skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have several drives in the same bay, you're going to get vibrations that severely reduce lifetime of the harddrive. NAS Drives also have much better electronics/mechanics to help them not crash all your data while in use. They won't try to heroically save that one sector and report to your RAID controller instead, meaning you get a much better overview of harddrive defects and lastly

Lastly, NAS Drives have a much lower error rate than Desktop drives due to the usage of higher quality heads that increase error resistance and lifetime.
No, but there is a whole class of errors related to UB, memory corruption and data conversions that just by avoiding C will never happen.

You don't even need Rust, Algol 68 would be enough.
Dollar Shave Club seems like an obscenely over-engineered solution when safety razor blades cost $0.12 each, and a pack of 100 blades easily lasts for 1-2 years and fits anywhere.

Shaving is not a new problem.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-coyote-f...

> Record numbers of coyotes have moved into the city in recent years.
Why contribute to a society that doesn't care about you?

It's a feedback loop.
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Link to deposition source doc?
I run a small company that primarily designs and sells hardware (data radios), but we need to focus more energy higher up the stack. I would be happy to talk; we work out of mHub at Halsted and Chicago.
Excellent point -- our brains and deep networks seem to learn a kind of "fuzzy geometry" that is in some ways more robust than numerically correct geometry, and this also allows us to spend more cycles on higher-level abstractions.
I have been wanting to do this for literally years now, but I don't think I could convince the vast majority of my friends to move onto anything together, let alone Signal. Most of them are non-technical, and it just holds no appeal. Plus, because they would basically just be installing it just to talk to me, they would probably nearly never be online or check their messages, so I'd almost never get to talk to them again.

I basically don't use Facebook (the website), but I am still stuck using their Messenger for communication with most of my friends. That said, Facebook's events system is still the best that I've seen. If it was stand-alone, I would probably delete the rest of FB, and just keep that part. Nothing else on Facebook adds any value to my experience. Nothing you need to be logged in for, at least.
The original script mechanic was that the machines used human brains to run the Matrix, hence why some people are able to influence it.
It's not possible to write a C compiler that guarantees what Rust guarantees. There are just too many implicit assumptions about pointers. Even if you check most cases, weird stuff like XOR linked lists will trip you up. (And sure, if you changed the language you could make it safe -- but then it wouldn't be C anymore.)
>my air

I laughed.
It sounds like Ops want all the control but to do none of the work? Maintaining scripts like this is there job.
> As a reference, Walmart is largest company in the world by revenue at $438B. Apple $233B.

Weird that the catchcry for one is selling the cheapest crap possible, and the catchcry for the other is premium blend, no discounts. What about us poor folks in the middle? :)
Wish Canada did something like startup chile .. I'd move and do a startup in a heartbeat.
I'm currently in Las Vegas, and I was struck once again with the realization about how big the place is. The airport is huge, the streets are huge, the buildings are huge. And, it's all air conditioned.

Power here is cheap, but getting from point A to point B takes time.

If we could figure out a way for an individual to "waste" time on getting from point A authentication to point B authentication, then we'd have a way to prevent these types of issues from occurring. Or, make them heat up and have to stop to cool down, as it were.

As it stands, identity on the Internet is completely broken, and the idea of a federated Internet is just a twinkle in Google and Jeff Bezos' eyes.
In many circles atheists are the new niggers and fags. (Secular) humanists might not be the phrase you like, but it doesn't surprise me at all that people want to avoid identifying as that word.
Louis CK has a great bit about going into negative dollars when his bank charged him a fee for not having enough money. "Now I have negative ten dollars. I gotta raise ten dollars just to be broke. If something's free, I can't afford it!"
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When Neo disconnected, the machines just dumped him for recycling. That is consistent with the machines eliminating humans who develop connection problems (mental disconnect with the Matrix), but it still doesn't account for the humans' bodies being grown and maintained in a nearly functional state.

What really bugged me about their scheme, was the suggestion that a human might make a decent power source. Perhaps that was all misdirection, and the humans are actually the computing substrate of the entire system? Maybe the machines were never able to compute at the power efficiency of a human brain? Maybe they suck at nanotech altogether, and can't even design a decent microchip without human assistance? All their stuff is big and bulky.

(5 minutes later) Lol, I can't believe I guessed it. Thanks to deegles for the background info.
The majority of seats sold in Europe are now one-way / singles, due to the rise of low-cost carriers which don't offer anything else.

However it's still a good idea to book each individual flight in a different transaction. Avoids any shennanigans on the airline's part for no-shows and there's no downside for the passenger other than a slightly longer booking process.
I read they can only ask one question because there was no proof the conversation occurred except for him saying it happened. the judge was being lenient allowing one question.
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I have no friends.
What's wrong with strong config and deploy primitives + containers?
Each CUDA core can tackle approximately one FLOP per cycle, while a CPU core can tackle approximately 16 FLOPs per cycle. Given that there are usually at least 6 cores on a chip, and that reaching full utilization is difficult on a GPU, I dont' think ~20X is too shabby.

Also more importantly, the efficiency goes up dramatically, which is usually infinitely more important than the raw performance.
A non-profit simply means that it cannot hold money from one year to the next. To achieve that, a "non-profit" could give millions as executive compensation or contract inefficiently to for-profit "partners" who collect the gains. Not saying Telegram is doing that, but the structure shouldn't be adding to a vote of confidence in any way.
NASA: “Mankind is about to discover extraterrestrial life”
I think he meant unisex bathrooms without stalls. That is each bathroom contains its own toilet and sink and there is a normal door you can close to it without any gaps. Every office and every school outside of US I have been to have had those.

Personally I think it is really strange that people who earn six figures still has to shit next to each other with almost no privacy.
> terrible "wilderness years" of server templates

wat.
Eh, Amdahl's law usually isn't all too applicable to highly parallelizable tasks, check out Gustafson's Law for a more modern perspective on the parallelization paradox, courtesy of supercomputers being forced to parallelize.
As far as I understand it, the first two of these problems, you could theoretically fix (to some extent) yourself.

If you share nothing in common with your high school friends, your family etc., just don't be 'friends' with them. Only friend/like pages related to your interest.

In theory, that would fix problem 2 as well, to some extent, because the majority of the junk that fills your feed comes from your twice-removed aunt who 'likes' every video she sees and reposting every click-bait article she can find.

Unfortunately, if that all worked as planned, that would probably cause your feed to be flood with way more ads, to make up for the lack of content. But at least they might be more targeted?
>Am I the only one getting heebie-jeebies over the prospect of drones being used for purposes of terrorism?

Doubtful, given how terrorism is the current bogeyman being used to push irrational fear upon those that can't think critically and/or don't understand statistics and probability.

Where do you live that you're so scared of everything? Were you always so afraid or do you think media/propaganda/disinformation have conditioned you? Not trolling here, just genuinely curious as to why terrorism is part of your threat model...
This is a good observation. My personal opinion is that using many smaller networks as components of a larger, manually engineered system could be a fruitful approach for these complex problems.

End-to-end deep learning is the holy grail -- and may ultimately happen -- but I don't think computation in silicon semiconductors is going to cut it, and we don't yet know what the next computational substrate will be.

Did you use a smallish convolutional model for extracting pole position, orientation, and radius from image data, or another approach?
Needs updating including links to Dennis Ritchie's pages.
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If anyone's thinking about coming, pls post about your startup.
I'll be your friend.

I see we have the same phone. We have things in common already!
Hmm, I agree that your point about social networks distancing you from your community is true in the United States. In Mexico, on the other hand, a huge amount of community information is passed through FB and WhatsApp groups. No matter what activity you are involved in, from mountain biking to the city dog park, there's a very active WhatsApp group and a FB page. It feels like how social networks were meant to be.
I feel that you are vastly underestimating the amount of, and variety of work required in this kind of endeavour. Apollo annually took ~1% of the GDP of the United States to get off the ground. And most of the people who worked on it were not astronauts or rocket surgeons.
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This seems like a perfect thread to ask a question that is itching me for some time. Is anyone aware of deep learning approaches or some combo with geometry algorithms for mesh generation? Something like quad, hex or tetrahedral meshing aided with deep learning?
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It's amazing to me how normalized these accomplishments has become. Humanity didn't master rocketry until the mid-20th century, and now we regularly have robotic vehicles flying around other planets (and sending photos to us).

Perhaps it's an example of how humans naturally notice only change. This is just more of the same, I suppose.

And we also hear how incompetent and inefficient NASA and the whole U.S. government are. They certainly could improve but they also just flew a craft around Saturn, for 12 years. What was it that you were working on again?
> I'm getting kind of sick of this "deep learning is a black box" trope, because it's really not true anymore.

That's fair/probably true.

I think there's two things that drive that--one, lack of a widely shared deep understanding of the field[0] (and not really needing a deep understanding to get good results--as both you and the author pointed out), and two, the fact that it feels like cheating, compared to the old ways of doing things. :P

[0] When the advice on getting a basic understanding is "read a textbook, then read the last 5 years of papers so that you aren't hopelessly behind", there just isn't going to be widespread understanding.
The gamification-sounding element of accumulating "Network Points" is pretty entertaining. Aside from that, providing $AUD100K without taking equity is nice - as long as the process of farming the government isn't so complex that your startup lives to regret it...
I have only superficial experience, but the biggest benefit of typescript over flow is the tooling. It is easy to setup, with transpiling, JSX, linting, webpack loader all bundled together, while with flow you have setup a lot of different components yourself, which may not interact well with each other.
Overt meaning publishing our narcissism uncensored, rather than acknowledging that we're naturally concerned with our outward appearance and status but see the value in balancing it with some modesty lest life become a silopsist shitshow.

You could argue that a painting, while expensive, is less overt in a spatial sense than making images of yourself available to practically any person in any location at any time. It's multi-dimensional vanity repeated ad nauseam because it costs practically nothing. Paintings are limited to specific times and locations in space-time.
> As far as I understand it, the first two of these problems, you could theoretically fix (to some extent) yourself.

How will the average person fix that? I assume you are talking about an ad blocker? Then it only get's rid of the side ads. It does not get rid of the junk in the main feed. Even training the system won't get you the result you desire.

> If you share nothing in common with your high school friends, your family etc., just don't be 'friends' with them. Only friend/like pages related to your interest.

That is not what Facebook is about. You only add people you've met at some point in real-life. You can't do what you are suggesting because Facebook works on real identities. People are afraid to friend people they don't know because it is almost like a 2nd identity card in a way.

You are right about Facebook Pages but I think the early 2010-2012 brand push by Facebook really ruined that product. Secondly, a Facebook Page is more of an entity. It is not tied to you. I can make a profile on Instagram called "outdoors_guy" and it is my handle and all the people are following me and my life. A Facebook page doesn't capture that.
Yes I figured you would come back with something about what a "true" author is or what is "truly" creative. My words, not yours, but your reply is in that spirit.

If your basic point is that people underestimate the potential for creativity by future AIs / programs / whatever we call them, I think you're right that this underestimation is still happening, even though we have had creative tools for many years doing way more than, as Picasso put it, only giving answers.
Liberals who genuinely have principles are doing productive things, not writing blog posts with all the hip liberal keywords shoehorned in. Zealots? A _despotic regime_? I'm no Trump defender but those descriptors are either intentional hyperbole (ie: virtue signaling), or the author truly has no idea what they mean in the context of world history (which I find impossible to believe).
You could unfollow everyone. i did this a few months back and haven't missed it at all. way less distraction.
"Are you trying to argue that keeping coal plants and shutting down nuclear plants is a good idea?"

Nope. I'm arguing that shutting down both is a good idea - which is why Germany is shutting coal plants too:

https://energytransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/germ...

So... straw man?

"Actually you are wrong - NOTHING can be made 100% safe."

I'm pretty sure my implication of "acceptably safe" was fairly clear.

So... another straw man.
The andrewclunn character has some spiky opinions and a sometimes edgy tone, but certainly doesn't appear to sabotage any discussions here, give or take the odd misplaced facetious comment. More than once, he has initiated long perfectly readable subthreads, meaning his input has got someone thinking. So here's my one worthless vote to reinstate him ASAP.
...and, crickets. I'm starting to suspect the authors know it would make them look bad to reveal what the three suggestions were.
Or if you don't shave every day, and have a wimpy beard to begin with, that box of 100 might last (lemmee see...carry the one...) about 5 years. I think that's when I bought that box for $30 off Amazon.

In other words, I, too, do not think about buying razor blades. At least more than every five years or so. And when I reach into that long cardboard tube only to find it empty of fresh blades, Amazon will have another five year supply at my door in two days. Six bucks a year: I'll bet it costs DSC more than that just in postage.
I think the OP was talking about different VMs behind a load balancer where there is no shared memory at all.
Well, threads also switch context.
what ? If you don't live in Canada why would you want to the grant to be there ?
You're either "aspirational", meaning that you shoot for the expensive Apple products rather than a simple run of the mill PC for status reasons, or you're "thrifty", meaning that since you've blown most of your cash on a few aspirational products, you can only afford Walmart for anything else you want to buy.

Yes, I'm being a bit glib, but there's some truth in that analysis. People in the middle do try to buy some higher end goods in areas they want to signal status on... they do so selectively, but if they can afford it and its a product that makes a desired statement, they go for it. An Apple product that a billionaire would typically buy is often the same model that a middle income earner can buy, yet everyone knows they aren't the cheapest things around. On the other hand, if you're buying expensive in one area, you're also probably buying cheap in other areas, so Walmart, Ross, etc. are on the table for the middle earner as well.

For middle of the road price/products there's less prestige so you don't get that and there's can be debatable quality difference... so... the appeal can be less for something middling.
That's what Advanced Scientific Concepts uses in their high-end LIDAR units. That gets them the sensitivity needed for flash LIDAR with hundreds of meter range.
There are people talking about doing the same job with CMOS technology, and that may well happen, but I don't think the CMOS people have comparable sensitivity yet. Fraunhofer is working on it.[1]

[1] http://www.ait.ac.at/fileadmin/mc/digital_safety_security/do...
wow, having recently moved to nsw that is very interesting.
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Is multithreading really necessary for a toy?
Those raw images are mind blowing. Kerbal Space Program isn't too far off. :)

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGF...
I have had and have two issues in my village especially for poor.

1. Keeping the toilet in home, this is no issue(99% of my village is fine with it)but having exhaust and running it is still an issue
2. Running water with pipe , if you ask a must if you need good toilet. A big issue for 6 months in our village so able people built storage tank , pump up water when water comes in pipe from village tank but for the ones who keep in vessels , it is big issue
3. Space for septic tank, in many plots house is built on full land available to them so no more space for septic tank
4. Last but not least, if you have issue septic there is not a possibility to clean like in city using that special lorry that come with pump and tank

If govt can do something about 2/3/4 then it is possible to have more toilets.
Martha Stewart went to jail for making ~$400,000 in insider trading, a far less serious offense.
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The thing is, in C++ you have to explicitly write noexcept for that to happen.

If you use optional<T> you have to explicitly write that, and turning off exceptions means you don't have to write noexcept everywhere.
A note about nix: I've found the language to be very obtuse and the documentation out of date and fragmented. However the worst sin has been the attitude of several community members: insulting new developers, ignoring valid questions, and self-promotion at the expense of civility. I love the idea behind the system and like most of the community, but the very vocal jerks really put me off.
Haha, that did sound a bit funny.

I'm happy to share my air with non-smokers though. Everyone else needs to get their own.
Exceptions are typically faster than error codes when errors are rare.
7% margin on online retail seems pretty high
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If it is 'security theater', or alternatively just a tempest in a teacup, doing nothing would be a perfectly fine alternative, at least for the time being.
The big difference between WhatsApp and Dropbox is mass storage of customer data. Scaling that data for random access is orders of magnitude harder to scale than simple message throughput without storage. The fact that WhatsApp is end-to-end with no syncing also makes it's feature-set easier to implement.

Not to take anything away from WhatsApp, I'm sure they have a few lessons Dropbox could have learned from (Erlang more robust than Python at scale?), but it's really not a fair comparison.
Sounds like they're buying the time of an already successful startup in the hopes that their hard work will "rub off" on the rest of the community.
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Of course it's offensive, look at how many ethnicities and genders were left out.

How are us fat white slobs supposed to improve without any positive role models in the media?
Supply and demand is bullshit - a just-so story used to "explain" unhelpful economic outcomes to the victims of those outcomes.

Neither supply nor demand are objectively or scientifically measurable.

They're psychological and political positions, and both are reliably manipulated in all kinds of outrageous ways.

Most of the time the pricing signals you get from a market haven't just been filtered through these processes, they've been defined by them.
> I mean... you could have just called it a ref. ref T instead of &T. And then just ref(foo) or foo.ref to get a ref to foo.

Ugh, no. There are references all over the place when I write Rust code -- it would be a serious bummer for me if annotating those types and making those references took up 4 characters for "ref " instead of just the 1 for &.
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I just had a quick scan over the licenses of other projects used for server side projects. Projects using BSD/MIT include Node, Go, Rails, Django, and Flask.

I'm happy with the choice.
Just saw this. It's a cross between "1984" and "Silicon Valley". The book version has a better plot.
It's so nice to see such rare and nuanced discussion on HN, declaring that one has deleted their Facebook account; a refreshing and entirely not beat to death reminder indeed.
Ah yes, always good to know that what keeps these self-described freedom crusaders from having people murdered is that they might get caught, not you know, the idea that it's wrong.
I just ordered an XL last month and got it in 2 weeks. The blue option was out when I went to order, but maybe they got some of the logistics worked out
I'd love to see an FB replacement with just groups and events. All the rest is just noise to me, but I guess it's hard to get a viable userbase without the fluffier features of FB. And of course there's the whole problem of everyone already using FB.

Ideally, it'd be federated, perhaps an extension of GNU Social, but wishes ain't horses...