skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want that too [1] they just don't want to compete for it or deal with a "messy" internet. They've currently shut down their iAds product but I think it's likely they'll buy someone else if for no other reason that ads in mobile apps are a huge "hole" allowing revenue to escape their ecosystem.

1 - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-analytics/
Right, they are saying basically

"We are just going to assume that is the reason but we know it is sexist to assume that and not based on any hard data."

They are acknowledging that their premise is based entirely on gender roles and not on anything else, not on data they collected and not on any sort of preliminary observation.
I don't see anything contradictory here.

Media says Zuma didn't make orbit.

SpaceX says everything worked the way it should have.

I think the flaw is in the second-guessers assuming the mission was to make orbit, and not to test some kind of (laser?) anti-rocket/satellite technology.
Yes, because the people here are intelligent adults, whereas kids asking for trigger warnings are spoiled embarrassments that need to learn to confront life as it is.
Sorry, I meant trigger warning.
Walmart is taking a direct shot at Amazon and making checkout lanes obsolete
Thank you very much for this detailed reply! Made my day :)
Don't they typically test rockets in outdoors test ranges? And aren't rockets normally supposed to be able to operate outdoors?

Of course there is going to be dirt, rocks and yes, even fecal matter. What are they supposed to do, blow their hot exaust gases into a climate-controlled cleanroom?
Same price point and similar privacy invasion as a smartphone.
The internet was a special case simply because it made it possible to do a better job of predicting your interests. At that point it became an arms race because you didn't want to spend on ads that were less effective than your competitor's. If we went back to content-based advertising those ad dollars wouldn't disappear, the distribution would just change.
I was hit by a car when I was 7 years old. It was a hit and run. I was thrown into the air. Luckily, I only bruised my shoulder blade.

It was certainly my fault I was in the road, chasing a frisbee.

I can understand why the person would have run away from the scene.

I wish there was more forgiveness in society.
Bursty workloads is key here. In your opinion, what's the main challenge with existing hourly options (like Amazon's Elastic GPUs, or similar offerings from Google Cloud) - is it the management/provisioning? So, if someone made a Lambda-like service, where one would need to worry about provisioning - you think there'd be a market for that?

Btw, I found some tasks (and some algos) don't parallelize well (e.g. would get any "faster" from employing 40 GPUs instead of 4), but it would definitely make sense to be able to run multiple models (or training) in parallel. Once your needs are well understood, it's almost always significantly cheaper to build your own GPU cluster.
yes, it would absolutely be an acceptable outcome.

If they placed ads on a newspaper like they did the www (a simple static, non tracking, unobtrusive advertisement) that would be acceptable.

They need to re-tool their industry.
HN readers can be expected to know what the Book of Ecclesiastes is, and if not, to look it up in the dignified privacy of the search engine box.

Please don't do flamewars on HN. You guys have managed to produce almost half the thread at this point. That's some low-quality yield.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Many would quicker forgive an ex convict that killed a rival gang member than someone who intentionally seriously injured a child.

When has this ever not been true? People instinctively (and reasonably[1]) consider crimes to be more serious where the victim is more sympathetic or vulnerable, and vice-versa.

[1] Though they might be unreasonable in their sympathies and/or assessments of vulnerability, like a misogynist who always assumes female accusers are liars, and claims a woman punching a man is as serious as the reverse.

Or, the identity of the victim might engender unreasonable, emotional reactions: a jury might vote to convict despite the prosecution not proving the case, or the evidence pointing to a tragic accident, because the victim was a child.
Using the wrong wrench almost caused a nuclear catastrophe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...

It may seem like micromanagement, but small seemingly meaningless deviations from procedure can add up to big problems, particularly when dealing with space.
My son has (pretty severe) autism, he can tell you the day of the week for a date... pretty much any date going back to the fifties.

We (and his teachers) can't work out how he does it. I think at some point he's sat in front of a PC calendar and memorised it!
Cars are sacred in the United States. Even if you're drunk you might only get 10 days in jail: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170126/old-town/ryne-san-h...
tl;dr; They changed to matomo so that they can register the trademark.

I'm a heavy piwik-user an I love it. But this name-change sucks for me. Especially because the mysql-tables where prefixed with 'piwik' which will now be confusing.
I don't have a great deal of tolerance for any "factual oversights". If you're not certain of it, don't mention it.
In defense of PoW:

http://truthcoin.info/blog/pow-and-mining/

http://truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
I suspect it's less no response and more extremely delayed response. They added hundreds of thousands of users (maybe a million +) in the space of a couple weeks. December growth of the crypto space was absolutely massive - something like 10 exchanges have closed off new registrations. I'm sure their support is currently massively overworked and they can't hire quickly enough.
It continues to blow me away that every single electric car outside of Tesla is built to look "cool" or "futuristic" instead of simply looking like a good car. I suspect that a lot of Tesla's success is that their cars look "normal."
Here's how I fear it would play out:

A good-hearted techie becomes a singular ruler of the country. By some luck they aren't immediately deposed due to their inability/unwillingness to play internal politics. Soon they discover that just keeping that country from getting invaded by neighbours, or economically sabotaged by others, requires getting ready for war and nurturing - or even employing - the ability to project force.

Say they think "fuck it" and through smarts and few surgical strikes, they take over the world. We have one government on the planet, with one ruler. But how long will that survive, given that there will be people sowing dissent? How long will it take before the governance either dies, or turns into a dystopian story straight from Black Mirror? What will happen when the Mars colony decides to declare independence (a tech person is in charge, there will be a Mars colony)?

Or another scenario - let's say multiple techies take over the world; how fast will the planet turn into a glass desert, forever testifying to the holy war between Emacs and Vim, or JavaScript versus basic sanity?

My point is, I don't believe techies are suited to rule humanity. I don't believe anyone is. And I have no idea if a civilization-scale governance that is stable, universally good, and that would survive more than few decades, is even possible.
> "It turns out users in India can't easily make online USD purchases with credit or debit cards as it requires a special bank permission."

And people still think Cryptocurrency will not unbank the world. I am not talking only about Bitcoin, but there is a necessity for a new way to exchange value, store value and buy things without the limits that the place where you live decided to impose.
> The correct thing to do is to support politicians who work to ensure net neutrality.

I agree... we should support politicians based on their policies not based on their party, but it just so happens that the republican party is ideologically opposed to net-neutrality while the democratic party is, at a minimum, friendly towards the notion of net-neutrality, so democrats are really the only option if net-neutrality is your issue.
Accident doesn't imply it wasn't avoidable.
This was an interesting launch. Launch was delayed a couple times IIRC, at least once due to them wanting to review data from fairing tests. Classified payload, so no video of fairing separation. On the webcast, the host went silent for over a minute when fairing separation should have occurred, before coming back with

> sigh alright so we'll address the fairing deployment here in a second once we have more information

Indicating something might be up. Later he just says

> Quick sidebar, we did get successful confirmation that the fairings did deploy.

So seems like they knew something was up with the payload at that point, but that their telemetry indicated their mission was successful.

As others have noted, it was Northrop Grumman who was responsible for the payload adaptor attaching it to second stage. So unless fairing deployment or the launch damaged the payload/adaptor somehow, SpaceX would have done their part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PWu3BRxn60
My friends and I got into a debate the other night, ranking the Big Five in order of trust. While nobody really reached a consensus on what company belonged at the top (Apple was probably closest), we all agreed that Facebook was at the bottom of the list, and that they were way, way below everyone else.

There's honestly no way I would ever let Facebook have a device like this in my home (and for those wondering, I don't have Facebook on my phone).
Perhaps it needs a mow and some weeding.
"People who are CEOs of companies like Intel don’t make mistakes like this."

Right. That's because this isn't a mistake, it's a criminal act with forethought.

"That sale decreased his overall holdings by about 50 percent, bringing his ownership level nearer to what he held at the end of 2013 and at the minimum number of shares he must hold under Intel’s ownership requirements"

That's pretty much all I need to read. The guy sold every share he could possibly sell without violating any contractual agreements and company policies that are/were in place.

Give him an orange jumpsuit and be done with it.
Why do you assume that removing ad tracking would cut down on the total amount of money made on ads? Companies will still have ad budgets and they'll have to spend it somehow.
Another reason the 9/11 comparison is not so great: from a mass-social-psychology POV it was (a) very easy to blame an out-group (terrorists), and (b) the singular nature of the event represented a tremendous opportunity for a huge power-grab by the government. With traffic fatalities (a) we largely have only ourselves to blame, and (b) there is no big power-grab to be found.
Jesus, no, not at all, I have no idea why you'd jump to such wild conclusion as it's actually very informative and an important piece of information. I have no idea what sort of "emotion baggage" would cause the authors to write that, that would be really odd.

They are merely acknowledging the premise is based solely on gender roles and not any sort of data they have collected or any preliminary observations.

The alternative would be something like "we drove around town for an hour and observed that 80% of people shoveling snow at that time were men so our hypothesis is the reason for the sex difference is men do most of the shoveling. This needs more rigorous data collection to verify." Or even "in our personal experience most of the household shoveling is done by men."

It could have been worded better to be more clear.
That sounds like an absurd waste of time. Anyone who wants to do most of that can already do so, just they won't have the "luxury" of Facebook monetizing it.
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Lapland (Sweden) is about 100,000 km^2, about the same as Kentucky, although if you add Finland's Lapland, you something much more comparable to Wyoming, which is a good match density wise, too: about 2 / km^2.
For anyone looking for more technical and "inside" intel on this I suggest https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7p7ev8/official_rsp...

My explanation of choice as of today is that NG launched a refueling (dockable) sat to a previously launched spysat.
> To check this using workforce statistics you'd need to compare the fraction of white men in the workforce to what it would be with the same hiring bar for everyone.

If there was the same hiring bar for everyone, then wouldn't the a company (such as Google) who has the ability to hire only the best, end up with a distribution which matches the population as a whole?
> "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

There's a corollary here.

I think a probably-more-precise description is that corruption isn't just caused by the presence of power, it's the result of the disparity between power and wisdom.

If you increase power without increasing wisdom, you'll see more corruption. If you have absolute power, you probably don't also have absolute wisdom (if such a thing is even conceptually possible).

There's a second corollary here: Power doesn't only corrupt the one that wields it. Its mere presence can sour others. (Envy, greed, etc.)

In a similar vein, people also love to say that knowledge is power, but I think "information asymmetry" fits better.

(Also, power is inherently temporary.)
> Legally speaking, 0, since the Outer Space Treaty forbids placing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in orbit, and all spacefaring nations so far have signed.

Signing treaties didn't stop us from waterboarding torture.

> Even if the military kept things under wraps, I'm not so sure that stationing nukes in orbit would provide a significant advantage, as you would only be able to strike a particular target when it rotates under your orbit, which means you can hit a target only twice a day at fairly specific times, while ICBMs can be launched at any time.

The big benefit would be that a target can be wiped off the map without a giant "LOOK WE DID IT" flag immediately beforehand.

> We already track more than half a million pieces of space debris, with 20,000 of those larger than a softball ([2]), so I'd imagine a "secret" satellite wouldn't stay secret for long.

Space debris follows a predictable track once spotted and isn't deliberately constructed to be hard to find with visual/radar observation. This is a bit like saying stealth bombers are impossible because we can easily spot airliners.
Yet I can count the number of web sites that aren't either amp or bloated on a hand or two. In practice, nobody was doing the right thing and optimizing their sites.
Nvidia graphics drivers vulnerability
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/spacex-apparently-lost-the...

TechCrunch specifically called it out as a Space X failure:

"SpaceX apparently lost the classified Zuma payload from latest launch"

And in the story under that headline:

"The satellite was likely worth billions, according to the WSJ, which makes this the second billion-dollar plus payload that SpaceX has lost in just over two years; the last was Facebook’s internet satellite, which was destroyed when the Falcon 9 it was supposed to launch on exploded during preflight preparations in September 2016.

This could be a significant setback for SpaceX, since these kinds of contracts can be especially lucrative, and it faces fierce competition from existing launch provider ULA, jointly operated by Boeing and Lockheed Martin."
I took the survey, am a younger sibling, and have very strong memory of the questions being very fair. If I think I my hardest I can't imagine any reason another responder would have been pulled to unconsciously report wrong data on the birth order questions.
What is the advantage of using Wistia over Youtube for video hosting?
Interesting. I looked at some of these complexes - similar rents to new construction in downtown SF (and similar unit sizes). Why? Schools, maybe?
The author's immaturity aside, the buried lede here is the Jio - crazy, I hadn't heard of it. $20 for a phone with LTE, FirefoxOS fork, WiFi and 5 day battery life. I'd buy one for 3x that price!
a faker faker
There is no valid alternative to YouTube as far as similar content creation monetization. YouTube is by far the monopoly with over 50% on creator content.

It’s possible, but won’t have the same reach. Best bet would be switching to content type specific platforms like twitch.
Is this a question that has a legal answer, at least in the US where autonomous vehicles seem to be most in vogue, that what party is guilty in an autonomous vehicle accident? Because in an autonomous vehicle every person is a passenger. The only person that can be blamed at all is the pedestrian victim of the accident, no? Also, in an accident which involves two vehicles, on whom will the damages be? Certainly none of the persons in the cars, no?
What's wrong with that? The price to the first person would go up astronomically and they would get all the rights to resell it. It would be the difference of getting paid 10k upfront or 10k over the course of royalties. You would have incentive to make new works.
The Electrek Review – Tesla Model 3, a Promise Delivered – Electrek
What the “Better Ads Experience Program” Means for Your Publication
Not convinced. What about the effect of selection bias? That done probably accounts for the entire "study"
I guess this becomes an interesting discussion about who owns my browsing experience. I believe I (along with what I cede to my browser vendor) own my browsing experience. This means once the content has hit my browser it's no longer Google's domain. It rubs me weird that Google wants to stick their fingers in and control the way my browser handles results served from their service. That's really up to me (and my browser).

re: web packaging, if a new standard is being developed that will set user expectations around content delivered by a third party then fine. But to boot I'm really confused why the content requested is not the result of loading the certified URL in my address bar (which TLS has conditioned us to be privy to). And so users will become accustomed to the implications of using a service that leverages the standard and there shouldn't be any long term confusion, I guess. But let's not ignore what it is: AMP is evolving into a CDN owned by Google only focused on serving Google search results which is only even feasible because it exploits Google's scale to further lock down its search monopoly and prevent information from leaking out that might even arguably benefit users. DuckDuckGo wouldn't get the same benefit from adopting AMP because they don't have loads of internet infrastructure to play with.
> I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century.

Could we say that nuclear(and other) weapons are responsible for the bringing unprecedented world peace to the world?
For context, Massachusetts has the lowest fatality rate of all US states.
I suppose this is obvious, but evidently not to everyone: There is no example of what you describe. In fact there are counterexamples of putting cameras everywhere and still having crime. Places where there is little crime don't have, and don't need cameras everywhere.
Databricks Runtime’s New DBIO Cache Boosts Apache Spark Performance
An open letter to Elon Musk, from eelo founder
I don’t see yet how this can possibly be more than a clone of the Echo Show, but twice as expensive and with Facebook-y features. I don’t spot anything particularly significant in this article that differentiates it — even the leaked image looks similar to the hardware. I have to assume most of the price difference would come down to screen size or resolution.

In any case, it’s very interesting to think about Facebook getting into video as they are leaning into Live already. I wonder if there is also more Live programming products in the works as they continue to ramp up against YouTube, and explore content creation... but still, I don’t know many people now who video chat via FB (or any FB properties), but I’m on iOS and pretty much exclusively use FaceTime for that so I’m in a bubble there.
On the other hand, I recommend this tale if you haven't heard it:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/634/...

> In 1980, deep in a nuclear missile silo in Arkansas, a simple human error nearly caused the destruction of a giant portion of the Midwest.

Spoiler: at a critical point, it involves a technician improvising with the wrong tool.
That's an interesting one. I'd vote:

Apple > Microsoft >> Google == Amazon >> Facebook

Facebook is dead last by a mile.
> How much of this is moot given that many browsers, including Chrome, offer speculative fetching as a feature, is debatable.

There's a difference between explicit prefetching (given by html tags, ie there's intent), speculative prefetching on the same origin (you already talk to them) and speculative prefetching across the entire net (you talk to somebody new out of the blue).

Preloading search results for faster display without a local Google-side cache means that more parties know that you (IP, User Agent, cookies) are potentially interested in certain pages due to a Google search (referer header).

With the AMP cache as currently implemented (and with the TAG bundles in a future version), Google gets to know that you just got the URLs A, B and C proposed by Google. Which is no additional information for anybody, at Google or elsewhere.

If this new scheme allows rolling back some of the less fortunate effects of AMP (the visibility of the AMP cache URL, the in-page URL bar emulation as a workaround to that), all the better.
Compare the size and population of the average European country to the average US state.
Razer's Project Linda turns your phone into a laptop
Unlike deep-learning tasks, datacenter-grade (Tesla) GPUs don't have an advantage in mining over much cheaper consumer GPUs. As an example, a cloud-based server with dual Tesla P100 would get you 120..125 MH/s on ETH, and would cost $2,500 per month. Or, I can build a rig with consumer GPUs (1060/1070) for under $2,000 (one-time).

Interestingly, you cannot run consumer GPUs in a datacenter, as Nvidia driver terms prohibit it.
"The notion that women might shovel snow with less risk is an intriguing one that just might make a good study."

Is it really sexist to just point out the obvious answer? Women have their men go out and shovel the snow.
They tend to be speed targets in many places, because if you drive under (or at) the speed limit in many places, you'll get hassled by aggressive drivers behind you, creating a more dangerous situation than if you sped up instead.

(Based on my experience driving in the US, at least.)
That's a brilliant product.
Assuming it's reliable and user friendly, that's the kind of product I'd give my parents (or even grand mother) so that they can easily video chat with the rest of the family.
I can recommend The Economist (if you are willing/able to pay). Top-notch succinct writing, an audio version and a wide selection of articles. I always thought that it focuses too much on politics (which does not interest me that much), but every issue has still plenty of articles that I find compelling.

Another benefit of paying for what you read: you feel obligated to use that source instead of mindlessly browse online
Activism might be a better term.
I'm glad to hear that this story was fake! I never looked it up, just heard her retelling of it.

Regardless, the story wasn't the point of my comment. The reaction I have as a dad vs pre-parenthood is the point. Where I live is the sex-trafficking capital of my state, which probably heightens my reactions, too. The problem is real and pervasive, fake news not withstanding.