skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Tim, author here.

>I believe support has reached out to you now that we understand the CPU will need to be replaced. Can you confirm this?

Yes, support reached out. I said as much in the email, but to address some of your comments publically:

(1) Totally understand this and I posess a tremendous deal of tolerance for weird problems with unusual hardware from small companies. But the support experience here was abysmal and no amount of weirdness in a problem excuses the lack of communication. I would be with you every step of the way if Raptor had communicated the progress - the first I heard that IBM was even being consulted about the issue was today - or even sent me communications at the times they promised to in earlier replies.

(3) I think you had really better fix (2) before you increase your volume. The reply I received from support today insinuates that my support experience is rare, but I can't throw a stone in the IRC channel without hitting 3-4 people who have had similarly bad support experiences. Whatever investment you're putting into your upcoming "major push", you should probably siphon off some of it for investing in better support.

It also bears mentioning that 50+ days of silence, not including an additional 30 days where communications were devoid of information outside of unfulfiled promises about future communications, followed by a detailed response on the day I publish a scathing review online, is worth note. I should hope that other customers who don't have a soapbox to complain on are also having their concerns addressed.
Which is kind of a point of taking VC money; if they wanted you to grow sustainably, they'd tell you to get a loan from a bank. These days I treat "took VC funding" as a negative when evaluating whether to commit to using a service.
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> Most dentists spend three years in school

Where can you get a dentistry degree with just three years of university? I thought in the US you needed an undergraduate degree of four years just to get into the postgraduate dentistry degree, so at least seven years in total, which seems like a long time to me! In the UK it's at least five years.
Why can't we ban sugar?
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> The ad networks only satisfy the market demand.

I could not give less of a shit about justification of bad behavior by invoking market demand, if it leads to me finding a turd in my drinking water.

Unless, of course, it leads to the dawning of understanding that maybe the Econ-101 understanding of supply-and-demand is a spherical-cow level of analogy that rapidly breaks down when it encounters the real world, and that regulation isn't a toxin.
Holy hell.

> > In a superconducting circuit, conduction electrons condense into a macroscopic quantum state, such that currents and voltages behave quantum mechanically [2, 30]. Our processor uses transmon qubits [6], which can be thought of as nonlinear superconducting resonators at 5 to 7 GHz. The qubit is encoded as the two lowest quantum eigenstates of the resonant circuit. Each transmon has two controls: a microwave drive to excite the qubit, and a magnetic flux control to tune the frequency. Each qubit is connected to a linear resonator used to read out the qubit state [5].

I understand most of the words in isolation – and I know that they are valid, even if combining them in a useful manner to understand exactly what they are describing is eluding me.

But if there was ever a paragraph that sounded like pure technobabble, this is it. Replace the technobabble found in the star trek matter transporter with quantum lingo, and it would sound very similar.
Wouldn't that make deletes super expensive, similar to deleting nodes from a doubly-linked list on disk in terms of complexity? How could it delete a node with millions of relationships if it needs to read all those blocks from disk to traverse all the pointers?

And doesn't it cause more cache misses when the on-disk pointers refer to nodes that are spread out across different file blocks?

And why does Neo4j have indexes if it claims to have no need for them? https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/schema/index/

I don't know how Neo4j is implemented, but I'm skeptical that it's purely index-free adjacency, I suspect there is some hybrid data structure backing it.
Downvote all you want. The facts are the facts. Unhealthy eating is just as bad as smoking. If the government is going to regulate our personal health choices, then it needs to be consistent.
I wonder how true that is. The volume is probably going to be pretty low which means it will harder to amortize the NRE. It’s not just all the hardware engineers either. There probably a ton of specific software, not to mention drivers, in this product too.
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While that’s a good point, if the alternative is going around and using the acronym FAAG I think we can stick with the original.
I just found it in old papers and have been carrying it around hoping to remember to cash it at a bank or something. But that does t seem likely now.
On the flip side, going out on breaks w/ people to smoke or vape can be a great social enhancement. Made at least one great friend this way. Also how my mom met my dad.

Still trying to think up a good replacement for this...
> Its just being told to arrange its qbits into a random series of gates.

It's not told to arrange its qubits into a random series of gates. It is told to arrange them in a specific order that was chosen at random.

It is programmable. But it is as if you had to program malbolge[0], except worse so due to the hardware constraints and lack of error correction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
That makes perfect sense. How would you resolve the issue?

The most important role that person has is to support the leader and implement their ideas while providing leadership to the team. Advocacy for her own ideas and rallying the team behind them doesn't support this.

So google decides to move unhappy employee and friend to a team with a different vision . On the new team her she doesn't have the service level others do.

What would you have done?
Move her to a new team with more junior members so she can still feel like a leader still? That project will be less important than the project she is on. Does that matter?

Maybe they wanted to put her on a team with stronger senior leadership to help guide her.

Should they have moved the manager on and made her manager?

When I see comments like: belittled, insulted and ignored

The manager heard how she wanted to do the project and gave reasons why. She did not accept his leadership and kept bring up her point of view. At first he answered them but tiring of being undermined he gave less importance to what she was saying until just ignoring her. She rallied others to go against the manager and used that in her complaint.

Google took the issue serious and said we need to move her and her friend to another team. If the manager has similiar issues in the future they may let him go. If she has similiar issues on her new team the same might apply.

Internally she may not be asked to join as many teams. And he will be watched closely. Lose-lose
Found the guy who doesn't keep good accounting of his drug dealings while in prison.
Isn't the whole argument for Juul is that it's a smoking cessation device? Practically nobody starts smoking after college age, but there are a lot of 30+ people who became smoking addicts when they were young, and for them Juul is at the very least an option to get their nicotine fix without all the tar and worse negatives in cigarettes.
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> They're going to become privacy-compliant

I'm not so confident about this. At least, I haven't seen any serious efforts (or even proposals) from the industry in that direction.
Having just come into a .NET shop in the last couple months, having spent much time with Spring / Java the documentation and clarity of what to use is troublesome. I really expected Microsoft to have great documentation, but sadly I’ve not found it great.

So far I’ve done some WCF SOAP work, and an ASP.NET MVC 5 application. Figuring out what the latest frameworks and tools is a bit of legwork. Things aren’t always clear, and not always well integrated.

Figuring out authentication was not clear, whether to use Membership, Identity, where OWIN fit into the picture. If you need custom authentication finding details is hard. Ultimately I figured it out, but it’s clear as mud from a fresh eyes standpoint.

Then setting up DI, which container? Well I had Core DI available, figured that would be a good choice. Except I have to write a good bit of glue code to make it work.

I’m definitely enjoying C# as a language and the standard library. But the ecosystem is a bit clunky.
> "the church" in the dark ages

This isn't a thing and you should read more about what you think happened in this period of western history.
> Why aren't we going after these countries and demanding answers instead of going after the countries, like the US, that are actually doing something about it?

My hunch is most voters, and especially those with more money, are more interested in short-term economic gains than contributing to a problem that won't negatively impact them because they'll already be dead.
The TI-84 has a USB port, so a backpack case could easily enable Internet access to the phone, though having the TI-84 taking advantage of this access would be a bit harder.
Yeah, because prohibition always works so well.
I'm sorry this is wrong. Full disk encryption combined with locking said encryption on suspend secures a machine from trivial invasions of privacy while not in use or theft of the machine. Cron implementations and individual jobs can intelligently figure out how to handle missed jobs while the machine was off or suspended. Example doing the missed job once at some interval after resuming, doing it per runtime interval instead of per calendar interval, just doing the next scheduled interval.

Systemd has its own cron type implementation called timers and I'm sure it logically would work user jobs in at times the user is logged in, in the same way cron works around the fact that the user is sometimes suspended or off for indeterminate time frames.

In most cases it wont even have to. Most users machines have a lifecycle like this

POST 15 seconds
Optional FDE passphrase entry 10 seconds
Starting up 30 seconds to 2 minutes
User login 10 seconds
Operation some duration for hours to weeks
Shutdown

The encrypted and or logged out state are transitory states on the way to the machines single owner entering credentials to access the device and the machine is only in those states 0.001% of its lifecycle.

For people worried about substantial secrets as opposed to a thief stealing their personal data it may be wise to segregate THAT data on a separate encrypted volume that is only unlocked during use so that opening up your machine to watch cat videos on Youtube doesn't expose thousands of patient records or company secrets.

Cron is only incompatible with homedir encryption if your scheme relies on time sensitive things which effect things OFF your computer happening ON your machine which is powered on frequently enough but not logged in as you sufficiently to complete the tasks it must also require data on your home dir to complete.

I say it has to be factors that effect off computer items because otherwise the task can simply be done as soon as you log in.

I say it must require data on your home dir to complete else your system can be told to do it for you.

For the small number of cases where one might imagine a shared computer might be turned on enough but logged in as other users one can imagine ignoring homedir encyption and simply using FDE with multiple passphrases for individual users. This will necessarily be less secure as all users would be constrained by permissions by able to break into other users local data. At this point we have identified the use case that is actually incompatible.

Shared computers with privileged local data with mutually untrustworthy users on which users need to regularly run tasks which require access to user data regardless of who is logged in.

The logical solution to which is a server, segregation to be provided by different virtual machines if needed.
What'd they get you for?
Excellent way to show the weight of ads and trackers, very clean side by side comparison.
The average conspiracy theory is half-true
> Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?

This is like asking "Will there be a cure for chronic being-sick?" - this is meaningless. Chronic pain has innumerable possible causes. Suppressing the symptoms to stuff is not a cure.
Yes, every country must do its part.

No, the US is not "doing something about it" and it is clear from the article:

> For a time, US emissions continued to decline modestly despite the Trump administration’s environmental vandalism; the inexorable forces of the market meant that aging coal-fired power plants continued to be replaced by cheaper, cleaner, newer, and more efficient plants powered by natural gas and renewables. But growing carbon dioxide emissions due to industry and transportation have more than offset this progress, leading to an estimated 3.4 percent growth in US emissions in 2018.
It's actually pretty easy; I compile stuff on a mac, then run it on a Linux box regularly. Usually use Docker though.
Virtually anybody but Hollywood exec types love Netflix, particularly creatives (the people who actually DO the things). Netflix has been making enormous amounts of content, even for smaller markets like Spain and betting on great people who are making really good shows (see ‘casa de papel’)

If you are a creative person you are enthused about streaming because suddenly there’s a huge amount of content being funded. Think about standup comedy and what Netflix has done for it.

Netflix is run by very smart people who are making very good content that most Hollywood execs wouldn’t touch. Scorcese’s next film is being funded by them! It’s nuts that Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, multiple Scorsese projects were VERY HARD to fund. Jonah Hill worked essentially for the lowest money you can work for in a movie (SAG which is the actors union says 20k minimum) in Wolf of Wall St. Because they couldn’t afford him. Stuff that you look back and wonder “how the fuck?”
Completely agree.

I can’t figure it out though, they have some strict standards getting a license, red p’s for 12-24 months + 120 logbook hours, then green p’s where they are restricted to dangerous below highway speeds so have drivers aggressively overtaking them. Despite this, standards seem far lower than Europe.

The horn thing is really annoying, often the person being beeped can’t move forward anyway due to traffic across a junction and people are just being impatient but sometimes it’s the other way and people are just day dreaming at junctions when the light changeover is quick so you ha e to go.

It seems car first. Cross a road in Europe a car a few hundred meters down the road will back off the accelerator slightly when they see you and let you cross. Australia they see a pedestrian and will speed up as it’s their road and the light is green, they’ll speed up to the point they are deliberately trying to hit you.

Speed limits are annoying here. For such a big country it’s really difficult to travel big distance like you can in Europe or the US. Most people on the highway drive 100km/h as lots of police and the limit is 110. Also everyone will do 100km/h in the outside lane, inside lane doesn’t exist for most people as that’s where the p players are doing 90 and they are afraid of overtaking. It’s also odd as when you pass someone going well below the limit, a minute later they’ll aggressively speed up, fly past, then 5 minutes later they are slowed down and you are overtaking them again when you have kept a constant speed.

I’ve found driving in Northern Africa and Asia far less frustrating than Australia and those countries are bit of a free for all, especially Ho Chi Minh. It’s easier in those countries as no one follows any rules and you know that, AU being 50/50 you just have no idea what drivers are going to do and makes it harder to judge.
You can stop paying them to emit much of that any time you want, so don’t pretend there is nothing for the USA to do about Chinese emissions.
That's exactly how I found it as well. Brent has some really high quality bioinformatics libraries written in Nim, and supports them well.
*that we know about. There's a lot of people worried about long term effects and possibly even brain damage.
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This comment has me reconsidering this position:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053443
/u/cj specifically lamented the lack of pay-for-time, not pay-per-click. Of course you have to track to accurately reward on a pay-per-click basis - that's why pay-per-click is a shitty model.
The growing list of U.S. government inquiries into Big Tech
The Swedish bank (Riksbanken) disagrees:

https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-an...

High and growing household indebtedness continues to pose the greatest risk in the Swedish economy. To come to grips with the problems associated with household indebtedness, it is, above all, important that measures are taken within housing and tax policy. At the same time, there are structural vulnerabilities and risks linked to the banking system in Sweden. It is therefore important that the banks have sufficient capital and insure themselves against liquidity risks in different currencies. As the risks linked to international developments are assessed to be greater now than in the spring, it is even more important to manage the risks and vulnerabilities in the Swedish financial system.
It might not even cause retooling. They can hire someone else to run Chef for them.
Suppose I claim that some programming language achieves performance "as fast as C". Then, unless I very clearly and explicitly say otherwise, it will be assumed that if I write kinda-C-like code in that language I will get performance similar to comparable code actually written in C.

But that doesn't at all follow from compiling to C. I gave one example above; here's another. Perhaps my programming language has arbitrary-length integers and the C code it produces for a simple loop looks something like this:

bignum_t i = bignum_from_int(0);
bignum_t x = bignum_from_int(0);
while (i < bignum_from_int(1000000)) {
bignum_add_in_place(x, bignum_bitand(i, bignum_from_int(1)));
}

Corresponding code in "normal" C would use machine integers and the compiler might well be able to understand the loop well enough to eliminate it altogether. Code like the above would run much, much slower, despite being technically in C.
I said nothing of Western history and am familiar with the subject. Also, this is completely unrelated to my point so you will receive no further responses on it.
Except only including facts can still reinforce unfair bias. For example, it's true that there are more men than women in software engineering. Whether someone is a software engineer or not is a fact. If you have a "representative" dataset with only facts, then it's possible that an AI would have a higher chance as labeling men as software engineers than women, simply because it begins to associate masculine facial features with software engineering.

In my eyes, this result would reinforce unfair bias, and a thus well-designed AI should avoid this (i.e. with all else equal, a well-designed AI should suggest the label "software engineer" at the same rate for both men and women).
It's pretty easy to backup and move your home or any other directory now. If anything this actually makes such more complicated.

Incidentally you can already lose luks keys on suspend and reacquire them on resume now. Its called go-luks-suspend

https://github.com/guns/go-luks-suspend

It works as long as suspend does.
Facebook experimenting with AI-powered personal styling
This. And a milk frother/warmer.
> Yes, but often you have to contact the web site directly.

Gorsh, sure sounds hard to be a marketer. Sometimes you have to do some work.
> I know this is a cliché, but a fraud detection system cannot work transparently.

Then fraud detection system cannot work ethically.
Driving around in other countries and then coming back to Australia really opened my eyes to how aggressive (especially towards cyclists) the drivers are here.
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Minor typo on the website: "or to proof to others they should use an ad blocker" (should be "as proof" or "to prove").

Also, suggestion: don't require typing http:// or https://
The USA has double the carbon emission of china with only a fourth of the population. So per capita an average US citizen contributes 8 times as much to emission as an average Chinese citizen.
> donor tissue can be rejected because it contains hostile microorganisms

Citation? That sounds both convenient and implausible (medical science has a long way to go in many areas, but microscopy/microorganism detection is pretty far along).
If they opted for gnome it was going to be hard to avoid also picking systemd.
My dad has rheumatoid arthritis and is in constant pain. Even humeria doesn't help much.

Now I have started waking up in the morning with hands so stiff I can barely make a fist.

The pain doesnt bother me as much as the fear of being doped up on opioids. And the fact organ damage goes along with rheumatoid arthritis.

And to top it off every nut around you says weed or some diet will cure you. It's always cure not maintain or reduce but an outright cure.
>When I first started, I went from "never wrote an HTTP endpoint" to "wrote a secured HTTP endpoint that connects to my DB" in under 20 minutes.

You could have had the exact same experience with Heroku or many other similar products that have been around for almost a decade and a half--it has nothing to do with serverless.

>The sheer PITA of maintaining multiple environments and teaching build scripts what files to pull in on both my website and mobile app is enough work that I don't want to have to manage yet another set of build scripts. I don't want to spin up yet another set of VMs for each environment and handle replicating secrets across them. I just want a 30 line JS function with 0 state to get called now and then.

It sounds like your architecture is far too complicated if you're managing all this by yourself. You don't need "a set of VMs" per environment if you're a small start up.

>Everything will work and keep working pretty much forever, without me needing to touch it.

If you believe that, you haven't been doing this long enough.
Saying there is no Plan B kind of implies we have a Plan A, which we don't.
I just love the automatic / highly targeted ads that I get for products I have already bought. It doesn't matter if it is a low end consumer product or high end hardware I get a lot of ads for things I have already purchased right after buying them.
> Perhaps because they both have surveillance as part of their business models?

The majority of Microsoft and Amazon's revenue doesn't come from advertising. That was my point about Apple, which is, although their primary market is HW, they are getting into services, and they did have iAds, and they are exploring ads on the App Store.

Again, in MS's revenue breakdown, advertising is a rounding error. And Amazon purchaser of ads.
There is no excuse for hitting something unmoving, right in front of your vehicle, which has been there the whole time.

Vehicles can remain standing on a green for reasons like the engine having stalled, or there still being a pedestrian in front of them.

It is not comparable to doing something poorly considered for which there cannot be a good reason, like driving in someone's blindspot on the freeway for hundreds of meters, in low traffic.
There have been instances of kidney transplants between identical twins to withdraw immunosuppressants after some time.