skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"an outdated assembler language"

While I think many folks here would argue that assembler is outdated in general, the specific form of assembler used in the Voyager probe is probably considered outdated by any reasonable standard.
It's also hell to debug as it silently always works and propagate.

It's good for unit testing though.
Reading between the lines:

> The Tesla brand name takes this seriously. Question the headlines, opinions, etc.

> You are safe using Tesla. What happened to this person won't happen to you.

> The driver made some questionable decisions; the blame isn't uniquely Tesla's. Other safety mechanisms not under Tesla's control also failed.

> Statistically, Tesla Autopilot is safer than not using Autopilot.

> We accept that we will not be able to prevent all deaths. You need to too. Telsa has saved lives in addition to taking them. Focus on this please.

> We care about safety.
As a person who reads papers and is (seemingly) confident in their ability to debunk claims that manipulate data, could I ask your advice?

How do you approach hot-button questions in health-related fields? I find it hard to navigate the deluge of information out there related to keeping in good health re: diet, exercise, personal routines and habits, etc. It feels like there are so many conflicting opinions, all with people trying to influence your behavior and nudge you towards living one way or another. Weasel words, twisted data, fake news, or whatever you want to call it seem to be a big part of this, too.

To relate to this specific post, I'm taking a course as part of my EE degree right now on EM Wave Propagation and even that prof gave a little talk about the negative health risks of cell phones, which I found... odd, to say the least. I still don't know what to make of his cautionary words, or whether I should take them to heart.

I feel ignorant and naive, and am unsure of how to live my life at times. What do you do to navigate all of this?
If the environment variable HISTCONTROL contains the keyword ignorespace, then commands starting with a space won't be saved in the history list; usable in situations like this. (Of course, the command will be visible in the process list, so if you are on a shared system, it is still not a good idea)
We have started our Seed fundraising round two weeks ago
ut the way we are undertaking this fundraising round is somewhat different.

Would love to get feedback from the HN community.
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Since we launched Zest.is one year ago, we have been able to create a professional and influential content arena driven by 16k weekly active members operating around the world as a cohesive and coordinated elite unit.

After such a crazy period, with no external funding and with the support from hundreds of amazing volunteers, we decided to start raising money to support the platform's substantial growth in a cross vertical manner and meet the demands of both our community and potential clients.
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Raising funds with a twist of lemon:

In contrast to the standard format used in the start-up world, we decided to share intimate information in order to reach the right eyes and to open a new channel that is transparent and authentic, while documenting the growth process and receiving ongoing feedback.

Beyond data and demographics, in our Investor Dashboard, you will also find our Investor Deck and the Onepager. Open to the general public.

Our tagline for this round is: “Open for All”.
Not in the crowdfunding aspect of it but as a part of our sharing and openness mindset.
https://investor.zest.is/
> I.e., the called function should not make any assumptions how the memory was allocated, what is its lifetime

It needs to at least make the assumption that the memory will not be invalidated while the function did not return. In the presence of multi threading that in itself might already be surprisingly hard to guarantee sometimes. Also typically functions make assumptions about the immutability of things in such cases which are often just not true.
> As a recruiter, I saw companies spam every candidate with a coding exercise only to never review many applications w/ completed exercises.

I'm really sorry you had that experience. For what it's worth I've sat on the other side of the fence: spent a couple of hours working on something only to hear nothing in response. It sucks.

I hope I made it clear above, but my very strong recommendation is that if somebody has sent in a solution to a coding assessment, then you should be taking the time to give them personalised feedback rather than some stock response. If that didn't come across then I apologise.
"DISCUSS THIS ON TWITTER/whatever AT https://t.co/aesou02"

But some of us refuse to use Twitter for such purposes and won't click on shortened/anonymized URLs from strangers in any case.
Nearly all real time games do something similar (though in the past I’ve skipped stuff like message packing). I’m definitely interested in digging through this to see what they’ve done differently. Is there anything unique about SL’s reliable UDP implementation? I don’t believe the same system was carried over for Sansar.
"I know you are, but what I am I" doesn't excuse Israel for its crimes. The US isn't excused either - that's the whole point I'm making: no special treatment.

And yes, Israel does have a drone assassination program - that's where the US got the idea for theirs. The US Hunter and Pioneer UAV systems are direct derivatives of Israeli models, etc.
He was ordered deported 8 years ago, but was allowed to stay temporarily. I think the case for him to stay should be heard by a judge who could overrule that order, according to the law.
Making value trade-offs between competing criteria ultimately boils down to hard ethical choices (not exactly paradoxes)
Hallucinating faces with Dlib's face detector model in PyTorch
This is interesting, I wonder if this the same encryption used to encrypt app store apps as well, I believe on iOS the kernel extension is fairplay, it would be interesting to know if someone tried to decrypt an app without a jailbroken device.
Typically you can always just add a URL manually.
you open the wall. You can remove the tiles from the drywall surrounding the cistern.
CDN77 is pretty awesome
> EVEN AS A COLLEGE STUDENT I'm not going to do your coding assessment for free. There are plenty of workplaces that skip such bullshit and instead they talk with people and take a quick look at Github/past experience. I have more important things to do and recruiters keep emailing me about interviews every week.

Great: I'm really pleased for you, and I hope you have a fulfilling career. But all you're telling me is that if you don't respond to the invitation I've sent you then you don't want the job I'm advertising that much. And guess what? I'm selecting against people who don't want the job I'm advertising that much.

Now here's an interesting thing that I've spotted before on HN: the silent majority have upvoted me, but a few commenters have taken me to task. Clearly I'm not suggesting that the majority are always right (the majority of people used to think the world was flat and look how that turned out), but it's certainly worth further consideration.
>>I do have empathy. The nations surrounding Israel unfortunately do not.

Some intellectual honesty please? The two nations with the largest land border with Israel I.e Jordan and Egypt both recognize and have diplomatic relations with Israel.

>>The Arabs refuse to accept a Jewish Homeland

The question is a Jewish Homeland under what borders? The problem with Israel is that it was never ever content within it's borders. That was adequately demonstrated 7 years after it's independence when it invaded Egypt in 1956 to annex Sinai and double its territory. If not for Eisenhower putting sense into Ben Gurion.[1] The Arabs are right fully scared to recognize any entity that has no intention to define its final borders and keeps annexing land outside the UN plan. The Israeli claim of being "provoked" into capturing land also doesn't hold any water as the Sinai campaign of 1956 shows.

[1]https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-israel-gave...
At times, however, underdeveloped social connections are also important.

The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet (TED, 14m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFgtI7nt6Q4&t=2s

"We often find ourselves stuck in narrow social circles with similar people. What habits confine us, and how can we break them? Organizational psychologist Tanya Menon considers how we can be more intentional about expanding our social universes -- and how it can lead to new ideas and opportunities."
Typical toilets here look like this (before/after): https://www.bauen.de/media/media/Ratgeber/Ausbauen/Bad/Vorwa...
That’s true, but ostensibly you only use it in places where you expect nulls and don’t intend to debug anything. That’s why Smalltalk, C#, CoffeeScript, and probably JS and TS soon have null chaining.
Technical Protection Measures.
"Status: Flight Proven" -- fair enough! ;)
So all prankster would have to do is curve a lane line into a wall and game over?
True, they know this number, it is public and has been ratified by transit authorities; see pages 10-11: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2016/INCLA-PE16007-7876.PDF
Semi-related, here is a really interesting article: "Unexplained communication between brain hemispheres without corpus callosum"(2011)[0]. The article also references the electromagnetic theory of consciousness[1].

[0]: http://www.kurzweilai.net/unexplained-communication-between-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_theories_of_co...
Do you share your computer with other people - kids, significant other, other family members? I find that has really ruined google's ability to consistently suggest me useful things across its products. My 8 year old daughter has especially ruined youtube for me.
> You are confusing the now invalid internal state with the continuing existence of an accessible object at the old location.

I'm not confusing anything, and the spec very explicitly notes that a moved-from object is in a "valid but unspecified state", not in an invalid state.

> The standard guarantees that the object is still around.

The standard's guarantees are significantly stronger than that, and furthermore

> But because its data got stolen, its internal state must now be something invalid or empty depending on the semantics of the object.

That is absolutely not a hard rule, a trivial move constructor is a copy constructor and does not affect the moved-from object in any way.
'The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind' Returns from Madness
...just that it should be held to modern western moral standards and accountability with regards to human rights..

You remember posting that, right?

Israel does have a drone assassination program - that's where the US got the idea for theirs. The US Hunter and Pioneer UAV systems are direct derivatives of Israeli models, etc.

Citations for that?
Meanwhile:

http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reporte...
There was also a great original series episode with a similar plot, in which Spock performs a Vulcan mind meld with a machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(Star_Trek:_The...
Sugar may help heal wounds resistant to antibiotics
Well, if they hadn't given in to WebDRM, WebAssembly, and the rest of it, and had stayed with the pre-Australis Firefox, developing that in logical directions for a web browser, not a do-everything-program, it would have been good. Then again, I'm also opposed to the multiprocess nonsense, and to this day I only use a single-process browser.
You are working under dangerously incorrect assumptions. JavaScript data structures are all mutable, except some primitives.
A little PSA: there is some evidence that magnesium can help prevent/cure acute noise-induced hearing loss. Google returns several reputable studies.

Also: earplugs, earplugs, earplugs. I keep foam earplugs on me at all times. I have some in my fifth pants pocket, I keep some in a pill container on my keyring, some in my backpack, in my car, etc. I cut them in half; the half size fits easier and takes up less space, and the slightly lower sound attenuation is actually more useful for me in most circumstances.

I go through a lot of ear plugs this way, and a few years ago I realized that some of them degrade over time such that they become roughly half as effective. The closed cell foam seems to wear out somehow. I started wearing these degraded plugs more and more often, to the point that I now wear them most of the time. Always when I'm out of the house, and most of the time at home as well. They can be cleaned by soaking in alcohol. Alcohol works well on ears too, but most people's ears need no or very sparse cleaning.

I've worn these low-performance earplugs nearly non-stop for years now and my hearing has recovered some of the sensitivity of my youth. When I started leaving them in all the time I was a bit like an elderly person, asking people to repeat themselves frequently. This went away as my sensitivity improved, and after maybe six months my plugged hearing was as good as my formerly unplugged hearing.

Now I kinda feel naked without them. If I'm doing something loud, like working on a table saw, I'll put in fresh ear plugs, or wear extra protection like muffs.
Yes, college is a vacation for them, because all of the work was done before it. Just by making it in, they've qualified, and college is their rest period before going into full-on career life.
So... You need to basically use your phone at night so much that you get sleep deprivation (!) before any of these risks kick in.

I feel like these articles are really dumb, and I'm not even very smart. I feel sorry for really smart people having to put up with these kind of articles. Must be like torture to see all stupidy dripping off the page. :)
This is one of the weirder things I’ve ever read here and I read a lot of strange behaviors here. You wear earplugs full time man, that’s not normal, you are missing out on unimpeded hearing due to a fear of hearing loss that likely is not based on science. Normal level sounds don’t degrade hearing as far as I know and loud sounds aren’t that common, certainly not enough to warrant wearing earplugs full time.

https://www.american-hearing.org/disorders/noise-induced-hea...

You could expose yourself to 8 hours a day of a lawnmower at 90 dB and 90% of the population would be fine.
A personal attack like this is a bannable offence on Hacker News. We've had to warn you about this before. If you do it again, we will ban you.

It's fine to have anti-war views (as do many in the military, btw). Not fine to take them out on a fellow community member.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just cancelled my Model 3 reservation based on the way this is being spun.
I have had the same solution to the same problem for enough years now that I finally realized I could have just invested in some custom in-ear monitors and pay it back in terms of new headphones purchased after non-replaceable cables wear out. I did that over 4 years ago now and haven't regretted it yet.

https://jhaudio.com if you're looking for a specific recommendation, but there are many alternatives.
autopilots do a bit more than maintain course, they can basically execute the entire flight-plan in between takeoff & landing, which includes plenty of heading adjustments. They also increasingly do a fair bit of heavy lifting on landings as well.
oh wait, did you evert the expressions (turn inside out) so that each function gets passed a continuation (a function to call with the return value)?

then each of the multiple returns is just another call to this implicit continuation.

just saying - not trying to defend RNRS, I think they kinda wandered off into the wilderness. its also kind of sad that high level language designs get wrapped around these kinds of implementation issues when ostensibly they are abstractions well above the fray.
This compression analogy is really a bad one. A much better analogy would be: If you read 10 novels by a particular author, and are now able to recognize his/her style, because you have a compressed representation in your mind of the way they write.
The quartz article is reporting on the peer review of the resarch, not the research itself. The independent experts who reviewed the paper decided that the results of the research were understated.

This is made very clear in the quartz article:

A re-evaluation of the data

When the draft results of the papers were published earlier this year, all results were labeled “equivocal,” meaning the study authors felt the data weren’t clear enough to determine if the radiation caused the health effects or not. But the panel of peer reviewers (among them brain and heart pathologists, toxicologists, biostaticians, and engineers) re-evaluated the data and upgraded several of the conclusions to “some evidence” and “clear evidence.”
Perhaps you are unaware of the recent issues around Corbyn and Momentum?
The Veek – Re-Inventing the Week
It broke in the input for the phone housing. Very hard fix.

I'm very experienced with soldering, but a bit clumsy with mechanical details. I tried, and actually fixed the cable, but the phone housing never quite fit well again.

Also, I decided after this to only go with bluetooth phones. Detachable-cable Shure phones have bluetooth options and I'm going with it as soon as I have the money.
Anyone know how this differs from RTP?

I haven’t worked with either but did review the RTP spec, and many of these features appear similar.

RTP also has some multicasting features built in for broadcast delivery, which can be useful in certain contexts.

Edit: the reason I ask is that RTP is getting wide scale deployment and testing as it’s being used for WebRTC.
This just applies to adults. Children and teenagers naturally sleep longer than adults and probably slept throughout the night. Plus, apparently people didn't all get up at the same time during the night. Some would be up from midnight-2am, others from 2am-4am, etc.
Late edit: According to https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/tesla-says-autopilot-wa... Tesla has no record of his complaints.
Great! Thanks Chris. Look forward to the white paper.
What "petty screeds"? You're imagining things, just like you're imagining that most people want illegal aliens in their country.

An opinion goes against your indoctrination so you cry out an accusation.
You see this is a struggle - you either keep up working against your body or you are out. People who are not night owls don't have to do all that. I don't think you should dedicate your life to keep sleep schedule that is not compatible with your body - this is a dead end and recipe for depression to say the least. Instead of making living a chore I decided to accept my situation and adapt - that means I now do freelancing and I am able to set my work hours as I see fit. I have never been happier, but that means I am unable to undertake "normal" work anymore.
The crimes of the US don't excuse the crimes of Israel. I don't know why that's so hard for some people to grasp.

Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing#Use_by_Israel

https://www.army-technology.com/features/featureuav-evolutio...

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/31/582099085/journalist-details-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killings_by_Israel_De...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/books/review-rise-and-kil...

“Since World War II, Israel has assassinated more people than any other country in the Western world.”
> I am glad that the Jewish community has an actual home today and wholehearted support that.

For me, it is actually sad that Herzl is constantly being proven right, even today.

Especially since these days, Western societies seem to pride themselves as being tantamount liberal, going as far as creating safe-spaces for seemingly every thinkable minority.

Yet, when one minority is being racist and physically attacking another minority, the same societies seem to be befuddled. The society's majority appears inapt to apply their enlightenment standards to minorities as they apply it to their own group.

Don't know if "identity politics" is the right framing for this, but the "tantamount progressiveness" of our societies loses much of its credibility, when the values of the Enlightenment aren't brought forward to protect these values, but just to attack your opponent.
MIDI Music Box
Thanks!

I'm definitely not an audiophile and I listen mostly to voice podcasts, such as NPR programming. Besides sound quality, is there any real advantage on these over low-end, detachable-cable Shure?
Thanks for sharing.

First thought is that I was disappointed with a google login blocking access. I used a throwaway gmail account as I’m not interested in getting hammered with marketing emails until I like a service. If you’re truly seeking investment with this page, someone interested will reach out.

On the deck:

Given your user traction, I think you’d benefit from more user quotes. Why do people love your service? Why can’t people live without what you’re doing? What were they doing before that now if they had to go back to they’d be miserable? [Live editing this. I just saw you had quotes cycling through with animations. I missed that in the first viewing. Might want something more concrete as investors skim these decks]

Your burn rate is pretty significant right out of the gate for only a $1M round. Is that the right amount of capital? Will you be able to hit the milestones you need to achieve to raise your next round or become self sustaining? Is your plan to be profitable near term? When my cofounder and I did our pre seed round we were upfront that we felt there was a good chance we would only do one raise, and wanted investors who were aligned with that philosophy. Even if you choose to raise an A eventually, it’s helpful to have alignment if you don’t.

I don’t think it’s clear to me what your revenue model is from the deck.

I’ll keep skimming your info but these were my top of mind thoughts.
Where you’re deported to seems like a key factor here, along with whether or not you had to flee from that place, and if you have any connections there. In this case it’s Somalia, he had to flee along with his family, and he has no connections. It’s hard to argue that it isn’t a punishment, with potentially dire consequences.
The worst of the only-works-in-Chrome Google apps (to me at least) was Hangouts. With the impending death of NPAPI plugins, it was rebuilt on WebRTC (the first shipping implementation of which was Firefox!), but enabled only for Chrome. To be fair, I've heard that the Chrome developers themselves were livid at this.
Cue wave of outraged HNers because some people believed Facebook cared.
They actually said so in my email exchange: "...when we introduced 1Password, the subscription option for individuals, we clearly wanted to steer new users in this direction. If we gave them choices to get the standalone and the subscription option together it defeated the purpose of making their lives easier. Again, you and I, we get this stuff, but the average consumer doesn't."

I'm totally fine with it. It's a very reasonable business decision to try to steer away users towards the cloud option, while still offering the standalone (even if it's a bit buried). If you can't find the standalone subscription with a few more clicks, maybe you really shouldn't be using it in the first place.

Kudos to AgileBits for staying true to their origins. Provided they don't screw up, I'll continue to promote their products to friends and family.
In the second World War, the tank of my uncle took a full hit on the turret while fighting the Russians and he was the only survivor. Tell him about bad hearing after bleeding out of both ears. :-)