skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I don't want to doubt the result, I think it's probably true. I even posted this on my FB account (which I only use to bookmark and possibly spread "sciency" links I find interesting, not for anything personal) - but then deleted it again. Because I have to admit as much as I personally like the result because it confirms my personal believes, I find the foundation the headline is based on shaky ground given that it's supposed to be science and not opinion. I can't complain about others if I find my own bias influences whether I ignore how results are obtained and just spread the headline hoping (and knowing) that other people (following my news feed) won't read the details.
Static is a term to describe the assets that are delivered to the client. It means every user is delivered the same assets which means the server doesn't have to do any logic. The assets can be delivered from a CDN and cached on the client indefinitely.

Sending every user `document.write(new Date());` is static because its identical for everyone. The fact each user sees something different is completely irrelevant.
> that is, market failures - something this site would probably not call out but rather attribute it to the legislation.

Socially shaming companies does very little compared to legislation, so that's completely understandable.
[Show HN] Pixelcheetah – Analytics Using HTTP Requests
Hey hackers, look what I've built!

Few months ago I needed an address I can send requests to and have the requests saved in a database I can run SQL queries on.

When I haven't found something like that online I decided to build Pixelcheetah.

Pixelcheetah allows you to track anything by making HTTP requests to your pixel address. The query parameters are mapped to database columns and you get full SQL access to your data.

It's already being used by a few performance marketing companies (as tracking with a pixel is what they need).

It's completely serverless so it doesn't experience downtime and it can scale endlessly (100B/day is the highest so far).

Hope you find it as useful as I do, I'd love to get your feedback.

https://pixelcheetah.com/
Intel is not really screwed, cloud providers are. Those "vCPUs" people have been buying are actually hyperthreads. I have a hypothesis that a double digit percentage of cloud customers don't know what vCPUs are. As a cloud provide, imagine cutting your fake "core capacity" in half _and_ having to raise prices to offset the increased capex.
Fair game means fair game. It means its open for anyone.

If people don't expect this, it's because they don't understand it.

Let's work on educating people instead of warping reality around the ignorant.
I'm still having a hard time believing that the drum computer only having a 16-bit representation of the velocity of the stick hitting the pad will matter in its goal to produce a velocity-scaled (probably 24-bit) sample on its output port.

There's lots of way more interesting information to be represented that'd be more valuable than just a raw 24-bit velocity - the angle and location of the hit, how much pressure (not velocity) was being applied, how the stick moved while it was in contact with the skin, the material of the stick, etc., if you truly want to capture the dynamics of drumming.
Is there a minimal example showing automatically created compile-able code from a model, or a process to do that?
Your comment amounts to the same advice as the comment you’re replying to: outsource your tax and overall finance management to a qualified 3rd party.

I’m not sure why you felt the prior comment was “offputting”; they don’t say not to start a business, they’re pointing out that financials are an area that a business owner needs to address, and that outsourcing it is often the correct route.
Love the stock photo, a punk photoshop of a classic TiBook keyboard.

Sorry for the detour (wow, hold off the downvotes for a second and appreciate this design, it’s such a pinnacle of the ‘90s and the photo edit captures it so well. Odd that it ended up on this article... a random picture of birds ruffling feathers would have been more apt.)
On the topic of internet mobs, the term "lapidation" was recently suggested as a word to describe "what happens when a group of people, outraged by some real or imagined transgression, responds in a way that is disproportionate to the occasion, thus ruining the transgressor’s day, month, year or life."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-23/harvar...
the media manufacturing consent for yet greater incursions into every detail of our lives in the inexorable search for more governmental revenue...i love it..
Please. Money lies. We all know it. People with money are deferred to, emotionally coddled, and ALWAYS given the benefit of the doubt. It is literally the foundation of Western culture. Those who have always had it live in a very delusional world that has always lied to them about their abilities. That's how we end up with a " very stable genius" as the "leader" of the western world.
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>This is false because MCAS only activates during stall conditions and is the exact reason why this issue went undiscovered for so long. If it was the system that you say it is, then it would have been constantly making the 2.5-degree adjustments to the horizontal stabilizer all the time!

"All the time" is a funny way of spelling "when the AoA sensor indicates an AoA near or greater than critical."

Also, the problem took so long to be discovered because Trim has become increasingly automated, relegating any system that modifies it to a second or third order concern for pilots generally. The system wasn't documented explicitly in training materials, and yes, what malfunctions did happen generally happened in less critical phases of flight, and we're quickly recovered from.

>The fact is that it requires an AoA sensor to report an attack angle greater than 25 degrees

...Okay, you didn't even look at the Flight Data Recorder of either crash did you? The same data that shows MCAS happily driving 300+ people into the lithosphere at 300+ knots?

MCAS activates regardless of speed. The key input is AoA, flap setting, and whether the autopilot is on, and altitude > 450 AGL if I recall correctly. Furthermore, it ramps up over sequential activations. I'm open to entertaining some possibility that you just didn't look it up, but your arguments are straying into areas if incorrectness that seem to indicate your sources may need to be reevaluated.

I implore you to do some more thorough research.

Search terms:
ET302 FDR data
ET302 prelim report
Lion Air 610 FDR data
MCAS
Flight Control Systems.

I understand Aviation isn't the lightest topic of research, but that's also why it's so important to make sure you're reasoning from the right information. Flying is complicated. Not inaccessibly so, but definitely beyond normal intuition at times.
That was ~125 km/h (78 mph)

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/RR...
The trend toward increasingly highly integrated components is not reversing any time soon. You might as well be waiting for horse buggies to come back in fashion.
Old electronic equipment is the good stuff.
The older it is- the better.
The manufacturers have now created methods to use less gold.
Equipment from the 60s is coveted.
Mainframes and old giant mechanical printers have lots of gold in them.
Telcom equipment, Rf equipment same thing- lots of easily accessible Noble metals.
Today's scrap electronics have much less recovery value but it's still profitable, even in California.
If you follow the correct formulas( developed in the 1800s and not a secret) the waste products from this process are not classified as hazardous.
Yes it takes time for your reactions to complete but, it's not like you have to babysit this stuff.
All the waste is converted into non hazardous elements easily thru cheap effective chemical reactions.
I've said too much already but, if anyone can get ahold of a large quantity of cellphones or better yet older electronics from the past century I'd be glad to help you recover your gold thru environmentally legal methods that aren't a secret but are just not well known.
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The very first graph (Cinebench R15) is wrong. i7-8700K does not score 3314 or even 2515 on this benchmark [1]. i7-7700K numbers are also way off. Not sure what happened here, but I can't take any other measurement they published seriously. This is more useful:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sandy-fx...

If you're using an overclockable workstation CPU, the good news is that turning SMT off gives you additional ~200Hz of overclocking headroom. Modern Intel chips are thermally limited when overclocking and turning SMT off makes them run a bit cooler. My i9-7900X overheats over 4.4Ghz, but with SMT off it's comfortable at 4.7Ghz on air (Noctua D15).

[1] https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-core-i7-8700k-benchm...
Intel's doc [1] if SMT is not disabled, not only does the OS need to perform group scheduling (only allow threads that trust each other to run on the same core at the same time) but the OS also has to interrupt the sibling thread running on the same core whenever user mode code enters kernel mode, synchronizing syscalls. For compute-heavy applications, this might be ok, but for servers doing a lot of syscalls this might be terrible.

1 - See "Synchronized ring 0 entry and exit using IPIs" in https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insigh...
The hunter appears to have an erection, which is common in ancient petroglyphs. But it would seem to be a strange reflex to be triggered when out bow hunting with your hounds.
This seems like a problem with the temporary legal approval and not a genuine response to the question. In the US, parents accused of abuse are denied all parental privilege/responsibility at the beginning of the accusation until it is proven that the parent was innocent.
> And, on the topic of components I wish existed (anywhere - react, vue, angular, etc - anything), I've been searching for a good rich multiselect for a long time! If you know of any please let me know :)

Select2 [1] has been around forever but it's always worked out pretty nicely for me.

It's a jQuery plugin, so it's somewhat out of vogue these days, but it's trivially easy to wrap it in a component to make it play nicely with Vue (in fact, the Vue documentation uses it as the example for writing wrapper components [2]). I imagine something similar can be done with React, Angular, etc., though I'm not too familiar with the process there.

[1] https://select2.org

[2] https://vuejs.org/v2/examples/select2.html
Ah you’re right. Looks like they’re used for small scale off grid solar installations, not so much at utility scale. It’s been done (link below) but even the one I found is moved over to lithium ion now.

https://energy.ehawaii.gov/epd/public/energy-project-details...
But when you see how engineering works, isn’t it reassuring to ride something designed for a maximum of 600 at a speed of 320?

My car could probably hit 160+ but I don’t drive it over 130.
It's common for a major component to break after 10-12 years and its repair costs exceed the resale value of the vehicle. On my last car, it was the AC compressor. OTOH, some models like the 90s Toyota Camry seem to last forever.

Also, car maintence costs have exceeded inflation over time: https://www.officialdata.org/Motor-vehicle-maintenance-and-r...
It’s obvious from the context that GP means as far as they have seen among the people they follow on Twitter.
I appreciate this wild vein of thinking, that "junk" DNA (or something else) might contain old data. In America and Americans, John Steinbeck made an even bolder guess he knew might be wrong: that "junk" DNA was partly used to store memories, and pass them on between generations. He imagined that Americans might be better gun-fighters than Europeans simply due to the recent history of gun-violence in the American Old West (which he may have been exaggerating in his head). I don't put any stock in that idea, but I liked it as a thought.

Another mechanism we know is used for allowing more than one pattern to be saved is the methylation of DNA. My understanding (IANABiologist) is that certain chunks of DNA are essentially commented out based on environmental factors. Eusocial insects use this to grow different castes with radically different bodies and behaviors from a shared set of basic DNA; besides the metagenetics, you can't tell the DNA of a worker wasp apart from that of a queen. I'm not saying humans have metagenetic castes to this degree, but it's not hard to imagine some related traits getting commented on and off together through some mechanism. I know some researchers now think there might be a whole other level of commentary, or a different track of information entirely, encoded in how the DNA is folded. That research is still pretty new and doesn't know where it's going, IIRC.
That's all in retrospect - Intel hasn't even really dropped their prices or increased their core counts from AMD competition or security disasters.
I literally cited the first hit from the most obvious google search. You sound curious and dissatisfied with the science reporting. Why don't you look up the paper, possibly use sci-hub if it isn't freely available, and actually read what the scientists say?
Allow me the exaggeration but I think that if everybody would be full stack, frameworks would be much simpler, there is a lot of gratuite complexity that grows because people have the time to dedicated just to one side.
The scope of what is "personal data" under GDPR is much broader than you are assuming, you are only considering the obvious, simple cases.

It also covers an astonishing amount of industrial sensor data used solely for industrial purposes. Unfortunately, for many high-scale industrial sensor data models the technical infrastructure required for compliance literally does not exist. In some cases we don't even have the computer science required to build the compliance infrastructure. But the vast majority of people would be very upset if the business model of some of these companies became "unpractical" and had to go away because GDPR compliance is effectively impossible. No amount of trying to do the "right thing" will make these industrial companies compliant.

There is gross misconception that GDPR only affects ad tech companies or retail or companies with business models involving people. This is far from the case.
I'm impressed she didn't take their offer. She's right: they seemed to have completely discounted her story and the story of her co-workers. That's not a company I'd be loyal to either.
Knowing When CRUD and MVC Isn't Enough
...which means that almost everyone using midi 2.0 between multiple devices will be doing it over USB, which is a shame because very few hardware synthesizers or controllers can act as a USB host.

That's fine if you're connecting everything to a computer, but it's kind of a step backwards from what MIDI used to be, which was an easy way to connect almost any keyboard to almost any synthesizer made in the last three and a half decades or so.

I've wondered if CAN bus would be a good modern-ish alternative to DIN-5 and USB, but I don't know enough about it to say if it has some limitation that's not immediately apparent but which would become a problem. (On the plus side, it's much faster than plain DIN-5 midi, allows longer wires than USB, and it seems to be supported natively on a lot of cheap microcontrollers.)
Why use a centralized server to guarantee unique usernames instead of using a public key as a username?, potentially with a friendly alias?
Of course, that's ultimately it. I was just attempting to explain why this is and why there is a market failure. Because carbon externalities are not fully internalized.
Homotopycontinuation.jl: Solving polynomial systems via homotopy continuation
i kind of agree. but then again, in today's climate, is failing to install updates really a lede? i mean people have been not installing updates in a timely manner for decades now.
I'm pretty socially observant and my adult sons are rather aspie. In raising them, I had to really up my game for trying to find data and explanations for social things.

I once had a conversation with my oldest where I tried to say something like "anger is like fire" as a metaphor and he leapt to some conclusion like "so, you rub two people together and they explode?"

Um, no. Forget that metaphor. Let me get back to you.

So we spend a lot of time talking about both social things and how to find actually good information and data because psych studies are so often terribly done and they are inherently hard to do well because most studies are de facto a form of manipulation, which itself pollutes the data.
CCTVs are cheap and have other benefits for being there.
Which is the normal word for stoning in French and I assume other Latin-based languages. Repurposing it for something else in English could get confusing.
Multi-cloud service mesh with Istio
" it is unlikely a sample of FTEs is going to reflect the general population for suicides so that isn't a very powerful argument."

Actually, the data frames the argument quite well, moreover, there's nary any way one is going to get better sampling.

" if management pressure is so bad it is provoking suicides then there will be lots of evidence for it"

It's incredulous to suggest that 'management is provoking suicides'. It is completely absurd.

When, in modern history do you suggest that this has ever happened? Ever?

Wouldn't people quit their jobs? Or get different jobs before resorting to 'death'?

We could all easily demonstrated working conditions elsewhere in the Western world where conditions are 'just as bad' - ergo, the logic of 'they were provoked into suicide' makes no sense whatsoever.

And FYI my data demonstrated that the number of suicides is well within normalized range. An variation of 20% in one year is going to be normal.
These are smart people, some of which have very high feedback here on HN.

All HN points mean is that more people on HN agree with you on a topic than disagree with you, or that you brought something the people here found interesting. They are in no way a proxy for smartness. There are some very intelligent and insightful posts by people with 10 HN points, and some completely dumb posts by people with around 16700 points.
This is fairly normal for all kinds of high speed trains. Or vehicles in general. Or technology in general. Most things are not operated at the edges of their performance envelope.
Doesn't quite answer your question, but possibly in the docs here?

http://alloytools.org/documentation.html

Including tutorials

http://alloytools.org/tutorials/online/

http://alloytools.org/tutorials/day-course/
Ha - they offered to hire her back and she declined. Gotta agree there. Who wants to work for a company that outsources its hire/fire decisions to a vote among random Twitter users?

The question now though is, are there any employers left that don't do that?
We need regulations because people will go as far as they can to make more money.
Businesses were upset when their country banned child labor while their concurrents' country didn't, same when weekends, vacations, reasonable work weeks were introduced. What about safety requirements, food quality inspections, &c.

Self regulating markets are a myth, just look at the US insurance and health industries if you want a proof.

That's also why in healthy countries you get a lot of free passes when you start a business: lower tax rate for a few years, 0% loans, advisors paid by the state, &c.

> regulation will just make it harder for these massive companies to be toppled as it makes it harder for smaller companies to comply.

Why did no one topple apple, amazon or google in the last 25 years? If anything the lack of regulations when they started allowed them to become the de facto monopolies we all know today.
All entities make decisions for their own benefit 100% of the time. Where you come out ahead is when their interests coincide with yours.

That works out rather poorly against large governments, because businesses can lose customers by misbehaving, but a government with 55% of the vote doesn't need any more than that and can then do anything they want to the remaining 45% of the people. Especially if they can convince their own supporters that the victims are the villains -- then they can set you on fire and still get re-elected.
If some terrorist group managed to detonate a bomb on US soil, don't you think it would be more outrageous if were discovered that the bomb belonged to the US military?
The biggest issue for HSR is straightened track, which should be possible in Australia as far as I can tell: not many mountains, kind of empty between cities.

This is also why’s hSR is so that impressive in China, they had none of those advantages sand had to keep blasting through mountains.
I've started turning 'Do Not Disturb' mode on my phone much earlier, and plugging it into charge (facedown) at the same time. Even with a blue light filter, there was still a lot of exposure that would keep me awake. I try (and often fail, admittedly) to shut off my computer earlier too, but I use f.lux which helps mitigate it some.

I also have changed out my light bulbs and use a lamp at night that doesn't emit as much blue light; I'm even considering getting some of the color changing ones and programming them to change for me throughout the day (as well as come on and turn off at a set time, which could be great).

On top of all that, I try to follow a consistent schedule. It's difficult, but if I've been on it a few days, I notice it when I'm off and am quite miserable.

I still could do more, especially wearing a sleep mask. I've noticed that when I sleep in windowless rooms, I sleep a lot better; the same is true with cool rooms (unfortunately, one of my roommates is always cold and refuses to believe we sleep better cool so our house rarely gets below 72 during the summer, and only that cool at night because I turn it down after he goes to sleep).

But, really, mitigating blue light and understanding the importance of sleep are the two main things it's taught me.
it mostly ads and shitty data collection

While this is true it's exactly that, which turned the world (and by extension the world wide web) into a fucking dystopia. Brexit, without the whole concept of targeted ads and the data collection that goes with it would have not been possible.

Yep, I think add tech is utterly and totally evil. And all that to make a buck, or a billion.

I, for one, think that's a disastrously high price to pay for a few successful tech companies.

People aren't dying,

Actually I disagree here. When you look at the consequences of the technology in countries like Myanmar, The Philippines, Brazil, Cambodia and others and the likes of Mr. Zuckerberg and his ilk giving exactly zero fucks (unless it becomes bad PR) I'm afraid you're definitely wrong on that one.
> Given GDPR took a complain-investigate model

Ironically, when GDPR came into effect so many on HN were spreading fake news that companies would be litigated to death by users. Of course, to remove that possibility and ensure only legitimate claims are pursued, the data regulation authorities act as middle-man. Such cases of abuse could also just as easily be done when people could sue. For example, nowhere does the GDPR imply that you need to hand-over a source - that goes for journalists as well as non-journalists. Companies sued have the right to appeal and, if GDPR wouldn't have existed, the Romanian authorities would've probably just used e.g. tax law to stifle the RISE project.