skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll say this here. Because IDGAF.

I worked at a call center. We had an hour for lunch. I had it timed down to a science. I could drive home, even in severe winter conditions, get up to my apartment, and queue up an episode of American Dad on Netflix. I had exactly the amount of run time of that episode at home for lunch, and I would smoke at least two bowls from my water pipe. If the morning had been especially hectic with angry customers, I'd hit it harder.

I'd walk back in to work with 10 minutes to spare. Sit down, catch up on emails I'd seen but ignored in the morning, and get situated back at my desk. Because it was a call center, and it was better to be 10 minutes early back from my lunch instead of 30 seconds late. I would then field my best calls of the day, and my metrics would prove this. I got the best response rates, the best feedbacks, and generally just felt the best about those calls. There was no anxiety, just two people on a phone call, and getting some tech support.

Was I driving while impaired on the way back to work? Yeah, and that shit is bad news, I'm not defending that. But given the stress and rigors of the call center, it's what I did to cope. This was before I took my mental illness seriously as an illness, and sought professional help with a doctor. Just me self medicating at home on my lunch break. But the raw data of my performance numbers don't lie, when I was blazed out of my fucking head, I was the best man or woman on the floor, period.

My manager loved me. But she didn't know every time we'd have our monthly face-to-face performance meetings, I was blazed out of my head then too. Why? She always booked them after my lunch break. My actual goal in those meetings was to see how much of her time I could waste, because they were only scheduled for a half an hour, and they want you on the phones producing all the rest of your metrics non-stop. But if I could get her talking and keep talking about work stuff, that meant more time I wasn't sitting under the barrel of the phones.

I don't know that I have a point to any of this. Just anecdotal evidence to throw on the pile from my own personal experience. But I only feel compelled to bring it up because that job was such a numbers and performance driven affair, and my data backs me up on this. I had actual proof in the numbers, beyond just the assumption that I was doing better because I felt better because I was high.
True -- But the user is not interacting with all 100's of those tabs at the same time -- something an automated scraper would be.

Firefox + Chrome both lower the priority of background tabs, and may be doing other tricks so the background tabs can stick around and be switched to quickly.
I'm doing my best mate, thank you for your kind words.

Much appreciated, cheers.
> Evolution doesn't necessarily involve reproduction.

According to Darwin, it does. A giraffe got its long neck not by stretching it but by dying if the neck was not long enough to survive and letting the ones with (accidentally) better genes to live on and - importantly - reproduce.
Agreed. It is a very basic comparison, which should be done before posting the article. I don't understand why he keeps posting these before running the exact same test on different processors (an Intel or even a different AMD should be ok)
Can't seem to find a link to the repo on their site.
My apologies, I was being a bit pedantic - Evolution is formally traits changing over generations, while adaption is changing traits over an organism's lifetime, though I believe you are using them interchangeably as "something changing".

I don't know what is left, but I have a hard time using such an embattled definition.
It's pretty common to talk that way on the internet. Also stuff like this is pretty common:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015448839242164...
> I think you're exaggerating a little bit.

I wish I was. Here are my results currently for '15-'17 full size wagons:

Audi A6: 1 gas, 548 diesel
Volvo V70: 7 gas, 597 diesel

etc...

(Source: blocket.se)

Note that Sweden is very exceptional here, and not at all like Germany or Norway or others.

Edit: there is an exception which is the Passat which comes with a weak 1.4L engine that is around 5% of the available cars, but that engine is a bit weak for such a large car, so I opted against buying it.

What I'll do is get one of the 18 or 19 models in around 2-3 years. That will be hybrid or gas.
The number of times we had terrible vulnerabilities in simple webservers back in the day tells me that even just putting text on a page is hard.
Denmark just worked out it stopped 55,000 sick days and where able to persuade 34% of car drivers that tried an eBike to switch to an eBike. https://cyclingindustry.news/danish-study-outlines-economic-...

Cycling can reduce risk of death by 41%, death by cancer 45% and death from heart disease by 46% http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39641122

A single 10ft cycle track can carry the same number of people as 7 lanes of car traffic.

Netherlands is currently at 10% obesity and going down to 8.5% by 2030. The UK is at 27% and predicted to go up to 35%.

So cycling really does appear be to that miracle solution for urban transport but you absolutely cannot 'share space'. Absolutely key to segregate. A good end to end network is only as good as its weakest link and too many times, town planners give in to politicians and local residents and deliver stuff that really is does not provide inclusive ages 8-80 cycle routes.
Marc Raibert: Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
A common question I get while I'm thinking is "What's wrong?"
Yeah, I remember it was a pita for me to change my directory layout habits to work ok with Go. Maybe it'll become more flexible in future. :)
Honestly, I'd say it's unlimited photo upload that was the big one for facebook.

Other things were late monetization and a focus on usability over other metrics such as clicks (closely related to monetization - the short story of MySpace death is they had to squeeze as many clicks out of each user as possible, killing usability.)
Look, the vast majority of a galaxy is empty space. A living creature is obviously not empty space, so all that space would have to be filled with the creature's matter. Well, if you put that much matter so close together, it will all collapse on itself and create a black hole.

So no, you could not have a living creature as big as a galaxy.
Many websites have ToS's that forbid scraping.
Long time ago we used Crowbar with xvfb. Nice to see the same method still works.

http://web.archive.org/web/20121127001253/http://simile.mit....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Numeral_Systems
"Is it such a huge deal that most women are not interested in technology? Is it such a huge deal that you have to work with a few women? Is it such a huge deal that as a technical woman, you have to work mostly with men?"

Yes, for various reasons.

1. There is less diversity of experience/thought.

2. Programming/engineering fields are generally good for society (and hence highly rewarded). There is a lot of unfulfilled demand for more engineers. If we can increase the number of people available for these jobs, that's good for society, and if we are for some reason "excluding" or "depressing" some people from entering, that's bad.

3. Not sure about this, but I think the incidence of sexual harassment or similarly bad things goes way up when there are fewer women.

None of this is to say we should be forcing anyone to work in something they don't want to. But as I heard it, it seems like there are societal reasons why women tend to be less interested in technology than men, and these are not biological. Again, not clear on the science here, but I'm just answering your main objection, which is "should we even care" assuming it is a cultural problem and not something biological. (For what it's worth, it seems clear to me that it's at least partly societal).
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but what's the definition of life you're saying that would satisfy?
It may not even be a software issue. conftest is the name autoconf uses for various short snippets of code used to test properties of the toolchain and host system, and if I recall correctly some of them generate code that's expected to segfault when run if some guess about the host system is wrong.
The C Preprocessor vs. D Lang
The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
In case of NOx, this is not true. NOx can be cleaned fairly well from the exhaust by injection of AdBlue, it's just that cars don't carry a large enough supply and car manufacturers did decide that hey don't want customers to be bothered by filling that up. Trucks however trept AdBlue as a consumable that needs to be refilled like fuel and don't suffer from that particular issue. (Though some are apparently rigged to not use AdBlue to save money)
> Another one is that nerve impulses travel slower than the speed of light, and so, again, it would take forever for a signal to reach the central nervous system.

Signals in the human body do not arrive instantaneously. A life form at the galactic scale would either be decentralized as others have suggested, or it would operate at a much longer time scale.
Ok, added. Thanks all.
That is a very lengthy reply to a very simple observation :) If you are genuinely curious why people are interested the short version is all the power of Erlang VM made available via way more conventional syntax. There are a lot of very unique properties of BEAM (Erlang VM) that are truly not available elsewhere:
preemptive scheduler,
per process GC (no STW crap),
all the OTP goodness for dealing with failures,
node transparency
hard to list all the pros to be honest
Agreed, thanks for pointing this out!
Ask HN: How do you decide what is going to be your next side project?
Beside on researching on the internet and asking to your friends and family their opinion. Is there any other strategy, trick, magic, ... for you to go for a specific idea?
No, that's nothing like analogous. Adversarial examples aren't giving machines information that is invisible to humans.
He covers that right at the beginning:

> you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

His screed is instead concerned with distribution across populations (such as Google's).
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Going only after VW and other German manufacturers is protectionism. It began in the Obama era, with Trump now continuing: "The Germans are bad, very bad. Look at the millions of cars that they sell in the U.S. Terrible. We’re going to stop that." (source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-26/trump-bla...).

Meanwhile, the US car industry (exception: Tesla) still only builds crap-quality cars which basically gulp gas. Of course, the political leadership must damage the presence of German cars so that US car manufacturers stand a chance without having to reinvent themselves...

And that the VW exec was threatened with 100+ years of jail time... it's absolutely inhumane and is an extortion. In Germany, even murderers rarely spend over 15 years in prison.
No, I just think it's a messy way to address the problem.
Wow, we have the same name!
In US, gate information is printed on the boarding pass but is subject to change. In practice, it probably changes 5% of time.
IMHO purpose of agile was to reduce the work in progress at Toyota. This can improve efficiency of existing assembly line. It was never supposed to build the new and improved assembly lines in short sprints. But that's what it is being shoe horned into and have become an excuse for not spending time doing the requirement gathering and deep design thinking.

I strongly feel Agile is a nice fit only when base work is done properly in terms of getting the software architecture and contracts correctly defined.
Even this question will be kept. But it won't be found....
credit card? driving license?
The HGST JBOD is built in a much more robust way than anything from Supermicro anyway. The second generation is almost perfect with its integrated ethernet console and standard micro-SAS ports.
In Canada, lawsuits have indicated that being impaired at work isn't necessarily a firing offence. If being sober is a job requirement, you can get fired for not meeting those requirements. But if you're drunk in a call center.. you might not need to be sober to do the job.
Almost big enough to archive SoundCloud!
You are correct in this universe. But in the universe the grand-parent imagines, none of this is confusing, because EACH AND EVERY WEBSITE on the planet does this, so users (and even managers) have seen this many times already.

Jakob's Law of the Internet User Experience (2000):
Users spend most of their time on other sites[0].

[Granted, this may not apply to Google/Facebook, it's from an earlier, more civilized, I mean decentralized age.]

Also, the standard would use 7-word long pass-phrases [1] which are much more readable, memorable and secure than the abomination above.

[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/end-of-web-design/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware
Seriously, screw that argument. The maritime industry produces vast more environmental damage than anything car related.

In fact, the 15 biggest containerships together emit as much SOx and NOx as all cars on the planet combined (source: http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-mo...). Add the rest of the cargo fleet and cruise ships... even outright banning of cars would be only a dent in the emissions chart.
Do either of these project spec hardware that would work for this use case?

opencompute.org
Backblaze storage pod, they're up to v 6.0 now

(Netflix open connect specs supermicro hardware)

Others?
This is a non-article, an exercise in bias confirmation. Without a control with no segfaults, or a root cause, it's not useful.
I hope someone posts it soon. This sounds like a dream come true, but I'm a bit weary of punching my SFTP credentials into an app by an unknown company without any idea of what it's actually doing behind the scenes.
The guy who stopped a global cyberattack has been banned from the internet
I wonder if this can also be attributed to the highly-microcoded nature of modern CPUs. (Then, at least, it may be software that sucks, not hardware.)
I talked to one company which was required to have drug tests and a drug policy for their security clearances. Allegedly, the drug tests were multiple choice, and the drug policy was "share, and share alike"
No Linux option planned, and no public access to the source-code. That doesn't feel very "open source" to me.
> BBC 10 years ago vs now side by side shows the difference [1].

Ads take a lot of space on current BBC capture.
It is not the CMS, it is also the site generator which comes with its own themes.
Given civil engineers need to be licensed to sign-off on projects where real risk exists - I feel the same should apply to software too, especially as the proliferation of autonomous vehicles and other robots mean that there is now a real risk of bad code resulting in people dying. I think the problem should be addrsssed preemptively. I hope we can have a security and safety-critical software engineering certification program that avoids aspects of national protectionism (e.g. it's very difficult for foreign engineers to get certified, even when their degree course was accredited by the same orgs) and elitism (e.g. arbitrarily restricting it to Masters-level degree holders). We need an open, international standard for this kind of certification.
>Virtually no one wears helmets... because you don't have to.

Helmets are pretty misunderstood. They don't offer much in the way of protection in a serious accident. The real value is in preventing serious head injuries in an otherwise minor fall/accident.

People in Amsterdam may not wear helmets but it's because they choose not to, not because helmets aren't needed.
> the FBI isn't a bunch of complete incompetents

It isn't a bunch of complete competents either, forensic hair analysis kerfuffle shows that much.
4K Apple TV with HDR Spotted in HomePod Firmware
personally, I would say yes.

I've been happily using my 1700x on my personal machine for months without much issue (except when as noted above, the issue was induced with very very high CPU load, manually and in a controlled manner).

Unless you do very CPU heavy work that lasts several minutes or longer (like kernel compiling, chromium compiling, autotools, starting electron apps), especially when you run gentoo (most likely), it should not be an issue.

I do a lot of dev work myself, so I do compile often but a short compiler run hasn't ever induced this bug and longer linux kernel builds suffered more from my inadequate cooling solutions rather than the CPU having bugs.
Cycling can be unsafe, with or without the proximity of heavy vehicles.

Just the other day I came about a cyclist driving on the shoulder, against the flow of 80 km/h traffic, with his hands off the handlebar. Insanely dangerous no matter how capable the drivers of the cars were. (Not to mention it's not a good idea to think you could safely check you Facebook updates as long as you were, say, cycling, or even walking about.)
They will likely be pushed off the lanes within a couple years.
I don't believe that responsible web scraping is malicious, but my belief relies on the assumption that the web is meant to be open. That is, information put on the internet that is publicly available is considered free to access, store, and later retransmit. The original web was designed for researchers to share their work, while the modern internet built on top of that platform has other moral systems that don't necessarily agree.

Anyway, on a purely technical level, scraping of publicly available content isn't inherently bad unless you're asked to stop, or are scraping so quickly as to cause a service disruption by tying up the target systems. There is nothing malicious about generating normal traffic at the rate of a regular user. The animosity arises from what you plan to do with the data, and whether the entity you're scraping agrees with your usage.
5000 persons will die per year in the EU due to diesel cheating. 15000 persons will die per year due to excess Nox emissions i.e. the result of selling in "clean diesel" by the car industry when in effect it is very dirty.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/diesel-e...
He lacks tact, but has a point.
The WannaCry Killswitch story feels like bullshit
No one talks about the benefit of being high while working in a creative job. Forward thinking companies should offer it the same way beer on Fridays is offered (only where legal of course)
"So I took out my Moleskine and started sketching."

You lost me with your hipster pretentiousness.
EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING
impressive, the quality of the documents is stunning, especially when you think of the potential for didactic / documentation purposes.

https://mathisonian.github.io/trig/etymology
"it's sustained by the sun."

That's what I meant. But you fail to explain why, if the principle works for a series of 200m chimneys at different elevations, it would somehow stop working if these chimneys were connected/stacked on top of each other.

I'm not arguing about the engineering difficulty of building a self-supporting chimney made of fabric, or whether or not it works at night. Just the thermodynamic aspect of it even working during the day.
> Map and reduce achieve the same result as a for loop so why not use a for loop?

Map and reduce are more clear as to intent for the subset of what a for loop does that they, together, do, and that clarity and limitation has practical advantages for things like parallelization and distribution, which is why MapReduce is an important distributed computation model and ForLoop isn't.

> The functional paradigm fundamentally alters the way the entire program is constructed

Programming paradigms are useful at levels other than “entire program”, which is the reason many modern languages are multiparadigm.
Gutted Tesla P100DL trolls street racers
Do people also use letters that they like more than other letters?

If so, an interesting proof of concept might be to reconstruct a person's full birth name from a corpus of their writing.
Nice to see HN keeping up with the times.

No redesigns in how long now?

The fonts on this site are hilariously small. Padding is tiny. All the feel of the 1990s, today!

Still good content, but come on -- do we not have a designer or artistic front-end who can help out?
Hmm I wonder if there is a lecture to go along with these slides: http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~dermisek/CM_13/Tornado_Physi...
I'm not trying to defend their actions. It just seems that if NOx emissions were such a threat, that we'd eliminate those that produce mass qualities of them. How can it be determined whether people died from these emissions of those of cargo ships?
I still use a gedit window for light note taking, while doing actual work in an IDE.
There's a bizarre exception for two-stroke engines in our emission regulations. I don't understand why. Electric scooters and e-bikes are a perfectly valid alternative, if clean 2-stroke engines aren't possible.
Well, I can downvote comments in different threads, but not in any threads that I am participating in. The down arrow is simply absent from those comments.
How about 25+ years for defrauding millions of buyers and making our cities full(er) of smog. How many new cases of asthma, sinus infections, cancers...can be traced to this fraud?
"I mean, this talented designer ventured into poking fun of the work of other people without even taking the time to understand the problem, the proposed solution, and the constraints that were/are in place."

Bingo.
No, it isn't. Imagine a hypothetical sterile human that was single celled - suddenly we've reached the same conclusion without the sub-organism reproduction issue. Making reproduction a core premise of being alive really drives to the idea of mortality, as reproduction is a way of overcoming our mortal coils. Yet, it is truly reasonable to classify reproduction as the only way? It also assumes a lineage, which is not required for synthetically created organisms.

I've said this elsewhere, but proteins are not required, in any regard, for life. They are an emergent phenomenon of the Earth's chemistry, not a rule for life. I mean, what is a cell even - "A fluid filled, membrane enclosed thing"? The reason cells are structured as they are is because of water, so a non-water based organisms would likely look much, much different.