skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just find it amazing that Amazon found it more profitable to buy tens of thousands of delivery vehicles and build a service from the ground up than to find better deals through the available shippers.

Now I see their trucks nearly as often as Fed Ex and UPS.
I mean, it takes only a minimum of tinfoil-hatting to see the teacup-storm of the Ryzen frequency issues as a ploy by Intel. If true, this wouldn't be the first time they've resorted to journalistic skullduggey.

Whatever Intel's failings may be, their media/marketing department is (and has, at least as long as I've been building computers, been) far superior to AMD's.
> The new "themed" sets apparently sell better than the "random box of colored bricks" from the past.

That's at least partly because Lego won't sell you coloured bricks unless you buy a certain number of their sets anymore. (source: my step-mother who owned a toy-store).
I cannot help but think that this provides some vindication for one of Isaac Asimov's more embarrassing[0] book titles...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Starr_and_the_Oceans_of_...
Hmm. Downvoted for writing something positive on HN..Is it because I didn't mentioned how this can be monetised /rant
https://www.atr.org/top-percent-pays-more-taxes-bottom-a3619

>top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes
Felons are not allowed to own guns.
I was thinking about the super rich, recalling that story where a rich philanthropist made NYU Medical School tuition-free in a surprise announcement. I couldn't help think: why do we live in a system where there are people so rich, that we rely on their kindness for our upper-crust medical students to not have debt? Why not have an economy that limits mega-wealth so we don't need to rely on the generosity of mega-wealthy donors? The subtext here is the vast majority of mega-wealthy donors are NOT going to help the rest of us who helped build their wealth.
Why #EpsteinStegoSaurus? What could the PGP key being embedded mean?
The US has bad medical & food programs..

FTFY, it's remarkably expensive, low touch, and uninformed vs other countries.
The US's medical and food programs focus exclusively on money rather than quality of care or informing parents. We simply give out prepaid 'credit' cards and medical cards, there is little to ensure that they are used correctly or in a healthy manner. We don't do much to ensure that kids actually see doctors, we don't do much to ensure quality of food choices, cooking, or health, the school lunch programs are littered with terrible nutrition and only covers lunch and sometimes breakfast.

The most telling thing about America is that we honest to goodness keep infant formula in grocery stores...in security cases.
I recommend the title be changed to the actual story title or something actually similar. The article is about how setting deadlines for action on climate change came from more of an advocacy perspective rather than scientific, which had an effect opposite what was intended.
When you have a great project manager who is absolutely rocking it, its a dream. They are helpful inprojects where you lack face to face contact with lots of stakeholders.
There are bottlenecks in the Kubernetes architecture that start popping up once you cross about 250-300 Pods per node (the published limit in the K8S docs is actually 100).

This is typically more of an issue when running the cluster directly on large bare-metal nodes because in the cloud or on virtualization the host gets split into more smaller nodes from a K8S perspective.

Obviously this also depends on the characteristics of the workload, if you have a lot of monoliths that you have only barely containerized the Pod per Node limit may not be a concern at all even on bare-metal.
> "do what we want whenever we want it."

Isn't that quite well in accordance of Agile Manifesto's "Responding to change over following a plan"?

Sprints and backlogs and grooming, all those sound they're straight from the Scrum Book. And while I understand that for many Scrum == Agile, actually it's not.

Note that I'm not saying anything about what's the best way to do software. Only that "responding to change" sounds very much agile.
Die shrinks are hardly a thing anymore. The days of tick-tock are gone.
Intel has been moving to advertising the turbo clock more prominently than the actual clock you get in typical use. Especially 10nm seems to be plagued.

Compared to a previous generation, it might boost higher for a few seconds but then clocks lower so your build takes the same time or even longer.

On the flipside, AMD's advertised frequency is the frequency that it'll have during typical use with a cooler rated for the advertised TDP. The boost clock is what it can boost on that cooler for some time, if you cooler is better you might get more.
I mean, the text explains it:

Differentially-private data analysis is a principled approach that enables organizations to learn from the majority of their data while simultaneously ensuring that those results do not allow any individual's data to be distinguished or re-identified.
Wouldn't this line of thinking then apply to any rights that have their scope significantly changed by later disruptive technology, including commercial flight?

e.g. Free movement across the US was fine while it was on foot, horseback, or even train, but once commercial flight allowed for coast-to-coast movement in a couple of hours one can't apply the same rights.
Not doing something because "you'll be dead before it happens" is pure selfishness. My personal observations from those close to me who don't want to act on climate change seem that their reasons have changed within the last 5 years. They no longer claim that it isn't real or happening, they now dismiss it on grounds of losing the personal liberty provided to them by our over consumption lifestyle. (If you live in the West, then you are likely over consuming.)

So I actually don't think the "doom and gloom" is causing people not to act, if anything the younger generation are acting on that message. (Fridays for Future, etc.) Instead what is delaying action, in my mind, is that the West's middle class is disappearing and now with climate change demanding a further reduction of consumption it is casuing people to try to hold on tighter to their already disappearing lifestyle.
Consumers benefit assuming all suppliers are equivalent, which is not at all the case with Amazon. They're gaining a price advantage over using real carriers mainly through incredibly exploitative labor practices in the warehouse and abusing uber-like contractors to cover the last mile for pennies on the dollar.

Not only is the human/societal cost high, consumers directly suffer as well as untrained contractors working irregular routes rush to meet unrealistic deadlines. Every day a different person in a rented van pulls up to throw armloads of packages at my building, may or may not be the right entrance, they don't know the place and have no time to check, before racing off to the next location.
Intel still beats on IPC. Their nodes are better-performing at the same process size, so they can be a little larger and still perform like a smaller AMD. That said, AMD is doing significantly better.
Most of their fleet is private contractors who supply their own vehicles. Minimal capital investment for Amazon
In New York, they were deliberately intended to become ghettos, or at best a place to sequester the city's poor.

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-l...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/nyregion/how-new-york-cit...
Top 1% of capital owners are just mostly very old people with comparatively little income. And their capital is passive and brings no or almost no profit (having 10M of capital and making 350K of income only 17% of which is income from capital - rest is from work - means abysmal 0.5% average return). It is in fact even less because most people who are top 1% by capital aren't top 1% by income: top 1% by capital is typically someone who bought some land on the cheap in 1950s and turned out lucky now when he's 90 years old, top 1% by income is a 30-year old Hollywood agent, Google coder, or a NYC lawyer.

These people (top 1% by capital) are as far from archetypal "sharks of capitalism" as it gets.
Is it, I think saving disclaimers for when they actually matter is more important. If everyone included disclaimers listing their inconsequential relations to companies they would quickly be ignored as noise(which they would be).
(My story)I hope this won't happen to you -technology sometimes can
"All the above are free"

No, just no. If you have insurance, there will be copays, and they can vary from trivial to significant.

If you don't have insurance, enjoy the massive debt.
Would sure be nice if we spent those war trillions to solve the real problem. Unfortunately most people seem to have discovered climate change in November 2016.

Good that they did. Better to see more focus on solutions. It would be great and exciting to work on mass scale solutions and government can easily create laws to incent it
Why not apply this to vehicles? What if every car had a drone on the roof. Drivers could use the drone to look ahead and see how far ahead traffic goes, to see if that next exit really is worth taking. Or drivers could have it constantly surveying their vehicle, so that if a collision occurs, you have a bird's eye view of the incident, which is usually helpful.

There's probably other use cases too.
Building houses can help prevent homelessness, but it can't treat the socioeconomic causes that makes folks homeless in the first place. You can't "just" build houses - you have to treat income disparity and the massive wealth gap at the same time.
Copy cat: Chinese firm creates first cloned kitten
Yes, and so is most of the population apparently. But they are also focused on their own problems; declining health, fixed incomes, cuts to government programs, etc. Hard to get to worked up about a problem that won't occur for 30 years when you're going in for surgery next week.

I keep trying to focus on the fact the process is already starting now and WILL affect them in their lifetimes ... hurricanes, fires, wierd storms, droughts ...
Python Testing Tools
With a weighed blanket, the temperature in the bedroom is 19°C (66°F) and the Chillipad is set to 14°C (57°F). This is the same temperature I was using before getting a weighed blanket.

I believe that's a rather unusually cold sleeping temperature for California, however.
> Look at people who flock to homeopathy, or those who buy "water vitalisation" devices, or other ridiculous gimmicks. There's no rational reason why people would come up with ridiculous things like that.

What are you talking about? Those things absolutely have a model behind them. It's an incredibly bad model that doesn't stand up to any serious scrutiny, but it is a model none the less.

> These ridiculous ideas are just people randomly exploring the search space, and natural selection picks the ones who got something right.

I think you might be giving the word "model" too much weight. It doesn't have to be a mathematical proof or anything. "God won't let me die because I'm too pretty" is a model.
The whole point of zip car is that you aren't reserving it a week in advance and want to wait for a key to be mailed to you.
This marketing feels a lot like the days of the Pentium 4 and the NetBurst architecture.
From 'F' to 'A' on the N.Y. Regents Science Exams: The Aristo Project
I doubt Intel can pull off another die shrink after the 10nm disaster. It was supposed to come out three years ago IIRC and they have sunk incredibly amounts of money into the process node. The next node will take longer purely on Intel being more careful.
Same in Iceland. I slept outside all year round as a child and now my daughter does. And also in wool clothing.
What are the implications of 'irreversible'? Practically irreversible? Cannot be reversed naturally? If we run out of ice, what's to say cooling down the planet by halting carbon production won't recreate the ice caps?
Does anybody else have a serious case of Deja-vu?

It feels like we're living in 2005 again. AMD has technical leadership, and Intel is bragging about clock rates.
I think you'll find legislators are less worried about something being "mathematically proven to protect privacy robustly", and more worried about just collecting money from someone publicly perceived as evil.

If they cared about actual privacy, they would go after no-name ad networks and data mining companies.
Researchers try to use microRNA to starve tumors
Maybe they see value also in being able to fully control the customer experience.

Your trusted Amazon delivery guy could fill your fridge while you supervise him through Amazon branded devices.
I feel delivery companies should bid for providing service for the last couple of kilometers, then the winner should get an exclusive contract for some time frame. That's how it's done for other services like regional rail public transport.
Trivially, cryptocurrency is less private than credit/debit cards, because every transaction is written to the public log. This is true of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Ethereum.

Coin tumblers exist for all these currencies. But these a) cost a small fee, and b) are back to centralization, requiring you to trust the tumbler maintainers not to record the transactions.

ZCash[1] is the only cryptocurrency I know of which attempts to actually be private, but the unpopularity of ZCash relative to Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash/Litecoin/Ethereum shows that most people involved in cryptocurrencies actually don't care about privacy.

[1] https://z.cash/
It’s obvious that a phone won’t work without signal. It’s not (yet - and hopefully will never be) obvious that a car rental service requires cell signal to function.

If this limitation can’t be worked around and they still decide to go ahead with operating the service then they should advertise this limitation prominently. Until then, the customer should be compensated (your rental car letting you stranded is definitely an issue and can cause non-negligible monetary damage to the user), not banned.
Yes, but you're missing the half of the equation where everyone who is a senior employee gets granted or grants themselves large amounts of stock options, then decides to funnel this tax free hoard of wealth into stock buybacks.

It's the most direct and massive transfer of wealth from normal and poor people to rich in the history of any society. It's disgusting and despicable, anyone who owns equities in 2019 needs to recognize they have become a part of this amoral system and work to reform it.

We are literally destroying billions of dollars every day to enrich a handful of shareholders (who are already the richest humans that ever lived by any metric). It's the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of humanity squared, and it's only increasing.

Google broke records and made headlines by announcing an unprecedented $25 billion in buybacks for this quarter. Everyone else copies Google. This heist is happening right now, today, in the open, and it's totally legal.
> The solution to climate change is not governments and politicians and lawyers. It’s engineers. It’s always been engineers.

I like the sentiment, and we're always going to need newer, better tech. Part of it will be engineering, but part of if also has to be pure science, which I suspect won't be profitable enough for the private industry to pursue. Government needs to fund such efforts. I think this applies generally (not just to climate).

Appealing to government isn't just about trying to go from no help to some help. It's also about getting them to stop doing harm. The Guardian claims that the US subsidises the fossil-fuel industry to the tune of $20B each year.
If the individual isn't involved, it isn't "due process".
Not sure that works. That's like telling a child, "Watch out for that car. Oh! Lookout for that one, too." And the kid thinks, "Well, neither of those hit me, why should I care?" And the next one flattens him.

Just because you can pick two things from the past that didn't turn out as expected doesn't mean the next potential danger isn't valid. Now, maybe we come up with some clever CO2 scrubbing technology and we start engineering the atmosphere, but that doesn't mean the danger doesn't need to be addressed. There was a lot of work that went into finding new ways to get oil and regulation to improve the air. Without acknowledging the problem we could have had those catastrophes.
> I would add that firearm homicides in the states are at a multi-decade low right now

Have you a good source for that? I seem to find lots of unclear sources. I found a source that they are down from their peak in 1993 (this source was 2013: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate...), but that the last 10 years has been a climb back up
(https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/13/health/gun-deaths-highest... which I sourced from wikipedia, and granted is overall deaths rather than just homicides)
Even physical CDs are not as easy to use as they used to be; this article https://www.databasesandlife.com/playing-a-cd-on-a-computer/ is from 2007: I bought a CD from a shop, a few months later tried to play it on my computer and the DRM had already somehow gone wrong in that short space of time. (At least CDs still work in CD players.)
There's no flag; it's on by default. Do you have a link to an article talking about the autoplay policy being reverted?
> Whether and how much the skill transfers to normal human speech, or even between synths, is person-specific. I can't do Youtube at much beyond 2x. Others can. It's definitely a learned skill.

I find that the maximum understandable rate varies a lot between speakers. For some speakers 2.5x is possible, but just 1.5x for others.

One advantage synths has, is that they can more easily control the speed at which words are spoken, and the pauses between words independently. When watching/listening pre-recorded content I often find that I'd want to speed up the pauses more than the words (because speeding up everything until the pauses are sufficiently short make the words intelligible).

If someone knows of a program or algorithm that can play back audio/video using different rates for speech and silence, please share.
"advertised frequencies" is a very interesting term these days, Intel obviously delivered its "advertised frequencies" but with all those security patches, the performance hit on Intel processors are up to 30% [1], which is believed to be 5x higher [2] than the impacts on AMD processors.

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/77026-windows-update-reduce-sp...
[2] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/05/20/228218/intel-pe...
You're missing parent's point. Parent is merely pointing out that the right exists in a state of limbo because some arbitrary line is being drawn in our national debates that determines the degree of technological advancement that the right permits.
Great. Does it still come with an integrated hardware backdoor you cannot disable ?
For the fashion industry, it becomes a fantasy visualization platform - see yourself in all manners of clothing, hair and makeup.
First sentence of the 3rd paragraph:

> Today, we’re rolling out the open-source version of the differential privacy library that helps power some of Google’s core products.
Yeah, I'm currently looking into them - I'm new to the field and exploring existing solutions to see what works best and what's also computationally feasible since the end user would mostly have limited access to powerful hardware.
It's not that difficult. Conventional arms serve the political autonomy and self-defense of the individual. Weapons of mass destruction and untargetable contagions do not.
I don't know why "lecture" exists anymore. Doing problem sets was painful,
yes, but the only way to make things stick.
Travel with a roll of electrical tape.

It may be a bit of an extreme solution, to go around a hotel room, covering every tiny LED with electrical tape, but if you are very sensitive to light while you sleep, it can make a world of difference in the quality of your rest.
I am not even sure one can fight tax evasion as the EU as a whole without giving the EU a tax surveillance authority none of the member states want to give it. It's the same thing as a EU-wide immigration issue. Given the EU border powers over all Schengen states? Or just accept that this is going to be contentious forever? The EU is geared towards the latter which is not on the whole a bad thing.
Get Vaccinated or Leave School: 26,000 N.Y. Children Face a Choice
This is a ELI10 version that I took from another post as a lot of this cryptography is above my level of understanding.

Posting this here because what I found elsewhere is probably incorrect and more conspiracy orientated, however it would be nice to hear what experts in the field would think this is used for.

>Someone distrusted who they were trying to contact at the NY post as being a read editor in charge. They had the NY Post alter a published Epstein photo sent on a web site for the world to see, that had a hidden message in it. The message was not meant to be found easily and was for one person, a public whistle-blower or snitch, to see. The message is a PUBLIC encryption key meant to sent uncrackable images and file in future to the NY Post news desk. The person meant to see it now has a PGP public email key, and can send NY post their own even better PGP public email key now, and two may communication can start. The size of the PGP key found is overkill in size, a size only used by the CIA, or science researches. It's size makes it seem astronomical in size paranoia security.
Their advantage has largely been eaten away by their various performance harming security fixes.
No evidence presented other than easily faked screenshot. Crowd goes wild.

Pass.

At a minimum, an independent link to image and the URL for the image on the Post's website should be easily found. Neither are.
Show HN: ChatterBall
Jake here . I’m excited to announce ChatterBall for the NFL season . With ChatterBall, every game is a chat thread.

My friends and I watch games from separate physical locations, but it feels like we’re watching together because we chat about the games in group threads. I thought it’d be fun to open up the conversation with a community of fans like us that enjoy chatting about the game as we watch .

I’d love to hear feedback and am looking forward to all questions / comments!

Go Bears

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatterball/id1476639902

Launched on PH today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/chatterball
There is definitely progress here since the early '00s. However, there's a very long way to go until even the most polished home-user Linux distros approach the level of usability (and supportability, even more critical) of proprietary OSes for non-power-users.

And I wasn't trying to paint everyone who wants to tinker with the same "gatekeeping" brush, sorry if I came off that way. GP equated proprietary software with "pay[ing] someone to lock you into their ecosystem" and "destroy[ing] innovation", and ended with

> If you lack the desire to learn how to configure your system, then you will probably not want to use a Free system. That's just how it is.

That's the sentiment I had trouble with. Not the existence of knobs (which should continue existing! Just with better tuning experience for casual users, and saner defaults).