skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years back I had a monitor at work where I complained to my boss that it was emitting a high pitched whine. I was about 10 years younger than anyone else on the team, and no one else could hear it. The PC technician I called to look at it couldn't hear it. Needless to say it didn't get replaced, that is until we got a summer intern. The first time the intern walked past my desk she asked "how can you stand that sound?" and I had her go to my boss to say the same thing. My boss got another intern from another team to listen and confirm, and I got a replacement the next week.

It's one of those sounds you can never drown out, it's such a unique frequency.
With this car you can tell in a rollover it would likely kill everyone inside nearly every time.
A $10 PCB is so much simpler than poison. Easier to acquire, safer (for the attacker) to store and deliver, harder to recognize as a weapon (think wifi router case). And perhaps most importantly, you can include a remote kill switch in case you need to abort the op or temporarily evade an inspection.

Wow, this actually is quite horrifying. Makes me want to go full cyborg.
Only if I'm signed into Google or allowing it to set cookies right and not spoofing my user agent right? ;)

I don't know if you're still affiliated with StartPage.com but the done thing is to mention that in any posts promoting your company.
Cooking from groceries is actually significantly cheaper than takeout.
Although banning might be excessive, products containing coumarin should be labelled appropriately. If what the article says is true, such as that a teaspoon of cassia cinnamon can put you over the safe limits, then consuming coumarin is dangerous for those with liver problems, recovering from mononucleosis, or when consumed in conjunction with other liver-damaging compounds (i.e. alcohol).
The downside for me is communication has more overhead and friction. Communicating in person is less effort. YMMV.
link without the forced login:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hash42/noodle-pi-the-co...
just registered and installed the extension. do I always need to go to the website manually to view my bookmarks or is there a navigation point i'm missing in the extension?
Oh dear lord that would have been genius!!!
Syphilis or oxycontin use?
Dozens of Female Employees Accuse Google of Gender Discrimination
I'm curious, how do you get from people who enjoy group recognition are the least likely to enjoy maintenance work?

My gut is that it goes the other way around. People who desire to work on the Big Cool Sexy New are often less motivated by peers, and more by personal drive, as by definition most of their peers won't know what the hell BCSN even is. Unless the person in question is working in a 100% BCSN shop, in which case there's likely to be fewer maintenance tasks in the first place as the codebase will be fresher.
Hearing is different in that mechanical transduction pathway and even low frequency cilia can be damaged by air pressure that is not detected as sound.
However, the damage itself would be painful and even high frequency pressure of this kind could be felt as weird sensation on skin.
When we ask users to take care to post civilly and substantively, this is what we want to avoid. The ratio of insight to inflammation doesn't meet the bar for the kind of thoughtful discussion we're after here.
SEO is a shady field in general, but not all of it is shady. It can make or break a company and is well worth understanding. There is a lot of bad information out there (like the HTTPS advice above), so it's difficult to find accurate information.
The best user onboarding has nothing to do with your product
If I had to choose between a world where 1) everyone owned electric cars 2) no one owned cars but just hitched rides on autonomous ones and 3) no one used cars at all, I would take the third option.

I think it's possible if we start building new cities designed for walking, instead of just expanding our current cities, with all the problems that presents. I think the trick would be to strictly limit their footprint to something that would allow anyone to walk from one end to another in ~30 minutes. You can still have a big city, you just have to rely on the world's greatest form of public transportation (the elevator) and build up.

Aside from the serenity of not having cars wiz around, dividing up the city and running people over, there are a bunch of other benefits. Not having to provide services to every residence makes the government's job much easier (so less government); the city would become more of a community if everyone is always walking everywhere and running into each other; you'd have more public green space since the city would be surrounded by a large green loop; and it could fit into some really amazing locations, like a lush valley, or between a lake and a mountain. You can connect a bunch of them with a hyperloop (or something as simple as a bus service).
How are you doing the classification with ElasticSearch? Are you hardcoding keywords for different preset categories, such as blogs/music, or are you doing some kind of machine learning to figure out what each person's relevant categories are?
Kyle Miller overcomes cerebral palsy to play in a pro event
jfyi: site is broken. Apparently requires third party cookies.
In the 80's IBM was an unstoppable juggernaut. In the 90's it was Microsoft. Then Apple. Now Google/Amazon.

Conventional wisdom is that, in a free market, a single corporation will grow to rule everything. But that never seems to pan out.

Part of the reason is that the larger an organization gets, the more inefficient and bureaucratic it gets, the less it is able to adapt. See "The Innovator's Dilemma", a book everyone interested in business should read.
Subscription Businesses Are Exploding with Growth
> In fact, reddit is a horrible place to engage in meaningful discussion, as users can downvote any opinion they disagree with and make it disappear, and mods can ban any users they disagree with.

That's a funny response to a comment that was so heavily downvoted it's completely hidden for users unless they specifically change their HN settings.
I had to look this up because it was so crazy and interesting - but sadly (er, well, you know what I mean), the link between microwave radiation and cancer is questionable both biologically and historically. The historical evidence (mortality/morbidity of employees at the Moscow Embassy vs. other Eastern European embassies, or comparisons based on how long employees spent in Moscow, or comparisons based on estimated exposure to the microwave radiation) suggests no adverse affects from radiation.[1] And in general the idea that microwave radiation (emitted by cell phones/towers, wifi, etc.) causes cancer is not supported by the evidence.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509929/
It never ceases to amaze me how "reading comprehension" has declined.

The article doesn't make a value judgement about the Gawker lawsuit, and nobody is "offended". It only contains a statement of fact: "some news organizations shy away from writing about a powerful or well-resourced person out of fear of a lawsuit".

Now I don't know if that statement is accurate, but I see no reason to doubt it.

It's also noteworthy that (as far as I remember) nobody came to Gawker's defence, precisely because it was generally accepted that publishing the tape was wrong.

However, the chilling effect isn't necessarily about journalists' fear of no longer being able to publish sex tapes. They are concerned because Gawker ultimately went down not for the indefensible sex tape, but for its treatment of Peter Thiel.

This case, if lost, would open pandora's box: You can write an article that is completely accurate, relevant, legal, and important to publish. But if it crosses the wrong billionaire, they can go through all of your archive, pick whatever I-invented-email-nutjob
they believe has the best chances with a jury (or ten of them), and bankrupt you.
If safety was the most important thing, nobody would be driving a car at all. There are lots of ways to get from point A to point B, just about all of which are safer than driving.

We drive cars because they hit a sweet spot of speed, personal autonomy, and comparative expense, with a cost to personal safety that we've collectively decided we're willing to live with.
What a bunch of nonsense. You could have entire countries boycott Google and it wouldn't bother them, much less an unorganized internet rabble.
Please feel free to correct me.
I feel like people have been complaining about the massive GNOME 3 title bars for at least six years, but the GNOME design team seems incredibly stubborn and unwilling to listen to feedback.
I mainly just post them around HN whenever the opportunity arises :P
You think a diplomat wouldn't be able to get medical treatment in a discreet manner?
A Node.js REST API can handle a significant volume of incoming requests with only 50mb-75mb of RAM. For reference here is a load test of handling around 75k-80k reqs/min using node.js containers deployed using Amazon ECS. Each node.js process is basically just doing CRUD operations, accepting incoming JSON, storing it in a database, fetching values back out of a database, and sending JSON back to clients. There is a bit of extra overhead from microservice HTTP fanout to other backend microservices, but the whole stack is very lightweight and 99% of requests are served in under 30ms.

As you can see this workload is only using about 6% of the available memory. For event loop driven systems like Node.js or Nginx, or Go the workload is almost always CPU bound not memory bound:

http://i.imgur.com/VCN5e21.png
Have you tried the Reddit tinnitus cure yet?

https://youtu.be/ajb37ie-Juo
I'd list working vacations as a downside. Proper time off, and the expectation that when you are on vacation you are on vacation is really important.

I work 1-2 days a week from home and it's a great balance. It gives me time to really get stuck into things with minimal distraction, and be more flexible with time. That said, the days in the office are really useful too - nothing beats sitting with other people physically when you need to communicate.
I agree that labeling people as racist or sexist for being
caught out by shifting norms is not productive, but at the
same time people need to put effort into empathizing with
others and educating themselves.

Maybe that cuts both ways
And for people not interested in living in a city?

I'm genuinely curious on this note. I love utopian visions of cities, but also recognize that even if they existed, more than a few folks wouldn't want to inhabit them.
Even when not audible this high air pressure would be painful.
> You are generalizing in a way that will create animosity

> I think religion is a cancerous meme

My underlying point was that people with faith don't see their faith as a choice about the existence and character of their god (or other non-deist beliefs). It's not objective or accurate to say religion is different because it's a choice.

If anyone is offended by my point, I would challenge them to rethink their assumptions about how tolerant and accepting they are.
The idiocy of not wearing a seatbelt is directed at everyone else. An unbelted driver is more likely to completely lose control of the vehicle after an initial collision and end up causing addition damage to others. Plus now that we effectively have socialized medicine we all end up paying for the idiots.
So if you add HTTPS to your site you lose continuity of stats and have to amalgamate statistics across "2" sites from then on? .. there's a really good reason for Google to do this, right?
no, we use battery powered lawn equipment though.
I don't know what they use, but there's always eudev, Gentoo's fork which works just fine, and offers pretty much everything that udev offers (except for the systemd dependency).
It has no links to any third party other than Google Analytics.
"some news organizations shy away from writing about a powerful or well-resourced person out of fear of a lawsuit — which some have called the Gawker Effect."

That's not correct and misses the point of the Gawker lawsuits. The Gawker Effect is that journalists are now, for perhaps the first time in modern history, contemplating if a story going to print is actually news, or merely gossip.
Prices already rise so it's not like that's some extra problem UBI adds. There needs to be some mechanism that ties UBI to inflation and cost of living, it's definitely not a fire and forget solution. However we already produce enough of the basics like food, water, and shelter for everyone in the US so why are people going without?
What Rampant Materialism Looks Like, and What It Costs
I wondered the same thing. I assume I'm the product (my data) if it is free, but the site also talks about privacy.
His story makes my complaints about how hard software can be and building a business seem like a pathetic joke.

Thanks for the inspiration, Mr Miller. Good luck on your first PGA golf tournament.
Coinbase raises $100M at a $1.6B valuation
But more expensive than grinding your own flour and butchering your own animals.

The miracles of technology and labor specialization! You can pay someone money in order to have them partially process your food before you cook it!
Perhaps it was not government sponsored, but rather an attack by one or more local extremists, of some sort.
never trust input
I stopped following Neil when one of his posts (written by one of his writers) plagiarized someone else's post and he was publicly called out on it.

Neil has been around for a long time... I remember him from the old SEO conference days (PubCon), and at that time he was putting out good material. He's turned into a content marketing organization, the majority of content written by people who he hires to write in his name.
They can live somewhere else and drive their ICE cars around. I don't care that much what they do, but I want a live in a city that's livable. I think my vision would make for the most livable city possible.
One big benefit of crypto is you can't cook the books. So in markets where there is constant temptations for a human to say "I'm guarding he vault, why not fudge the numbers here a little and pay out my friends" those institutions will lose share to crypto.

The other market that intrigues me is autonomous AIs. I can imagine an AI that can more easily trust a smart contract than a human institution.

Essentially, you are right, but you're biased because you feel good in your network of human trust. Replacing that world with machines doesn't buy you anything because you'll still want to keep your human layer as the bottom line. But not everyone is so nestled in the bosom of modernity.

Also consider scale. Banks won't loan you $1000. It's not worth the time to do the math, and find an appraiser. But a crypto contract can do the math for free, and a network of appraisers would contain someone who can do really fast work on a tight schedule. Like, "show up at Highland Mall on Saturday afternoon, I will appraise 50 businesses in 3 hours".

That business model only works if you have infrastructure that takes care of everything else than the appraising, with much richer modeling than even banks use today.
That analysis assumes that the service is only about time-saving.

I've never used it but I've heard people say how they like it because

- they get to learn new recipes using less-common ingredients

- have good quality meals (which take out often doesn't provide, if we are considering time saving)

- they, sometimes at least, prefer eating at home.
Either "we doesn't gather your personal data" or personalization. These choices are mutually exclusive.
Key line to mitigate disappointment:

"The outer two planets around tau Ceti are likely to be candidate habitable worlds, although a massive debris disc around the star probably reduces their habitability due to intensive bombardment by asteroids and comets."
The PHP issue is a separate cause for segfault that got mistaken for the original linux segfault issue when Phoronix messed that up in that article. Those segfaults also happen with Intel machines. The Ryzen linux segault issue is still not completely clear, but is confirmed by AMD, can be triggered by gcc and is not the same as the PHP issue.
Ask HN: Is AI fake?
I mean... is it just statistical analysis with powerful computers?
Wasn’t the segfault issue determined to be a bug in the php steps?
Of course. Just be careful where you post it, you might get added to a naughty list somewhere.
That is really gorgeous, do you have anything quick written up about how your hashes are stored? I spent far too much of a few months optimizing phash to hell (I can do fuzzy lookups in a table of ~17 million images in constant time)and I'd love to play with your math a little bit
I used Blue Apron for a while, and didn't have quality issues but the meals were definitely a hassle. I got fed up with every recipe requiring that I pick tiny leaves off tiny herb stems. I don't have a sous-chef to dump that kind of stuff onto!

After I quit Blue Apron, I tried Hello Fresh. Their recipes were a lot simpler to follow, and tasted just as good, but I had serious quality issues. By the time I quit, I determined that 11% of the meat packages I had received were punctured, and started leaking when they defrosted. If the punctures happened after they were frozen and sealed they were probably safe to eat, but I had no way of knowing that.
Treaty on Open Skies
Was the Jeopardy think just a ruse? Was it something easy (something any ML/DL team could have thrown together in a year?)
I wonder if there is a tool that lets you enter a regular expression from one engine and get back the equivalent regular expressions for other engines?

Some of the look arounds might be too powerful to do in some engines so it would not always work, but it would still be quite useful if it just handled the differences in escaping, specifying modes like case insensitivity or multiline matching, and referencing match groups in replacements.
Had never seen a harmonic drive (mentioned in the article) in action, this video rendering showing how it functions is fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzRh672peNk
You might be right.

If there's one thing Amazon has going for them, it's figured out logistics at scale. The economics of a service like this start to look a lot better when your delivery rates are dirt cheap _and_ you can selectively serve zip codes with highest demand.

Serving sparse suburban or rural areas doesn't make sense with ingredient delivery.
I was downvoted! Sad!
> Insisting the terms of a negotiation before taking an agreement is not muddying the issue.

Is that why you conveniently disregarded my other questions? If you can't answer those, it should inform you of why your question is disingenuous, which was my point. I'm still waiting.
What are the current edge cases for 'human' and 'non-human' which makes the line so blurred that our common sense is no longer sufficient to judge, and we need to invoke philosophy, and further philosophy without input from biology?
Agreed. I think maybe the value of the paper is that non-computer scientist biologists will read it and gain awareness.

To computer scientists, it's pretty obvious that DNA used as input to a program could be maliciously crafted.
I have heard one of these in San Francisco, CA in the USA. The music had a really high pitched note behind it that sounded horrible.. like a cross between a mosquito and the buzzing of an input jack
Google search shows "BitSH42" is mentioned only in this discussion.
It's ironic that using the very term "virtue signaling" has itself become an act of virtue signaling.
I'm still occasionally sad that I bombed an interview at SO a while back. I had prepped for more of a front-end/full stack JS role, and got asked a series of low-level data structure questions. I thought I did alright given the circumstances (I did work out the correct answer to each one), but the interviewer wasn't impressed.

I asked for a do-over and they said no. Oh well...
We'll just wear helmets!
I've been looking into https://twistapp.com/ for the reasons you said about slack.
I dont' think it'll be so bad. Sure, you might not be able to do that at first as we won't have the infrastructure and accessories built for it. But we will. Folks enjoy such things. I can imagine being told:

Now, as part of your trailer, you have extra energy storage, perhaps some solar capacity to refill the trailer batteries, possibly using the movement of the vehicle itself too.

Trailer too much? You also have the option of a "luggage case" on top, which isn't as powerful as the above but still lets you have freedom and maybe has a little wind turbine that works as you drive.

And I'm pretty sure we'll have some cars that just automatically come with extra batteries, for exactly the sort of travel you are talking.
?? I never said or implied anything about costs. That has nothing to do with the point I was making.
It's the Xanae concept car from 1994, that later inspired the Picasso.

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/xanae/xanae.html
Can confirm

Source: former president of children's cancer research foundation

In my defense we were actually trying to make a difference in the world not sell software.
There's no extensions on Android Chrome, and the reason is simple: if they enable extensions, people will mostly install ad blockers and that's bad for business at Google
Oh man. I feel dumb. Of COURSE that is why Elon started Boring, to build hyperloop. And to do it in stages: first to transport cars, then transition up to hyperloop.
A green space that city folk can reach in a 15 minute walk? Welcome to the forest of trash!
Laptop support?
> I think the trick would be to strictly limit their footprint to something that would allow anyone to walk from one end to another in ~30 minutes.

How many inhabitants do you think that will be?
Kozmos will be always free for private bookmarking, and there'll be a paid account for creating public collections in the second phase. Copying the details from my another comment here;

"The second phase of Kozmos will have "public collections", for example, we will be able to create a "Best Boutique Hotels in Istanbul" collection, and this will be only available for paid users. This is Kozmos' business model but I haven't explained it in the site, because collections aren't implemented yet."
Honestly -- I have no idea, I only had to do it a few times, on Yocto and buildroot images, and in pretty restricted cases. It was pretty easy (basically udev has this file which matches a set of device selection rules with a set of actions, effectively saying "if I encounter a device of this type, I'm going to do these particular things"), but I googled my way through it.

I expect there are some distro-specific hoops to jump through, but I have no idea which ones -- I really don't like automounting, I keep it disabled even on KDE.

(Why? Old habits die hard, I guess?)
There are a lot of people advising startups on marketing that have never run a startup. Neil Patel has done it twice, once bootstrapping and the second time raising venture capital. Actually he's done it more times and has talked about his failures and what he's learned.

I do agree he needs to change web designers, the advice is golden so you don't need the gaudy design elements.
I was a contractor at MS many moons ago, I got an entire office to myself. Later when we had a crunch, we had to double up, but it was both perm and contract, not contractor specific. There was no lack of collab due to offices, close your door when in the zone. Open in it when accepting visitors. Absolutely loved it.
I bumped into several of them in person who went "too bad you missed my party"
Why anyone is still using AdBlock is beyond me, when UBlock Origin is available. If advertisers pay enough to AdBlock, they're allowed through as exceptions, which kind of defeats the point.
Why Numeracy Counts and What Parents Can Do to Foster It
New docker hosting platform in Switzerland with secure datacenter