skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I schedule my transformations so they happen on a recurring basis?

I would like to try the tool but keep getting a "Server Error" message which appears to prevent it from fully loading.
My company handles live video streaming, so slow speeds and high latency tends to result in a lot of buffering. You're looking at about 200ms latency minimum from Europe to South Africa, and when you need to download a ~2MB video chunk in 2000ms, it's pretty hard to get a reliable stream, especially when you add in generally slower/less reliable connections along the route.

It can be mitigated somewhat by reducing the quality of the video and using CDNs, but even edge nodes are scarce in that are of the world.

I imagine it would be fine for normal applications, aside from being a little slower, but video is a challenge.
Venture capital doesn't scale until it does
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Worth noting that Mac lets you remap the control, alt, and cmd keys to one another. It's been hidden in the keyboard settings under a "Modifier Keys..." button for a major version or three now, and is stored per keyboard (nice for mechanicals with a keycap swap).

The new MBPs (possibly anything on Sierra?) add CapsLock as a mapping target and both CapsLock and Esc as a mapped value, presumably to get around only having the soft Esc key in the touchbar. It's also nice for Esc as meta, though.

That obviates the need for Karabiner in the 99% case, though I still use Keyboard Maestro for macro and text expansion.
This looks neither clear nor convenient to me.
For one, not everyone uses git and GitHub for everything. Some prefer Mercurial and Bitbucket.
First, bandwidth is limited. It's whatever download and upload you sign for.

Second, there is no such thin as "full speed access to Netflix" or whatever. It's limited by your own bandwidth at least.

Third, when you pay for an internet access, you pay for a public IP and associated bandwidth, so you can send and receive as much IP packet as your bandwidth will allow you, no matter the provenance or destination.

In practical terms, your ISP will be connected to other operators (either other ISPs, or transport/backbone operators), with peering agreements (data flows freely in both directions at no charge), or pricing schemes where the sender pays the receiver for the privilege of having the data transmitted. What your ISP will not have is a direct connection to each and every service out there. They don't have to update their infrastructure every time a new web site comes up. As such, access to Netflix, Youtube, or http://loup-vaillant.fr are not separate services.

ISPs that treat access to particular web sites as separate services are just plain lying. The real "separate service", for which they actually spend money, is the throttling/filtering/censoring infrastructure they have to put in place to charge different web sites differently. Text book malicious features, not unlike DRM.

A final note about bandwidth: operators tend to bill themselves to the 95th percentile of instantaneous bandwidth spend in the last month. Spikes cost as much as a flood. Because in practice, what matters is how much bandwidth you expect the other operator to sustain —because it determines how much they need to spend on infrastructure. Because of this, is it perfectly legitimate for a user to max out her bandwidth, continuously throughout the month. ISPs should calibrate their network, and bill, accordingly.
Edit: I ranted about publicly operated trains in Sweden on a post regarding US. Sorry for that. Since I spent 10 minutes ranting on the subject, I will keep the rest of the rant...

The only subway in Sweden that I am aware of is operated by some company from Hong Kong. Or was that last week and we have now someone else?

The "free market" muppets have had free reins for 30 years, and they are still claiming that an invisible hand will turn everything great.

In reality, the invisible hand seems to be picking cookies out of our jar filled with tax money, while trains are falling apart, women are getting unnecessary gynecological surgeries since doctors get a bonus out of the publicly funded invoice (one even inexplicably got sterilized against her will), and some entrepreneurs in the refugee-industry are making millions by keeping refugees in sub par barracks for 200 USD per day.

Many schools are privatized, and the only reason that is not a regarded as total disaster is that it they are a nice break from the schools run by the local municipalities.

(To be fair, a lot of the privately operated hospitals seems to be doing a great job and delivers good services.)

There is nothing inherently wrong with privately operated schools, hospitals, etc, but when turning away from a system where it was primarily seen as an obligation to take care of the ill and poor, and educate our children, it's very hard to set the economic incentives correctly.

Even if the system and the incentives are not gamed, the effects are often not what you want on the macro level, as each transaction is optimized on the micro level.
It looks like you can only zoom in into 53,482 results out of 445,203 records. The other ones are low-res images.

Out of these 50k, only 2002 are painted after 1900. It seems like https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/ has a lot more stuff.
What rating would you need for something like that?
The whistleblowers themselves do need vindication though; proof that their actions were justified. See e.g. the need for Snowden's leaks, and his responsible handling of sensitive information, to be vindicated publicly.
Handbrake is on github, people put lots of hours into it and it can be downloaded, checked and compiled. handbrake is used to transcode video - often between proprietary formats, people often put a lot of hours into the videos transcoded by handbrake, but this was binary handbrake on a mac, macs are based on unix, people put a lot of hours into unix... people put a lot of hours into the company's source code... but it too was stolen, the world is a cynical place somehow. Maybe if it all was on github the world would not seem such a cynical place and people would realize that the value is in what they themselves bring and not in the thing on github.
If it's too loud, you can always call in with his plate. Enough reports and he can get ticketed for an illegal muffler. Happened to a buddy of mine back in Texas, and he totally had it coming.
Yep, I will definitively try to compile my Rust MD code to emscripten and give it a look! There are quite a few JS molecules visualizers, so the outcome can be pretty nice for teaching.
It won't take off until there are useful apps to run on it, and once there are, people will get it for those apps, not for it itself. Only to CS majors is it interesting in itself - to everyone else, it will (or won't) be interesting purely on the strength of what you can do there that you can't do elsewhere.
Either that 45% number for no help is high or I seriously need to check my privilege.

I knew my situation was somewhat rare, but I didn't know it was 9% rare.
Well yes, that is what we are trying to figure out here?! What is killing healthy people not expected to die shortly?

For people approaching 90, everything from a fall to a cut can be deadly. But that tells us more about 90 year olds than cuts or falls.
It's not like the tech behind Hacker News is what gives it its value. It's because it's associated with Y Combinator. Not sure why they aren't willing to release it.
Probably an odd question, but am I the only one who thinks this would have been a godsend about 10-20 years ago?

I mean, it's useful for some cases now (like as mentioned, non programmers wanting to make more dynamic sites), but back then a lot of cheap/free hosting services didn't support any server side scripting.

Something like this would have let you build an ad hoc CMS on a free hosting service like Geocities. Which would have been pretty useful for the utterly skint.

Now though? It's still useful for some people, and I do think it's something I'll test myself at one point, but I feel the easy access to free/cheap hosting for server side scripts has likely cut down on its usefulness a fair bit.
Actually if I recall correctly, modders were largely making skins and other things for free and distributing them to other players. Then Valve developed a section of their online store and distribution network to allow those mods to be sold for at least some money. Now the split may not be what you consider entirely fair, but 8%, 25%, 75%, or 100% of zero is all the same.

A game without mods is a game. A mod without a game is just digital art. It's their engine, their game rules, their store, their distribution network, and their audience that they've reached with their marketing. Maybe they deserve a bit smaller share than they ask, but who are you going to sell these items to without a game engine, game rules, a store, a distribution network, and an audience to sell them to?

If you gave 30% to an app store, and 20% for marketing, and 25% for someone to vet your items don't break the game, what would that cut be overall? 75%.
hydrogen makes metals brittle and there can be catastrophic failure of valves, regulators etc.

there are only 3 significant problems with hydrogen as an energy carrier to solve before it becomes ubiquitous:
1. how to make it
2. how to store it & transport it
3. how to use it

IMO there was a time in the late 80s, early 90s when there was a chance it could be useful but the battery tech development over the last 25 years has nailed the coffin shut - hydrogen research persists because people with jobs know how to research hydrogen production.
IMO, sites should generate a >20 character random base64 password as a form prefill on the registration form, which hopefully would cause browsers to remember it (don't actually let the user change this). Provide "show password" and "copy password" options for those who need to write it down for use on other machines or want to export it to a non-browser based password manager or sync tool. Encourage users to have a master password for the browser password storage.

Also, many sites should have an easy email based login.
> More likely, employees will unionize, and come to some agreement with management, or, they will fail to, and anyone attempting to unionize will be fired. (Illegally, but in at-will states, employees have almost zero recourse for that kind of termination.)

Actually, private-sector employees have recourse for that in all states under the federal National Labor Relations Act -- they can file a charge with the NLRB. The NLRB staff are very helpful and understand that most people are not lawyers, so they will even help you draft the charge form and walk you through the process.
Except that some illnesses like cancer are avoidable, it's not just accidents.

Except that buses and trains and horses and teslas kill people and pollute. Even bikes kill people. Every mode of transportation is a killer, so if you want to eliminate travel deaths you can only eliminate travel.

If you eliminated cars completely tens of thousands would likely still die in the US from transportation accidents. But now you've trapped people and forced them to live close to work, do less traveling, and live crappier lives.

Automobiles provide freedom to choose where you want to live and work. They are cleaner than ever and getting cleaner every year.

And the vast majority of the US is empty land.

And the below age of 25 stat is incredibly misleading. People under the age of 25 rarely die of disease or cancer, which are by far the leading causes of death. They rarely die at all which is why car accidents are disproportionally represented for young people. In reality 99% of people who die had a cause of death unrelated to traffic accidents.
For all the talk by liberatians and their ilk that regulation is bad and unnecessary, that chart of median fuel effeciency due to government requirements should give them pause. Wow. Well over a decade of non-progress until a path forward is mandated. Suddently the needle starts moving, with car owners, the environment, and energy import needs as big winners here.
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On lichess I rate about a 1740 or so.
I'm in that 45%, though I used military benefits to cover it. So really, American taxpayers as a whole paid for my bachelor degree.
I guess I still don't see it. I know a lot of life sciences and CS PhDs and only one made 7 figures amortized over 15 yrs.

Mostly you make very low 6 figures.
Agreed - the idea that modern cars are in aggregate lighter than the stuff from even the 80s/90s is laughable. I was really enjoying this article right up until the end, where instead of taking average data for car weights they simply compared two models of Camaro that buck the trend.

Granted cars have gotten much safer, but much of that is due to increased crash regulations forcing car manufacturers to make modern cars much larger to account for the crumple zones etc that make them much better at protecting occupants as well as pedestrians in accidents. This in turn is a major factor in why cars are so often much, much heavier today than before. Colin Chapman is probably turning in his grave!
Anybody tried a fidget spinner? My wife has adhd and likes the idea but we haven't ordered one. Are these interesting for 5 minutes and then shelved? or do they have some lasting appeal?
Yea seriously. I'm kind of surprised to see this here: outside of places that are absolutely performance-critical, my complaint and most of the complaints about Python that I hear from people who know what they're talking about is that doing a medium to large project in it is a lot more difficult from the perspective of code readability. This gets multiplied by a million if you're working with engineers who aren't super great, or who are overall great but have a couple bad habits. I'm currently in a Python codebase with ~4 engineers on it, and even with this relatively small team Python is permissive enough to let them do some pretty horrifying things. Dealing with these choices usually cost us far more eng time than the two minutes spent to design something well would have cost them.

I like the language overall, in part because it allows mediocre engineers to become quickly productive and you can't always hire 100% excellent engineers. But this main downside is in fact a downside.
Where does it say this is a bot? To me it looks like it's human coaches who use AI to quickly find answers. Maybe they're doing Facebook's approach of slowly replacing humans with bots, but for right now they seem to be human.

Edit: saw another comment by from Boost, they're doing Facebook's approach.
You know how in Python the "yield" statement is actually an expression and can be sent values using "next"? Imagine there is a special "yield" called "call-with-current-continuation" that can be used anywhere (not just in generators) which bundles everything up and makes a generator-like thing called a "continuation." This continuation object can be called later on, like using "next" in Python. Unlike generators, though, continuations can usually be resumed repeatedly, always resuming at the same point where the call-with-current-continuation expression was.

A weird thing is that call-with-current-continuation doesn't yield back to something; it yields to the function given to call-with-current-continuation.
From the press release:
- It happens in 2018
- They brag about "40 cloud regions" across the world. But do not say anything about their current capabilities in Africa.
- 40 "Regions"? where are these 'regions' located?
And why so many? Are they incapable of handling large geographical areas?

Makes me skeptical about Micro$lop
The article itself is clearly not clickbait --- it's long-form (more than 5000 words) reported narrative journalism. It's an uncharacteristically deep piece for Slate.
Oops! It was 100 million miles, not 1 million miles, my mistake.
Nice , glad he got paid. Whats truly sad is they did try to chisel him out of his bounty if you read the timeline, he had to prod them to get his bounty. Can any of these top-ten companies that make like 200 million per day (google/alphabet, amazon, microsoft) ever do anything in good faith? One time google stiffed me initially on an RMA with a nexus phone until I stamped my feet a bit complaining that a company that makes 200M/day is stiffing me, the loyal android lover, for a $200 hunk of chinese-made plastic. (and just a short while later with things like SafetyNet I can no longer have root on an $800 pixel that isnt even waterproof). So much for dont be evil. Well, they dropped that in favor of -"do the right thing—follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect" yeah, they can respectably be cheap chiseling money grubbers as long as its legal - like helping locate Falun Gong members in China. And the corporate stewardship -in the hands of the employees - they get blinded by the huge pay and instantly fail to see the bad things that go on. Anyways, glad he got paid. Amazing that a company with 57000 employees (and TONS of contractors, they dont want more employees who get benefits and stock when they can string contractors along) needs some random guy to find holes in the back door.
Here's how I do it:

1. Make a list of the things your service offers customers.
2. Make a list of the thing(s) you want from customers.

In your page, tell the story of your service, using the items from list #1 to get the desired result(s), list #2.

Also focus on showing instead of telling. This is a pretty common concept that most people without a writing background aren't familiar with. Imagine the difference between saying, "My service uses trusted web technologies to ensure security." and showing a collection of AWS, etc., icons.
If the destination is encrypted, how does the ISP know where to send the packets? You could use some form of garlic/onion routing (Tor/i2p/etc) but that's really slow generally, and there's a decent chance the ISP at the end of the chain will be in the US anyway (and can still throttle).
Not much really, you'd be surprised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912076 is the show hn for anyone interested. It's funny reading that post I would not have realized that product market fit has been found.

In fact, there's been so many show hn's that have been way way way way more successful and I have seen nothing from them.
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There are significant engineering challenges in offering the level of abstraction that they do, and they don't appear to be swimming in cash, so maybe people are focused on better ROI opportunities? Besides, if you build a better heroku that people don't mind spending 15x AWS on, that's one thing, but if your plan is just to be cheaper, well, Heroku can kill you by lowering prices.
I've just come from a trip around the US national parks, and noticed something similar.

I rented the cheapest, smaller car that I could, which was a 2015 Dodge Dart which would probably be about mid-range in the UK. It claimed 30 miles / gallon for optimal driving. Converting, that's 36 miles / UK gallon.

I don't actually own a car at the moment, but for a few years I owned a 1995 Peugeot 106 which normally got just under 50 MPG, say about 40 miles per US gallon.

Makes for a pretty disappointing comparison. 20 years later and still 25% behind?
I hate dual booting so in your situation I would probably stick with windows and just run other OSes in docker/virtualbox.
Nice discussion on reddit: http://musho.tk/l/c375f01a
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I mean subways and trains in the US are publicly owned and operated.
If you want to see incompetence, the California DMV doesn't allow copy/paste AND it asks for not two, not three, but SIX personal security questions.

Oh, and if you forget your login/pass/security-answers, don't worry, you can just re-register your account with the same username as before, with all new password, security questions and answers.
Telegram now lets users buy things from chatbots in its messaging app
I'm connected to one of those municipal networks in Sweden, and after paying about 1000 USD for getting the fiber laid to my house, I now pay $28/month for 100/100 mbit.

10 mbit costs $12, and 500/500 mbit costs $80, which is the fastest option. I don't really know what I would do with 500 mbit except host a lot of servers in my garage and use the heat for heating the house.
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These have started showing up all over our office. Kind of like a stress ball, but louder.
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The ranking algorithm.
My wife paid her own way through college despite her parents being solidly middle/upper middle class. It's more common than I thought (being in that 9%).
Driving is super safe. There is no evidence that driving is any less safe for young people. They just rarely die of anything.
> The Bolt EV costs $36,620, the Prius $23,475.

The Chevy Bolt has a $7500 electric vehicle tax credit, many states have rebates of $1000 to $3000, and some utility companies offer their own rebates and incentives. That narrows the price difference quite a bit, and drops it well below the average new car selling price.

You're also not going to be producing gasoline at home, while a lot of people buying these expensive early electric vehicles are also early adopters of solar panels.

If you look at the $/kWh trend on lithium ion batteries (over 80% drop in 6 years), the most expensive part in these cars, it's only a matter of time before EVs cost no more than other types of vehicles without the government help.
This brings up an interesting topic of conversation. My wife and I lived two very different lives. Her parents paid for her $50k a year undergrad + $??K a year grad school. She's 1 of 3, and it was the same situation for her siblings as well. Me on the other hand (1 of 3 as well) had $0 paid for, along with my siblings.

My parents believe the child is responsible for education because it's their adult life they're building. My wife's parents are the opposite- they believe it is an obligation as a parent to support college. Granted, my parents couldn't afford to pay, but it's been ingrained in me that parents are not obligated to pay for college.

Now, is there a social stigma, as a parent, NOT to pay for their child's education? We're about to have a child, and we have this discussion quite regularly.
Hey! We are friends with Fouad (founder of StrongIntro) and he let us use the images. :)
There is a cost to those lines, and a minimum cost you can lease them to the ISP. This applies to ISP owned lines just the same. The difference is, you cannot hide that cost, and everyone is put at the same level. (Make sure there is no bulk offer, though, that would kill small ISPs).

Now the ISPs can compete on customer support, neutrality, even privacy. Good support costs money, so that will be a consumer choice. Same goes for TV multicast streaming. The rest however cannot beat full neutrality and zero spying, so I expect they'll become the new baseline.

And if it means all the big ISP die a painful death (with unemployment and all), then good riddance: they will be replaced by smaller ISPs, that will take their customers and their employees. And the resulting competition should end most monopoly practices.
ycombinator is 0% of the value IMO. Interesting news and comments for me
I have a loan from my parents... But that's just because I'm not allowed to borrow more than $5k per year. My tuition is around $35k/year and I have some scholarships but... Expensive. And since the government says my family can contribute an absurd amount of money, I just have to pay them back...
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Are the hands fake too?!
I find it much more likely that they just dropped the ball on paying them, rather than maliciously trying to deny them a bounty.