skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The implementation uses Symbol and Proxy behind the hood so you might need to use appropriate polyfills...

Does anyone know of a working Proxy polyfill? I've never been able to find one.
Relevant XKCD?

https://xkcd.com/1768/

I was able to bide my time and leave at just the right time.
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Can't find on mine, just upgraded to 10.13.4 from Sierra.
Knitting machines power up with computer-generated patterns for 3D shapes
Very very nice article. Nice to see you can use something else than arduino.
I frequently wear headphones as much for the attenuation of dangerously loud noises in public places (gyms, trains, etc) as for actually listening to something. Your story is terrifying.
The only time I login to their website is when I have to use their KVM - once or twice a year at the most.
I'm 42 years old and spent much of my teens and early 20s going to loud rock shows, raves, etc.

I was rather stupid and always tried to get right up to the PA speakers at the front. I did not wear hearing protection. Many times I left shows with ringing for hours and that feeling like there is cotton stuffed in your ears for days. Not a handle of times - dozens of times.

By my mid 20s it appeared I had tinnitus around the 8k area, which really freaked me out and immediately caused me to change my habits. Also around this time I got into headphone audio in a big way. I got an SPL meter and made sure to never go above 85dBs for extended listening sessions.

By my mid 30s the tinnitus had dissipated considerably. Now it's effectively gone, at least that I can tell (ie. not aware if there is psychological compensation happening). My hearing is great too, right ear at 17.5 kHz, left ear at 16.9.

http://www.electronicbeats.net/can-we-cure-tinnitus-by-liste...
> What do you think the benefits of mandatory population control are?

We need to do everything we can to stop population growth. 7 billion is more than enough. I strongly believe we should get it back down below 5.

We're killing the planet, making species go extinct, don't have enough food, drinking water or energy for what we already have.

> have you seen any of Hans Rosling's [1] talks on the topic of population growth?

I have not, and my internet is a bit too expensive to watch YT right now, sorry.
Steve Job's talk at MIT 1992, Long video, lots of wisdom
Congrats Travis! Some say one roams the slack offices at night...
Is is even remotely true though? C++ probably moves things around more than rust, and I thought rust would want to reduce cache churn. It isn't like GC were things magically change locations.

I'm not really sure I understand what he's getting at with that description.
Isn't it absurd that we have to wear earplugs just because the DJ isn't good enough to create moods and so just uses volume.
No Matter What, Do Not Touch the Space Junk
My point isn't that there is no harm here in them storing this model. It's also not that the data in their model is worthless. It's specifically that the way this article is talking about the issue is incorrect. The analogy they use would lead you to draw false conclusions about what's going on, and how to understand it.

There is a real issue here of whether or not they should be allowed to keep a model trained from ill-gotten data. But the way I would think about it is: If you steal a million dollars and invest it in the stock market, and make a 10% return, what happens to that 10% return if you then return the original million? That's a much better analogy for what's going on here. They stole an asset, and made something from it, and it's unclear who owns that thing or what to do with it.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://techstartups.com/2018/03/22/nasa-receives-response-f....
Previously (and a link to the actual publications) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536153
> I must say, though the transaction all went down in the automated help system, and I didn’t hear even a note of contrition. Not even my bank’s pro forma “I can understand how frustrating that must be for you.” (Lately we all seem to be waiting on a sincere apology from the big tech companies; it may never come.)

I'm probably missing something in the story, since this seemed about as self-inflicted a wound as is possible. What exactly does the author want Twitter to apologize for?
I don't know precisely, but it's pretty obvious that there'd be no way to reconstruct personally identifying info from it.
“Exceptional” Go
> A disproportionate share of the estimated 20 million police traffic stops in the United States each year involve black drivers, even though they are no more likely to break traffic laws than whites.

Countrywide, it's a very small difference:

> When it came to traffic stops in 2011, black drivers (13 percent) were stopped more frequently than white (10 percent) or Hispanic (10 percent) drivers. That is hardly a damning finding. Moreover, while blacks (7 percent) were slightly more likely than Hispanics (6 percent) or whites (5 percent) to be ticketed, they were also slightly more likely than whites to be let go with no enforcement action (2 percent versus 1 percent).

https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/12/dojs-policing-statist...
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdf

Also:

> findings suggest that citizen risk for specific police behavior is partially attributable to differential behavior prior to the encounter....officer decision-making and behavior requires consideration of other factors beyond a citizen's race.

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/PIJPSM-06-201...

Not to say there's not a problem but it helps to have more info.
What is this even supposed to mean? It comes across as a silencing tactic using canned phrases with no real coherence.
Alright, I'll go through the list.

* Cloudfront would be great for the North America and Europe they only charged for the bandwidth (those prices are reasonable), but charging for the HTTP request (and the huge premium on HTTPS). The bandwidth prices outside of those areas are absolutely awful though.

* Akamai makes Cloudfront look cheap.

* Cloudflare has ethical concerns that keep me away from them.

* Fastly is susceptible to DDoS's against the origin in some interesting ways.

* Limelight was great but then Goldman Sachs bought and destroyed them.

* EdgeCast was by far my favorite, but then they got bought by Verizon. Assuming Verizon hasn't fucked it up then they're definitely worth checking out, as their reporting tools were amazing and their performance was literally the best (my information is a few years out of date though on this one).

* If you want to serve people in China you will need to pay a China based (government owned) CDN or your traffic will get blocked for no reason once you get large enough. Conveniently enough one of their sales people will reach out to you about a day or two before the block goes into effect.

* MaxCDN isn't bad, but I haven't seen their higher tier prices (above 25TB) so I can't comment on that. Their South America and Asia coverage is pretty bad though- nothing in India, only one datacenter in Brazil for all of South America (with another being built, but also in Brazil), no Africa, no Middle East. If you're starting english only this isn't the worst, but eventually you'll need to go to a multiple CDN solution for broad coverage.
As a news publisher, wouldn't encouraging RSS hurt the value of my ad space? What's the incentive? Would readers pay for access to an RSS feed?
I wouldn't make this up even I could. I am LITERALLY fixing the toilet mechanism with the tank lid off and checked HN while waiting for a hot glue gun to heat up. I'm thinking Pulp Fiction divine intervention.
I don't have any data but I think it's fair to assume that ANYTHING in front of the ear which reduces sound coming in will help on the protection front. It won't be a panacea, however.
Maybe you should ask. Police aren’t allowed to stop people at random. They have to at least suspect some sort of violation.
Mysterious case handled by FBI still unsolved
>Every circuit considering the issue has concluded that no reasonable expectation of privacy exists once trash has been placed in a public area for collection

There are particularly scary implications to this, such as cases where police have taken trash and seized discarded feminine products to test for drug use and DNA. There needs to be some stronger protections there.
Design that does not follow "standard" conventions. Don't make me define "standard"!
At Reddit, we’re beginning to move our stateless services to it. We’re still in early stages and want to have a story that can at least be better than our current infrastructure. A lot of that means heavily utilizing Kubernetes abstractions, sticking close to the community and it’s tooling so we can provide more functionality than we could before with just a small team of infra folks. What I mean by this specifically is benefits of things like having an API for deployments, being able to provide different rollout strategies, offering devs access to more infrastructure safely etc. Another thing we’re hoping Kubernetes helps us solve is being able to become multi-cloud tenants. The benefits of this to us would be cost savings, and hopefully more reliability.

P.S: if you’re interested in working on Kubernetes at reddit, send me a message at saurabh.sharma [at] reddit.com
Thanks!
And the original message is from 12/2017.
If a value returned from a function actually moves or not is currently up for Rust to optimize. It's not something you can depend on.

About the refcounts: since the counting is explicit (calls to clone()) they at least in my experience don't really show up. Most of the refcounted objects I deal with bump the refcounts once when some task spawns and decrements it when it ends. I have yet to see refcounts to change in hot code paths.

//EDIT for your edit:

> Edit: Forgot about handles. Ugh. Completely unacceptable when you want to grow your tree data structure and you have to do a realloc and basically copy every node.

Sure, but that's not my point anyways. At any point you can fall down to writing unsafe code and building a safe abstraction on top of it. This is to help developers not run into walls. I don't think that handles are the best thing invented but I don't think "well you can't do that in Rust until we some time in the future" and not provide an alternative is a particularly good suggestion.
Just in case this is an XY problem, maybe looking at the question in a different light could help. Instead of asking why we are burned out, maybe we could ask why we feel burned out.

For me, the opportunity cost of being burned out is that I can't summon the energy to work on my side projects and hobbies. It really kills me that every day I come home and have hours that I could spend coding or building something, but instead I just watch TV over a beer.

A couple of people closest to me say to just do all the things. So they are advocating discipline which is great and something I could probably find again if I was more disciplined.

My gut feeling though is that the issue might be more complicated than that. From prior experience, I know my odds of failure at any side project I attempt are somewhere around 90% if I measure them in terms of monetary gain. So I'm subconsciously multiplying the cost/benefit analysis by 10 and getting discouraged. But if I remove risk from the equation, maybe by working on something low-risk like an open source project or learning a skill I don't know (like playing music), then maybe I could get closer to feeling rewarded by tinkering instead of drained. Then I could build on that and add more ambitious projects over time (in theory).
Not only can I blame cops, but if they don’t have probable cause for these stops, the law blames them too.
Tapping undersea cables used to be a thing, but these days, encryption is extremely cheap; tapping cables can only work if the owner of the cable is negligent. And if the cable isn't encrypted properly, updating the equipment on both ends is much cheaper than running a new cable.

(Installing devices to enable quickly cutting cables during a crisis, on the other hand, is something that would work and that they might plausibly be doing.)
We share this experience. We received a faulty server. It happens with all providers. The problem was we were not able to get it repaired in a one month timeframe. Support suggested getting refund.

We switched all other services from them pretty instantly. It would not be an option if one of our production servers had a failure and we could not get repair procedure quickly handled. We are willing to pay for this privilege.

BTW - we were their customer for 6 years. It worked smoothly and there were no problems with their service on running machines.
> I'm not really sure I understand what he's getting at with that description.

I'm getting at that an object in C++ is generally immovable. If it does move (which is new in C++11 i think?) a move ctor is invoked. Rust does not have a move ctor, it does not let you do things that would prevent moving an object in the first place (at least currently).
Is this going to be inherent and unavoidable for the machine learning based self driving cars? Perhaps self driving is never going to become a reality, just because of the problems like this (unless/until the road infrastructure supports them explicitly).
Under GDPR it's considered personal data
> “In the past, when we have brought up statistical safety points, we have been criticized for doing so, implying that we lack empathy for the tragedy that just occurred.”

I have to say that is exactly how I felt reading the piece and I’m by no means easily offended by these kind of stories. The whole piece reads like a story Uber would have published. Throwing all sorts of excuses why it isn’t their fault but the big bad world being in their way. No matter if it is true or not, this is not the kind of tone people want from you right now. They could have brought the same information and show some empathy; especially when criticized before.
The key thing here is that the Swift compiler is computing gradients using SCT techniques, not TensorFlow. This has a number of advantages that we'll go into in the white paper we are going to publish in April, so I'd prefer to wait until that spells it all out rather than go into detail here.

All this works no matter how you choose to build your code: Xcode, Bazel, SwiftPM, makefiles, whatever. Also, since ML scripts are frequently small, a simple #! script like we showed in the demo is perfectly reasonable for many things.

-Chris
You've taken us into generic ideological fog again. Please stop doing this and instead comment civilly and substantively, especially on controversial topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should get some boxes from other EU vendors as well. Don't put all your eggs in the same basket. Unless your work load is very unpredictable I don't see why people use AWS, "serverless" and platform lockin.
It is about price controls. In the absence of price controls, the price would go up dramatically. This would influence both buyers and sellers.

Buyers would buy less. This prevents fuel from becoming unavailable. As the available fuel declines, the price rises, the purchases are reduced, and thus we don't run out.

Sellers would put more effort into finding alternate supplies. Sellers would be willing to spend the money required to extract oil from difficult locations. Indeed, in the energy crisis the suppliers were doing just the opposite because their prices were artificially limited. The sellers were shutting down production of older wells that were still able to produce oil.

You could call this a story of an unhappy free market rudely interrupted by price controls. The economic warfare was reason to be unhappy, but actually running out of fuel was our own doing.
They were acquired in July of 2016, so about 20 months ago. It seems to be more of a merger than an acquisition, and both brands have stayed separate but share expertise and data centers. It honestly seemed like a good way for both of them to expand their footprint while also reducing overhead.
To be fair, if a group of all her friends read her article, they might actually take phishing seriously and stop clicking on links that appear in their inboxes, asking for their passwords on fake domains.
Hetzner is the best if you care about value. If you look at the hardware they offer you can tell it is designed by people who know what they are doing and really care about getting the best bang for buck.
It's not possible to polyfill.
A better option is to just own up to being a dumpster diver and look in everybody's trash cans on the street. There's a plausible cover story that you want to maybe get some valuable rich-people trash (maybe a Juicero) and it's not illegal. Looking through everybody's trash makes you a wierdo and not somebody targeting Zuck, which makes the bodyguards less likely to do anything. Also, do it before pickup time.

If Zuck's bodyguards actually stop you then you might have a story. But right now the story is made of completely imagined things. Those bodyguards won't touch you until you try something stupid, like climbing Zuck's fence.

I'm a little disappointed that I wasted seven minutes reading the story as written. More follow-up would have been nice. He could have tried the next Wednesday since his first trip was over two weeks ago.
Hot rods and beaters both get pulled over, expensive but slow-looking cars like Lexus minivans go under the radar. That's been the anecdote passed down to me, and it includes both of the cases we're discussing.
While I’m white, I have heard enough shocking anecdotes from my friends of color that confirms that if you’re not white you have a different relationship with authority.

For example, one of my friends is African and high up at Google. He tells me he get stopped monthly driving his Lexus SUV while driving around Silicon Valley. They always ask him if that’s his car, and when he says yes, they will follow with “are you sure?” I would never get such a question.

While I appreciate trying to dig into stats, but the question is what statistic is exactly relevant here? If you live in the US long enough I think the inequality of treatment and prejudice in society should become pretty self evident without needing various surveys for evidence, as those all will take a different slice rather than look at the whole pie.
Show HN: AEQVIPEDIS ‒ C++ library for triangle mesh SVG placeholders
This applies to young adults; not children. You're not wrong, but you are slightly off topic.
How long until laws are passed making it illegal to sue cell phone manufacturers or carriers for selling a product that causes cancer?
That's a very good point. But it raises a new question, why didn't Tesla compare the safety record of Teslas with Autopilot against Teslas without Autopilot.
Why? It's reasonable to assume there's a significant correlation between this mismatch and criminal activity.
Growing Concerns That Tech Firms Are Eavesdropping
Why Uber Won’t Be the Last Shocking Self-Driving Death
Premium RSS feeds are one option, as well as putting only a brief summary of the article into the RSS with a link to the full site. The monetization model will probably look similar to Twitter, except without needing to dodge algorithmic uncertainty since RSS is a pure feed.

Plus, Outlook does have an RSS feed function. The incentive can be the same as newsletter publication. It just depends on how you want to reach people.
Agreed. The “point” i.e. last paragraph was less than climactic.
As DannyB mentioned in his post, Google is very technology driven, not usually driven by zealotry. Using Swift for this purpose has specific technical motivations that will be spelled out in the white papers we are publishing in April.

-Chris
Oh, the cistern? those are usually enclosed in the wall here, entirely invisible, without any lid at all.
I've heard this noise, but then much less loud, and the fact that I remember it tells enough. I just let the weight lose for the last 5cm or so, and that was enough for me not to do this again. I wasn't close with my ears, so no problem.

I'm sorry for your loss and I hope you can find a way to handle it.
Maybe so, but I genuinely believe this is such a large crisis we have to try... we have to do something.

Let's have severe penalties for those that break the rules, or mandatory abortions, or one of 30000 other possibilities.

yes, I know it's extremely, extremely unpopular, but with what I have seen on this planet, I genuinely believe it's our only hope.
What if there's one parent company whose subsidiaries include amazon and a bank? Since "amazon" itself isn't controlling the bank, it's not subject to said regulations.
From the Voyager FAQ (https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/)

Even if science data won't likely be collected after 2025, engineering data could continue to be returned for several more years. The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036, depending on how much power the spacecraft still have to transmit a signal back to Earth.
I've seen this one: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/proxy-polyfill
FYI, if you lose hearing from noise exposure, you'll generally lose it around 4 KHz (noise notch). You generally lose the really high frequencies (20 KHz on down) due to presbycusis, hearing loss due to aging. Even if you can still hear the really high frequencies, you could still have a noise notch around 4 KHz.

If you haven't already, go get an an audiogram. It's cheap (<$100) and will give you a baseline on how your hearing is.
I’m not sure I see the problem. Once you throw something away, why shouldn’t it be fair game?
I'm having some problems reading this web page, all I see is "Trash denied" but no way to scroll or anything.

Is there a "trick" I'm missing here? I really miss the days of plain webpages.
How can they create moods if there is no mood button on the computer i mean musical instrument they use.
Wrote something similar once. See dustcluster on github.

https://github.com/carlsborg/dust

Lessons: aws cli is written in python on top of the botocore aws api lib and is mostly data driven off a Json spec for a reason : the pace at which aws puts out new features makes it very hard to keep up with.
When Russia Won the Space Race: A Cold War History, in Pictures
I'm not sure I buy this. Given that the prior plausibly is low and earlier studies have not found any increased risk of cancer, and it sounds like they were looking for increases in any kind of cancer, this seems like a result that was bound to happen by chance anyway.

If they replicate these particular findings in a preregistered trial, that might move the needle (even better if someone else does).

Unfortunately, if a new preregistered trial does come out showing that this is negative, I doubt it will be as widely disseminated, or undo the association between cell phones and cancer created by this story.
http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reporte...
You got really lucky. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (what you had) is often permanent.
It would be interesting to see the traffic stops by state chart paired with state demographics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

For example, Montana has a huge discrepancy in black people being stopped more when only .5% of the people in Montana are black.

Further, in states like Colorado and Texas, where the chart shows white people are stopped more, they also have high latino populations (maybe a racial mis-profiling by the police?).

These were just two circumstances off the top of my head that would be interesting to explore more as to why they occur.
I guess we take it as a given since no one here is talking about it, but why does the toilet lid need to be so overly heavy? Is there any specific functionality that requires it to be out of that material and so big?