skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't expect them to mention him in the article:

> In The Netherlands, there has been an increasing trend for cold bathing over the past few years. Part of this growing popularity is owed to the scientific approach of a health and mindset technique hallmarked by cold-exposure as created by an individual named Wim Hof, nicknamed the Iceman for his ability to remain constant body temperature in extreme cold conditions.[25] These methods involving concentration, breathing and cold-exposure have shown to modulate the immune response.[26] These findings served as inspiration to design the present trial and its popularity facilitated recruitment of over three thousand participants in just one month time.

I tried, but honestly I half-assed it because it was both difficult to set up and uncomfortable, so I was unsuccessful in implementing any Wim Hof-like protocol.
The Austin location [1] was close to Dell's Round Rock campus but it seems most of the maker activities I hear about are in Central or South Austin 15+ miles away.

[1]: https://goo.gl/maps/39QQvxgc3f32
People who take cold showers are just as sick, but call off work less? Maybe it's because the misery from the cold water masks the misery from the illness?
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Why is the robot wearing Plimsolls? Compliance and/or friction at the contact surface?
I used to be passionate about computers, but it's hard to sustain passion after 35 years — these days I'm merely affectionate.
when is it starting? waiting for 30 minutes now. just like there cars. everything is delayed.
Yeah owlet does seem like a strange product for most people. A cynic would say it's a money grab for anxious parents. You can get medical grade monitors for high risk kids where SIDs is likely. But hopefully they get their 510k and show clinical utility as well as help research SIDs in general with expanded access.
That's the only thing that never works when the first stage is landing on the ship
It's fun to speculate about how other clouds do things :)

> There's absolutely no way that they would get the performance I'm seeing from an emulated disk. We're talking to real hardware, exposed via PCI passthrough.

There's a wide spectrum between "emulated" and "real hardware, exposed via PCI passthrough". Passing through to PCI hardware, in and of itself, gains you very little in terms of absolute guest-visible performance versus eliding all VMEXITs via other means, but it has other important characteristics that I suspect AWS very much wants in the c5 family.

> I would assume it's something like "NVME interface hardware" + "ARM CPU which implements the EBS protocol" + "25 GbE PHY", but that guess is based solely on "that's how I would design it".

I would expect something along these lines, although I'd be a little surprised if they bothered putting the NVMe bits down in silicon. My personal guess would be a good silicon DMA engine and PCIe interface married to sufficient general-purpose processing (ARM SoC, FPGA, etc.) to keep pace with the NVMe Command/Completion queues.

Regardless of how they've implemented it, the end-to-end result seems to hang together very nicely. Kudos to the team at AWS.

(note: I work on Google Compute Engine's hypervisor; my speculation about AWS really is speculation about how they'd do this — the two companies have very different engineering approaches, so I may be entirely wrong trying to project onto theirs — like I said at the top, it's fun to try :)
Clicking the play button just takes me to the (down) Tesla page.
Shazam giving me zip, sadly.
Their events are always delayed
Does this work better than Google's on-device face detection? I was experimenting with it yesterday and it seems to work pretty well, even in low light.

https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/a...
I believe it was meant to launch at 2000 PST, that's when it was counting down to.
What makes work meaningful or meaningless
I really wish they'd just use Twitch. Twitch can handle tens of thousands of viewers on esports matches. I'm sure it can handle some thousands of nerds wanting to look at trucks.
These are two very different things
Joel Runyon's Cold Shower Therapy is an awesome introduction, at least for certain types, which includes me.

https://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-therapy

I've taken cold showers regularly for years. One of the best things I've done for myself -- creating discipline, self awareness, etc. at zero cost in money or time.
People really decided to hate Peter Thiel during the last election. But he is right about the fact that you can’t do anything in the physical world in the United States anymore.

Between housing and real estate prices, insurance, taxes, lack of government support, environmental protections, requirement to pay for health insurance for employees,layers of regulations, minimum wage laws, sexual harassment lawsuits (it only takes one and your company is over)...you just can’t operate a physical space with drills, laser cutters, saws, advanced electronics and machinery at a profit in America anymore.

TechShop was the last gasp of American industry having any sort of future. With Tech Shop, we can also probably say good bye to a good deal of real trade skills people learn at these locations. They really tried to make it work. I have spoken to some of their founders myself - The amount of work it takes to set up even one of these facilities is simply staggering. If I were to show you the spreadsheets, business plans and research these guys invest to open ONE shop it genuinely rivals that of a full startup per location.

My heart really breaks.

There are a few companies able to survive with physical presences like this in the Bay Area now, but they are all backed by the power of Jabil, Flextronics, Autodesk. Some small indie chain can’t make it in these conditions.

Unfortunately, we can expect more of this as a country. We are one recession away from a full republican route (they are doing a spectacularly awful job and deserve to be thrown out) and all signs are pointing to a fully socialist government being next in line.

Socialist governments are not known for their desire to roll back worker protections, undo environmental protections and regulations, nor is their focus on enabling businesses. Although I will say Canada seems to be doing better than us in many ways when it comes to accelerating genuinely valuable little companies like TechShop.

I am genuinely beginning to advise people to consider moving to Asia where innovation is able to happen, it won’t be done in a America anytime soon.

Between Trump and his socialist successor - and the wonderful incompetent state of California I don’t have a good feeling about American innovation anymore.
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How are they doing this without triggering a browser prompt to allow my location to be sent by browser? The result for me was very accurate. Why wouldn't all the ecommerce sites use this method? I keep denying their prompts to access my location otherwise.

https://location.teslamotors.com/geoip/v1.0.3/city/
They informed employees of the shutdown as they were firing them. This was a few days AFTER they revoked the employees insurance benefits without notice or explanation. Those same employees were also told that they're unlikely to get their final paycheck.

As for me, I was suckered into pre-paying for $500 worth of classes that I'll never be reimbursed for. So many people who's livelihoods depended on their facilities were completely blindsided. Members who had been there for years were told they had hours to remove their belongings or they would be confiscated. The whole thing is a complete mess.

All of this just a few weeks after opening a brand new location in Brooklyn. I simply can't comprehend the level of negligence and mismanagement here.
Looks like they using Akamai.

a23-56-119-116.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com

Fail, using an old version of NGINX 1.10.2 and no HTTP/2 support enabled.
yeah, my bad, I guess it's not a shortcut
To partners, sure. What sort of partners ? If I start a company and show up at the door, would they just give me the datasets ? Would those data sets be in useful formats ? if you are seriously telling me those data sets are easy to get, let's talk because I know what to do with them.
They probably use an IP database, like MaxMind.
That just looks like Maxmind's GeoIP. https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/whats-new-in-geoip2/
Up from 30% in 2016, nowadays 40% of the instances on Azure run Linux

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-says-40-percent-of-al...
Shazam/Soundhound aren't giving me anything.

Given it's short loop I'd guess it's either a royalty-free piece they purchased or it was commissioned.

That said, if you like the style, give Ronald Jenkees a try:

https://ronaldjenkees.bandcamp.com/
>> another 2% improvement

2% is HUGE at this point, at least on the datasets that I am familiar with - ImageNet, MS-Coco, PascalVOC etc. And at this point, any modifications or strategies that gets you the 2% improvement is noteworthy, and I know that people in my team are looking forwards to techniques that will give us these improvements.
It's actually every 10 seconds.
This is just terrible. We need more, not less, access to tools in our society.

We joined with a few other startups to offer something to the members who were affected.

glowforge.com/techshop
Humble apologies, did not remember...
wow.. why would that be in the JS? synchronized onscreen graphics?
Sure. Can we see an example of Deep Learning used to create a regular CRUD app?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15705072
Sorry to be pedantic, but tax avoidance is completely legal and encouraged. Tax evasion is illegal.

In the former, you make legal financial decisions that minimize your tax burden, in the latter, you illegally hide your wealth. It's not always black and white, but the distinction is important.

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2013/01/22/what-is-the-difference-bet...
IMO tech has simply become the dominant form of media. People who would earlier spend 3 hours/day watching TV might now spend 4 hours/day on Netflix/FB/Twitter etc.

The fundamental problem is not tech, it is the incentives of those who pay for the media we consume. Advertisers pay for media and it is in their interest to make the medium as addictive as possible. And when there is enough money to be made as an employee or shareholder of ad companies like FB/Google, people look the other way as long as they benefit.

The root problem is simple greed, and its a very old problem. Things are not going to change anytime soon as long as people are able to rationalize doing a small amount of evil for enough money/prestige. (not to say I wouldn't do the same)

Thats why these discussions seem pointless to me. Ultimately the people paying/investing in a company decide how a company operates, and they do not give a f* about the next article telling us how bad the product is. Even ordinary shareholders will happily buy FB stock if its projected to go up, nevermind why that is. When you operate within an economic system that is built solely to optimize revenue... it optimizes revenue, at all social costs.
I wonder if it'll come round on SpaceX FM? http://www.spacexfm.com/

They have a lot of custom audio for bits and pieces like this. It's a neat little loop though, and I want it.
It's probably Tesla running nginx, not akamai.
> I would expect something along these lines, although I'd be a little surprised if they bothered putting the NVMe bits down in silicon.

You and Colin both know they bought Annapurna Labs, right?

We don't have to speculate _that_ much about what is probably going on here...
>As far as I see it, if you sell to residents of Washington, you have a presence in Washington.

The Supreme Court disagrees.

The buyer still owes use tax if their state requires it. But the out-of-state seller with no nexus in the state has no obligation to collect that tax or provide information under most circumstances to the state in which the purchase was made.
This live stream consistently causes the first crash I’ve noticed in ages: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418059. Yes, when you use Firefox Nightly as your browser it does just occasionally cause trouble. But mostly it’s just awesome.
From Perth, Western Australia:

$ ping 9.9.9.9 -c 10
PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=1.014 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=1.038 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=1.023 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=0.918 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=0.968 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=1.121 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=57 time=0.946 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=7 ttl=57 time=0.978 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=8 ttl=57 time=1.001 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=9 ttl=57 time=1.140 ms

--- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.918/1.015/1.140/0.067 ms
I am the OP, and you just about summed it up.

If I wish to ascertain the current status of the universe and the human ways of interacting with it, then any day, give me physics, math, brainscans, and controlled experimentation rather than longwinded twaddle from some dude believing his random personal ramplings to be somehow normative.
I take cold shower just for the wakefulness. Always beats the morning coffee for me.
You know I suspect there's going to be a whole lot of cool tools cheap on the market real soon now ... go out there and start your own, don't complain because someone else isn't
I belonged to the Redwood City TechShop for a year and was surprised five years ago seeing a TechShop planned for Raleigh, NC when we were thinking of moving to RTP. I'm not sure that it ever opened, it didn't last long.

We ended up in Winston-Salem, NC instead, and I look forward to checking on Mixxer when it opens, $550/year, https://wsmixxer.org/. Winston-Salem has a big arts community, might be an interesting place.
Probably a better fit with Disney or Comcast. Verizon needs to work on Oath first.
Shouldn't be an issue - not all trucks are long haul, lots of trucks do pickup & delivery and never leave the city they're in.
Can we talk about that music?
So package from China to USA costs much much less than other way around because of an International treaty. More details on treaty is in this article but I still don't get it why this treaty was made in first place: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...
I wouldn't be surprised to see deep learning optimize a GraphQL backend by indexing and caching queries as needed.
Sorry for the late reply. stringr does a pretty good job (though I like how python handles strings better).
Can't get anything from tesla.com, but this livestream works!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvJV1AqRd8g
Asking for an email to watch? For something like this? Are they planning to spam people after to try and sell product? Some marketing manager is being a bit old company on this one.
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Slight tangent--

I think 1-4 stars is the ideal rating style. I wish that were used more often.

A choice of 1-4 stars gives you enough freedom to express your opinion, without being overwhelming. It's a small enough range to be reasonably objective (almost everybody will interpret it as 1 star = bad, 2 = passable, 3 = good, 4 = great). And with an even number of choices there's no middle "meh" option -- you're forced to make a choice between 2 and 3.

Of course it's important not to ruin it by adding extra options, like 0 stars or half-stars. (That was Ebert's big mistake!)

Edit to add: to relate this to the parent post, I'm thinking that maybe ranking things as 1-4 stars in several categories could be the best if both worlds.
Hence Prop 13 in California--which lots of folks here complain about on a regular basis.
It's as if race and gender are the only important forms of diversity...

There are many other more important ways to be diverse that we are unable to acknowledge because we're so focused on a narrow definition of diversity.
and even a mild case of death can kill you...be careful out there!
So because one company hardly anyone has heard of went out of business, likely due to mismanagement, that means there is an imminent Socialist revolution?

Yeah.... thats.... just nonsense.

Makerspaces are very much still a thing, we have a thriving one here and I live in a small town.
Your ISP sold your location.
and then read this

I read that and it seemed to end abruptly, so I looked for a full version elsewhere on the internet. No, that's the full version. Why did you link to it? It's like half a story a child would write.

As for men using power for sex, well yeah. That's why we're humans and not still lungfish.
So, to 'win' the bet, you give them drugs.
That seems reasonable for a box truck or similar. I'm skeptical about a semi though. I'm sure there are some use cases, just not convinced it's a significant percentage.

It also rules out consecutive/night shifts with a second driver.

Edit: Product page says 300 miles standard, but a 500 mile option: https://www.tesla.com/semi/?new
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I think a better control group would have been a group who had to bash their thumb with a hammer or something....
> There are a few companies able to survive with physical presences like this in the Bay Area now, but they are all backed by the power of Jabil, Flextronics, Autodesk. Some small indie chain can’t make it in these conditions.

Why do they need to be in such an expensive place then? Go somewhere they can actually afford, like most of the rest of the country.
That's why I said ARM for the EBS protocol handling rather than MIPS. :-)

I guessed a hardware NVMe interface because that seems like something which could be acquired more or less off-the-shelf, thus minimizing the engineering risks.
It was founded after that era. (Though it's part of that lineage simply because it features a lot of former TechCrunchers.) All the sites I listed launched around 2005-2007, during the Web 2.0 years.

Sites like Pando and The Information really fit in a different category—they're built less around aggregation like Mashable and company were upon launch, and more on original reporting.
It's got a 500 mile range, which is pretty decent, compared to the rumored 300 mile range.
> the "shadow" government (i.e. the career government workers) would end up manipulating members of the body to a greater or lesser extent.

Certainly a risk, but we have already have a similar shadow government of congressional aids and special interest lobbyists today. I think this can be mitigated to some degree by providing funding and resources for self education, but this is something that would need to be taken under consideration as the system was designed and measured as the system was implemented.
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I don't think they're talking about a backyard shed. More like a distribution business with a fleet of 50 trucks, a well-equipped garage and a full-time mechanic.
I have been pointing out that the ad bubble also affects housing prices for a while now.
I agree with you, but I think it's more than just greed. These companies consist of many employees. Depending on how you look at it, all those employees are contributing to the problem indirectly by working for the company. So one question that comes to mind is are these employees greedy too? What about the interns that get minimum wage? Are they not simply trying to make a living?

So I think the first part of your comment is more accurate in the sense that people rationalize things.

In that regard, I think we should look at schools emphasizing values in terms of work ethics. When I was in college I took a business ethics class. I realized that was the first time in my entire education that I was learning things about anything even remotely related to this subject, not to mention, the class was optional. That's a sad thing to happen in only the last years before entering the permanent work force.
The point is, structural disadvantages are perpetuated and worsened by people and behaviors that are not specifically discriminatory or hateful themselves. Of course the mechanism is usually related to discriminatory or hateful views held by someone at some point.

I don’t like the conflation of terms either. But I see a lot of people talking past each other (“racism isn’t a big deal because most people aren’t racist anymore,” and “racism is a major problem in America because of structural inequality”). Parent got close to explaining how these statements are true at the same time, and I wanted to point it out.
Product page up now: https://www.tesla.com/semi/?new
Which of these ideas is good?
They’re gone
I largely agree, I think it's almost always individualistic. I know many 40+ guys who's combination of experience and passion will nearly always trump a similar guy in his 20's. Then it's a "simple" RoI calculation of if you need experience in that position or not.

I was mostly trying to provide a counterbalance to the "older is always better" opinion I've seen as well. I was lucky enough early in my career to have a myriad of stellar mentors - both old and young, and learned to simply listen to what folks have to say.

As I get older I do understand how hard it is to keep up with the latest thing in tech, while also handling other responsibilities in life. I almost always tend towards the grumpy guy ranting about the latest fad, so this comment is largely out of character!

I thought I'd toss it in my earlier comment - but it's also selection bias at play here. The guys in their 40's looking for work are likely of a different type than those in their 20's. The stellar candidates who have decades of career behind them typically have a strong social network that places them before they even look at a job board. This is an area where I feel ageism is very real, and kind of terrifies me a little should I find myself in that position.
For a lot of what I do (large-scale, scientific computing), C++ is exactly what I need: it's expressive/compact when I need it to be, and its compile-time metaprogramming lets me do things faster in ways no other language can.

For testing and interactive analysis, I can easily use pybind11 to generate bindings. And because python integration is so easy, I can know many other people will be able to use it.

That's the balance I like best.
it just crashed. elon will be pissed
Flexible grid tutorials for front end
This is Tesla’s big new all-electric truck – the Tesla Semi
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The truth has always been fuzzy/slippery. There never was a golden age of unbiased nothing-but-the-correct-truth journalism. The only change now is it's a little more obvious.
Important to note that it did not find any reduction in illness days. Meaning, they examined both whether participants got sick and whether they took the day off from work, and only found a reduction in the latter.

“The contrast between the results of both primary outcome parameters is suggestive of the fact that the intensity rather than the duration of symptoms is modulated by the intervention.”

My conjecture is this is consistent with a placebo effect. Placebos can make your symptoms feel less severe.
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