skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still curious about that project. Energy density is a consideration, but it may not be the only one.

Yeah, as-is, there's no way it can pay for itself. But how much room does this have to grow, and at what cost? If most the cost is down to laying the track and making these custom railroad cars, then maybe there are some economies of scale that could come into play. And then I assume that most of the equipment involved could easily last for decades.

Up-front cost for battery installations may be cheap, but don't lithium ion batteries typically only last a few years? That means you won't be able to amortize the cost of equipment over a very big stretch of time at all.
I would be a big fan of them converting the locations in to mixed use housing and retail.
The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
Interesting factoid, but some press have agreed to intentional latency as a security feature around certain events and dignitaries. The theory being that a sniper or drone operator cannot use the "live TV" footage to know their exact position.

In some cases international viewers may see the "live" footage before local ones.
See Rackspace’s offices.
that seems like a weird decision given Britain & Ireland are more culturally tied with Western Europe. It looks like the UN made that grouping for "statistical convenience" rather than cultural identity though, whatever that means.
If the comp, stocks, big $ is your primary motivation, look somewhere else.

We go to the startup for a thrill. For doing something you strongly believe. For creating something that didn't exist before. If you think you can do it in a big org, too, you are right, now go and try, get a job at Cisco or AT&T. Innovating there is like driving Kia Rio vs Porsche: it's a car, too. It goes thought the motion. But the thrill is not there.

Many people are happy in big companies. They won't be happy at startups. They're no worse because of this. Different stokes for different folks. There is no objective pro's and con's for startup vs big corp. There are properties, that match personal traits. The key is to know yourself and what are yours. Trouble is, we don't always know what we want, worse yet it changes over time with experience. And once we finally learn it, it's time to retire. Life is fun.

Now, you don't want to be taken advantage, right, so all written here about transparency, cap table, etc are the right things. Do check. Don't take below-market salary for the mirages of future. If you don't do these basics - you failed intelligence test and shouldn't be hired.
Certainly an engineering marvel. However I feel like the 90 day initial "goal" was to ensure to set the bar low so the mission could be declared a success.
>Like Google Fiber?

Which is being scaled back and on indefinite hold for future expansion?
Russia has created its own Internet for use in times of war
or just off its gps.
I'd also argue that doctors who cannot offer a reasonable standard of care should not be licensed.
Many of those silly warnings are inserted by Javascript code running on the page.

Installing NoScript and by default blocking all Javascript blocks any of the 'we use cookies' warnings that are inserted by Javascript.

I see very few of those warnings myself (NoScript in default deny all JS mode), beyond the ones that are hard-coded directly into the HTML page.
It's happening a lot slower than I expected.
You could, put it's not the way the health department works - I've owned a number of businesses that require a health inspection both at setup and randomly. Takes hours each time with lots of paperwork.
IIRC JSON 5 has comments and other 'fixes'. Also, '.arc' takes me back to the 80s and bbsing.
previous discussion found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17272120
“Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” — Leopold Kronecker[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker
They clearly do know that random things behave differently depending on /bin/sh - because their script changes it to avoid their product behaving differently.
> Can repair pretty much nothing, but handy for sticking posters to walls.

idk, it kept a roofing tile in place for a bloody long time until my mother really lost patience with the sight of bluetac on the roof
Another Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/695/
How is the information verified in your system? Why does it need a blockchain?

You mentioned that the "criticism in the blog post at blockchain as a technology is misdirected", how so?
New App of the Block
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tessa
All code pushes stuck since 30 mins. Should have started hosting own instance.
Well if we reach Mars in the next <100 years it surely won't be gone. If we can reach it while it's still operating that would be astonishing though.
> was once a neutral phrase, and has now been misappropriated and politicized

If the phrase was politicized, you'll have to blame Trump for using it as the slogan for his political campaign.
Work Environment:

Informal atmosphere, flat hierarchies, open mindedness are some terms that perfectly describe work environment at a Startup. So, if you are bored of your organization’s formal work environment, then Startups have a better place to work at for you.

Real ownership & Results:

By working at a Startup, you can have a freedom to work. If you have an idea, execute it, and come up with the results. There is no need to follow a hierarchy and take multiple approvals. In case, your idea is a big hit, just enjoy the equity.

Experience:

Startup gives you ample of opportunities to take decisions and that too quickly. This would not just help you in learning but also help in gaining experience in case you have plans to initiate your own startup.

Sense of Accomplishment:
Working at a startup gives tremendous & quantifiable impact. Startups give you a position to be an integral part of the system that plays an important part in the fine working of the business. The sense of accomplishment one gets from this is something that money can’t buy.

Diverse Work Day :

Work day at startup is not like 9-5 corporate job. You do not have to go to office to do the defined tasks & come back home. Instead every day, in fact every minute can be unpredictable about work. There are different clients and different work, and you would have to manage all simultaneously. So, one another best aspect about working at a start-up is, you won’t be bored!

The bad side:

Lack of structure: Due to inexperience of leadership, if management loses sight of team/cost/communication of strategy with investment, then one has to face the consequences and bear the burden.

Perk-less salaries: Yes, startups have fund raising issues. So, do not expect big salary package in the beginning. There is even no scope of any sort of perks or monetary benefits in the initial years of the Startup.

Lack of work life balance: Startup also means a lot of work, which demands extended work hours. You might enjoy flexibility in work style, however it would surely demand more time from you. So, be prepared to give extended working hours to your job and compromise with work life balance at initial stage of startup.

Job insecurity: Your career is directly proportional to the growth of the company. If its future at stake, so is your career. Chances of instability are thus high with startup companies.

Now that you know the good and bad side of working at startups, take decisions wisely and then work hard to enjoy success.
Show HN: Deploy and Retrain Cutting Edge ML Image Recognition via REST API
> Over the next few weeks, we will be publishing both code for our first testnet and our whitepaper

If you can be patient for a bit there will be something to see. If you want to you can also shoot me an email, and I'll send you the whitepaper ASAP.
The "assumption" is that when you ask someone what the difference between sucrose and sucrose is, that you don't mean a second hidden question about something else entirely.
They don't have to delete anything for this. They can put the shell they need into a separate directory and prepend it to the PATH so their shell would be found first.
"a reputable surgeon doesn't guarantee lack of side effects."

Absolutely! Side effects are possible for anyone getting the surgery, and like I said in my parent comment (or hoped to say), everyone should weigh the potential pros and cons to decide if the rewards outweigh the risks. For me, I already had terrible night vision (due to my astigmatism) and sensitivity to light, so after reading about potential side effects I determined to go forward with the surgery.

Also, I believe that advances in the LASIK procedure over the years have mitigated a lot of the side effect risks (though not reduced completely), so people getting the surgery today will have less side effects then you did getting the surgery 20 years ago.
cool, now we all know that you are a fraud, permanently. Your reputation as an artist is doomed since the blockchain is nothing but a reliable and immutable ledger. Since it's public and verifiable now that you are knowingly stealing other artist's work, all of your other works and contracts will be crushed in the market.
(yes, I'm being hypothetical here, I know it was just a proof of concept, etc)

So.. it is working as intended?
Mars is for exploration, the moon is for commercialization and heavy industries.
Oh good! I was shocked when I saw that. Guess I should probably double check when I see stuff like that. Thanks!
AllTheRooms: accommodations meta-search engine changes the vacation rental game
FWIW, if you care about the environment, the right move is to have kids. All species expand to fill their ecological niche. If you abstain from having children, their spots will just be taken up by other people's children. We are powerless to influence the number of people, but we can influence the proportion of people who have an environmentalist bent.

I hear you about the career thing. I have sacrificed immensely to be able to afford a family. But now, when I am surrounded by my children, I think about all of the possibilities that lay ahead of them, all the grand adventures they will have and the adversities they will overcome, and I remark to myself, "I made all of this possible".
But if those keys represent Person A at Company X then who owns them?
Can the company use them if they don't represent the truth anymore?

Who's responsibility is it to guard/change/dispose them?
"Being socialized" would be a force of nature. Anyway, they are not - who would do that, and why? The mostly female teachers? And somehow girls would still do better than boys in school, despite constantly being told they are bad? Actually the opposite is the case - studies have shown that boys tend to get worse grades than girls for the same level of performance. So wouldn't that be socialization of underestimating their skills for boys? (Of course those studies might also be flawed, like the feminist ones).
For wifi-connected IoT thing I really like the ESP8266 chip. You can get it in a small form-factor board such as the "Wemos Mini D1" for approximately €3.0.

Programmable via the arduino-studio, widely-supported, and very reliable. I've built a bunch of projects with them, and couldn't be happier.
I could also be fitness for en environment the fungus is no longer in, or it provides/provided something for neighboring plant of insect life.

It could also just be a random trait; something that's not beneficial or harmful and just happens to survive.
"Live" TV broadcasts are also on a delay, so I guess it's all relative. I had a friend who lived near enough to an NFL stadium that you could hear when something big happened and the TV delay made it impossible to enjoy a home game there.
It will also stain the wall and sometimes pull the paint off if left on for long enough.
Check out the book The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace if you're interested in learning the background on why blockchain technology won't solve these kind of problems. Hardy Rodenstock fooled the foremost wine expert in the world.
I'm curious if anyone has gone the Tesla Solar Roof route?

https://www.tesla.com/solarroof
Right, so does that mean the post-surgery care that I was recommended is on the "extremely conservative" end and your doctor was more lax, or does that mean your doctor wasn't as well-read as others, or something else? Like the comment up-thread, how does one pick a good doctor for something like Lasik, which is seen as a minor medical procedure but is absolutely a major surgery?
The only good implementation of blockchain stamping is OpenTimestamps from Peter Todd.

And because it is smart and nor an overhyped ICO, it is offered for free and actually works.

See https://opentimestamps.org/

edit: oh, it seems the project in question (veritart) is actually using opentimestamps.
> Plumbing putty

Plumbing putty doesn't harden, it's calcium carbonate, petroleum grease, and silica. The hardening stuff is Plumber's Epoxy aka WaterWeld,et. al.
> Update June 12th, 12:10PM ET: After publication, a Plume representative reached out to say that the company had changes its policies between my phone call with Diner and today. The company will, in fact, require a subscription for Plume Pods to stay functional.
How to build a multiplayer VR web app [Tutorial]
> users should go through an extra step / give large amounts of trust

If it's a webapp, then you have to trust that the application won't disappear overnight, or be changed it ways you don't like. If you have downloaded the software, you can continue to use it.

There are trade-offs in both directions.
"On two occasions I have been asked, — 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Passages_from_...
> watching American football

Are you referring to the 17 minutes per hour of actual gameplay, the 21 minutes of rambling commentary/sports celebrity gossip, or the 22 minutes of ad spots?
Is it illegal be the streamee, the streamer, or both?
You need to arrange for people to pick up and recharge your scooters for you. That takes some time.

Frictionless tripstart/tripstop is a hard technical problem. Probably whoever does this right wins.

Long term, efficiently addressing theft and vandalism seems to me to be another hard problem.
It's great for you. It's pretty bad for any employees who have to pay for your mistakes as you get your personal growth on and skip career ladders.

I think being a founder is a great option right out of school--if you are working for yourself, responsible for your own mistakes, and not actively harming anyone else in your quest for personal achievement.
> Anyone who plans on using one regularly will be better off buying one.

This, if you are using a scooter more than once a day renting for $1.75 a ride simply does not make any financial sense.
17 million cars a year are still sold in the US, so clearly ridesharing isn’t preferred that much more over vehicle ownership (perhaps if you’re in a city and without kids).

Having two kids, I couldn’t imagine dragging two car seats with us Lyft to Lyft. Rather just own the car.
Linux is Obsolete (1992)
I like this idea, as long as it extends to all land use. So, people renting from others are actually receiving a dividend from the landlord, for the utility of owning that land.

I've read that land/material-based taxes instead of income-based could raise enough to fund a GBI, and be sort of organized like Alaska's oil fund.
One of the major points that people like to push to justify the valuations of blockchain is that it will make things that verifying authenticity near free and trustless. Then people make the leap to say that you can basically assign ownership of physical items or IP on the blockchain then you increase the efficiency of all of the actions taken on it.

What they seem to miss is that you need a real authority, or oracle, to issue and enforce the connection. It only works if that authority can be trusted and doesn't lose control of their private keys.

This is an example of someone not to be trusted.
Well, even in the 80s, people were mocking the Reagan administration's classification of ketchup as a vegetable.

And for all the flaws of the food pyramid, I can remember a time before that when it was even worse. We had the "Basic Four" food groups: meat, dairy, fruit+vegetables, and grains.
The worst outage my company ever had was due to bad cost cutting decisions.

My company ended up having an equipment failure that took out both production servers and out internal support system at the same time. Lots of pale faces that day. What has two thumbs and bureaucratic bullshit that put runbooks and deployment tools on production hardware? This guy.

My bet is whatever cause this problem, someone got a raise last year for doing it.
The monthly freelancer thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205866 might link to a couple.

My favorite one-pager, I don't know the person http://kelly-dunn.me/resume
Think about the kind of life you think would have been better off not existing. Surely there are people alive whose life fits your criteria. Now imagine telling one of these people that it would have been better if they never existed.

Probably they'll tell you where you can stick your notions.
Your phone is constantly tracked by the cell towers it communicates with and in urban areas that's quite accurate location data. This data is sold to third parties.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...
Click bait alert. They are turning wifi router hardware into a subscription, not Wi-Fi itself. In case the author or any readers were unaware, home Wi-Fi is already a subscription from Comcast, AT&T etc.
No. edit Except for critical systems like medical devices, power plants, car ECUs, etc. I expect due diligence for those, and not doing so would make me upset.

A technical problem is a technical problem. I'm not going to get mad at someone for unintentionally introducing a technical problem. People make mistakes. Once we learn from those mistakes, we can avoid making them in the future. We may still make the same mistake again, though, because we're humans! Getting angry at people for making mistakes is emotional garbage and not productive.

As I mentioned in another comment, even Linux distributions themselves will crash systems, cause data corruption, and actually brick hardware with their updates. If the distro itself can cause these problems, surely I can forgive a random dev from a completely different system for making a crappy installer for an obscure programming language.

If, OTOH, you ship an update that it is demonstrable that you were fully aware would brick a system, then I will get out my pitchfork and torch.
Are all laws that limit the rights of children dystopian?

Should 5 year-olds have voting rights, access to jobs or the ability to buy alcohol and tobacco?
Huh. I wonder if it's the same fungus, or if there are other fungi that have evolved the same trait.
Do be aware though that 'Person of Significant Control' is a recent Companies House corporate transparency thing meant to identify people with control of the company via significant share holding or voting rights etc. who may not necessarily have already been listed as directors. So Jane could be CEO and own 24.9% of the company and still not be a Person of Significant Control in this context.
I had PRK about a year ago, and I'm very happy to have done so. I wore contacts / glassses for about 35 years prior, and I don't miss them at all. I have experienced some of the post-op complications mentioned in the article, but I'm not a good data point there because of many confounding factors: my age means that I'm starting to experience things (allergies, presbyopia) that would have happened regardless of the surgery.

I wanted to mention something else that I experienced post-op, which is more relevant to HN: anger at websites that don't support zooming! My temporary foray into the world of low-vision web browsing gave me a new appreciation for people who have to experience the web like that every day. If your website's header grows to fill my entire screen as I zoom, I'm not buying anything from you.
1. Stopped using Facebook (don't have Twitter, Instagram, etc. This includes removing the FB app from my phone (very important for security reasons).

2. No email on my personal phone. Work phone is a must but I use it exceedingly sparingly. I only check it when I am expecting something important during busy weeks (and even then, maybe not).

3a. Stopped commenting on any/all forums, news sites, or any type of social media altogether (YouTube most notably). HN is the one and only exception. Forums and comment sections are black hole vortexes for time. Trolls, arguments, etc. steal your time and attention. You must refuse to play the game. It's just not that important to comment on nearly every site on the internet, especially social media. There is near zero value in it.

3b. Installing Distraction Free YouTube onto Chrome so that I can listen/watch without seeing comments and being tempted to participate. It also hides the related/suggested videos and the front page of YT to prevent falling into in the rabbit hole.

4. Changed my diet to high fat low carb. I'm not insanely strict on the carbs either. It's made a big difference. I wasn't overweight, but now I'm cut/toned without trying because of it (and I'm not huge either). Drinking water helps the transport of nutrients throughout the body.

5. Getting a pair of non-prescription computer glasses. My eyes were severely strained and it was affecting my productivity and ability to think clearly and produced headaches and all sorts of problems. Using them saved my eyes by restricting the blue light that gets to them. I can work 12+ hours straight with no issues if need be now. They also improve sleep quality because blue light late at night triggers the release of cortisol which keeps you up and inhibits sleep.

6. Using Feedly (or any RSS reader). Aggregating content here from the sources you like helps prevent clicking around and roaming websites which leads to lost time. Only click on the stuff that matters to you and ignore the rest. Most can be read in Feedly without going to the site directly as well so you avoid the ads and other distractions.

7. Using Workflowy. I try to implement a modified version of Getting Things Done in there. At minimum, I use it as an ongoing task/to-do list. It's great for just jotting stuff down as it comes to you so you don't forget.