skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[Same here]

From what I remember, the energy released by γ-radiation is quite low. I'm still not convinced that just because something emits γ-radiation, short or long half life, it has an inherently meaningful energy potential. α- and β-radiation: sure. But γ? It's harmful to humans for very different reasons than fissile material is a useful energy source, isn't it?

Or am I completely misremembering this all?
I'm sorry to hear that. GitLab Enterprise Edition should scale fine to 100,000's of users. Are you in touch with our support about this?
If 5 billion people are on the planet and 10% are in poverty, its probably better to be that 10% (trending downward) than it would be if you had 1 billion people at 40% poverty (trending flat).
It didn't"destroy a nation" though which was the point made they are responding to.
I agree, and hope that them being beholden to more investor money won't screw up the great medium for conversation that lots of subreddits currently are.
>> name forgotten

SEPA?
>content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people

The reasons I left Digg for Reddit were the information density and the ease of rapid browsing. Eliminating those in favor of "cards" is incredibly short-sighted.
Count me in when you launch an ICO.
I completely understand where you're coming from but you can't just take nuclear energy in a vacuum. Of course if the alternative was between nuclear power plants and the miracle energy drive which runs on dreams and produces terrawatts without any risks and any pollution then there's no question.

But that's not the world we live in. Today we have renewable energy, which is promising but not yet ready to be our sole source of energy. Then we have fossil energy which wrecks our climate at an alarming pace. Then we have nuclear which has its own set of problems but at least won't contribute to global warming.

Sure it's a tragedy that Pripyat and Fukushima are now unlivable and will remain so for a long, long time. But global warming will probably make entire continent-sized stretches of land effectively unlivable. That's what you should be pitting nuclear reactors against.
Well sure, but as an architect/CTO I do not care about trendy, I care only about properly working, easy to develop and maintain and wildly used so I can hire for. Elm is none of these at the moment, but React is.
Drones: Flight in 3d open space is not a hard problem for machine learning.
Indiscriminate Visual Targeting: Not all that hard a problem for machine learning.

Downvote me if you will, but I freely admit that I am scared of drones with guns. Either as an invading force, or as an attack from terrorists. A machine doesn't have to be smart to shoot at anything that moves or has a heat signature.

Edit: Drones with chainsaws however are just plain badass (and potentially useful for tree trimming).
Anyone have any knowledge of what specifically happened?
Cool! Does it enforce third-party libraries as well?
A thing that typescript and/or flow doesn't support, is JSON. What if a JSON object doesn't match the type? This can cause sneaky bugs later :/

I'm not saying that typescript/flow is bad. Whenever I have to use node.js, I end up using typescript. But I've been bitten several times by the fact that typescript isn't as strict as Elm forces things to be.
Most predictions never come true and those which do are often never predicted. The fear of AI is overblown at this point and a prediction of strong AI in 2300 is way to far into the future to be of any use for today's society.
> if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet.

Sorry, but this is unfair :) I remember the early days of Gitlab, before they added all the insanely cool features they have now, when they were just a Github opensource copycat. My thought at the time was : "wow, github is super cool to let them go. At least the almost exact design copy could be a legal problem". Clearly, we would have heard about Github vs Gitlab back then, if Github wanted to lock people in.
Thanks for this inside. My personal believe is that I need to overcome personal feelings because I want to make a big buck, but not everybody thinks like that. The personal view of oneself can be a much stronger force.
Sneaky attacks trick AIs into seeing or hearing what’s not there
Thank you for mentioning Donut! I have never heard of this app, but I have certainly heard of this concept. I think DHH or one of the other keynote speakers at RailsConf were talking about this. They built it for their company, and put all kinds of thought into the weird questions that could make a platform like this awkward, like "what if there are an odd number of people this week" and "how do you make sure that a tuple is not repeated too frequently but stay mostly random"

Do you mind sharing a little bit about your experience with Donut? I'm sure they have paid attention to these things if it's the focus of the whole company. I'm on board with the concept, I'm looking for specific feedback on I guess Donut's implementation before I try introducing this or something like it at my org.

I guess "Haven't noticed any issues" would be fine too. It seems like a pretty simple idea and hard to do wrong, but sometimes when you try things you find out...
deadman switch?
>> IE It's not "better" when they sell it to someone who isn't Google

It's better in the sense that those companies can probably do much less with purchase histories than Google as they have less total information on me (whereas Google has email, web history, photos, etc. if I allow them).
At GitLab.com we're not seeing an increase in usage: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiz2h7tdnownvfl/Screenshot%202017-...

From http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh...

But of course it is hard to mirror your repo to GitLab.com when GitHub.com is down, so maybe other sites are a better measure.
Keep up the great work! All my side projects are in Elixir/Phoenix now in great part thanks to this site!
Other 3D printing technologies is already well into this territory. I've used companies like Sculpteo and Xometry numerous times for professional 3D printed parts in various technologies (mostly SLS nylon). The per unit cost is more than having a Makerbot running in an office, but the quality is way better. Even for FDM sometimes I prefer to have someone else make the part.

I can imagine those companies buying these machines and passing on the cost savings -- I would definitely start to think about using it instead of CNC.
Can anyone link the actual study? Tried following the links but got blocked by a log-in wall to see the actual study.

Was there a control for the study? What were the questions asked? And how can they draw any conclusions from a group of 170 students (which I am assuming is their study group, unless the paper says otherwise).

It could also be that young people are being asked to do more with less compensations and hardly any positive re-assurance about future stability (jobs, income, housing).
It's going to be politicized no matter what. Stop spanking humans for having human nature and lecturing them about being more rational. Politicians have to consider perception or they get voted out. It's just a technology that freaks people out on an emotional level and you can't stop that.
For me it was that the keys actually rattled if you ran your fingers over them, that would drive me crazy, with the backlight on the spacings where all over the place because they moved around so much and the typing experience was sub-optimal, if the XPS15 had had the keyboard on the 7560 I'd have bought it there and then.

The 7560 was a nice looking/nice spec machine at 950 but the damn chassis bent just from opening and closing the lid in the first day.

Dell can make good machines but mostly by luck I think sometimes.

My current Laptop is an old Vostro 3750 I paid 500 quid for new (stacked discounts on the Dell site) and it has a better keyboard after 5 years of abuse.

Damn thing just won't die.
In many cases the programmer could not have made the decisions. For example, AlphaGo programmers could not win against top go professionals, but AlphaGo can.

With a simple model like credit score it's easy to see which input affects which output in which direction. You're late on your mortgage - your FICO score drops. But this is just one neuron. Make the model a little more complex, and you no longer have a way to know what exactly it is doing.
"While there are some databases at Facebook that will still use InnoDB, we're in the process of migrating to MyRocks on our user database (UDB) tier"

So, still impressive to me. That custom storage engine is just for the "user database" tier. Given their user count, that doesn't seem unreasonable.
Not shown in the graph: Hydroelectric, which conjures up images of beautiful dams, rather than the hundreds of thousands of people who die at once when it fails.
This. Conservation of energy/matter applies. If there's a lot of energy output and a fixed amount of input the duration must be small. You can visit the Chernobyl exclusion zone. You just can't spend a good chunk of your life there there.

I'd be totally for "Yucca Mountain OHV park"
They should have known better - not to click on a link in an email. This is absolutely basic.
I anticipate Giphy Movie to be released on our lifespan.
Just because people "see it differently" doesn't mean that the statistics behind it are flawed…
Another technical consideration would be to have grid-based scanning of the LEDs. That is you have some sort of row output, one row at a time, and the columns are multiple parallel outputs. This inherently pulses the LEDs as the rows aren't all lit simultaneously. The persistence-of-vision effect is a great side effect and can be capitalized on. The grid is best for limiting the number of wires to access a substantial number of LEDs (like 16 or so) in a group. I don't think a grid for the turn signals of a car would be a great idea, at least not at the level of the individual turn signal diodes. Perhaps within a single corner's turn signal assembly.
And 78 > 76, in favor of Nvidia. But they don't list average or 99%ile performance, and manufacturer-provided benchmarks are notoriously biased, so we'll have to wait and see the independent reviews before anyone can claim performance superiority.
Sorry to hear you're having trouble scaling GitLab. We have many organizations running GitLab and successfully scaling to 10's of thousands of users, and GitLab.com which is the largest GitLab installation. As a GitLab Enterprise customer our support team is happy to help you review your scaling problems and resolve them. Please submit a support request at https://support.gitlab.com.
A great one is http://sqitch.org
The biggest hurdle I constantly face is in aligning my local team to be vary of remote teams. Somehow they tend to become impatient when remote folks have lots of questions.
That's our chart of backend sessions / sec for GitLab.com [1].
There's also a chart for frontend sessions [2], please keep in mind that there's a lot of CI / bot sessions on these dashboards. In addition to that there's much other interesting info on our HAProxy Grafana dashboard [3]. In case anyone's interested in even more metrics, there's a bunch of interesting dashboards on our Grafana instance [4].

[1] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh...

[2] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh...

[3] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats

[4] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/?orgId=1
I keep meaning to dig into Fossil (SQLite's VCS/Project Management system), but I have no faith I could convince a team to use it.

Another model to look at is Trac, which had pretty extensive integration with SVN and integrated (ie, cross-linked) issue tracking and wiki, and stored all the data and change history in a svn repository.
A neural network that generates quotes about love
Your criticism of company is one thing but thinking that they are not lasting longer than 6 months is a complete oversight on your part of how dominant they are in market or how many new markets they are trying to enter. No one cares about their management troubles outside silicon valley and rightly so. Consumers care about product and convenience . I agree with the part that they should aim for competent candidate not female candidate but thinking they are not making it into 2019 is just laughable.
Arguably, this is just another form of "legal" voter suppression.

An employer cannot legally fire a person for taking time off to vote, or to attend jury duty. That doesn't mean they don't, it just means they can't do so legally.

But if you are someone who depends on that job (such that you can't just go out and find another), losing that job because you voted is something you're going to weigh, and regardless of how you vote (though typically - at least historically, notwithstanding our last election - those on the lower-end of the economic scale vote for Democrats), you are more likely to want to keep your job to pay for rent and food, than to vote.

Furthermore, even if your principles matter more to you than your job, if you do get fired, you aren't likely to then go thru the process of taking your former employer to court for firing you (because that would mean more time and expense away from finding another job).

Heck - the employer may not even need to break any laws, just make implicit threats as to what will happen should an employee take time off without consent of the employer, while neglecting to tell the employee about their voting rights (and nobody reads those employee rights posters in the breakroom either). Even though such threats aren't arguably legal either, nobody is going to fight against them because again - that means loss of job and money to pay rent.
> It is not backed by the full faith and credit of a stable entity like the US government

"Backed by faith" doesn't exactly inspire my confidence, and the US government is unhinged.
Ah, but why is it more efficient? Sure, there's some energy savings, but not that much. The main reason is having fewer drivers per passenger. But when there are no drivers, that doesn't apply.
Cybo Dash: a new kind of addictive
Car parts, computer cases (built-in heatsinks), rock climbing gear (not sure printed metal is strong enough for this one), sculptures, gun receivers (again, there are strength problems), matching door knobs and faucets for houses, prosthetic frames (to be later encased in silicone)... I'm sure there's more.
How do you optimize happiness for all people?
I think Reddit is on track to becoming hugely successful and completely irrelevant.
I would consider using it anywhere I would be looking at CNC-ed metal, especially for one off parts/prototypes. A lot of the cost of CNC is programming and fixturing, which 3D printing technologies save.
I believe wind and solar are the best solutions for our future. But many concerns mentioned in this thread are becoming irrelevant in the face of emerging nuclear storage technology.

For example, the pebble bed reactor system eliminates the risk of a meltdown by no longer storing spent fuel in rods; it also makes the process for extracting fuel significantly more efficient. Presently we can only extract about 4% of energy contained in nuclear materials, with a PBR system the "pebbles" stay in circulation for longer, meaning we can extract more energy and pursue new designs that could ingratiate these systems into our cities without the catastrophic risks we face today.

The more people focus on this technology, the better it will get. But we can't improve if we don't try.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
HBO cyber attack leads to leaked upcoming episodes
> There are very obvious steps that could be taken to solve both counting time and voter turnout as well as suppression.

But when the party in power counts on that low turnout due to suppression in order to remain in power, do you really think they will do anything about it during their time in power?
HUD on ebay is like $20, works off OBDII port.
Github is back online.
> Maintner is short for "Maintainer"...the name of the daemon that serves the maintner data to other tools is "maintnerd".

Nice work! But as is custom on HN, I'll bikeshed on the name instead of delving into the contents of the tool. Why shorten the word by just 2 letters? Is there something special about the tooling that makes 8-letter projects more desirable than 10-letter projects, or is it linked to the removal of Artificial Intelligence from the process? I'd personally mis-type that name all the time.
You bring up the problem so many of us have with discussing issues at the micro level. I see the discussion of AI follow similar lines as the GMO debate. We often don't ask ourselves how these technologies play a part in a more larger system that appears to reward the concentration of power and Technics. Instead of asking ourselves if these things are innately good I feel that we ought to be asking ourselves what problems are we attempting to solve and how these technologies can affect those changes and if they are the best solutions.
I've had the XPS 9560 since February. I mostly run Fedora (26), but have also run Solus and various versions of Ubuntu. I have a Windows 10 install which I use for Photoshop, Lightroom, and some mobile gaming.

Specifically, the version I have comes with a i7 7700HQ, 32GB RAM, 1TB SDD and 4K screen.

Hardware wise, the laptop is lovely, and the build quality of mine is good, although it hasn't been perfect as I'll get to later. The screen is honestly the best I've ever used, although I do sometimes notice ghosting due to slow response times, I understand in that regard it's comparable to the retina displays used in MBPs.

Performance wise, the hardware speaks for itself. It's a very powerful machine. I haven't experienced any of the lag or video issues that others are reporting. It'll happily play games and crunch whatever data you throw at it, without any thermal issues.

My model was a very early version, and came with which I can only describe as a mushy keyboard which often did not register key-presses. I contacted Dell support, who after a short over the phone test, agreed it was not satisfactory and arranged for an engineer to be at my house the next day to replace the keyboard. This fixed the issue, and the keyboard has been fine ever since. Compared to the new MBP keyboards, I much prefer the 9560 due to the extra travel.

I've also had the GPU fan replaced due to it developing a grinding noise. Again, after a short phone call, Dell agreed to send an engineer to replace the fan the next day. The issue has since re-appeared, and although it's not a critical issue, I'll be getting Dell to replace the fan again. This does seem like a somewhat common issue, although I can't find any recent reports which would hopefully suggest it has been fixed on the manufacturing side. On the topic of noise, my particular machine has no coil-whine.

The webcam position is frankly bad. It's not an issue for me personally, but I do tend to place the laptop somewhere higher if I'm doing a video call - I can't be trimming my noise hair for every call I do.

I did try macOS on the 9560, as a bit of fun more than anything else, and it seemed to be usable after some effort. However I generally dislike macOS, so I'm back to using Fedora 26 which runs perfectly. Some older apps have slight scaling issues with the 4k screen, however nothing has proven to be unusable (yet). I haven't had any issues running a clean version of Windows either.

Overall, I'm very happy with the 9560.
https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...
You can find stuff in between ($150-250 1x GPU) but no, $35 + windows + no cc = no.

Keep in mind the windows licence is already 75-200% ofyour monthly budget. Run it in Linux if you can, better CUDA/etc support too
You still need to provide base load capacity. Wind and Solar can't do that. Hydroelectric can, but can't be put everywhere and has its own environmental impact story.

Grid-scale storage is one possibility, but more work needs to be done to make it viable. For technologies that exist today, nuclear looks the best for base load capacity.
Probably true, though for what its worth OSHA[0] (yeah yeah "nanny state" and all) dictates pretty clearly the federal obligations on training and equipping roof workers with full body harnesses, lanyards, and proper anchorage points to effectively eliminate fall related injuries. Whether or not the employe(e|r) adheres to these regulations[1] is another issue, but the risk can effectively be mitigated almost entirely (the "total fall distance" is to be no more than 6 feet with a safety factor to the ground of no less than 3 feet)[2].

RE: Grandparent - the production of solar panels isn't as "green" as you may think. See: IEEE[3].

RE: Wind - The standard horizontal-axis blade design (i.e. what Siemens and other major commercial institutions offer) have ecological impacts on wildlife[4].

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[0] Forgive the US centric analysis.

[1] I.e., cell-tower deaths are notorious for these sorts of violations -- both due to the endemic sub-sub-sub-contracting strategy that Verizon, et al, uses to distance themselves from the bad PR and litigation, as well as the employee these jobs tend to attract (risk takers/adrenaline junkies) who, even if given the proper gear will neglect to use it often due to machismo. Following full protocol, the injury risk decreases quite notably.

[2] https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3755.pdf

[3] http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-... Rare earth metals, processing with hydrofluoric acid, all the usual suspects one would expect. And this isn't a Koch-brothers funded gas/oil funded piece of propaganda. For goodness sakes, this is the IEEE -- about as pro-green (while keeping the science legitimate) as you can get.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_p... - Just playing devils advocate here, offshore wind is basically the closest to a panacea IMO. There are events where 100% of the Dutch utility grid is powered entirely by their offshore wind. Their trains are 100% 'green' too
(see: https://futurism.com/all-dutch-trains-now-run-on-100-wind-po...)
It's not so much that writing decoders is hard it's that writing robust parsers without applicative is quite laborious, once you're used to having them.
This may bring the per part costs closer to what prototyping costs come in at for CNC machining or Metal Injection Molding.

I don't see this being used with a lot of exotic materials yet, but for stainless steel this is great.
So we should regulate AI to slow advancements and let other countries take the lead? Would you rather be taken over by China's general AI or the USA's?
Hard to say...they were charged with both wire fraud and "hacking" (CFAA).

The EFF said this, so they seem to agree that it set a bad precedent, even for those just scraping.

"Under the government's theory, anyone who disregards – or doesn't read – the terms of service on any website could face computer crime charges," said EFF civil liberties director Jennifer Granick in a press release at the time. "Price-comparison services, social network aggregators and users who skim a few years off their ages could all be criminals if the government prevails."
US Census Population Clock
> I wouldn't trivialize the reliable detection of people, especially small children.

A fairly simple weight sensor as used for passenger seat belt alarms would seem likely to work (it's a little more complicated because you need to zero it for the weight of the child seat.) You'll get false positives if you carry goods on that seat, but if you have an installed child seat you are unlikely to do that.

The notification aspect is probably harder to get right than the sensor. Though an internally audible alarm and warning light for a short period when turning off the car with a detected child would probably itself be a big help to prevent the initial problem rather than reacting to it the way “call the owner and then the police” mechanisms do, plus be far simpler to implement.
I met him once in New York, a very humble person.