skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are logged in on both services then they just need to load a resource from the other service. The request sends cookies. They used to call this 1x1 or tracking pixel.

Looks like youtube doesn't talk to Facebook directly. It does talk to doubleclick though. I recommend installing uMatrix to manage loading 3rd party resources.
Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
Efficacy aside, electroshock therapy is intended to treat a given disorder, not to induce some disorder. Any pain or side effects of being shocked is separate from the underlying disorder. So "Bob was given electroshock therapy for his schizophrenia" means Bob was shocked to treat his schizophrenia, not induce it.
I wonder what that same 1 TB of data costs on the "open market" (or how it is even priced).

Say I'm a smallish ISP on the east coast and want to send 1 TB to another smallish ISP on the west coast. I probably have a contract with, I don't know, AT&T or whoever owns the cables (I'm from Europe so I have no clue, in Germany it would be Telekom). I'm guessing it would probably cost cents (and that would bring my data across the continent, not just out Google's door)? Definitely nowhere near $80.
Note: I'm not arguing that litigation is better :)

Just saying, that's how it's rationalized...
Question for HNers: Do you think we've seen the peak of Uber's valuation?
This is not a machine learning algorithm, so no training is required. The software processes every MRI scan (a full set acquired in one session) independently of other scans. The algorithm quantifies microscopic structural distortion at every voxel (3D pixel) of the MRI. Statistical models can be used on a population, but only to test the performance of the algorithm, not to train it.
GPS is the killer app for me. I'm young enough to have never had to get around without it, would be a heck of a transition.
Te me Martin Fowler has been branding of Thoughtworks. I am surprised he was not an owner. I wonder if Martin will remain.
How do they lose money on CPU? Even if they were buying their CPUs at full retail (they aren't), break even would be less than 12 months.
It's understandable that they made that mistake, it's not understandable that Lennart kept insisting it's not a bug until it blew up in the news. Remember that he actually got cranky that somebody assigned CVEs to the issue...

I agree with _jal that this kind of arrogant, dismissive behavior and repeat behavior doesn't instill trust and does a huge disservice to the project's reputation.
It's an old chip, it needs to be compared to the 2015 competition rather than the current one. While it's not on the slides, the notes suggest that the CPU is a Haswell and the GPU a Tesla K80.

Also, is that 25x claim really about the rate of operations? It reads to me like they're talking about the number of execution units.
The argument against negative interest rates was that people could simply store cash in a vault and get a 0% return, rather than lend it for a negative return. In practice very slightly negative rates seem to work out because storing large amounts of cash in a vault is hard. However, it's probably still right to assume that if interest rates are meaningfully negative for a while everyone will switch to storing cash.
Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp
I'm going to dig the biggest hole ever. Is a lofty goal, or at least a deep one.

You might sit and plan and talk to people and make a buisness plan involving dump trucks and stay at your day job planning for ever.

You might make viable plans for digging a large hole, but they don't quite fill the great pit of your vision.

Or you might pick digging as big a hole as possible as a direction, and do the next thing.

Dig with a space until you get tired then hire a digger and learn to drive it. End up with a big pile of mud to get rid of and find out you could sell it. Who knew selling mud could pay for more diggers. Hire good diggers and drivers because you've done it yourself and know how it's done. Do the next thing, do the next thing.

Until one day out have a really big hole. Not the biggest, but pretty big.
emacs with org-mode?
Steve Jobs – The lesson he taught us
This worked for me
Correct. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia (~80%). There are other dementia's such as FTD (frontotemporal dementia), DLB (dementia with Lewy body), vascular dementia, etc.
very excited about this tech, but i think it will be regulated to death.
building something _at scale_ is basically the approach ITER has taken, and there is a different kind of problem in it: people & project management at that scale are very tough. Maybe tougher than the engineering even is.

When you need many countries to smoothly co-operate on a many-billion-dollar decades-long project that's hard to swiftly articulate or grasp, let alone pivot, while technology and geopolitics swiftly shifts around you, you're going to have a bad time.

ARC with modern superconductors is in many ways ITER but capable of being built on a multi-university budget, by virtue of those superconductors being much more powerful while being much smaller and lightweight and operating closer to room-temperature. The whole reactor needed for the same energy scale a ITER is physically much smaller.

The PSFC at MIT (who is proposing this plan) built the last great tokamak that got us closest to real fusion back in the 90s and that inspired ITER. ITER was the best plan available after that: the project size was necessary given conditions at the outset. Now many people are committed to it, and we're many billions in, so it likely isn't going away.

But ARC is probably a better version of basically the same plan given today's outlook: a scaled up tokamak, doable at university, national-lab, or skunkworks-level project sizes.

So I believe we could see huge progress from this in the next 5 years.

The only thing I have not seen articulated in Zach Hartwig or Dennis Whyte's otherwise fantastic talks in the past year is: what's next? What are the concrete steps between today and some version of ARC? They don't seem to be raising money yet, so it is clear there are some open questions about the other innovations in the ARC design, and I want to hear how/when we expect those to be solved or at least well-defined.
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And a follow-up question: is Lyft (or other competitors) any more sustainable?
D provides the same low-level access as C. Heck, in D you can even use inline assembly, so there are really no barriers to what you can achieve. MMaping files and casting their contents to structures is often used technique. The GC only one of the many ways of getting memory in D. You'll just have to manage the other ways yourself like in C or C++ ;)
They compared TPU v1 with server hardware available at the time (2015, i.e. K80 and Haswell).

Are the cards you mention from 2015? Are they for gaming or servers? Do they use ECC? If not, that rules them out right away.

You can find the paper with the methodology, theoretical peaks and latency management at
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760
"You basically have to believe tens of thousands of scientist are liars to accept the first statement"

The first statement, that human industry is not "the main cause of co2 release," is undisputed fact. This is what the DOE says [1]:

"Natural CO2 sources account for the majority of CO2 released into the atmosphere."
and
"Carbon dioxide comes from both natural and anthropogenic sources; natural sources are predominant."

Your misunderstanding is apparently common enough that the last assertion is offered in the context of dispelling a myth.

[1] https://www.netl.doe.gov/research/coal/carbon-storage/carbon...
Wow, looks and works perfectly without JS enabled! Really appreciated.
I think a lot of the regulation makes more sense once you understand that the FAA prioritizes different lives differently.

Roughly, they consider these groups, from lowest to highest priority in terms of keeping them safe:

1. Pilots. These are the lowest priority because they're the most in control and best understand the risks. If a pilot wants to turn himself into a red splat, that's his own concern.

2. Knowledgeable passengers. These are people who may not be pilots but understand aviation to some extent and have an idea of what they're getting into. They can't necessarily evaluate all the risks completely, but they can do a pretty good job of it. The FAA can't directly determine this, of course, but they use "for hire" as a proxy: if you're just taking people for fun or as a favor, it's assumed they have some idea of what they're getting into. If they're outright hiring you to fly them around, it's assumed they don't.

3. Passengers who are random members of the general public. Most of these people know little about airplanes and about the risks. They can't be counted on to evaluate things for themselves. People paying random pilots/companies to fly them around are assumed to be in this category. (And people buying tickets on a regularly-scheduled airline flight are assumed to be even more random than people hiring a charter, for example.)

4. The general public on the ground. These people aren't even involved in the process and have no choice in the amount of risk they're exposed to.

This is why the requirements get steeper as you move from recreational flying to commercial flying. If you want to fly solo over empty land, they don't care too much if you get yourself killed. If you're going to carry a hundred vacation travelers who just want to get to the beach, things are more strict.
So I decided to see how to get to that nice Pho place across town .. 600 Washington Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19147 or the one next door at 610 Washington Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19147 .. in both cases it truncates off the street number and drops me at a wrong location. Does that mean OpenStreetMap needs some assistance in that area? Even stranger if I put one of those addresses in both source and destination it does a strange 5 block loop to get back to the same wrong start point.
You're being attacked because of your condescending tone implying that music and english majors aren't smart enough to pass the CS curriculum
The Rise of the Chinese Dragon: Factors Affecting the Growth of BAT
A pimp takes a 100% cut and has an ownership-like relationship. We're going to take a reasonable service fee. We're against sexual trafficking and coercion of any kind. So no, I don't think reasonable people would consider our investors to be pimps.

But you're right that such law would be used to go after us. That's why we're encouraging people to use Monero to invest and receive dividends and are open to other ideas as well.
Ford, EMC, and Microsoft are not what I meant by a typical PE firm...that's who invested in Pivotal.

I meant firms like TPG, Blackstone, Silverlake, etc. I suppose they do sometimes stray from the model, but the rabid cost cutting is pretty typical.
The Thoughtworks brand is based on being high end.

I doubt they're going to turn it into a cheap outsourcing thing.

There's lots of companies you could buy for that.
Cool concept -- it does seem like the future is in functional coding approaches.

I'm excited to play with it, but I am not the most comfortable with any of your current language choices. Any plans for PHP or JS syntax wrappers?
https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/apax-to-buy-thoughtworks/#
The phenomenon that is being described where melting ice causes the release of CO2 into the atmosphere seems to have been known to climate scientists, though I don't know whether it has been included in climate change models.

There is a great talk (video online here: https://www.facebook.com/WoodsHoleOcean/videos/1015459031268...) by Richard Alley where exactly this phenomenon is mentioned (see Q&A at ~50:55 in the video, though I highly recommend watching the whole thing).
Just wanted to chime in on TensorRT, it's a well supported product and it's different than gpu-rest-engine. This GitHub repo is simply an example of how to use TensorRT in a specific situation.
I don't think it's so much that "it'd upset the Chinese" as the fact that he just got old, there's better (younger) actors out there that bring more to the table. He had a good run though.
In late 90s, we configured AboveNet as the preferred backbone for the world’s largest Windows Media streaming network thanks to “cold potato routing” providing such a competitive advantage for broadband video. This allowed us to build out video distribution hubs rather than “edges”, giving a cost of service a fraction of competitors’.

I’m surprised it took two decades to see this network policy choice productized for mass tech market.
Couldn't one try to at least limit the feedback loop by spreading sulfur over the affected regions by plane? (Simulating a volcanic eruption that reflects sunlight)
This looks really cool and is badly needed. Our company would kill for a PDF to semantic HTML algorithm (or service) too, using machine learning based on computer vision. Existing options just vomit enough CSS to match the PDF output, rather than mark up into headings, tables and the like.
As interest rates keep getting lower and auto loan terms now as long as 7 or 8 years. In 3 years, when the people that got those long loans want a new car, they will find their car loan still underwater. They will likely have to stick it out with their "old" car for awhile.
Introducing Network Service Tiers: Your cloud network, your way
Out of curiosity, why were electronic devices banned in planes on the first place? Is there any scientifical evidence either for or against it?
A person's politics are immaterial to the outcome.
I'm fairly certain that the calculator you linked is incorrect. Unless I'm not understanding the Glacier pricing page, it should cost at most $1,240 to store 10TB for 30 days and then re-retrieve over the internet (even at the expedited retrieval rate).

The calculator shows the same setup (albeit with some of the rate information hidden) as costing $3,934.91

Backblaze B2 has no retrieval cost, so the same setup (storing 10TB for a month, then downloading) would cost only $250 (less than 1/3 of the cheapest Glacier option). Glacier is really only a viable option if you're sticking within the same region (where transfer is free) or you plan to literally never retrieve your backups.

Otherwise, B2 and other alternatives are much cheaper.
You are aware of the current U.S. President and the current EPA Administrator, right?
On the other hand, if anyone could use up an entire cable, it would be Google, and there are no particular financial reasons to try to diversity - they are big enough to self-insure any cable losses.
is there some notional relationship between these two things?
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Heck, I did go through the CS program at an infamously competitive mid-Atlantic school with decent grades, and I still liked the tutorial and am glad to have seen it on HN.

We can always use a look back at what's behind the "leaky abstractions" (to quote Joel Spolsky) that make our modern software world possible.
I'm pleasantly surprised PHP has remained largely SJW free, probably because it's not trendy.

I imagine microcontroller software development stays free of them too, largely because of the barrier to entry.
You mean the head of the EPA's former company?
"It’s not that there’s a classical brain that does some quantum magic. It’s that there’s no brain! "

Who can take this stuff seriously?
Here are Codero's terms.[1] There's a procedure for dealing with breaches of the agreement, with 7 day and 30 day notices to cure. It's not one-sided, like Google's: "Google may terminate this Agreement for its convenience at any time without liability to Customer."[2] Do you want to bet your business on that?

[1] http://codero.cachefly.net/docs/legal/TOS.pdf
[2] https://cloud.google.com/terms/
Good. But unless you're paying cash and you own a title company, expect to pay fees when closing on a house.
What? Would you rather HackerNews be rendered in a serif font?
Hello Jack. I'm the creator of Interface. Indeed many glyphs's outlines comes from Roboto (though fitted into different glyph boxes.)

The "playground" feature of the website even has a feature for comparing Interface with Roboto. When you do, and you look at the details, you'll find that Interface is actually quite different from Roboto, at least as far as "different" goes with utilitarian UI fonts. https://rsms.me/interface/lab/?size=22&compare=roboto
Many people are interested to know the status of their brain health -- the same way as they can have health screen for other organs -- and they are interested to be able to track the status of their brain tissue over time to see whether a lifestyle modification they tried actually did have a beneficial effect on the brain or not.

Arguably, there will be no viable treatment unless asymptomatic volunteers get tested with our software so they can enroll in a clinical trail, so why defer the test?
Naively, it would benefit those able to carry debt and maintain many bank accounts moving into the jubilee period.
If you are wondering whether the submission is appropriate for HN, it's always good to review the guidelines:

> What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Another I ask myself is what I expect (not hope) the resulting discussion to look like. Is it constructive and civil?

If it passes these, I think in general you can feel confident that the mods (and the HN community) will find it useful.
Presumably the PE value prop is that they charge over the odds for their consultancy while paying their employees under market rate. If they can maintain a public image of technical excellence and social responsibility for a couple more years while the equity firm milks the profits, Apax get their multiplier. At the end of that they can sell off what's left and doubles all round.

Or am I getting cynical in my old age?
What is a tail-less t? Google didn't help me at all on this one.
To mocl

https://wukix.com/mocl
You could say the say the same thing about the U.S. Dollar but just add a military to the list.
Then trillions of dollars were extremely inefficiently allocated to the task of creating better worlds and a much better world could have been created with that money instead, costing lives in the process.

Having noble goals doesn't immunize you from accounting.
> Try working on an open source project for 5 years

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the people forking Node here are trying to do, though perhaps not with a particular time limit.
wkhtmltopdf is a solid tool but its mostly abandoned now. rendering in chrome headless is way faster and more accurate.
chrome headless though is lacking a lot of features that wkhtmltopdf provides like headers/footers
No its not just you. I posted about it on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078313
It's not theft, it's copyright violation, and no, I don't think it's a societal harm. Nobody is being deprived of anything, because digital goods are non-rivalrous.

The author of this project is riffing on an older creative work to make a new creative work, exactly as artists did for all the millenia of human civilization, until lawyers got involved in the 20th century and fucked it all up.
I loved text adventures as a kid. I thought it was some kind of magic. I had no idea how a computer could figure out what I had just typed and answer me in a way that made sense.

But I can't think of a single one I ever completed besides Scott Adams' "Adventureland". Almost all these games seemed to eventually get to a "maze" portion, and that's where I'd just give up.

Some games had puzzles that seemed literally impossible to solve, and would allow many opportunities for game-breaking actions (with no indication you had done so).

Later on, I really loved Sierra adventure games. But really, they suffered from all the same ridiculous puzzles and game-breaking crap. I couldn't finish most of them without the clue books.
Could you point to any materials (e.g. blog post, roadmap document...) that deal with this? Thanks.
Pruitt was the AG of Oklahoma. You're thinking of Tillerson who is the current Secretary of State. Yes, it is easy to forget him seeing as he doesn't say much, and is busier dismembering the department of state than advocating for it either within government or among other governments.
The 60%/40% split on both proposed sanctions indicates that the TSC had no simple unified view of the type you infer.
This is by design. A wider "O" would indeed make separating zero from "O" easier (and an earlier iteration of Interface had a wider "O") but it adds some uneven pace to how longer words and sentences read.

The hope is to add a stylistic set for character disambiguation to the font, which when enabled would enable graphic features on glyphs like upper-case "i" and lower-case "l", zero and "O", and so on. Tracked here: https://github.com/rsms/interface/issues/1
does Firefox support css paged media?
Clicked on available tests, found a listing for "funimate pro lip sync"

Lip sync sounds like fun so I clicked. Was immediately presented with a test but not what I expected. Instead of a lip sync video maker, it was for a "Bitcoin Price Tracker ACrypto - Test is looking for testers. Part of the Funimate Pro Version lip sync music video maker testing family"

My trust evaporated right there.
>I really hate that O and 0 are so alike and right next to each other on QWERTY.

Damn, I never noticed that. Now I hate the typeface on my keycaps.
Lack of gold standard is not sufficient for inflation - you also need reckless monetary/fiscal government policies (abundant in the US, taking full advantage of the dollar being the reserve currency)

I was not trying to prove causation. There appears to be correlation, but obviously other factors (like government spending) are at play
Not so sure about that. Might risk these billions of coal jobs he created...
"I wouldn't be surprised if such feedback loops have been excluded from the models of climate change because they paint a picture so dire that no amount of mitigation (if there were any serious attempts at mitigation going on) could save our way of life."

If such feedback loops could be that dire and unavoidable, then they would already have happened direly and unavoidably. It has been this warm before, in the not-that-distant past by geological standards. If there's anything unusual about our current situation, it's the rate, not our current location. That does not mean that bad things or things we won't like can't happen, but we can't be sitting on a metaphorical bomb, or it would already have long since gone off.
It's not really cheaper: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing

Cache egress is about the same price as the "Standard" tier but you have to pay the $0.04/GB cache fill price as well.

The only real potential discount is Direct Peering or Interconnect, which can get it down to $0.04/GB. That's still $40/TB though.
Tech Leaders Ask the UN to Outlaw Robot Weapons
Rust uses RAII all over the place and doesn't have exceptions :).