skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact: SimpleDB still exists and has customers.

It's just very very very hard to find a link to it from AWS :)

https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
> I accept $20 bills because I believe other people will accept $20 bills. The paper itself is worthless.

The real worth of a US dollar bill comes from the US military. In case the value of USD starts going down, the military will do whatever is "necessary" to restore economic order.
I.e., Mergesort?
Show HN: Crypto Warrior. Monitor Crypto Like It's Ultima IV
Are the IEA's terrible predictions used when modeling future CO2 emissions for climate studies? Will the growth of solar put a dent in all those really pessimistic climate models out there?
It's a fundamental denial of obvious facts to claim that editorial control by the owner of a media outlet is conspiracy theory. There are plenty of well known examples, though most people only acknowledge the ones that are opposite their own political beliefs.
Probably the best example is the TANF welfare reform passed in 1996.

On the surface it had a very reasonable goal. Require workers on welfare to seek employment.

However, this, combined with the shipping of jobs to China (stuff that had been manufactured in the US was instead manufactured there and shipped back), businesses forcing citizens to compete with immigrants who they knew they could threaten with deportation, along with outright cuts to welfare, kind of destroyed the program.

In other words, welfare was cut while jobs were getting scarcer, and then they turned around and made getting a job a requirement to having / staying on welfare.
That would certainly be interesting. At present, I don't know squat about any of this, except to imagine that I'd have to pay for some sort of super high speed cable to the building, run it up to the roof, build some sort of radio station up there.

Maintenance would be a chore, as mentioned in one of the other posts.

But an app that lets people begin to think about how this stuff works -- for instance what the pieces consist of, might hit pay dirt if the whole net neutrality thing gets nasty.

I've also thought about the idea of what people could do if they set up some kind of mesh network in a higher density urban area -- for instance if they could use it to bypass the ISP's while maybe also improving their security and privacy.
100 seems high. I have heard it's more like 12 to 15.
I support the legalization of gambling, but you’re wrong. By analogy, that’s like saying only people who don’t understand the risk of unprotected sex have unprotected sex.
Mobile and web browser credential management: Security implications [pdf]
The Future of Cybersecurity Is in High-Speed Quantum Encryption
This is exactly "the datacenter investment". But the only people who can make it are established companies with predictable long-term power needs. You cannot really invest in it.

Investing in solar companies however (e.g. SUNE, SCTY, ...) went badly (of course SCTY "turned out well" thanks to Elon Musk putting up 2 billion of not-quite-his-own money to saving it, presumably mostly to protect his reputation. This is ironically another reason not to invest, as the difference between a large loss and a large gain was created only by a large external force (sort-of government even, if you consider just how much government money TSLA gets))

So an investment in SCTY was pretty much a simple bet: "do you believe the government will bail out SCTY ?". The answer was yes, in a roundabout way. In the case of SUNE, the answer was no.
Boffins pack more info onto photon for faster quantum key distro
At 1,50 in the Yolo V2 youtube video I couldn't help but laugh when the algorithm detected the gun in the woman's hand as a cell-phone, made me think of the whole ET Walkie-Talkie/gun censorship scenario.
It was certainly "war against non-combatants" though. Two cities filled with civilians.
> The reason, as it was explained to me, was that in 2015 I had broken Chinese law when I failed to present myself to authorities in Beijing when I had visited and stayed at an Airbnb residence on two different trips. Unbeknownst to me at the time — and something that was not communicated by Airbnb

When you travel to a foreign country you choose to visit, you agree to follow the laws of the land. No one has the obligation to re-educate you about the local laws there, it is your responsibility to learn the laws before you go.

Don't like this? Do go then.
Plausible, but not as if AWS doesn't promote it's own proprietary lock in services.

K8S does help a bit in this regard, but all three of the cloud big cloud players have reasons, products, policies, and strategies to lock you in.
De-Enchanting AI with the Law – Kenneth Anderson – TEDxBoston
Great to see NZ leading the way
Ask HN: Non programmer looking to volunteer
Are there any places that the HN community would recommend for a pm aka non-programmer to contribute to not for profit gigs? I can help with strategy, marketing, project and product management. Don't know how that correlates into anything useful/needed at non-profits. Any and all suggestions are super helpful
This is an awesome idea! Much more fun than my boring crypto trading/analysis api.
Quantum internet goes hybrid
The overriding social policy objective isn't to effect urban-to-rural subsidies per se, but to provide certain types of basic infrastructure universally — and it just so happens that the unit economics point toward a wealth from urban to rural areas as a means of accomplishing that.

To the best of my understanding, the consensus around this formed out of the Depression and was bolstered subsequently by post-war thinking. The idea was that we as a society should be able to make certain social guarantees of living standard and access to services.

Lots of things gave rise to that strain of thinking across the Western world, some of which were in response to specifically American conditions, others not. To the extent that it was influenced by the same kinds of currents that gave rise to the Western European welfare states, there was a pattern of concern over the ways in which savage inequalities between country and society perpetuated intergenerational poverty, which was in turn exploitable by demagogues and populists. There was a time in American history when the society was moving in the same general political direction as Europe as far as universal social benefits, and while the trend was unquestionably weaker here, it give rise to Medicare and Medicaid and other LBJ War on Poverty-era initiatives. Another, less acknowledged motivation was to defeat the allure of the Soviet model; revolutionary Bolshevism was big on redressing the historical gap between the sophistication and modernity of the city vs. the backward depression of the country, and universal literacy, universal electrification, universal medical infrastructure, etc. were widely touted goals. And of course, this factor was even more pronounced among the European social democracies.

The more locally American consideration was most likely that telephone service should be folded, together with farm price supports, into the overall package of stabilising subsidies to the critical agricultural sector. This was thought necessary to cushion them against a repeat of the acute economic devastation of the Depression, the Dust Bowl, etc. Telephone access was essential to economic development and automation in the twentieth century in the same way that Internet access is regarded to be now, and was practically important for farmers as a means of getting their products to market.

Last but not least, participation in the social bargain of universal service was generally a condition of being granted some sort of natural monopoly status, as for example with electrical utilities. The same general thinking was extended to the telephone, since AT&T did, after all, monopolise the local loop in most of the country for much of the twentieth century.
High-speed quantum encryption may help secure the future internet
> People can insist that Tesla is effecting some positive changes in the world, but it seems to me that mostly they have been good at repackaging and reselling the tech of other companies in creative ways.

I've seen this critique leveled at Apple and it makes more sense there (the Mac borrowing heavily from stuff they witnessed at Xerox PARC and the original iPhone just doing what a lot of other phones at the time were doing, except simpler and more mass-adoptable), but what evidence do you have for this applying to Tesla? Even if you admit that battery technology improvements that made EVs viable were implemented elsewhere, the entire automotive industry was 100% behind the combustion engine before Tesla, and now almost every car company is building EVs. This isn't merely Tesla effecting "positive change in the world", they proved that EVs were manufacturable, that the public wanted it, and solved numerous obstacles to actually bring it to market. The EV would literally not exist (to the public) in 2017 if not for Tesla. How is that merely repackaging tech?
Xeon Phi is like this too, and others when you go back in history.

EDIT: In fact the benchmark graphs seem to be comparing against Xeon Phi ("KNL").
to be perfectly clear - airbnb is illegal in China as the pure residential complex/buildings are not allowed to have any commercial activities.

should there be any airbnb in my complex, I could pick up the phone and call police, they are required to be here to handle the case in 15 minutes by law. did it two months ago, they forced the owner to shutdown the business permanently on the spot. ready to do it any time when it happens again in my complex.
> Anyone who choses to use FB is just not thinking.

One of the answers to your implied question is events. I belong to one of many, many subcultures who organize almost exclusively through facebook. This one happens to be related to dancing.

There are around 5 weekly events held regularly, along with a number regular of monthly-ish classes and around one special event per month held locally. Facebook is just way better than the alternative (meetup), and better than the old way (email lists).
Would real estate actually meet the conditions of being $100k to start with and double that in 6 months? Real estate seems low risk low returns.

Also assuming the question means $200k cash (and not assets), would one be able to sell off real estate that fast?
I'd love to see this if you decide to make it.
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What are the well known examples and the obvious facts connecting Bezos with the editorial direction of the WaPo?

Saying he makes editorial decisions in the newspaper because they printed criticism of Sanders or his competition doesn't cut it for me.
> I don't need to know about ...

Surely the question is not about what you absolutely need or not. You could strip you life back to only necessities. Some people might find that fulfilling, but I suspect many wouldn't.

I think the question is more of cost/benefit. Do the benefits of something sufficiently outweigh their costs.
What I would like is the ability to filter out all reposts. If all you saw was original posts, it would clean up 90 percent of all the garbage.
been using Nylas Mail. Works pretty well.
https://www.nylas.com/nylas-mail/
Andy Weir on Economics of Moon Tourism
In practice, modules and classes are not defined that way - likely not in your own application, and certainly not in all the gems you depend on, or in the Rails framework itself. That entire set of transitive dependencies can take up a lot of memory.
If you’re working right, you’re always making revenue
Poker would give better odds I think.
Thanks! What's the link to your API? I only discovered gdax-tt halfway through, which is an attempt to offer a level of abstraction over the various crytpo exchanges.
We allow daytrading, how is that different?

We allow daytrading while you drink! Impaired daytrading!

Soon in California you will be able to be under the influence of marijuana while you daytrade!

If anything, I would like to see gambling completely in the open across the entire US. Prohibitions against it are a silly throwback.

If you are an adult and want to spend your life savings on craps, go for it. If you lose all of your money, sorry but you are an ADULT.

I love going to Vegas. Most times I don't gamble at all. My wife knows to stop when she is down $1k. She KNOWS that with almost 100% certainty, she will hit this limit. She even enjoys a drink while gambling. If this experience is beyond the discipline of other people, they should stay away and let the ADULTS enjoy themselves.

Our notions of legislating away all risk is inane. Just this weekend my friend was threatened with a $650 fine for riding his mountain bike on a Santa Clara County trail without a helmet. What? What next, will I be put in a police car if I go jogging without elbow pads?
Good point - None of the books I've uploaded so far are available at any of the libraries in my city. They are either not offered or currently checked out.

For e-books yes, for physical books no.
To like someone, stop reading their feeds.
Canadians can buy, but not sell on Coinbase
Perfect pitch is definitely learnable. I can tell you the exact pitch of anything played on the two instruments I play (learned at age 13) but not on other instruments or if sung. It is so severe, i can't un-know what they are- happens with film scores- my brain just starts saying the pitches to me. It's like when you pass a bilboard while driving-- you don't mean to read it, but your brain does it without your asking. I didn't have this ability until after I'd practiced these instruments for around ten years.
Hi, Thanks for sharing this! I'm working on cleaning up the code so I can get it shared out, and show some other examples
Why is this being upvoted?

It's literally just 20 random quantum computing papers with an unrelated heading and a Google banner, because they got flagged with a tag somewhere.
I'm not trying to discuss whether it's a "nasty addiction" or legitimate or anything else. I'm questioning the view that the victims of legal gambling are primarily old people.
Why We Moved from NoSQL MongoDB to PostgreSQL
Maybe Trump will be Time's person of the year after all.
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I think this recent point made by Nigel Farage in the EU parliament sums it all up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZLr0TtPjUc
You're right, it is primarily meant for Canadian users, where the average price for the paperbacks listed is $20-30 including shipping. This is similar to the retail price in-store.
Asimov was really good for questions like this. I bet somewhere out there he wrote about why people would go to such places.

-edit- He even wrote a book titled “space colonies”. First I’ve heard of it.
Now add in the @2x and, um, what, @3x? @4x?
I can attest to this being true. That is how it started for me. But it isn't like relative pitch (all practicing musicians have well developed relative pitch) -- it is more like seeing colors or feeling textures. I have noticed that most of my colleagues with perfect pitch are pianists. I think it helps to have that same pitch always be reluably the same. Few string or horn players have perfect pitch on all instruments, but many do have it for their own instrument only.
Is it me or is the advance in AI seem much faster than any other tech that came before it? The rapid advancement in just one year is pretty mind boggling. Very hard to catch up.
SF and LA are the only worthwhile targets on the west coast

Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific is in Washington, and is the only nuclear weapons storage facility on the west coast. In the "limited exchange" scenario, it would be a plausible counterforce target. Not a lot of civilian development on the Kitsap peninsula, though Seattle would be in the fallout plume. (A counterforce strike would probably be a ground burst)
Well it's not fully liquid. Looking at the question more strictly, it could be put in $100k, get out $200k cash.

The volume is not great. You'll lose quite a bit on exchanges. It's probably the same for stocks or real estate, but something like gold is much more liquid for a million dollars. Or gambling.
There is some intrinsic value to BTC, and that is the value of using it for transactions (e.g. because of untraceability, to pay for black market goods). That value is small compared to the overall price of BTC - which is mostly speculative - but it's non-zero.

And many stocks are similarly overvalued by orders of magnitude compared to the actual assets the company holds, to the point that saying that it's "how much they will earn in the future" is meaningless. People buy those stocks because they hope to sell them at a greater price to other people and cash in on the difference, just as they do with BTC.
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There is also another reason to use this over an extension: privacy. Last I saw the browser extensions worked automatically for all pages, thus sending all your browsing habits to some random place. Quite serious if you ask me.

That said, they may have changed or I may have missed extensions that aren't pervasive.

Awesome work! Thanks!
> but obviously it means it accepts invalid programs with undefined behavior.

Congratulations! This is the most entitled sentence in all of computing. The prize ceremony will be held at your house, tomorrow. I'll be casting a statue of gold for you, but first I have to rebuild all the software between me and the CNC machine in Coq or Typescript.
It's funny, I don't experience that "heightened state of alertness" at all. Maybe the onus should be on those people who have no way to know if what they say could be offensive to get a clue and learn about the world?
You misunderstood my comment. I'm saying that there are plenty of examples of editorial control by owners, demonstrating that this is not within the realm of conspiracy theory.

A few examples:

Rupert Murdoch

Michael Bloomberg

Andrew Breitbart

Matt Drudge
I saw Dr Strangelove, certainly anyone who plans to (seriously) threaten the Earth with moon-launched WMDs would include some kind of dead man's switch in their plan.

What I think is this: so the UN (of Earth) acquiesce to your demand for a trillion dollars and mining rights to Ganymede. What next? It's not like you can go back to Earth and enjoy your new wealth.
I'm sorry but this really isn't true. This isn't tobacco, where people become addicted and then industry lies about the health implications.

Everyone who gambles understands that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, and if the casino lost more than they won, it wouldn't be a casino at all.

No one is told they will always win. True, there is manipulation, but all advertising is based on manipulation, as is most of our media.

Why don't we talk about banning alcohol? From deaths to sickness to loss of quality of life, alcohol is the grand-daddy of vice! But coastal liberals love their Pinot Noir, craft beer and boutique small-batch scotch, so instead we talk about limiting the vices of red-staters (guns, gambling, tobacco)
So how is this actually used, then? There's two six-point scales and a flag. How are these integrated into a detain/don't detain?
Yeah, the skew towards SPA is more Rails focused. I haven't worked on a non SPA Rails app in over 5 years. P(SPA | Rails) is higher than P(SPA).
I can import my 23AndMe data into Ancestry.com.
Yes, but a byte code interpreter ported to wasm via emscripten != a compiler with a WASM backend.
nkoren and I are different people. "no one else is talking about X" is not true when 2 people are talking about X.
I have this year deleted FB, but not my account. This after noticing trends of tailoring the exact news that stimulates you the most from what it knows about you. I’m thinking most of this junk quite useless to me and is eating up a lot of valuable time.
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I don't think you can get fast, high returns at low risks. Correlation might not be the best word, but I don't know what a better word would be.
What a world we live in, where environmentalists are the scariest ghost around for the all-American red-blooded special forces hero to go chasing.
Kind of ironic and funny given the rural vote is what gave Trump the presidency and flipped the FCC.
What percent of your income was the TV tax? Be honest.
Someone is facing a ham shortage?
Did you miss "in war against non-combatants"? Hiroshima and Nagasaki were exactly that. Even Tokyo was considered.

PS, Pearl Harbour was against military targets, and peacetime is arguable considering the embargoes, etc. Still not "high ground" by any means, but hardly unprecedented. The US already had a fleet there precisely in case it was needed against the Japanese empire.
Getting the APEC card was life changing. If you’re an Aussie or New Zealander that visits China or anywhere else regularly in Asia, I’d highly recommend checking your elegibilty.

My arrival in China now goes something like; fill in the arrival form, queue at the special APEC immigration line for around 2 mins, show the card + passport, give a polite xiexie and enter.

https://www.border.gov.au/Busi/visas-and-migration/travel-fo...
As someone who lives in Texas... Thank you.
I would not be surprised if Gates provided financial support to various causes and campaigns. That said, I can understand why he is not as prominently involved in politics. Politics is full of people making seemingly irrational decisions, and there is no guarantee that money spent on campaigns will actually result in meaningful change. The Gates Foundation can fund programs with achievable and measurable outcomes without having to worry about voters, lobbyists, and all the other craziness. That level of control speaks to me as an engineer. I imagine it appeals to Bill Gates, to some extent, as well.
It is already very expensive outside Spain.
A similar, more affordable ham is Jamón Serrano.
I don't think there is any benefit to moon-based weapons that space-based weapons don't already have, and we already have ICBMs and FOBSs.
It's linked by their readme, but I've been using a similar command line tool, Bro (http://bropages.org/), for years and am very happy with it. The fact that Bro supports adding new entries (and upvoting the ones you find useful) directly from the command line has made me 100x more likely to contribute myself. (The fact that this project requires a GitHub pull request is a major barrier in this respect.)
Do yourself a favor and learn the vi-style readline shortcuts instead [1]. Once you have you might stop assuming that everyone uses gross Emacs keybinds, because imho C-a is a reasonable prefix and not bound to anything by default.

[1] http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-...
Yeah, but as POTS revenue declines in big cities, too, there's a tipping point beneath which it's not worth maintaining that infrastructure, either.

While the unit economics are better because of the density, there are also more subscribers to serve, breeding its own infrastructural complexity. It may be more efficient to do it in cities per wire distance or unit of infrastructure, but there's also just more infrastructure.

For POTS to be economical anywhere, a sizable chunk of the population has to buy it.

I don't know what those tipping points are, but you can be 370% sure the ILECs have calculated this out meticulously.
In Sweden the regulations is harder but the government has said that the state will subsidize 25% of the cost of of e-bikes.