skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the parent, but yes (we used to have fiber service from Charter). It's also symmetrical so 100Mbits up, which is an order of magnitude faster than their residential copper service. The 5 year commit is to cover their cost stringing fiber from the closest splice point to your facility (could be several blocks). If you can peer with them in a building that is already fiber-fed on their network, the cost should be lower.
> HIPAA is a common reason given for not getting into the healthcare space and focusing elsewhere. A lot of smart people and smart products that could have been focused on health just never turn up at all, because of the vagueness, poor drafting and expansive reach of such things.

Good? This sounds like the law is doing what it's supposed to be doing - it's not enough to simply be smart, you have to also be sufficiently willing to pay attention to detail such that you don't accidentally design your systems in a way that leaks personal data. If you find this burdensome, maybe the world is better off if someone else develops it instead. (There are enough newly launched healthcare startups - Clover Health, Oscar, and One Medical all come to mind without even thinking - that I don't think that it's completely stifling innovation, which would be a different story.)

As a person who is much better at being smart than at being reliable and careful, I am totally okay being regulated out of this space - I don't trust myself not to just forget about something. I worry consciously about edge cases in my code because I know I won't worry about them subconsciously. If I want to go into this space, I imagine that I can just hire someone who's good at the regulatory part and willing to focus on getting that stuff right.

I don't understand this idea that smart people should be entitled to develop and market products in whatever way they want, simply because they're smart. I'm sure the Therac-25 programmers were very smart.
It is quite efficient for him: he spends a day reading email in “batch mode” every few months, and it saves him the cost of context-switching, and lets him focus on writing his books.

(Note that the only email he reads is bug reports: if you send something by email that is not a bug report, he says he ignores it, though I've been able to sneak in an odd thing or two (a comment on a TAOCP section) by including it along with bug reports… the catch of course is that to use this trick, you have to find an actual bug in the books.)

The emails are printed for him by his secretary on the back of one-sided printouts, so he's not wasting any “new” paper for the emails. He scrawls (with pencil) his replies on the printouts, and hands off the pile of outgoing mail to his secretary (who only comes in once a week or something), who contacts the recipients, asks them for their postal mail address, and sends his reply by post.

It works very well for him, and he doesn't have to waste time filtering email, typing into a computer, etc. He does everything with pen-and-paper (including writing programs like TeX and METAFONT over several months, without typing them up into a computer until the very end), so it just matches his most comfortable working environment.
> The Paris and London Eurostar terminals are nice.

You have a very expansive definition of "nice".

St. Pancras station in London is quite nice. Gare du Nord station in Paris--not so much.

Gare du Nord gets, at best, the appellation of "workaday"--it's functional, mostly, but would not really appear on anybody's list of somewhere "nice".
I'm still waiting for some wag to just put a python module on github that solves fizzbuzz and import it in his interview. ;-)
I still don't get it, 10,000 times more light than its size?
Actually, some years ago a septic system could cost anywhere from $5k to $15k in the area I was in. Most companies won't take payments, and if you've had some financial difficulty, many places won't help you fix it. You can, however, get different programs to help with your sewage and water bill.

And then you have the upkeep. Folks have already mentioned power issues (generator or stored water), pumping, and other things that can go wrong (including backflow into your house and testing water occasionally to make sure it hasn't been contaminated). Most folks where I lived (indiana) also needed a water softener just to keep their water from stinking of eggs. Clothes didn't last as long, and few white clothes stayed white for long without special caustic cleaners. Blonde hair turned orange and it took a beauty treatment to get it back and/or special shampoo. Some homes have a section of yard that stays pretty soggy, and folks need to know where the system is so they don't accidentally dig there or plant trees to closely. If you don't know this stuff, you gotta pay someone to come out and tell you.

Not to mention that at least with city water, the expenses are constant instead of sudden: city water is more like regular oil changes whereas a septic is more like a sudden flat tire or two that happens to stink up your car somehow.
They can ape features but I feel less inhibited sharing content on Snap than I do on Facebook nowadays.
I second this, we use Paddle on https://gimmeproxy.com . It's really nice they handle VAT automatically on your behalf (EU VAT law for online is complicated) and setup was pretty easy.
Not here please.
I suppose I can enjoy it in much the same way I can get invested in an episode of say, the original star trek from the 1960s. I mean sure, I could sit there and point out how the computers are silly, the physics are un-realisitic, the special effects suck and the alien planets are clearly earth with props. Or even classical theatre. I mean theatre is objectively far more flake or unrealistic than anything pro-wrestling does (wait a minute, they're not in a castle!) But if a story - in any medium - engages me enough I'm willing to look over a lot.

Wrestling has its own set of "in-universe" realities that we the audience are conditioned too. If they're adhered too, and everything makes sense in the logic of that framework, I find it easy to suspend disbelief... provided of course I care about the conflict.
And that's not silicon valley... say Mountain View, CA:
- 560+ hours during winter months
- 3,070 annual

https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainfall-Tem...
If you look at large companies' accounts, they typically have inter segment reconciliations. Where intra-company trades are booked can be artificial. In the Chinese case, the city of Tianjin, e.g., which has a financial district, booked revenues from companies registered there but conducting no substantial business there in its own local GDP. This is akin to the state of Delaware including in its own GDP report (if there is such a thing) all companies registered there. But this inflation has no effect on the national GDP, which is aggregated over the businesses directly, so it does not matter how many provinces claim the businesses as their own. Hope this helps put things in context a little bit for you.
Most cities I lived in serviced the lines up to the point they entered the house, though. Not as much to worry about.
To counter; we did the billing system after, when we needed it. In fact, the first Saas sale, my business partner phoned up excitedly and said, "I've just sold a licence! Any chance you could hack together a page to securely take this guys details through Stripe", which is just what we did.

We winged it for quite a while with that. It was only after the billing side started to take too much time that we needed to switch to Chargebee to take away all the pain. Sure, it's manual work doing the invoices etc through Xero, but it's not impossible. It's pretty manual with enterprise customers anyway as the billing process is going to involve a bunch of back and forth with purchase orders etc.
Maybe Steven is right and the recent dip in perceived quality is an artifact of perceptions aggregated at scale as well as natural blips in process as certain scale markers are hit.

Or, maybe many pieces of Apple s/w required a zealous overbearing quality freak at the helm to prevent their quality performance from regressing to the mean and without that cultural monolith, their other software has started to the way of iTunes.

This is almost a great piece, but it fails to identify WHY Apple was knocking it out of the park, then assumes that because Apple was insanely productive while maintaining quality that they will continue to do so.

Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Either way, I'm glad that the scope and process side of things were fleshed out in this piece.
While only a small minority might travel (across country borders) a lot in the US, I imagine in Europe it's a much higher proportion of the population that regularly travels to other countries.
5 Times That People Claimed to Be Real-Life Time Travelers
The part about scanning is how you responded to faxes in the old days. However the thing about making a quick note on paper and having a secretary who creates a nice reply is way more efficient than messing with mail directly.
Composable Error Handling in OCaml
Direct Instruction: A Half Century of Research Shows Superior Results
So THAT is how they artificially increase their DAU and use time - make the user experience only tolerable if you essentially have to use the app daily and be constantly updated.
Not quite "no phone" but I know someone who was and is in senior technical roles at various well-known Silicon Valley companies. He only reluctantly got a (feature) phone--well after smartphones were the norm--when he had a kid and the nanny pretty much insisted.
"In any absolute sense the quality of Mac/iOS + h/w are at quality levels our industry has just not seen before.... On any absolute scale number of bugs — non-working, data losing, hanging mistakes — in iOS/Mac is far far less today than ever before."

iTMS loses track of what songs I own.

iTunes will not sync my music to my iPhone correctly.

iTunes has also deleted entire libraries full of irreplaceable music.

macOS High Sierra shipped with not one but at least two root access bugs.

macOS High Sierra also exposed FileVault passwords in plain text as a password hint.

These problems are inexcusable, and it is simply untrue that Apple's quality is currently higher than average, let alone higher "than ever before."
You should also just consider immigrating to Europe,Australia,Japan...really anywhere else in the developed world.

Like I'm only being partially facetious here, but my suspicion is even accounting for currency differences you could come out on top.
I tried looking for the Olympics Opening Ceremonies, something I was 100% certain would be up on torrent sites. Couldn't find a single one. Ended up logging into the NBC Sports app and streaming it that way.
Patreon has been getting worse over time as people have explored what it is capable of (both on the corporate and user side).

At first, it was just a recurring paypal where subscription got you access to a private forum.

Then creators started putting development materials and bloopers on it.

Then extras and previews.

Now a lot of patreons are just turning into paysites. All the content is on patreon, all of it behind tiered paywalls. Its no different than technology we had in abundance in 2004.

The difference is that with paysites the owners of the site handled the payment processor. Now those creators have forfeited their autonomy for the (probably worthwhile as web centralization has shown) increased exposure and convenience of being on THE recurring payments site. Now one corporate entity can arbitrarily kill someones business on their own whims while taking a cut of all their fans contributions.
Flying in a f**king jet
Yeah a wiki should suffice. Having a good runbook is a process that needs to be tended to every time devs and ops deploy, troubleshoot, and configure services. More of a process than a tool, because it should integrate with all the tools already in use for deployment, logging, debugging, etc.
Unilever threatens to pull online advertising from ‘toxic’ platforms
I've recently switched from a giant append-only text file which I've been using for 18 years, to using TiddlyWiki -- a personal wiki. Each journal entry (or any wiki page within it) can be tagged and you can view pages across tags, so the ideas is to tag the journal with topics and then later transfer it to some learning article about that specific topic (or any part of my past life in general).

I've found that I constantly scan HN etc. for new articles, may read them through and it gets weakly stored in some kind of background memory, but it doesn't really make me form a sufficient opinion on the subject. 15 years ago information was scarce (C/C++ user's journal only came out once a month!) or expensive (E.g. O'Reilly books), or questionable (Usenet groups). Nowadays there's just a constant stream of interesting things happening.
The best heels are often convinced they're faces, and in their own minds their actions are justified.
As a passenger, they're taller (the original trainsets were built before HS1 so had to fit the traditional British loading gauge) and more spacious inside (partly due to slim seats), and I think a little sleeker on the outside. But the relevant part is that they have the right signalling and electrical equipment to run in the Netherlands.
I paid a similar price recently also booked at last minute. I've just returned to Australia from a holiday in Europe. On my travel agents advice I decided to leave UK by taking Eurostar from London to Paris. Incidentally I arrived in London via Amsterdam.

The Eurostar trip itself was pretty pleasant booking it on the otherhand not so much.

I should have purchased the tickets well in advance before leaving Australia instead I left it until the last minute - I blame bad advice from my agent who basically told me. "Oh you can just rock up to train station on the day purchase a ticket to Paris, no big deal".

In Amsterdam I was advised that I may not be allowed into the UK unless I could show them I had a departure booked. So I had to buy the Eurostar ticket in a rush. Eurostar website did something weird with my credit card tripped up some sort of Fraud detection or something Triggered 2FA check with my Australian bank. Bank's text message went to my Australian SIM which of course was inaccessible from Amsterdam. I'd used this credit card all over Europe for 5 weeks up until this point with 0 issues I have no idea what it was about Eurostar site that triped their fraud detection. I had a backup prepaid Visa debit card which the Eurostar site also refused to accept. I ended up ringing friend of mine who lives in Rome in a panic and he was able to order tickets for me.

Border Control did ask how I was planing on leaving the UK I told them Eurostar and they waved me through without asking to see the physical ticket.
Well for starters, municipalities could compete.

Unfortunately for us consumers, Comcast has lobbied pretty well and made it against the law for municipalities to start their own ISP.
> Myself and my partner were pretty blind without our glasses, which you have to take off to use the microscope. So we could see nothing.

Intuitively, this doesn't make sense to me. Microscopes have a focus. You should be able to adjust that focus such that the microscope is also correcting your vision, just like I (very nearsighted) have no trouble using binoculars without wearing my glasses.

What am I missing?
I am running stock trading robots in the cloud and they are fully automated and AI based in the decision making...

Essentially it is a productized service business with only one client - myself... and the future is great!
Google Cloud: GPUs in Kubernetes Engine Now Available in Beta
I'm curious about two things:

(1) What is your reaction to this TED talk by Tristan Harris?

(2) What strategies do you use to try to keep control over where your attention is focused?
SpaceX has a fairly large collection of graphics cards for simulation purposes see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqs_S-zEBY
Twitter has been using a similar scam for a couple of years now. After several years of Twitter, my account was locked and they demanded my cell number to "verify" my account. No thanks - said goodbye to Twitter and never looked back.
>You're free to think that, and possibly some less important companies could get away with it.

In the EU most people have identity documents... and enough services that provide identity verification.
The said verification is mandatory in some industries like online gambling.

There is no intrinsic hurdle to remove the retarded IP block. Using VPN to bypass it is just yet another step away but again, why bother with VPN when I can get it via torrent?
The profit equation is a little bit more complex. Consider that recovered fairings would be used multiple times, not just once each; and the long time to manufacture each new one adds an unwanted scheduling delay.
How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software
It looks a lot better from the outside than it actually is on the inside.
Are you imagining this running inside a cuda kernel? If yes, the problem with doing anything of the kind is that, even if you run your kernel with one warp and mask all but one thread, you still then need round trips to the cpu to do io, and you need to dynamically load code, both of which the gpu is quite bad about.

If no, it is probably doable if a bit hard to generate kernels on the fly.
The main problem is these are more likely to "leak".
Are determinism and dualism considered to be one-in-the-same?

Not at all, they are more like opposites of each other. Dualism in this context refers to the idea that there is something non-physical in addition to the physical body and brain that makes you conscious, a soul or something along that line. If you think that dualism is wrong and you are just a bunch of atoms governed by the laws of physics, then you probably think determinism is true, i.e. the choices people make are not really free choices but just the results of the initial conditions and the laws of physics (which may actually be non-deterministic, for example if the randomness of quantum physics is real, which makes the naming potentially a bit confusing).
just replying again as I remembered another point

previously when I had a new idea that I might be able to turn into a business I could form a limited liability company for about £10, try the idea out with essentially no paperwork at all

then if the idea panned out I could worry about the huge-pain-in-the-ass-that-is-VAT later

now with this regulation it's a problem once I've made my first sale to a non-domestic EU customer, and my agility goes through the floor

EU countries have gone from being fantastic places to start a digital services micro-company to being at best mediocre ones, all to try to stop Amazon avoiding VAT

utter madness: small companies started as side projects turn into the big ones, but apparently we no longer want that
It's not even about a product category. It's about control of the surface area of interfaces people use. Interfaces that aggregate other services often hang poorly, but if you can build one people seek to use, you can build a brand (a name bound to positive connotations), which becomes a durable and valuable position to control. Mental real-estate in mass awareness is hard-won.

Voice control today is somewhere between gimmick and strictly dominant, depending on the situation and provider. If you consider the trends of interface design from line console to GUI to touch, each used newly-sophisticated tech to become more broadly accessible. With this broadening the stakes go up. I think that explains the proliferation of speaker chatbot products; they are just one front in a larger competition for that space people interact with directly. That particular front may or may not turn out to matter in the long run. Concurrent battle sites are car integrations and streaming devices/USB-sticks for TV's. This is why these same companies keep showing up to the same battlefronts with more or less equivalent strategies (semi-shiny new interface tech that happens to funnel you into their marketplace regime); they all want to be your concierge at the ready, in order to steer economic activity.
An airliner is on a building scale and carries a slightly less refined petroleum fuel. RP-1 and Jet Fuel are both refined petroleum fuels. Rockets only carry LOX because they go into space where there is no atmospheric oxygen to burn the fuel.

Airliners are fully capable of turning themselves into fireballs. It doesn't happen often because we have a lot of experience operating them. The same safety levels are possible with rockets over time.
Notes will try to insert smart quotes in your code and other silent changes (made to improve text notes but catastrophic for code.)
I first wanted to write something in that direction, but realized that is not true. Since the common cpus are all produced by US-american firms, they'd indeed be affected by something like this. Though you are of course correct afaik, the real production happens in Asia.
So, from that reasoning it might be less that they couldn't fly those rockets again, but that maintaining multiple versions of the rockets might not be in their financial interest. Thanks for the input.
They say it was a long exposure.

The atom was illuminated and irradiated light for a long enough time to register on the sensor.
These are the first two boosters used to launch a Falcon Heavy. They are modified Falcon 9's. They already know much of the wear and tear that Falcon 9's endure in flight from previous launches. They didn't yet know how their boosters are affected by the modifications required, and the stresses involved in launching a Heavy. Now they have two pristine pieces of data they can tear down and analyse for potential improvements.
Many email systems have an idea of a catchall account. I can have a domain for which cestith@mydomain goes into one account and anything else @mydomain goes into a second account.
I spend a lot of time thinking on this - how to become a better programmer, and how to learn more effectively. I find myself vacillating between googling "how do I get the drop-down to stop showing up behind the button" and reading "Javascript: The Definitive Guide" cover to cover. In the long run, I believe that I get more out of real deep-dives into the core of the subject matter, but I worry that I don't have much specific to show for it.
Walt Disney was an actual person and one of the founders of what became The Walt Disney Company.
That's not true, we've downloaded plenty of children's shows for the kids to watch on the train that aren't produced/distributed by Netflix (eg. Octonauts).
If they do this, traditional TV will likely bang our heads over how deceptive these companies are. They will point out the fine prints in the EULA with the most outraged tone possible. They will conflate the issue with US spying on everyone ("NSA" and "Snowden" will be uttered repeatedly).

Because doing so is in the interest of EU corporate powers: let's drive away, or at least hinder, US companies on our soil, so we can develop our own. Even if the initial intent was not to put up a trade barrier, it will be used as such. Not that would be a bad thing: from what I have heard, the GDPR seems fine, as well as quite defensible.
SpaceX fluid issue is likely a calculation / estimation error.

Southwest fluid issue is likely a logistics failure.

I don't see them as related.
The Digital Single Market should improve the situation in the European Union.

Start from https://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/digital_en – I've read something about them solving (or aiming to solve) exactly the situation you describe.
We're all broken. It's hard work sharing the world with other broken people, no doubt. I just don't think it's healthy to see it as a chore.
Create a view and have everyone use the view. Name the original table something like "table_with_deleted_records" to make it stupidly clear what is going on.