skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 250mb redis instance on Azure costs $0.055 an hour[1], so nearly $500 p/year

Going down the small hosting a 100 line Go program route, the cheapest "B1" instance type with 1GiB of RAM costs $105.12 a year, and then if you want the service to be HA you need probably another instance in a different zone, maybe a load balancer as well.

I suspect Azure Functions + Blob Storage costs a lot less. Although he didn't mention how much CloudFlare was costing him.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cache/
[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...
You have discovered the difference between principles-based regulation and rules-based regulation .
If you've ever thought about using Unsplash images, consider how clueless (and honest) they are when it comes to model releases and legal releases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZevNRITnWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M_OZWtpokc
Short answer : absolutely not, you can have a look at our privacy policy here : https://slite.com/privacy.

On the why investors would fund us, I think the "note" aspect of it is misleading: it's simply giving an ease of use to our users, but the core of slite is the team aspect of it, and our will is to solve knowledge sharing in teams. While this is not solved, clearly investors will fund projects like Slite.
> People can and will disconnect from the grid to disprove that lie.

More and more municipalities are making this illegal. To protect their utilities, they require that you tie to the grid and sell all electricity you generate to the grid and then buy it back for more.
I'm inclined to believe you're not legit.
Good for you but I don't open the app too, I wouldn't know what Facebooks does with the app but I guess Mark Zuckerberg enjoys The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I'm not particularly beautiful these days. I did see myself that way in my youth. My personal opinion of my youthful experiences has changed some.

My mother placed a high value on clothes and I have a good eye for some things and I was surrounded by people who liked me and were good with a camera. An awful lot of so called beauty is manufactured.

I am not comfortable with you characterizing me as a beautiful woman. I have yet to say much about it anywhere on the internet, but will probably blog about it at some point. I have carefully positioned myself to be something other than the stereotypical woman measured primarily by my looks and whether or not men find me hot. Most wealthy, powerful women are happy to use their looks and sexuality as a part of how they make money. I think this is really corrosive to the lives of the average woman.

Beauty is, in some sense, not real. We invent it. And I am not comfortable being accused of that since I make no effort to participate in the societal conspiracy to paint women as good for one thing -- sex -- and to qualify for that primarily based on one metric -- looks. In fact, I go out of my way to sidestep all that nonsense.
A SATA SSD consumes 1 to 5 watts during heavy write activity. That's hardly worth mentioning for a 2.5" drive in a desktop enclosure, but it's a big problem for an SD card with no way to get rid of the heat!
I don't tend to agree with China, but there doing what a lot of economists have been saying they need to do for years.
(family physician)

In my experience, the issue with Neosporin (besides selecting for resistant bacterial populations) is that people develop a rapid counterreaction if they use it too long. The same applies to so-called "triple antibiotic ointments" and such.

Peroxide and isopropanol are more of an issue for healing, since they can be toxic to tissues.

Just keep it clean and let the body sort it out.
This is great. I've seen MoltenVK before, but did have any reason to justify getting it.

I am a really big fan of Vulkan. While it takes a bit more work to get going and does less for you, I find the increased transparency very valuable and more enjoyable than trying to guess what the driver is doing.
The Challenges of Opening a Data Center – Part 1
The next paragraph explains why it is "bonkers":

"Think for a moment about why a big utility like TVA (serving 9 million customers in seven states, with more than $11 billion in revenue) sets out to plan 20 years ahead. It is investing in extremely large and capital-intensive infrastructure like power plants and transmission lines, which cost billions of dollars and last for decades. These are not decisions to make lightly; the utility wants to be sure that they will still be needed, and will still pay off, for many years to come."

Utilities and the financial firms that invest in them need some certainty regarding long-term demand in order to justify huge loans. For 100 years, the trend was increasing demand. Bucking a 100-year-trend requires re-thinking some fundamental assumptions. Also, financial firms probably gave out loans 10 or 20 years ago / utilities accepted loans that reasonably assumed increasing demand.
Facebook’s face recognition “announcement” coincided with a legal setback
Probably similar to how a lot of Russian people are unwaveringly support Putin's continuous rule
Those averages don't really tell you much. What matters in terms of quality is the consistency of the latency and packet loss.

But even without latency issues, we don't have the technology to replace more than a tiny fraction of total wired bandwidth with wireless.
Review: Tesla Model 3 lives up to hype
> Should I poll my supervisor/co-worker about every problem to see if there is already a solution? As the new guy, I have no idea who or what I should poll people about.

It helps to have a company culture that encourages openness and asking questions. My current company goes so far as to have a Slack channel, #askanything, where folks can ask anything. We'd much rather you ask early in the development process than pursue a path that will lead to duplication.
Calculate Column Sum in TensorFlow
Why should I use this instead of:

- React Native

- Vue.js + Cordova

- Scala + JavaFX

- Kotlin Native

- (whatever I missed here)

?

I am in a mood to learn another language and framework; how would you persuade me to pick this one instead of alternatives?
Have you browsed the Prelinger Archives at archive.org?

https://archive.org/details/prelinger
Show HN: Umwelt, your Android phone as a smartlock for Windows 10
Another note app ...... with 4000 teams using the product
The whole amendment process is designed exactly for this reason. The problem is, nobody seems to want to actually propose a 2nd Amendment repeal and begin the legal process and see if it actually works (because it won't). So instead, everyone gets to whine about gun rights on social media instead of actually working towards accomplishing the goals they claim to be in favor of.
They should send their own request in. The request should be evaluated with respect to the living individual's circumstance, without regard to the deceased.
(Flutter TL here, I wrote large parts of the Flutter framework.)

Dart really is a big part of why the Flutter framework is as it is. Obviously you could design similar frameworks in other languages and have similar results, but there's really a very nice synergy between Dart's design and the Flutter framework, all the way down to small details like how garbage collection works in Dart vs how the framework happens to allocate objects.

In profiles we see about half the time spent in Dart and half spent in the underlying graphics bindings (it varies wildly per scene, obviously, but as a first approximation this is roughly true). If Dart had been less efficient, then we'd quickly see it in the profiles as a problem. I doubt other languages could have achieved similar results without sacrificing usabilty (e.g. we could get faster performance using C++, probably, but good luck writing a usable reactive framework with manual memory management).
If you're consumer focused, you're probably fine and will just need to clean up some mess later when you get big enough to care.

If you're B2B, it's going to be a problem from day one. GDPR has a defacto viral component for service providers. Basically, any the business that wants to become your customer that is itself GDPR compliant needs to ensure that you too are GDPR compliant. Accordingly, GDPR will come up with a large portion of web-facing B2B sales, even for US companies.
Hi, I made this.

This is a program (for Windows 10) and an app (for Android) that allows automatic log in/lock on a Windows PC. It works either automatically (by measuring the strength of Bluetooth signal) or manually (taping the fingerprint reader or the screen).

Also, it has an "anti-theft" feature. If you are at a cafe and walk away from your computer it sends you a warning if someone closes the lid, trying to steal it.

I believe this is very useful in some environments where it can be hard to demand staff to implement proper security behavior (e.g: receptionists in medical offices).

Last, it also has a "reading on the laptop" trick. If you have the phone close to the computer it blocks the screen saver. This is meant to be used when you are reading from the computer screen and don't want to move the mouse or tap the keyboard to block the screen saver.

Now answering the classic question on HN: "how does it compare to X"? If by X you mean one of the following:

* Dynamic Locking: this only locks when you are away, doesn't do login and the other features. Also, you can't configure how far away you are.

* Companion Device Framework: this seems to be stale. Their pages on github and Microsoft haven't been updated for more than a year. However the security protocol architecture I implemented is very similar.

* Windows Hello: my solution doesn't require you to have a Microsoft account (a big issue when dealing with sensitive information outside the US) or to have a web cam on the computer.

* Samsung Flow and Motorola Moto Key: these are specific for some Samsung and Motorola phones. Also, my program has more features (auto log in, strength configuration, anti-theft,etc)
> Wouldn't the betterness of using friend networks being reduced false positives?

They are not limiting to friend networks, otherwise they would not catch (out of network) strangers using your pics. One of the use cases touted is "Help protect you from strangers using your photo"
Spectre.css – A Lightweight, Responsive and Modern CSS Framework
The flattery comes in when, rather than attributing the fact to the real reason, you chalk it up to our awesome success at automating people out of jobs (a constant drumbeat in the press lately). Now, like magic, instead of having a failed economic policy on our hands and people justifiably upset over it, there's nothing to blame but the steady, noble, and relentless march of Innovation and Progress, and better get with the program, people!
Using Google Search to Predict Black Panther Success
Can I reach out to you somehow @gascan ? Want to learn more.
Same here. Defaulted to off. They could be running an experiment. Roll it out to X percent of people, default half on and see who turns it off, default half off and see who turns it on.
Your templates feature is useful and seems to be missing in most notes apps I've looked at. We are looking for a tool to create our playbooks in and then track the execution of instances of those plays. For example, a "onboarding playbook" can be cloned for each instance of a hire.

Similarly, we and many other companies have their own custom project lifecycle which would be a useful template to be able to create and track for each project.
I love it. Thank you, Google! A lot of other tech companies - Paypal, Square, Stripe and Apple pay announced years ago that they would not allow their services to be used for the sale of firearms.

I hope other companies like Amazon, visa, master card will follow your footsteps.
If anything it’ll probably be less likely for majority of people to eat for example while riding one, specially if there’re fleets that are operated by a company. Think subway, you’re not allowed to eat or drink, yet currently people do eat and drink in their personal cars.

If self driving cars are individually owned then there may be a trend towards a different experience but that may come much later after we have self driving cars hitting the road, as the cost and risk to operate one makes it unfeasible for the manufacturers to sell them at scale to the general public instead of operating their own ridesharing fleets.
Google Photos actually has some nice features in this regard: it flags the "best" picture in a burst, with remarkable accuracy in ignoring blurry photos, closed eyes, subject not centered, etc. And it generates nice collages and animations too!

But I wish it had a setting to clear out the ones that it's most confident are bad. If it's dark or I'm moving, there's a fair chance the picture will be blurry, so I (and everyone else) just take a few. Recognize that and let me cull automatically, please!
That's true when you're using the power as you generate it, but when you sell it back to use later, you're essentially buying power storage. Efficient power storage is harder than efficient wheat storage, so they're not very comparable.
Never underestimate the power of breaking down a problem into bite size chunks
Looks good using Firefox on Ubuntu, until you select the text: https://screenshots.firefox.com/YM46qCrVR3IA0Qar/atomiks.git...
I'm surprised this area of smart switches aren't more available or popular.

I've done a small amount of research because I could not find a smart charge controller with AC inputs and I was considering making one with a Raspberry pi.

I did however find a smart air conditioning split system that uses solar panels directly and gets any extra power from 120v ac plug:
https://www.practicalpreppers.com/air-conditioning/ac-dc-air...

It's quite effective because when the sun is shining, that's when indoor cooling is needed the most.
I wouldn’t... I think people must like them?
Keep in mind that many aphthous ulcers are actually viral in origin, too, relating to the body's reaction to them. There are a wide variety of causes of canker sores and mouth ulcers, which likely represent different kinds of pathologic mechanisms with the same result. Even some systemic diseases can manifest this way.
There needs to be a discussion. Public transport is horrendously expensive in some German cities. For example, it costs me 8.90 euros to take the U-Bahn into Munich and back. It's far cheaper to drive, particularly if you have a passenger.
A survey of human resource professionals' thinking on MOOCs [pdf]
I think doc is saying, "Please don't make your wound worse with dubious remedies before you come in to show it to me."

Your mouth is full of bacteria, some of which could be harmful when introduced into an open wound. Your home first-aid kit is unlikely to be perfectly sterile, or as versatile as an entire medical clinic. If you are in the wilderness, and licking is the only means you have at your disposal to clean a wound, go for it. Your mouth is less dirty than actual dirt. Otherwise, use filtered, boiled water to wash, and a clean, sterile bandage to dress. [A single application of] antibiotic ointment is unlikely to hurt, but painting the surrounding skin with iodine would be better, and that kind of antimicrobial power isn't typically found at home, unless you have livestock and didn't care for the magnitude of your vet bills.
Histatins, not histamines.
Do you think AWS certification can help the fresh cs grads to get job?
EEs everywhere know about ROHS simply because it makes no sense to have seperate designs for Europe and everywhere else. Also lead free solder really isn't that bad...
Forgot FireWire was an Apple push. Nice to see they didn’t push lightening cables to Macs.

I can name others I adopted on PC including eSATA and Zip Drives.
FAKE gdp. most likely 0% gdp growth, if not negative.

China’s 2015 GDP Was Exaggerated By Fake Data, Analysis Shows
(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-01/china-s-2...)

Another Chinese city admits 'fake' economic data
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-data/anothe...)

This Is How China's Regions Fare in the Fake GDP Data Stakes
(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-19/this-is-h...)
Hmm, I think you may be confused/arguing against a strawman here, but I'll bite.

> Nor should the power company force customers to buy the power that they generated themselves at the utility's price.

No one is forcing customers to do this. I'm not sure where you get that from? If you are using more power than consuming, it does not leave your local premises. Only the excess power you are not using at that point in time is being sent. That's kind of the point of net metering.

> Certainly, when the net usage is negative, the utility should pay only the wholesale cost of that portion of production in excess of local usage.

Which is precisely what they do. Some are forced to pay retail - which was a temporary subsidy both to spur solar development and honestly was adopted largely due to billing convenience if nothing else 20 years ago. Easy to just let a meter spin backwards and bill/pay based on those numbers vs. developing entirely new billing software but everyone knew at the time it was temporary and financially nonsensical.

> When the net usage is positive, the customer should pay the retail price of that portion of usage in excess of local production.

Currently the case.

> But it is nonsensical for the customer to sell the power they generate at wholesale, and immediately buy it back at retail.

This isn't the case anywhere I've heard of, and definitely not the TVA. Even the linked article very clearly describes the situation as net metering as defined everywhere else. Customers are not sending all their generated power out their meter, then putting load on the "grid" on another meter back in. That would indeed be absurd.

> Immediate use should not be metered in either direction, and time-shifted use should account for peak vs. off-peak.

Completely agreed.

> That "grid battery" is actually the natural gas fuel supply at the peaking plant that does not need to be used to supplement the baseline plant. Fuel that stays in the tank instead of being burned is the best "battery" we have right now.

Yes and no. You might be surprised solar load does not match up nearly as well with peak power demand as is reported. This of course is a fine point to debate, and generally is in your favor.

My main point is that power companies being forced to operate a free battery for rich solar customers is immoral when think of who is subsidizing that free battery. Rooftop solar may be about the least valuable form of power to a power company as they can do nothing to schedule production, and the rest of the rate-payers shouldn't be forced to pay retail rates to the rich few who prefer to save $15k on a local battery pack so they don't need the grid battery at night.

I don't think we should force folks to require battery packs, but I also know that the financial incentives are currently lined up to have us end up with a bunch of rich folks paying nothing for power with solar systems, and a bunch of poor renters paying for 100% of the capex on things like the nuclear baseload plants so the solar folks get power at night.
I would suggest you change the name. Sounds very strange to me, and I could easily forget about finding it in the future.
True, but you can only handwave away the size of atoms for so long.
You'd see wide-spread jamming well before then.
This is why the US should not worry about China as a long-term economic threat - authoritarianism has never worked. The Soviet Union, 1930s Germany and Italy, all collapsed. I think the Chinese realize this and are pessemistic about their own future. The Constitution was designed to make the US Government as weak as possible, because a strong government ultimately turns on its people.
Range Rover Becomes First Vehicle to Climb China's Heaven's Gate
Speaking about "rhetoric":

"Germany has also been very restrictive with Tesla"

How exactly does not subsidizing a company amounts to being restrictive?
There is no explanation. It's just a fact we observe. Like magnets attracting: it's just what happens.

Feynman talks interestingly about the nature of these facts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
> profits are slim at best, and you generally take what you can get from a revenue perspective ... publishers today have about as much bargaining power as do Uber drivers [1]

Because of the race to the bottom incentives for publishers, we will see both intrusive, secret crypto-mining AND advertisements, not either-or.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/
Amazon Alexa's Head AI Researcher Has Left for Google
Your issue is that you were 16. I don't mean that weight training young is bad, but that you were a 16 year old training himself. People think that because lifting weight is a meathead sport you would have to be an idiot to do it wrong, but that is incorrect. Lifting weights is easy, but lifting weights in a way that makes you progress towards your goal and emphasizes longevity in the sport is hard and the domain of experienced strength coaches who have seen it all.

You were increasing the weights at a rate that your body couldn't handle. It is very frequent with new trainees because the neurological adaptations that appear at the beginning of training are always impressive: you finally learn how to use those muscles you always had and make them work towards a simple common goal, lifting that barbell. The main problem is that the rest of your body sometimes cannot keep up with that speed, and that results in this sort of issue. Had you been to a professional strength coach, he or she would have forced you to lower your pace and think about long-term progress over short term gain, which would probably have been at your 16 year old self's annoyance (as it was to mine).
To be clear, the law is such that you can't use any of the electricity you generate while it's still "yours." You have to first sell it to TVA (and get paid X) and then buy it back from TVA (and pay X+Y.) In other words, you have to pay $Y to use your own electricity.
This will hurt the poor terribly. As those utility companies keep making less profits, the service they do provide will get worse and worse, and the only people who will be relying on those services will be people who can't afford their own solar panels and batteries.

The utility companies are already calling this out as an issue. As their rich (and more consuming) customers go solar, they are having a harder time providing service for their poor customers. Their fixed costs are getting split amongst an ever shrinking group of people, meaning the rates for those who can least afford it will keep going up.

This is why most utilities push for laws that force people with solar to continue paying into the utility system.
If you are generating 5kw and using 4kw only 1kw gets sent to the grid. So you are not selling those 4kw at wholesale prices and buying it back at retail. Only the power that is time shifted gets this treatment.

You are free to buy batteries to do your own shifting. Also remember that wholesale costs typically just account for power generation, while retail costs also account for grid maintenance. An owner with solar is benefiting from grid maintenance, so it makes sense that they contribute.

Now from a societal perspective you may want to subsidize solar. But it certainly isn't "unfair" to buy power at wholesale and sell it at retail.
Congrats Chris ! So many things achieved since last year. I'm impressed. Keep it up !
> The Bay Area is a beautiful melting pot of ethnically Caucasian, Asian, Hispanic, Black, and Indian folks that appears very diverse if you look at physical appearance.

I noticed this in the Dallas/Ft Worth area too. What I also noticed was how many friends in both NYC and SF were completely oblivious to the fact that cities besides their own can also be rather diverse.

Both SF and NYC are constantly in their own bubbles, and I wish that they'd break out of them more instead of dismissing 98% of the country as "flyover states."