skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem I had with this one is that any time you're looking at something that would be white, instead it's super bright red. Without something that actually changes the displayed colors, you're stuck reducing the contrast so much everything's barely legible. But I'll give it another shot, thanks.
Ask HN: Is there a 'pure' cloud provider?
I'm looking for a provider that does only one thing.

There are the cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft that all have a monopoly in a different industry. Amazon in global E-commerce, Google for web search, Android, Maps, Email, ... and Microsoft for Office software and Desktop OS.

I personally don't like monopolies. The only way that I can try to improve the situation is via being promoting non-monopolies or being customer of the competition.

Which other providers that offer servers around the globe do you suggest that are

1. innovative, 2. not higher priced than the three above and 3. most important: trustworthy regarding security and stability?

With 'innovative' I mean like supporting kubernetes 'nativly' like EKS, AKS and GKE.
Samsung is about to make 4TB SSDs and mobile storage cheaper
People blaming governments and corporations are merely using faceless scapegoats because the truth is too terrible to behold.

Normal every day people don't really believe in climate change, don't really want to do anything and in fact don't have the dimmest clue as to what needs to be done, nor how to do that.

I think dealing with the above fact is too much for people, so instead we simplify using familiar models and tropes.
I would be interested in a kind of federated marketplace, similar in structure to Nextcloud's federation. I would be responsible for my users, but other site owners can link to mine and we can expand our search for the goods we are interested in. We can just transact in cash just like a garage sale. It might be cool to have a private version of this so a family or extended family could share their stuff to save money and get more facetime.
Don't.

The best way is to let them expand their creativity and problem solving skills. Some decent puzzle books and toys will do.

Programming is just using some 'keyword' based programming languages to tell computer how to solve problems.

5-10 is a good age to expand the skills in so many fronts. Just don't limit your kids to learn some simple keywords/loop constructs etc.- which they can learn pretty quickly at any age later.
How Smart Contracts Can Change Insurance
Samsung Starts Mass Producing Cheaper 4TB SSDs
This really isn't as simple as, "The hypocrites! They claim to be eliminating regulation but really introduced them." Someone who is in favor of small government typically doesn't have much problem regulation the government itself especially when it's to preempt the creation of regulation. And if you actually want to have !NN and have a consistent set of rules for ISPs nationally then you have to "occupy the field" to prevent state/local governments from enacting 50 separate different not-quite-NN rules which will: not actually allow your deregulation to take effect, create even more complicated regulations, and then open yourself up to blame for all the problems the state regulations cause.

I would expect HN overall to agree with the FCC that the rules that govern the internet need to be as flat and global as possible.
Minecraft, playing with redstone and switches
.. in related news, only robots will be allowed to apply the material, and a cousin of the second secretary of the EPA happens to have a new robot company. Nothing to see here, please move along. </sarcasm>
Yes, instead of banning it outright they just kept the same rules and added loopholes to get around them.
Mega misleading, it's not being used in the capacity it used to be. They aren't allowing anyone just anyone to use asbestos and none of the old use cases for it are allowed--only new ones.
While many cities are on a coast, very few of those are built within 1m of sea level, which the 'worst case' (by 2100) projected in AR5. Loss of coastal cities over 100 years is not apocalytic, that is a time scale where people can/will just replace buildings near the advancing coastline with buildings further inland.
They've not changed any rules... yet. But they are establishing a process for doing so. Whereas before there was no such path. So while, sure nothing has changed yet, the entire point of proposing a process for allowing new uses is ... to allow new uses.
The majority of us did not vote for this. Without gerrymandering or the electoral college, Congress and the White House would be overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats.
Gaël Duval Interviewed: The Man Behind Eelo OS, Google Free Online World
I think this was originally done when Marco Arment created Instapaper. He’s been trying to come up with a way to avoid passwords for years.

With Overcast - his podcast player, he also doesn’t require a username or password anymore if you’re just using the iOS apps. You can add a username and password to your account if you need to use the web client. But of course this is more secure. It’s piggybacking off the fact that you are logged into your Apple account (no, the Apple ID that is being used is not your actual email address, it’s a token)

https://marco.org/2018/04/27/overcast42
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Ask HN: When Does SAAS Become Predatory?
As the title suggests, when does it become harmful, the line seems blurry. On one hand the user is getting a service, hopefully a good one, but at what cost. Money is an object, and one that contains a value that is easily quantifiable.
A subscription to a software package is not, most of the time you don't even know exactly what you're buying.
I'd love to here your thoughts, as I work in this industry it only seems fit I have a clear understanding of the ethics involved.
This isn't fiction anymore. Amazon uses systems essentially identical to this to manage their warehouse "pickers". Their performance is continuously tracked and they're retained or terminated based on those performance metrics.
You sound like a faggot, do you happen to enjoy a cock in your asshole?
Sometimes it seems that all the warnings and caution about rips actually make them worse. Most rips will eventually move you sideways, so relaxing and going with the flow is a fine response. Even those that just move you away from shore are easily handled as you observe. Yet lots of capable swimmers have been surprised by a rip, remembered all the dire warnings, and panicked.
I feel compelled to repost a comment I've posted before, so here goes:

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Thinkpieces lately have had a trend of reaching harder and harder to link the news de jour to a higher, abstract concepts....The result feels hystrionic to me... it is just designed to raise the excitement for people in the correct echo chamber. By calling on increasingly abstract concepts the author can reign in an appeal to authority and emotion that has more appeal than actual facts and statistics.

The author, and his inward-looking media peers, are all drinking eachother's Kool-Aid a bit too much. It's like some sort of outrage porn that keeps getting remixed over and over again, and becoming some sort of fractal version of itself.

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This particular article is strange in the fact even though it presents a bunch of statistics, it doesn't use them well to advance a cohesive argument- it mostly just goes on to state that everything sucks. It just throws spaghetti at the wall, to see what sticks in the mind of the reader, and anything that doesn't stick is hoped to be given a fair pass. This is the sort of divisive thinking that does little to solve problems, because it is so engulfed in the turbulence of pessimistic rage that it cannot correctly identify just what the problem is, if it exists.
Probably should link the list of things banned and things not banned: https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/us-federal-bans-asbestos

As I understand this is a substance you really don’t want to break down and get airborne, so felts made with it are super hazardous. Stuff like vinyl tile with it really only poses a risk if you’re grinding/sanding it or its prone to some form of decomposition (like from water damage)
I know you're kidding, but:

‘Approved by Donald Trump’: Asbestos sold by Russian company is branded with the president’s face

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/07/11/a...
> In this case, the paper is suggesting that seaweed grows much faster in response to raised CO2, and then sequesters some of that carbon underwater.

Makes you wonder about news like this seaweed deluge in the Caribbean and how it's related to an increase in CO2

"In 2011 it was the first time we'd seen it...says Professor Hazel Oxenford, an expert in fisheries biology and management at the University of the West Indies...It came as a complete shock and no-one had a clue what to do with it."

"For us, the worst year we had for sargassum still remains 2015'..says Carla Daniel of Barbados Sea Turtle Project"

"Now it is happening again and everything suggests 2018 could be the worst year yet."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45044513

https://www.riviera-maya-news.com/first-seaweed-barrier-to-b...
Looks like I'm wrong - Pocket does have (freemium) highlights: https://getpocket.com/blog/2018/04/highlights-are-now-availa...
> Median household wealth collapsed.
> 2007: $126k
> 2016: $97k

> The number of Americans worried about the economy multiplied nearly sixfold.
> 2007: 16 percent
> 2008: 86 percent

> The market value of all publicly traded companies was cut > in half.
> October 2007: $63 trillion
> March 2009: $28.6 trillion

These numbers are all over the place first stat is comparing 2007 to 2016 while the very next stat is comparing 2007 to 2008 and the next one is comparing 2007 to 2009.

I can't make any sense of those numbers how were those particular years selected for comparison for a particular stat( whats so special about mar 2009) .
I can't remember the details but something changed in Ubuntu defaults to make default to distribute the DNS calls rather than order nameservers, it can be set to use order preference.

In short, don't assume strict ordering on Ubu, at least.
> They can offer discounts directly to the consumers.

I offer discount at my company, will you takes it? Why no one is taking it? Marketing is the reason. It's great to have a discount but at the end of the day, you still need to promote that discount. Promoting to a market that's not yours, a market that you don't know and you don't even want to deal with (cheap ass consumer), doesn't make sense. MoviePass is the king of cheap ass market, they know how to reach them, they know how to make money out of them and you literally have NOTHING to invest to get that market. That's the value of MoviePass. You just take their client...
Thanks for the pointers! I look forward to your postings.
Fuck collective group-think you Orwellian faggot
I'm not sure why you're disagreeing with the parent commenter. On my phone, I can wave my phone around the reader as much as I want, but until I double-click the side button, Apple Pay will not be engaged. I must then also authenticate, but there are no circumstances I'm aware of under which terminals can prompt Apple Pay to start. Which I believe is as it should be.
It is absolutely the decision of the current administration. From Snopes:

> The problem, according to critics, is twofold. The first, more generally, is that the EPA could have used the currently unfolding overhaul of the TSCA — which began at the end of the Obama administration and has continued along a very different path under Trump — to ban any new uses of asbestos, something that had been the case at the end of the last administration. Instead, they are explicitly allowing new uses, but with the caveat that the EPA first evaluate possible potential new uses based on “risk evaluation, select studies, and use the best available science.”
This is a great point and an even greater counter I think to give a more explicit argument as to the usefulness of the Internet.
That was the impression I got from the article. I think the headline of this post should be changed, but that snopes post doesn't really add anything beyond what the article says.
I'd wait at least 5 years. If they really want to start early, they will, with or without you. But if they don't, then don't force it.
Will agriculture go on easily though? If you look at just two effects, increased variability of the weather and loss of arable land because of rising sea levels, how do those alone not lead to lower output and greater insecurity?
60 percent of tech workers can’t afford a home in the Bay Area
Isn't that the very definition of ad hominem - drawing attention to the source of the material, rather than tackling the material itself?

Paul Graham's def: 'attacks the characteristics or authority of the writer without addressing the substance of the argument'

https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/how-to-disagree-well-7-of-t...
FYI, we recently published a study of how people use their Alexa, based on interviews with 7 families and an analysis of log data from 75 participants. Here's a link to the paper (PDF):

http://www.cmuchimps.org/uploads/publication/paper/192/hey_a...

One thing that really surprised me when we did this work is that people actually own more than one Alexa device. One family we interviewed had 7 devices, though they used it primarily for controlling lights and asking the time.

The number one command from the logs was "Alexa stop". The number two was "Alexa". Number three was "stop".

Like the original posted article, we also saw very little use of shopping.

The funniest story we heard (which didn't make it into the paper) was how one family used Alexa as a timer for their children, for timeouts. A parent might say "Alexa, set timer for 5 minutes". One time, once the parent left,
the kid said "Alexa, set time for 1 minute."
This might help: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Hi! I posted a desire for something like this on the thread already! I just want to say I'm interested. I think it would be cool if people could share their stuff or sell their stuff to maybe a select group of people like family or extended family. The deal is it needs fulltext search and the ability to have privacy. This sort of thing would be great for situations like "I want to make ice cream. Should I buy an icecream maker for $99? Lets look at what my family has.. Oh great, Beth still has hers I'll message her to see if I can borrow it"
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>This also flies in the face of the fact that the current era is one of the safest in history.

Is it also one of the safest in history in other nations that have not increased their incarceration rates?
Even the chinese government recognized that at least doing something about the coal smog is something in their own interest. My understanding is that the risk of civil unrest is what drives them.
I looked at Pocket as well, but the "send to Kindle" feature seemed to be missing?
It has good material qualities, but do we really want to trade that for an increase in lung cancer? The stuff is so costly to dispose of, it is not really worth using.
You highlighted an issue in all of mainstream media's use of the term "hacking". They are extremely liberal with their use.

It's very tongue-in-cheek to claim an organization has been hacked because someone(s) launched a DDoS.

It's like someone claiming they perform their own auto repairs, but in actuality all they do is fill the windshield fluid and replace their air filter.
Education would be a good start. Guess who can decide about what we are taught? Governments.
Yes, Adams Smith's invisible hand will always deliver the global maximum AND all local maxima at the same time! So Say We All!
Now, it's kind of silly to keep asking HN people to google things for you. But:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
What exactly is "the pre-industrial average"? does that correspond to the Little Ice Age? why is that a good reference point, or baseline for comparison?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Up to three per article though…
>It's not really all that different from borrowing to improve your personal money flow. Borrow for a house to decrease the amount you spend on rent, borrow for a car to commute to your job and earn more money, take a student loan to get a higher paying job in the future. Of course, both governments and individuals can make bad decisions or get unlucky, and the government has more negotiating power if it has trouble repaying the loan.

How exactly would a government that prints USD have trouble repaying a loan denominated in USD?

It's not only impossible for a government to not be able to pay back a loan in its currency - it has pretty much full control over the interest rate (it can be pushed down with QE at will). If the government wants to borrow at 0.1% it can - and the US government apparently does.

The only countries that have defaulted or come close to defaulting on their loans are countries that borrowed in a currency they didn't print (Zimbabwe->USD, Greece->Euro) or countries that unilaterally decided "fuck it, most of our debt is owned by foreigners, let's just not pay them" (Russia).
Your comparison is a little unfair. If you just want to use it as a text editor, Emacs is easier to use than Vim. You can move around with the arrow keys, typing letters inserts them into the document, there are the standard menus, toolbars and scrollbars you would expect. In other words, if you're looking for a "Notepad replacement", Emacs works just fine as that, and you don't have to learn anything about the meta key or whatever.

I agree that Emacs overall is more complex overall (which is not necessarily a bad thing), but from a "first impressions" perspective, Emacs wins.
Where will the hubs be located? Who will own and maintain them? This could end up costing more than just having the truckers drive the long haul.
There are two things that prevent that -

- politicians have been able to convince poor people that the “American Dream” is alive. That if you work hard you can become rich and you are just “temporarily poor”.

- You would be better off if “they” weren’t taking your jobs.
Wasn't 100 Fahrenheit the temperature of a chicken on tuesday in the sunshine? Can't quite remember how that scale was created.
Who said they're trying to hide it? I didn't. When I wrote my comment, there were 50 upvotes and 0 comments, which suggested to me that most people were ignoring how meaningless a benchmark usually is when it's intended to promote a product.
The Alameda-Weehauken Burrito Tunnel (2007)
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Ask HN: Do you say “please” when using alexa?
It kind of freaks me out every time i do this
Ever seen an ad for "mesothelioma" and wonder what is that about? Its generally law firms looking for people with asbestos related lung cancer (edit: see replies for better description of the illness). The Asbestos particles are so small your body's natural filters don't stop them from getting stuck in your lungs, where they can cause cancer.

As this point I can't imagine the insurance liability to start using asbestos again would allow this stuff to start proliferating widely again.
I think you're oversimplifying and ignoring a few key factors here.

1) As has been shown time and time again, the rewards of productivity gains accrue to the owners of capital far more than to the workers who are more productive. The result is widening inequality on many levels, which extrapolated a few decades into the future ends up looking... not great. I hope we can agree that de facto serfdom is a bad thing.

2) You can't just look at the number of new jobs when making employment generalizations - you have to look at the quality and type of jobs that were created to replace the ones lost. It's like if you took away someone's house and then gave them a tiny apartment a year later, then claimed "Look, they got housing back! Everything's great again!". In the case of employment, the vast majority of jobs created in the last decade have been contract positions and low-end temp work [1]. If you look at the sectors where employment has grown when new jobs data comes out, low-end service jobs continuously top the list (ex. [2]). We can debate whether or not people actually want these types of new jobs as opposed to traditional real estate/financial services/salaried construction/etc. jobs that were lost in 2009-2010.

3) We haven't hit the automation crisis yet in any meaningful way. When autonomous trucks and warehouse robots become prevalent, then we will be in an actual crisis.

The automation crisis right now is not that everyone is going to lose their jobs overnight, but that automation is exacerbating big problems in the jobs market that lead to massive inequality, the prevalence of underemployment, and the trend towards bad jobs with few or no benefits and workers needing to work gigs on the side to make ends meet or afford the things that their normal job would have provided in decades past. When large swathes of workers lose their jobs to automation in the future, these problems are going to continue to compound unless we start making big policy changes. Yes, people will likely find new jobs to replace the ones lost, but will they actually be better or worse off than before?

[1] https://krueger.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/akrueger/f...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/business/economy/services...
Loads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record

Do bear in mind that most of the costs of global warming are based around:

1) It is happening much faster than we can cope with. If it was happening over 10,000 years then we'd slowly adapt. Or die out. One or the other.

2) Our cities are mostly built on coastlines, and will therefore be hit dramatically by severe weather and by sea rises.
In my experience, this is definitely not the case. Multiple terminals at multiple stores have not activated Apple Pay on my iPhone X. I've always had to double-tap the button.
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I was responding to your post about satiety, not insulin response?

Eating potatoes causes your blood sugar to rise rapidly. When it falls, it invokes a feeling of hunger. Blood glucose can be measured directly in the blood, and isn't a matter of opinion or anecdote :P

I was suspicious of the results, so I just downloaded the paper that your link refers to - low and behold, it has this at the end:

"This study was supported by a competitive investigator-initiated grant from the US Potato Board"

Well, what a surprise!
I started programming when I was 6 with Logo at school. Moving the turtle to where I wanted made me smile. :) At the end of the day, it's about having fun doing programming.

I would recommend the same. #Logo
Start not with code, but with computational thought. Show them the basic of algorithms - not complex algorithms, just simple things - break down a goal into a specific list of ordered steps. Teach them loops, if/else, and such basic concepts.

You don't even need a computer for this. Many classrooms start with offline exercises, with the kids giving instructions to other people. Have them tell their friends step-by-step how to walk around an obstacle course, etc. That also will introduce them to debugging, as they will see right away how an inaccurate or incorrect instruction can go wrong, and they can correct it. When they are comfortable with all that, then you can step into talks of how you would structure such instructions for a computer, or as you said, use a visual tool for the same thing.

But stay generic - the concepts are far more important than any details at this point.
Homes are so expensive in the Bay Area renting is now a better deal than buying
> This also flies in the face of the fact that the current era is one of the safest in history.

If this were solely limited to incarceration rates the United States would have the lowest crime rate in the world.