skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
even if we only wanted to analyze the data in aggregate.

Does moz://a do this? Analyze data in aggregate exclusively? Otherwise I understand Prio is inferior in granularity to Telemetry?

How should one interpret data aggregation of Category 4 “Highly sensitive data”? Put it in another way, is it possible to trace back data to individuals from aggregations or any other way?

We need telemetry to make competitive products

Personally I disagree with this. I consider privacy and the lack of bundled (spy|mal|ad|telemetry)ware a competitive edge.
The problem is the parents not reporting the infraction.

At least WRT google play app store, they can be brutal toward apps with ads with wrong content criteria, see the link discussing your situation

https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ads/inappropr...

with a side dish of

https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ads/interferi...

Presumably whatever the amazon devices use for an app store (google play, I donno) has similar draconian policies to enforce IF the problem is ever reported.

Unfortunately I've had to set up ads from the developer side and the Google UI is not bad, but nothing's perfect, so in a world of a million apps its entirely possible the dev accidentally screwed up age criteria rather than was willfully antagonistic; but if parents don't report the problem to the dev or appstore there is little hope of improvement either way.

If you can get the attention of Google's automated AI eye of sauron in policy enforcement, I assure you they are remorseless, draconian, and merciless. The difficult part is getting their attention.

My kids have learned from youtube how to side load cracked and modified apps such as minecraft on their devices downloaded from mysterious and unsavory websites, which promptly messes everything on the system up, such that its possible the app dev and Google have nothing to do with your situation.
Not only is it not a good argument. It is a dangerous argument. We need innovation and maybe it will come in the form of “whacky” ideas, but please don’t replace the work that climate scientists have been doing for decades with a few “back of the napkin” calculations.
"Open" doesn't mean "read", it means "freedom". If I look up the definition of "open-source" for instance on Wiktionary [1], it says "permit modifications and redistribution" (and refers to the OSI definition).

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/open%2Dsource
> it's an extremely well known license

Extremely well known? It was created only 6 months ago, and practically no one had heard of until a couple months ago when Redis Labs adopted it, to much controversy.

> If I want to restrict others from selling my product I will do so.

Of course, and the article says so. The question is whether it OK for you to use a non open-source license (by most common interpretations), and yet call yourself open-source source, enjoying the PR benefits.
This version of events is so incredibly wrong.

Free software started in the eighties over concerns about how proprietary software was being used. Embrace-extend-exstinquish was Microsoft's attack on a growing free software market, it had nothing to do with the web.

The "free" in "free software" never referred to the price, and is not business strategy. It's used like in "free speech," and it refers to the free modification and redistribution of the code.

Free software has a huge presence across computing. Honeypots use free software because everyone uses free software, free software enables bad actors like building roads enables drunk drivers.

Looking at your profile, either this is an elaborate troll or I am genuinely amazed in how long you've managed to misunderstand "free software." You use the GPL for your business.
Fedora 29
Interested to know why you pegged your raise to the rate of Ethereum, and not Bitcoin, given you were dealing with funds and not doing an ICO.
I'm not a Python dev. Is it not common to just type and let it auto import in the required libraries for you?
I've become a big fan of Hydrogen recently. It's Jupyter notebooks for Atom.

https://nteract.io/atom
Let's pretend the human population stopped growing 30 years ago. No new children. The USA and other rich nations use SO MUCH energy and resources we would still have seen this drop and still see global warming. Let's not make it about them, it's about us.
If the SSD is user expandable, then its damn near perfect, but I get the feeling they pointed out the DIMM and not the SSD as replaceable.
It is interesting that the defense you've chosen is that which many have used to defend both Maven and Dragonfly; that at least if Google is doing it, it is better than if someone "less moral" was doing it, without recognizing the reduced excellence that would occur if that were true.

Perhaps you have less respect for Google engineers than I do! If Google is hiring the best, and many of them leave because of moral issues, then Google is left with hiring the second best. You seem to treat all Google engineers as replaceable cogs which are easily swapped out. But just because there is no shortage of people willing to work for Google doesn't mean there won't be a shortage of people of the caliber Google needs to continue at their current level.

Sure, the last few moral people leaving could lead to Google's behavior getting worse, but it would arguably also lead to Google being less successful. Even less people would trust Google as their behavior became "worse".

Perhaps you believe other places are worse because you remember them being worse a number of years ago. But things like sexual harassment training are pretty much nationwide standard these days. I've never been to a workplace that didn't mandate it, and every one of them has a process to report abuse. I am curious how you believe you can work for somewhere that's better than elsewhere when nearly every Alphabet executive has some sort of sexual misconduct that can be associated with them, and it's hard to see what way forward there is for remedying this.

Is Larry Page and Sergey Brin resigning a possible endgoal here? It's hard for me to see an end to the culture of sexual exploitation at a company where it starts at the very top and those people face no penalty.
You're totally right, but unfortunately, I think that's because the person writing these types of presentations don't have control over the content or design of the website, so removing stuff is often impossible or way more work that these tips.

The core holdback for slow websites is usually political, not technical or lack of skill. These presentations usually just try to make the best of those team dynamics issues.
He talked about environmental issues, not economic ones.
There is no metric on which metal is objectively "terrible" or "sugary."

While some is more primal, the majority (including several bands mentioned in the article) is quite musically intricate, with substantive rhythmic and harmonic complexities (though it's unlikely one would be able to appreciate these without acclimatizing to the music itself first.)

I'm not a rap fan, but I presume it's the same way.

Don't beat yourself up for liking things, and don't sell whole genres of expression short. People devote their lives and talents to these things; why shouldn't they be as deep and expressive as the experience of the humans who created them?

It's very unfair to dismiss entire modes of expression as saccharine or inferior just because they don't meet your preconceptions of what complex art looks like (or whatever you're after.)
Note: as of posting the page is still showing details for the old Mac Mini.
I'm a machine learning newbie, and I'd really like to speak with someone in the field to figure out what I'm wanting to learn.

The problem I have is that I have a large labeled data set of spoken words and phonemes from a single speaker. I'd like to train a model and generate new phonemes (of various pitches, speeds, and intonations) with which to build a concatenative speech engine.

What algorithms and models would I be looking to use? What are the primary techniques? Is this something I could quickly begin to see results in, or would it take months or years of tweaking?

To clarify what I'm doing, I own/built trumped.com, and I'm trying to improve the speech synthesis quality by generating better fitting units of speech.
10gbe, 64gb ram, they've gone full server farm with the mac mini. I like it.
I dont see a difference. Mayve cache problem?
Starting price went from $499 to $799... but a pretty nice spec bump

1.4Ghz Dual Core -> 3.6Ghz Quad Core

500GB HDD -> 128GB SSD

4GB 1600Mhz DDR3 -> 8GB 2133Mhz DDR4

2x Thunderbolt 2 -> 4x Thunderbolt 3
> but it also gets you labelled an evil racist nazi klansman

But you are a racist [1].

I wonder how common it is to do these brief checks through the comments of users that seems just a bit off. Too often there's a pattern.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331992
Fortunately, you don't have to use C for this any more. Rust has bindings for making extensions for Ruby, Python, Lua and Node, and generally it's very well suited for making zero-cost cleaner APIs on top of C FFI.

https://github.com/tildeio/helix
https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3
https://github.com/kyren/rlua
https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon
Blanket restrictions on USB drive usage is a good policy for any government or data sensitive organization. Considering that most people are idiots when it comes to security limiting the damage they can do is a good thing.
Bitcoin Mining Will Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit by 2033
Nirenberg had it easy, compared to Ignaz Semmelweis, Barbara McClintock, Dan Shechter and likely many others I am unaware of - who were shunned for many years.

The scientific method is awesome. The scientific community, not as much - although I admit I have no idea how a system with better false positive / false negative ROC will look.
Finally! My 5 year old Mac mini is getting long in the tooth. I know most people aren't going to be excited but as a iOS dev the Mac mini makes a GREAT CI server.
Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini
It looks like you jumped the gun, the website isn’t even updated yet ;)

But overall, I’m liking the new Mac Mini. Updated processors, new Thunderbolt ports, and new color: I can’t see anyone feeling like they’ve lost anything here.
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I want to clarify that last month the main investment in GitLab in our series D was from Iconiq. Google Ventures (GV) did our C round and did (part of) their pro-rata in the D round, similar to other investors like Khosla Ventures.

GV is part of Alphabet but independent of Google or Capital G. The $100m D round GitLab raised is intended to get us to an IPO on November 18, 2020. We see a multi-cloud future and no public cloud has a controlling stake nor a board seat in GitLab.
The page hasn’t been updated yet.
This is the page for the old Mac Mini. The new one starts at $799
Everyone's got to work harder in the west so we can get back to dominating the earth such that we can impose our scientific value system on the superstitious heathen. /s

All you guys going around saying Chinese traditional medicine is worthless are like all the diplomats flying in to Israel saying that the conflict with the Palestinians is just a land dispute and has nothing to do with religion. You don't believe in anyone's values but your own.

Yeah, I like Rhinos and Tigers and if I had a button that said make sure I can keep seeing rhinos and tigers when I go to the zoo once a year, I'd push it, but if they disappeared my world and the world of most people would be largely unaffected except for watching t.v documentaries about it happening in countries I will never travel to. That's what majorly weirds me out about some animal rights issues. None of this stuff will ever have an impact on your day to day life ever, yet people care so intensely about it. How did we come to intensely value Tigers and Rhinos even though our only interaction with them throughout our life is a couple of minutes during occasional visits to the zoo?
true true.
>"where are the proofs"

>the nickname is a Russian word + a number

Man, these Olgino bots aren't even trying anymore.
It is interesting that I haven't seen a reference to CλaSH [1] as well: it is Haskell for FPGA and it has quite interesting results, as well as research work on it.

[1]: http://www.clash-lang.org/
As a fan of technical death metal and a guitarist it is one of the few genres that has the depth and complexity to keep me interested. This is also why I enjoy music from Sibelius and other classical greats. In contrast, most pop music is so stock that I can guess the next notes in a sequence and it just becomes dull to listen to.

Also, as someone often described as stoic, metal has a enough energy to actually get me excited and feeling. When I listen to it, I get more of a response than say listening to DMB. I wonder if this is related to being an introvert, a lot of metal heads seem like they like to listen to music alone and get energized from solitude, where as a pop music fan may enjoy listening with friends.
I believe that I covered this in my comment.

> We either eliminate these experiences, accept economic inequality, or watch the experiences be eliminated via attrition (e.g. cars devolving into gridlock, tourism devolving into queues and displacement, ...).

Specifically, the last part. If everyone is a tourist, what it means to be a tourist is very, very different.

Consider:

We strictly have enough jet fuel and aluminium and so on to fly everyone about all over. What happens if we actually do that?

Venice is bloody underwater, that's what.

That said - I'm an optimistic physicist and engineer. Let's fix this, shall we?

Right, I've invented and scaled electric aeroplanes and fusion power.

Let's try again. What happens if we actually do that?

Venice has more tourists than people.

Bugger.
>But the notion that this planet can only support 5, 7 or 10 or 15B people is patently false.

It is also a strawman. People don't say that, they say that the world can only support X many people with our current lifestyle. I do not want to make my life, and the life of every other person on the planet worse, simply to increase the population of humans. We are not endangered. We have more than enough humans. There is no need to breed even more replacements, we're covered. Why cause every single person on the planet to have a worse life simply to pack more people onto this rock?
It’s probably either soldered on or non-user replaceable NVMe, like their other portables.
I would be nice if the article had indicated 1) the incremental improvement over renting ~200K cores and similar memory from AWS, and 2) the cost of this behemoth. I assume there is a significant advantage -- it would be nice to know how much and at what cost.
These are super handy for, say porting a project to macOS without the price tag of a much bettter Mac. Nice to see Apple is keeping them updated.
Bitcoin mining could cancel out climate change efforts, scientists say
Of course it's not user expandable, how they will make money. Very few people will buy 128GB version and SSD increase will have very premium cost, like usual. But you should be able to use external disks via thunderbolt if you want to.
Logged in to downvote this. What bullshit.

CO2 is absolutely a problem, and promoting birth control does not get you called a nazi klansmen.

What are you going on about?
There are some interesting implementations out there taking advantage of persistent connections to allow the server to handle the rendering while having targeted fragment updates come from the server.

Here's a thread I posted about some FOSS I've been working on that relies entirely on the server for rendering and using VDOM diff/patching on the server for updates. I'm definitely biased, but in my opinion this approach is vastly more user friendly because it enables realtime data updates as easily as request/response style updates.

here's the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18318415

if you need some click bait, here's a gif of me in seattle over cell phone internet interacting with a SSR realtime app with the server in cali. https://imgur.com/z8pKt8t - all operations going round trip, with no application level JS written
I’m curious if anyone has done any analysis and seen any patterns emerge around days of the week >> certain popular HN topics (controversial/rants/per category)? Kind of similar to the analysis you find around best times to post etc. I feel like I see type system related posts closer to Fri/Sat.

I think we could make a nice color coded calendar or almanac to celebrate these more. Maybe even create more formal holidays. I’m inspired by the Giant Man radio interview[0] I heard on NPR this last weekend. Highly recommend it, by Hillary Frank.

[0]https://www.thisamericanlife.org/351/return-to-childhood/act...
This is probably a better link for the actual specs/changes: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/apple-announces-new-mac...
The only ports that are gone are the SD card slot, and separate mic jack

Edit: no CD Drive in the last one.
Calendar UIs commonly demand stuff like auto-refreshing, datetime selects, drag-dropping items around, resizing those, list goes on. Please elaborate how you'd build a "simple solution" that does not resort to client-side rendering.
That’s not what you said in your first comment, you clearly said “false accusations”. Are you walking back that claim now?
Wow, that's a really insane and cool phenomena. I should keep this in my memory in case I encounter it in my career.

Also, if there was enough helium to contaminate the entire atmosphere, was there not a pretty significant chance of an asphyxiation hazard?
There's really no excuse for that these days. So disappointing that Apple must bake in this kind of greed into the product. Overall I think it's shortsighted because it will drive away many budget conscious customers.
I'm pleasantly surprised by this computer. With external GPU and external disks it could be quite cost-effective Mac. Not sure about those external GPU prices, didn't even saw them yet.
I also hold that book and it's author in high esteem, but I don't find that quote very useful. Nobody gets wet when you model a hurricane because the model's purpose isn't to make people wet, it's to predict the dynamics of the hurricane at some level of detail. Same goes for fusion plants and biochemical processes.

The purpose of a hurricane isn't to make people wet, it's a by-product. If you wanted a simulation that made people wet then that could be arranged, either by modelling rainfall on simulated people or having a simulation that controlled physical water sprays/sprinklers suspended above physical people. I don't know what that would prove though.

And going back to Permutation City, (spolier) the whole premise of the book was that brain simulations did have real subjective experiences that were qualitatively indistinguishable from those that occur in "real" physical brains.
The Three Main Apache Spark APIs
OpenStack screams “enterprise” and “architects” at the top of its lungs and I for one want nothing to do with that crap. I know exactly what it is just by looking at it - a hobbled together patchwork soup of poorly documented and half-abandoned open source middleware that is meant to pay consultants’ salaries and nothing more. Definitely not meant to solve real problems, that’s for damn sure.

Who is fooled by this anymore, really? Non-technical middle managers who read a bunch of marketing materials?

You can pry k8s from my cold dead hands.
The whole point of the license is presumably that they disagree with that definition. As far as I know a license can be OSI approved without containing patent grants, effectively making the code unusable for commercial purposes. There is also, again as far as I know, nothing stopping companies from using contracts to restrict the use of code in at least some OSI approved licenses.

That said, I do think they should state that it is "non-commercial open source".
There are two reasons why we can’t: We live within a finite ecosystem of resources and finite systems can by definition not sustain infinite consumption. And we are currently consuming an unsustainable and growing rate of resources. Maybe at some point our aggregate consumption will slow, but all credible models of population growth (leveling off around 11B) and associated consumption suggest that it would be far too late.
Actors are very closely related to OOP, especially the Smalltalk/Self message-passing perspective. The main difference is that message sends to actors are asynchronous whilst objects usually aren't.
No, they make the reccomendation because USB is not secure. Unless you can verify a USB device is not hostile, you should never plug it in to anything. Given how common and not suspisious USB storage device giveaways are, the policy makes sense.

Even leaving malisious USBs in the targets parking lot is a viable attack.
If you can't explain something in a different way from how you learned it, you probably don't understand it adequately.
It will be interesting to see how cities will cope with it. I am sure the amount of tourists will continue to rise significantly over the next decades - just think about much of India, Africa and South America entering global tourism. So Venice, Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, Paris, New York etc will maybe have 10 times the tourists than today and the cities will need a concept how to deal with it.
the previous generation already dropped the superdrive.
The previous generation Mac Mini did not have an optical drive either, so that is not removed.
> The whole of human existence shows we're pretty consistent about choosing easiest every time.

This isn't the case across the globe. Japan's recycling and Singapore's trash policies come to mind immediately but there are sure to be better.

Probably the most common though. Will certainly require a shift in culture for most people on this planet.

> Where once the shopkeeper measured out your purchase now we get single use coffee pods and single use plastic around 4 slices of meat.

The EU has recently voted to remove the use of single use plastics. I do wonder what the overall effect will be but I think policy could change this as well as affect behavior around it.
"every written work of humanity X times" and "weighs as much as X elephants"? What is this 1895? How about Y hours of HD video and weighs as much as Y cars.
To add: Titan has 1 GPU per node, we were getting about 300 GFlop/sec/GPU sustained. Sierra has 4 GPUs per node, we get about 1.5 TFlop/sec/GPU sustained. (Summit has 6 GPUs per node, also about 1.5 TFlop/sec/GPU sustained). So performance went up by about 20 on a per-node basis. The large memory is not just luxurious but essential too---in our applications it has really helped compensate for the comparatively minor improvements in the communication fabric.
The last Mac Mini didn’t have a DVD drive either. I think the others were already expected to be removed.
> The problem is the parents not reporting the infraction.

Does complaining via Twitter count? Because I did, and typically I get a response because "public shaming" seems to be the best way to get support these days. I also complained about the Chromebook/Android game ad and got ... crickets.

Unfortunately, taking many minutes or a few hours from my day to report the issue to Amazon or Google doesn't seem like a valuable use of my time - I guess that's the problem :(

It should be two clicks/presses to report an ad violation, especially on a device sold specifically to kids (Kindle Fire).