
Mmm...my iphone 4 didn’t swell after it was used for 7 years.
one thing that is markedly different is immigration. Japan has minuscule amounts of immigration, and non japanese blood people can't be citizens. In Canada, at least, they recognize we'd all be old white people without the current levels of immigration.
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With all these IPOs coming to market at nearly 50-60 times their earnings remind me of the dot com era. Bond yields are inverting just like before the previous crash in 2008. I see another wealth transfer on the horizon. The smart money is securing the bag.
I submit that the all-time winner is Sleep Country Canada with the ticker symbol ZZZ
i would still like to know what "controlled experiments" exist. Has anyone done the studies to show it is not worth the while, eg that it does not remove carbon? Although just not removing carbon does not say seeding is not beneficial, carbon neutral aqua culture would be quite beneficial.

There are some natural experiments: the Sahara feeds the Amazon, and the Gobi feeds the Pacific ... Perhaps more directed seeding would be more beneficial. We will never know unless we actually study, or try.