skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was responding to the question asking if the iOS app will have to be paid for. Personal users may be able to collaborate but based on the other footnote, not through the iOS app.
It's never useless to say thanks! I really appreciate your kind words, it's the fuel that powers a lot of open source. Keep it up!
There’s an old saying, “There’s no accounting for taste.” Food, drink, art, fashion, music, they’re all driven by the process you describe. Aka “trends”.

There’s a reason presentation is such a huge part of cooking. Context is important when trying to assign a value to the appeal of something.
> runs on a single box via a single racket process

Incomplete. They are fronted by one of the largest CDNs in the world, on whom they rely for most traffic.

Well, I actually don't know the numbers, but I do know that for popular posts HN admins (a) try to break the conversation up over multiple posts and (b) plead with users to log out so as to allow Cloudflare to handle the load.

The biggest lesson HN teaches for designing large scale systems is "use a large scale system someone else has already designed".
Politically the US has a very strong preference for pushing decisions down to the lowest level they can, whereas European countries [...] take a much more pragmatic approach.

This seems disingenuous. Pushing zoning decisions down from the Fed seems a bit more like the EU pushing down zoning decisions. European countries implement their own rules, US States implement their own rules. Both are about the same size.
(Live) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Will Hold a Press Conference
Not the only one. I think most of his books are actually prolonged intentionally arrogant blog posts sprinkled with pseudo-science and weightlifting metaphors with the recurrent 'fuck you money' motif.

Black swan, the concept which brought him in the spotlight is somewhat valid but it's worth at most a chapter in a risk management book. But he milks the black swan cow to biblical proportions.

Antifragile is so longwinded it's an exercise in attention and patience. I think it's remarkable how he managed to fill so many pages.

In my view, Taleb resides close to Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin, the 'thought leaders' experts at rebranding/refactoring common concepts and milking the proverbial cow in publishing, speaking events, etc..
For the oenophiles I know, it's totally about exploring interesting flavors, and also appreciating the context in which the different wines are made (like with art).

As for transience, you can stretch out a bottle of spirits over months. And hopefully the wine would be enjoyed synergistically with some great food.

All that said, there are a thousand good/interesting $15-25 bottles of wine to chase if you're wanting to get into that, and IMHO Veblen goods are stupid.
> People? This seems to be a trend in the US. In many other countries the value of laws, social services, anti-trust and anti-corruption regulations, and so on are rightly seen as necessary and desirable.

That's fair. Should've been more specific about that, it's a very American thing.
Edit: After reading the comments, it appears that the article might have been an attempt at satire that didn't land for me.
The same can be said for starting a business in the first place.

A business is "wise" to keep its humanity and treat other people with respect.
I don't know if it's incompetence or intentional. (and again, I still haven't been able to confirm if it's genuine...)

Either way, it likely gets them out of a lot of expensive Twitter support, as people (should) go "nooooope" when asked by a random stranger for that info.
I think we will actually see the right to have an account be instated and the right to permanently ban people taken away from websites, now that we can see their lifespan may actually be decades and the banning becomes profoundly disproportionate for non-criminal activity. It's analogous to the MPAA/RIAA demanding to disconnect people for piracy, except it might have already been in effect for over 2 decades for some people and websites.
It isn't clear to me that the GDPR requires disclosure of data that is related to a person but was not created by or provided by that person.

So complaints from user1 about user2 or customer service notes about user2 wouldn't be considered personal data of user2 and thus wouldn't fall under GDPR rules.

If this isn't the correct interpretation, I would appreciate a pointer to something in the GDPR that elaborates on this.
> Of course traditional learning methods (by rote, etc.) are not going to work for a pictographic language, but mnemonic learning is greatly aided by the story and history of the symbols therein.

Upvoted just for your last sentence.

I've found that this is true for correctly learning certain topics that appear to be impenetrable to me when using standard reading materials. So what I do now is try to read up on some historical materials to help me understand how the original ideas evolved to what they have become today, before re-attempting to read modern texts.

Familiarity with the topic's history prepares the foundation on which I can mentally hang together the topic's most important ideas, in a way that is coherent for me for future recall.
We should not underestimate the social and "hype" aspects of enjoying something. I enjoy things a lot more when I'm primed to enjoy them. It's sort of like the placebo effect for enjoyment. I'm much more charitable with a film made by a director who is well regarded than by an unknown, for better or worse. I suppose you can go the opposite way and only like things other people turn their noses at, but that's a bit misanthropic.
The problem is, today almost everything is highly competitive. In the 60's you could have a degree in something that is not aligned with the persons natural talent, and still make a career out of it, because there where so few people with a degree.

Now, if someone takes a degree in something that they are not naturally talented in and still tries to make a career out of it just out of sheer persistence, it's not enough anymore.
Facebook Is No Longer Available for These Smart Phones
Microservices – Nothing Lasts
The FBI had images; you don't need a physical server
Liberals of that time we're probably closer to libertarians than most American liberals today are
There's a difference between asking everyone in society to give up something equally small (this was arguably true of the restrictions on incandescent bulbs that went into effect roughly ten years ago), and putting a disproportionate burden on people who are already disadvantaged and actively discriminated against.

My point isn't "never do anything small", it's "find something else to do that doesn't hurt people who really deserve better".
Why would Visa care to ban anyone from their network? They get paid no matter what, and have zero liability. The banks issuing Visa cards can certainly ban people, and use credit reports to deny applicants. Banks and merchants are the ones eating the fraud/chargeback losses, and they'll drop you in a heartbeat if you're causing them to lose money.
So did this guy do any serious research into how people chose their careers? Did he work as a career counselor? Has he done extensive interviews with people at the top of their field?

Oh no, he's apparently qualified to talk about this because he wrote Dilbert.
Sounds like a lose/lose for the DNC. Either it is completely ignored, or the sever's contents may be made public
This is the first time I am hearing of this. Could you please cite a source for this information?
I.e the 10% are not worthy of having an ISP, or health insurance.

As for the ISPs, this often isn't even about the customers being annoying, but simply their subscriber line being rotten or in an undocumented state which to sort out is too complicated for the tech-drones.
Using Bitcoin as payment
This is false. You can hack support for internal display acceleration, but it requires using a "Phantom" display dongle adapter and results in significantly worse performance because of the limited bandwidth available.
Thanks for heads up about Debezium. That is very cool.

Debezium seems to be a production version of Martin Kleppmann's CDC-to-Kafka POC, Bottled Water [1].

Database replication is the killer app for CDC, but CDC can be used for so much more than replication, like event-based alerting, triggering, etc.

[1] https://www.confluent.io/blog/bottled-water-real-time-integr...
Those are pretty small pours if you're getting 20 out of a bottle. There are ~12 2oz pours in a bottle of scotch.
Sure, but can they subpoena the server, or even the images?
This case will NEVER go to trail and that's the point of Mueller filing it. He knows he has to get someone for something and indicting 12 Russians for crimes he can't ever prove is a win for his team. What I'd like to see is the proof that these Russians ACTUALLY did the hacking. How do we know that THESE specific individuals committed these crimes? We don't, Mueller won't/can't prove that but that's the point. It's charge anyone for anything at this point.
If I had a dollar for every person who told me that X prevents people from writing bad code, I wouldn't need to write code.
There is a world in which it's not a zero sum game, but the number of really fun, admired, well-paid jobs is still quite limited.

But it's true. Reality for many people is that their job is something they tolerate, not something they love.
excessive mowing, and perfectly manicured monocultured lawns are of negative ecological value. I think I ought to have grounds for complaint.
Although seldom mentioned, I hope Joseph Campbell’s work is familiar to many members of this community, because of his influence on George Lucas, Star Wars, and most fantasy and speculative fiction.
This "single box" has a lot of computing units as on AWS EC2.
Not everyone can have that luxury. I've stayed in a dozen or so Airbnbs in the past few years, from low to high end, and didn't have a single bad experience. It's always a lot less expensive than hotels in the same area, and in many cases a higher quality building and room than nearby hotels. Just no room service.

There's honestly not much that can go wrong with an Airbnb experience as a guest, unless you're doing some weird spa cycle arrangement like the person in this story did, are gambling on a first-time host, or have some bizarre fluke. If they lie about any of the amenities or anything else in the listing it's simple to bring it up with Airbnb.

I've reached the point where I can't find a single reason to actually stay in a hotel anymore, no matter where I'm traveling (internationally or in the US).
Under heavy load eGPU completely saturates the PCIe bandwidth. Razer couldn't even get a USB mouse to not lag in their first eGPU product.
but forced vacations are fairly normal in accounting and finance - or at least they were in another lifetime when I worked in accounting.

It probably hasn't been ten years since my aunt's most recent husband got caught in that exact manner, and I'd frankly be surprised if it weren't still common, given that it appears to work.

(As a footnote, it was an interesting phenomenon to watch. "He's an accountant at some no-name company, and she sells Mary Kay. Where the hell are these Bahama vacations and the big house coming from? Mary Kay didn't give her that Cadillac, she bought it because no one buys Mary Kay. I dunno, must be up to their eyeballs in debt." Of course, looking back now it was friggin' obvious. His unfortunate solution to the hammer that was soon to fall on his head involved a 12 gauge shotgun.)
I use 1 bottle whiskey = 3 bottles wine for my conversion.
fascist socialist new order? Nice example of words having no meaning. You should be reading more.
I think you are generalizing a bit too much and also injecting a false dichotomy that you are either for or against regulation as a concept.

Regulation in the abstract is neither good nor bad, the particulars of the regulation are what is important.

You can be critical and suspicious of onerous government regulations while still appreciating that there are many reasonable uses for regulations.
You can't "subpoena" evidence, you subpoena live witnesses, or people to produce evidence.

Since Brady v. Maryland (1963), prosecutors have to turn over any potentially favorable evidence to the defense. The defense can of course ask to see the evidence in any criminal case.

In a civil case, as the defense counsel you would have a chance to review the evidence in the discovery phase.
Low-middle income people get evicted. Poor families tend to not move very much -- those transition numbers don't reflect that as the hardcases are very mobile.

My city, which is basically at the median for prices nationally has a 60% home ownership rate. The poorest wards have a home ownership rate between 10-20%.
An example of when Title Case would be most misleading.
The Elgato Thunderbolt Dock comes with a software utility that gives you a "Disconnect Dock" menu bar option, which unmounts and unloads everything in one click.
$250k+ total comp.

Companies that offer high base tend to be lackluster on bonus and equity.

RSUs, if offered, are tradable in almost all cases. Options are vapor 90% of the time.

COL in Bay Area is not that much higher compared to TX, WA or CO.
You can also go the consulting route. 250k regular job with benefits is about $250/hr as an independent consultant but it's harder to continuously get companies that will pay that. Also, technology shifts and it's harder to always be the expert that companies want to hire at that range.

Well, you can also get a stable, steady gig that pays 125/hr on 40 hrs a week and that's your 250 right there.

Downsides: sick == no pay, no healthcare included (blame American laissez-faire free market health care).

Pros: you have money, you have a life.

One non-existent con - less job security as a consultant. That's nonsense by those who prefer you work 50 hour weeks as an FTE.

edit: one more pro is deductions if you're going through your corporation and a chance for a blanket 20% deduction (we find out from the IRS end of July whether it applies to pass-throughs like ours).
I'm a Scotch/whisky nerd going on 10 years now. Particularly obsessed with anything from Islay. 50+ bottle collection, mostly easy-to-find stuff but there are a few rare expressions in there (Ardbeg 2009 Committee Release Supernova is probably the most unobtainable). I'm a drinker, not a collector, everything has been opened and consumed at least partially.

With that out there, I don't get the buzz over Japanese whisky. I've got several solid, highly reviewed expressions, including the 2013 sherried Yamazaki that Jim Murray put on the map. I've done several blind tasting with friends, some of whom are afficionados and some of whom are not, and that Yamazaki never comes out on top. If I do a sherry-finished flight more often than not the sherried Kilchoman finishes first or second, with the Yamazki usually beating the Glenmorangie Lasanta and not much else. Laphroaig PX either wins or comes second to the Kilchoman.

Japanese whisky is good and they're consistently making the best whisky that's not coming from the island. But (IMO, of course, this is completely non-objective) the best expressions are still coming from Scotland.
So, here's my story on this.

I am probably the worst Amazon customer ever.

I have had packages left outside my door (and stolen), I have had packages sent empty (like not opened... empty), I have called Amazon to complain about a microphone (and then found out it was the sound card output that was fucked)

Every single time they have sided with me. I'm sure they bring the banhammer on people who do really fradulent stuff but I've never had an issue with chargebacks.
Interesting, airlines in the united states will often give a voucher for a delay if you just ask for it, even if they legally don't have to.
I was curious, so I did some searching regarding hospitality law. These results are generalized phrasing of the law, so you'd have to search further to get into specifics.

IRT the OP, it seemed as if they wanted him to leave the premises early. Forcefully removing a guest would (I assume) fall under eviction. This is legal[0] in certain circumstances. From [0]:

> Hotels may generally evict a guest and keep the room rental payment, despite the eviction, for the following reasons:

> disorderly conduct

> ...

The host's review attempts to call the guest disorderly. If we assume that the host's review was 100% accurate, I don't think that could be called disorderly. A hassle to the host? Certainly. Disorderly? Doubtful. Again - the host made an error with the time, and the host wanted the guest to leave early. It would seem that the guest would still have contractual rights to the premises for the full time.

[0]: https://travel.uslegal.com/hotel-liability/right-to-evict-pe...
Link to the full PDF:

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/12/16/898...
People want you to have passion until you disagree with them.
I too was banned for life from AirBnB – I don't really blame them, given the information available, it was fair for them to side with the host, who was their long term customer over myself who was a new user.

The apartment I was in had a gas leak while I was gone, the door got kicked in by the fire department and the gas was shut off. The replacement cost $1300+ – and I was out of a room for two nights. I refused to pay the fee for the door – that seems like something insurance should cover. I was not in the room when the gas was on, but I guess there's an off chance I bumped the stove and flipped it on – seems like that should not be possible, but I don't know.
Why is reason.com criticising the rational actions of a rationally-acting rational actor that is voluntarily associating with and responding to the free Market?

Because the editors of reason.com believe in neither free markets nor free minds. They exist only to react negatively to anything, no matter what, that can be spun into a nanny-state ghost story in an attempt to drive clicks to their website.
I imagine it's to stop people from connecting stolen cards to the service and then generating a bunch of other card numbers that are essentially all stolen. It could potentially allow them to use the stolen card more before it was detected.
How will Unleashed compare to say FreeBSD? Better desktop support?
yes, but a 15 fps gif, where a majority of frames are just duplicates of the previous image? AND 265 colours? (Photoshop crashed my GPU trying to even display the this)
I could cut this shit down to less than 1MB if I tried, retaining the horrible gif format.

There's no excuse for the file sizes to be this dramatic, apart from outright laziness
At its inception, the EC was a parliament solely elected to pick the president; as a result, not all the electors in a state elected the same person. This started changing in the 1800s; states that wanted to increase campaign time in their state moved toward the winner-takes-all method, which then every state had to move to if they wanted to matter equally.

If EC votes in a state were allocated according to popular vote, then the existing system would be a lot fairer. Proportional EC essentially reduces the advantage of campaigning in swing states, since many more states become swing states due to the relative ease of swinging a single EV vs. a whole state. And it manages to do so without completely screwing over smaller states.

I did some napkin math a while ago for this, but if this was the case, Bush v Gore would've been decisively for Gore, Bush v Kerry would have been as close as OTL Bush v Gore, and Trump's margin of victory shrinks to about 20 electoral votes from 77.
"the design has been optimized for quiet operation"

this is important to me, glad to hear it!
What would happen if the cleaner accidentally unplugged that box? Would it failover to a backup?

I guess the advantage of not relying on your site for profit is that you can afford to not worry about a bit of down time so much...
Sorry, feel free to delete it. I would, but I don't see the delete option any more.
Show HN: Manage your blood glucose via SMS
Hello HN! I'm building a service that lets users log their blood glucose via SMS and share that data with loved ones. I'd love some feedback.

Site: https://glucolog.herokuapp.com/

Features:
-Simply text readings to (909) 757-0084 and get feedback. No app required
-Users and followers receive daily progress updates
-Followers receive reminders if a user hasn't been logging
-Simple charts to visualize progress
-Data sharing with a user's endocrinologist and/or physician

Background:
My father has Type 2 diabetes and it has been a struggle helping him manage it. He tried blood glucose logging apps, but they're complicated, and the push notifications they send tend to get lost in the shuffle. He likes Glucolog because it's extremely simple. The process of downloading an app, logging in, finding it in a sea of apps, waiting for things to load, and navigating a complex UI multiple times a day is a lot to ask of someone who is not a native smartphone user. I imagine this bot would also be useful for people who have poor data connections or feature phones, or people who just value the simplicity of an SMS interface. Me and my family love the bot because it keeps us informed on my Dad's progress without having to constantly ask him about it.

Why not just start a group text with the readings? It's overwhelming for followers to receive blood glucose readings multiple times a day in real-time. After a few days, it's easy to just ignore messages. Also, there's no feedback mechanism on the readings, and directly texting others can make some users feel uncomfortable, like someone is constantly looking over their shoulder.

What about Continuous Glucose Monitors or "Smart" monitors? They're great! But most people don't have them/can't afford them/don't wan't to use them right now. In the next decade I have no doubt they will become cheap/easy enough to gain widespread adoption, but we're not there yet.

Thanks for taking the time!
Thai Cave Rescue Highlights the Value of Teaching Children to Meditate
Make it 2 then. I want a good chipset with good drivers, that does not crash or has bad performance for weird reasons.

Until last year, I physically removed the default cards in any of my laptops to put a "known good"" Dell ath9k in place. I bought them in bulk, and I may still have some spares

i am now investigsting "modern" alternatives
This is quite amusing. In order to make your sleek macbook suffice for the purposes or real work.. You need to hook up this massive brick.
Modern incinerators are in much higher temperture. When well managed -- by keeping the temperature right-- most of chemicals are broken down before emittion.

Landfill contaminate ground water. There are no good way to fix. Water-proof layers have problem with rain. Building a sewage system open another can of worms.

Sealing... I have no idea how can you seal this amount of land.
Copy of the indictment that details the actions/methods of the hackers: http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/images/07/13/gru.indictment.pdf
In addition, what do you mean by "crashed" - did the whole application quit or hang, or was there an error message?
Mueller did not bring this indictment. He presented the evidence to a Grand Jury of your fellow citizens. Those fellow citizens saw enough evidence to convince them to return the indictments.

If the individuals indicted ever stand for the crimes they are alleged to have committed, then we will see the evidence as it will be a public trial albeit with any evidence that will reveal national security secrets redacted from public view.

This is exactly how our justice system is supposed to work.
Amazon scientist: How Alexa selects one skill from thousands for a given command