skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EFS is terrible, the latency and throughput issues makes it useless for anything involving scientific computing/data processing. I could not disagree more, using it conjunction with GPU's makes zero sense. S3 and GCP/GS on the other hand are far better. Tensorflow "natively" support S3 and GS, i.e. if you path begins with "s3://" or "gs://" it will transparently pull from S3/GS, When used with conjunction with tf.dataset it allows you to have stateless training/processing. Tensorflow also support s3/gs for storing trained models.

Recommending EFS is a great way of signaling your ignorance about I/O.
Insulation is expensive. Furthermore, with AC you have to worry about the impedance of whatever you use as insulation. Basically the whole wire starts to act as a big capacitor, leaching power. (1)

I found some cost estimates: "The estimated cost for constructing underground transmission lines ranges from 4 to 14 times more expensive than overhead lines of the same voltage and same distance. A typical new 69 kV overhead single-circuit transmission line costs approximately $285,000 per mile as opposed to $1.5 million per mile for a new 69 kV underground line (without the terminals). A new 138 kV overhead line costs approximately $390,000 per mile as opposed to $2 million per mile for underground (without the terminals)." (2, page 17) Also, diagnosing and correcting faults is much easier above the ground than under, and you'd be surprised how often jackasses with backhoes take out underground infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic_impedance

[2] https://psc.wi.gov/Documents/Under%20Ground%20Transmission.p...
What about talk of being able to turn on any phone microphone etc
Not completely sure on this. My grandparents are into their 80s eating stuff like McDonalds, KFC, etc. reasonably often. Maybe McDonald's isn't good for you, but the bigger issue seems to be being fat
Charlie Munger: It's time for regulators to 'let up' on Wells Fargo
Israeli Startup Tempting US Tech Workers to Tel Aviv
Yes, but Toyota’s and VW’s cars run on dead dinosaurs - Tesla’s are electric.

Who cares how many combustion engines the veteran car manufacturers can peddle? Show me some EVs and I would happily buy VW.
The problems the author has still can be solved with a flexbox, it's just that a grid offers an alternative. There are justify-content and align-items properties that with a properly designed nested arrangement of flexboxes can help to create any layout that a grid can create.
this is a typical narrative of double standard.
Someone added my phone numbers on 2FA and now I am able to login to their account, without a password.
code:codes::math:maths?
Thanks. I did old-school origami (step by step guides) back in high school and have been meaning to learn how the newer "crease pattern" based stuff works. This looks like it'd be a useful tool in that pursuit.
I have blocked all of FB's allocated networks worldwide on my machine (via a look up of allocated IP space and fed into iptables / ipset).[0] So FB doesn't even get "phantom" traffic from me (indirect traffic from FB logos / js on random websites). I only log into FB a few times a year and only via a temporary VPS in another country and using an incognito browser tab.

So now FB has taken to emailing me complaining that they are missing me and that I should log in.

:)

WAYNE: I don't own A gun let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack.
STACEY: You know Wayne if you're not careful you're gonna lose me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222936

EDIT: fixed link to go direct to the comment
Why exactly should I spend my money because Facebook can't behave itself? I'm not the problem; Facebook is.
Capitalism will eat democracy, unless we speak up
Facebook can't save us from fake news
Tensorflow Playground, more of a self-driven place to play with machine learning: http://playground.tensorflow.org/
The nature of single things is decentralized. Therefore every new era starts with decentralization. The internet started off quite decentralized, for instance.

But do we really have a new era here? I'm not sure if with 32 years of age I'm already too old to recognize the New and grog it. I don't feel it. I feel there's a lot of buzz around blockchain, sure. But it looks like it would be all. Bitcoin is just as centralized as banks are, for instance.

And here is where the other stuff starts. When single things start systems these systems tend to be quite centralized. That is the natural order of systems. E.g., people could manage their own bitcoins on their laptop, but they choose to have an Exchange take that effort of their hands.

Seeing centralization take a foothold and not seeing anything real besides buzz, I'd argue the bet is still against.

On the other hand I'm seeing Amazong completely automating logistics in more and more areas of life. Shouldn't that be something to look into?
Just because you put the words antiquated and corrupt in the question doesn’t make those two things true.

Based on my somewhat brief experience as a crypto investor it hasn’t given me great hope of it solving corruption...
As I understand it one of the largest concerns in AU are the wildfires damaging circuits connecting the disparate grids. There was some conversation about replacing some of the network poles with fire resistant poles in order to try and avoid the high number of outages caused by fires during the dry season.

I'd be interested to know how that project went, and if it was successful.
I'd prefer to optimize for FPGAs over GPUs anyway.
Just reading this may have just pushed me over the edge to delete my account... except i need it to use tinder and bumble. I already havent signed in for months and i feel great. I only use messenger, but now im starting to see annoying ads polluting my messenger list.
Except for South Australia. I don't know if it was due to termites, lack of hard woods, fireproofing or an excess of steel and concrete but we embed concrete between two steel beams to create the iconic stobie pole which has doomed countless motorists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stobie_pole
Thanks a lot, wish you luck with your site!
What do you think it takes to get into affiliate market
This is not true. IE11 simply doesn't support the whole of CSS Grid, and tools like Autoprefixer don't and can't add support.

If you limit yourself to only using the parts of CSS Grid that IE11 supports, then you can write the standard equivalent to that subset and Autoprefixer will translate it for you, but you can't "just write standard grid layout", because that includes things there is no IE11 equivalent for.
You don't even have to buy the gpu's. Just rent them from AWS, Azure, and google cloud for the time it takes to carry out your attack.

digiconomist [0] estimates that current etherum mining cost is 1.7 billion a year, or 4.65 million a day, or 194,000 an hour, or 3234 a minute.

Multiply by 5 for cloud on demand premiums and you could dominate the etherum network for an entire day for 23.25 million. You could also do it for free if you can manage to do it with stolen credit cards. I'm amazed it hasn't already happened to a cryptocurrency.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
Sounds like Google Police ?
> the rule of "don't roll your own crypto".

There is no such rule in general. In many situations it might be better to use available solutions, but in others it might be better to do something different. It depends on your attack model and what you are trying to achieve.
That "etc" sure has to carry a lot of implications. For example, see their Maps data collection practices:

The data that Maps collects while you use the app — like search terms, navigation routing, and traffic information — is associated with random identifiers so it can’t be tied to your Apple ID.

Or Apple Pay:

When you use Apple Pay we don’t track what you’re buying, so we can’t build a purchase history to serve you ads.

Or Siri:

If you give your explicit consent, Apple can improve Siri and other intelligent features by analyzing how you use iCloud and the data from your account. Analysis happens only after the data has gone through privacy-enhancing techniques so that it cannot be associated with you or your account

Note the word "can't" that appears over and over. Yes Apple necessarily records some data, e.g. for streaming services. But broadly speaking, Apple couldn't sell the data to advertisers even if they chose to, because they don't have the data.
The biggest issue is actually the fact that both require a gui installer that doesn't support zfs.

Regarding rebuilding zfs isn't that done automatically when you upgrade your kernel?

On funtoo I simply don't upgrade my kernel automatically EVER and when I do its part of a script that rebuilds everything required. Little chance of misfire.

ZFS as root is actually valuable it means you can roll the entire system back at need I have no idea why you would want to give that up.
Its kinda surprising they haven't cited any evidence, I would expect they have numerous examples.
VW has the e-Golf
This is really cool. Do you know if there's something similar for Python/Django?
To break away from the newsfeed for good the most effective method is to just start unfollowing everyone and everything who appears in your feed. After a few days of satisfaction from clicking, the wall becomes 100% empty and stays so.

Much more effective than deleting your account or exercising any other kind of self-control. Good luck with having the determination to start following everyone once again -- not going to happen.
In that sense, it might actually be "safer" for an individual American to use a Chinese phone. It may be backdoored, but at least the PLA isn't going to share your vacation pics with the DEA, but the NSA might.
Hard to get through some of these statements:

> They have a long-term strategic objective to become a world power.
> Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats

O RLY? Funny, last I checked, China was a world power. Shit, China rivals the US as a world power.

> Most Americans have not heard of all of these companies.
> Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat

Surprise surprise! Well, most American's haven't heard of Acxiom either. It's always surprising how much other people don't know, isn't it?

And, FWIW, I bet more people have heard about ZTE than half the organizations that contribute to Mark Warner's campaigns. New companies entering our markets from China have to play by the same rules our own companies do, how is this any different. If it is different, why? How does this matter in the discussion of Chinese intelligence gathering. More importantly, who cares?

The fear-mongerers care, that's who.
Often times one can be average at two different things, but the combined skills make them above average.

A classic example is someone who is an average engineer and an average salesperson. This type of person is highly sought after and can make serious bank.
Yes, this is just jargon specific to the HPC / numerical analysis field.
Because Google's own ads aren't spammy... I don't really understand what WSJ is trying to say. Honestly every one of their articles about Google sounds like a unsubstantiated hit job.

It's pretty simple:

1. Do you agree with the definition of "spammy ads" defined by the coalition? If not, then what about it would you change? Is anything about it "unfair"?

2. Do you see any Google ad that breaks the rules and isn't filtered? Do you think a non-Google ad that doesn't break the rule and is filtered? If so, point me to it.

So many people claim that Google "owns" the coalition. Why does it even matter if you can't find any issue in the standard they've come up with?

If you agree with the standard, and the standard is properly enforced, then what is the problem?
This is why you take notes.
Can the blockchain really disrupt the middleman freelance platform market?
Many newly built neighborhoods do indeed have everything underground. Retrofitting older neighborhoods generally isn't worth the cost.
Very interesting approach to solve the “street with no name” problem in emerging countries. Data will be key to match first world mapping.
It's not perfect by all means, but maybe this analogy will work:

If the internet was a fast food restaurant then the surface web would be like the counter where you order and get your food.

The deep web would be like the kitchen where your food is processed. Sometimes visible, sometimes not, but nothing really secret going on. You may ask and you may get answers depending on your clearance level.

Maybe the dark web would be the secrets of the fast food restauraunt they don't want customers to know about for lots of reasons. Like the recipes, the trades, the money flow, the illegal trash dumping, how to kill the competition, that time people almost died of food poisoning, etc.
I'm now spotting fiber optic cables on different poles :) They commonly use distinguishable splice enclosures which look like this:

* https://fiber-optic-catalog.ofsoptics.com/Asset/Closure.jpg

* https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/fiber-optic-enclosure-splice...
What Remains of Chatroulette: It’s Gone to the Do(n)gs
Oh, I see. That's for the Dragon capsule. It's in orbit for a much shorter time. I can easily believe that low radiation tolerance is fine there. I wonder if they can use the same cells for a 4 year lifetime. In any case I am confident that they can use some kind of silicon cells at the lower orbits. The ISS uses silicon cells in its solar arrays.
> You also ignoring the time value of money 100 million to day is worth more than 10 million for 10 years

The lump sum is generally pretty close to what an annuity from a reputable company would cost, so the time value of money is already factored into it. Of course, you might prefer a riskier investment for higher returns, but that is really dependent on your risk tolerance, it's not a complete no-brainer to go with the lump sum.
You care about a safe front door even if nobody broke in through it yet.
What makes you think the developers have to "know tax law"?

It might be a peripheral plus for an applicant, but it's more important they are a competent programmer.

"Tax law" changes constantly - you truly cannot reasonably expect a developer to "know tax law" and be a competent programmer.
Sony made a 300+ piece coding kit for kids to bring blocky robots to life
I remember the day clearly when a case of Voodoo 2's showed up in our dorm room, 1998. Going from software rendered Quake 2, to accelerated was the beginning of the end for my grades that semester.
To be fair, anti-vaxxers do have legitimate examples of vaccines being harmful [0]. Calling them all out as crazies just reduces the communication between sides and doesn't help further vaccination promotion.

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/why-pandemic-flu-sho...
This is common at every utility. Part of the issue is based on the fact that the GIS systems do not align with the paper systems 100% and the paper systems are typically regarded as the standard.

Another problem that must be considered is that utility workers, while highly competent at their profession, are not always great with working on computers. They generally write everything down on paper and then have one of the younger linemen input the changes into the electronic records system.

Also utilities often have several record systems in place, some being GIS based, and some being mobile computer based with check in with a central database. These systems are almost never developed and worked on by the same people, so inconsistencies abound. It's normal for the inventories to diverge, and for updates to take weeks to propagate from one system to another.
> I guess this leaves email, SMS and IRC as the main remaining options.

But how are those not also vendor lock-ins?
My Voodoo 5 5500 was, at the time, and for years afterward, the best consumer level card I'd seen for OpenGL rendering. I still remember playing Diablo 2 on it and never lagging, even when insane numbers of mobs were on the screen. RIP
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Yes, agree that it could’ve been better. I think CS should always flag any conversation that involves the police and get supervisors and senior CS staff involved.
Unless there is a sufficient cultural backlash for social media _in general_ to become 'uncool'.

"Look at that loser. Spends all his time checking Instagram."

Is it Machiavellian to wonder how we could memetically inoculate children against social media?
Good... except that the reason for 44.1KHz isn't to reproduce signals up to 22.05KHz, it's to reproduce signals up to 20KHz reliably. It is possible, though improbable, to hit nothing but zero-crossing values if you sample at exactly twice the highest desired frequency. Sampling just a little more often than 2X eliminates that error; you'll always be forced to non-zero values from which you can reconstruct the original signal.
Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
Unfortunately, there are a lot of events/organizations that organize almost exclusively through Facebook. Unfortunately, there effectively no other free platforms with a critical mass of sign ups big enough to be used in that way.
I too very much appreciate this, as soon as I saw it I shared it with a couple students I mentor. Interestingly we're talking about synthesizers as an instrument and this is a great visual tool! Keep it up! I'd be happy to send a small donation for continued write-ups.
China China China China China China China China China China China China. When did this country get so popular in US?
Heads up to anyone else following the "just buy the shirt" link, it won't work unless you prefix with https://.

Working link is: https://teonite.cupsell.com/
There are some vaccines that don't make sense. The flu vaccine does not make sense to get because you still have a chance of contracting that strain after getting it and you're still as likely to get other strains and it makes you go to the doctors during flu season (a not-so-smart time to go).
As for this situation, the FCC and NSA should be the ones talking about it. Seeing network communications is easy enough (especially if you have a backdoor). Buying Huawei means you have the possibility of them spying on you and the US. I'm not too thrilled about surrendering random information to the spies...
WIP It Real Good
And the e-up! http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/up-pa/explore/e-up
When AMP was announced, I was excited about it specifically for my phone - it's where I care most about loading speeds.

These days, I actively avoid AMP links on Android. It's such a hideously buggy, functionality-disabling system on my phone that it's not worth loading those pages at any speed.
But funily, some french operators (Free, Bouygues), have enabled free roaming in switzerland as if it was the EU. I've got 25Gb of 4G roaming when I got to Switzerland.
That's not quite what I was talking about. I was responding specifically to:

> I see no reason to find out, because I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

The person was basically saying "I don't feel like checking how good AMP is, I'm just going to blindly dismiss it"
In our case, even the higher ups have their desk in the open plan. Closer to the corners of course, but still. And I think this actually contributes to the delusion of harmlessness of this environment.

Having their desk in the open plan, they're more be inclined to think they are as affected as everyone else. Except they're not, because they spend way more time in meetings, and live on the manager's schedule.

As far as I can tell, the higher ups actually do mean well. I'm not sure what drew them to the open plan, but I think cold blooded cynicism explains only a fraction of their error.
They do, at least one of them does. It's a daily occurrence. As long as it stays at 7.200 MHz, I suppose it's just entertainment. FCC enforcement (as long as you don't interface with emergency comms) is pretty much non-existent.
The only people who say things like "you can do things differently" are those who don't understand the fundamentals of crypto. (I've been one in the past)

Because once you do get to a point where you understand (You don't have to be a crypto guru or actually invent a new crypto algorithm, but just to a point where you understand how the fundamental bits and pieces work), you will find yourself saying the same thing: "Don't roll your own crypto".
This might just be my bias, but I wouldn't necessarily call a high-performance luxury car being driven by an under-occupied 19-year old a "stable asset".
It's the first "mainstream" operation which matters.
Republicans like Obama who reduced funding for the IRS multiple times while in office?
It acts as a coolant as well as winding insulator.
If you never comment on each other's posts, then you aren't interacting. However, it is a great way to "keep appraised" of how people are doing.

There are a ton of people I've met throughout my life and around the world, but only a handful with whom I want to interact regularly. FB, annoying as it is, at least let's me know if they are doing ok.
This was my textbook for an Algorithms course in school. I recently had to crack it open again to brush up on algorithms before a tech interview; I think it helped.
How does the CIA operate?
Hi Chris! Creator here, I'm a subscriber to Web Audio Weekly. Appreciate the work you do, always excited when I receive it :)
A "stable asset" is a last thing I'd call a new exotic car. They lose value super fast, as they are quintessential Veblen goods.
As of May 2018 all new cars sold in the USA are required to have video backup cameras.

If a bricked IVI unit causes that camera to not be available, I wonder if that's enough to qualify as return issue.
This is correct. Although I would say amplitude or intensity, rather than loudness: for loudness itself is a function of intensity and frequency.

At least for pure tones that aren't too high, most listeners perceive a pitch drop at higher intensities.

Both in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America:

S.S. Stevens, "The relation of pitch to intensity", Vol.
6, 1935, pp. 150-154.
http://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.1915715

W.B. Snow, "Changes of pitch with loudness at low frequencies", Vol. 8, 1936, pp. 14-19.
http://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.1915846
> is this just wishful thinking? Is storage too cheap?

Yes
This is also why I vented about Facebook's new face sign-in for "security". It was extremely obvious and expected that Facebook will use that biometric data for much more than just security, and in fact I was sure that security was just a pretext, and not even a top 3 reason for doing it.

Facebook is right up there with Uber in terms of shadiness. You can't ever trust them - they've shown us that too many times to count at this point. And there's no "earning the trust back" with Facebook, not that they would ever try to genuinely do that.

Oh, and Google does this crap with the phone number, too. This is why I hated it when they pretty much forced you to use a phone number for 2FA a while ago. They also know very well what a terrible 2FA option the SMS code is at this point. But they keep it around so they can get your phone number for advertising reasons, which I guess trumps all.
I agree, and commend how well you've noted the problems when code is written without tests. Such a codebase becomes mentally exhausting and expensive to probe into; much more expensive than the original time saved by ignoring testing practices altogether. Sure, a huge amount of legacy software may not have tests, let alone comments. Then yes, it's like where do you even begin and have any confidence in what youre testing for. But ignoring proper testing practices in new, modern codebases, especially in a business where the single product or service offering is software, is extremely risky and irresponsible. This is a little ranty because why are devs justifying not writings tests in 2018!
Here's a favorite of mine that lets you explore Fourier synthesis. Be sure to left-click for more settings.

http://toxicdump.org/stuff/FourierToy.swf

Edit: Oh, it's down. But I'll leave this here in case it's a temporary problem.