skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly I second that. Also I had problem with their "DDoS protection" which detected false-positive DDoS attack. I got instance suspended after 6 days after payment for next month without any refund. They noticed "weird" traffic to my instance where I had installed Cloud9 [0][1] and I assume built-in terminal was flooding instance with TCP-SYN packets when I was using it. I am glad that I haven't left anything inside, because I lost access to this instance and storage. Before that, I thought such protection rather stops instances not drops them with mounted SSD disks to do not impose an impact on other instances.

[0]: https://github.com/c9/core

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9
> current toxicity of social media

The only response I can conjure up for this is “wat”

IRC in my experience is the most toxic and mean-spirited place on earth. 4chan is easier to take because I can justify their meanness to lulz. People on IRC seem to be out to kill people’s spirit.

There are some exceptions like python on free node which is heavily moderated, but by and large (in my nearly 15 years of heavy IRCing) it is not for the faint hearted.
>I am European and it's 11 here; I'm talking to an European audience.

And next time you should have mentioned it in your first reply. Instead of going in full force trashing other competitors with your new account. There are lots of international audience here, from Asia to US and Australia, where Scaleway doesn't serve.

Welcome to HN, lets not make HN the same place as reddit.
"Compared to your typical Airbnb, no one “lives” in Sonder apartments except for its guests." So just like Airbnb then....
Thank you for your extensive comment! Lots of food for thought, and much appreciated. I have tried Enneagram before (being a 4 as well, IIRC), but I may need to look into it again in more detail.
Even when ignoring the clunky UI, asynchronous background calls are much slower than in the old version. In almost 80% of cases, I now get a browser alert ("Are you sure you want to navigate away? Changes will be lost") when trying to close the tab a few seconds after performing an action (e.g. starring a message, mark as read). This never happened before and it's super annoying.
Election-Hacking Lessons from the 2018 Def Con Hackers Conference
I can't say for sure since I've not benchmarked performance - my python/ruby/C# web applications are not very cpu intensive.

FWIW my Scaleway instances feel way more sluggish than my DO instances - not sure if that's from the CPUs or network disks.
Pretty sure the name is from the movie Over the Hedge [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/amwaFNZYUUY
It is only a matter of comfort, and not survival, if you own a car and drive it around exclusively. If you own a car, well, impact(car) > impact(any number of pairs of shoes).
If you think other media streaming companies can "innovate" with their interfaces, you're not a cable cutter (I refuse to say cord cutter, my home internet still comes over a cord) who subscribes to Netflix, Hulu, and Directv.

Netflix's interface is horrible on both the Apple TV 4 and modern Rokus. It has a much better interface on the 3rd generation AppleTV where "apps" were limited to just for, all intents and purposed, glorified web apps. They were all running on top of WebKit using a combination of JavaScript and Apple's markup language.
DynamoDB vs. Cassandra: from “no idea” to “it’s a no-brainer”
I can disprove that with a counterexample. I love my wife. It's a feeling I have within my chest, but it's not infatuation which fades after a few months. It really is an amorphous feeling that's deeply rooted.

And yes that might make it scary, but that's the reality.
That's just speculation, what system are you imagining in place of 'wage labour'? chattel? I imagine UBI and an explosion in the sciences; When anyone with interest can afford to follow that interest.
I'm so meta even this acronym
Milky Way galaxy died once but stars remember its rebirth
Just the existence of the project is important as it validates the openness of the FIDO/U2F standard and ecosystem.
No but you can encounter all kinds of nasty stains. Crocs are probably easier to wash..
Long live IRC!
I hope I don't sound like too much of a shill but I'm somewhat excited to finally be able to contribute to a topic I have some understanding of.

I must admit the first thing I did was look at your comment history as your post sounded suspicious. If it was mixed in with other posts I'd have been inclined to take it more seriously than I can now.
>People look at the recent actions of the PRC while ignoring the vast past economic harm 1949-1960. Set your house on fire and the rebuilding process looks like real progress.

Sure, but when the house becomes the #2 most expensive property on the planet (and poised to #1), it's not a rebuilding success comparative the previous burn anymore. Especially if before the fire the house was in poor condition to begin with.
I'm sure you probably "haven't owned a TV in 10 years" and wonder "do people still watch TV".

Yes that was a popular post on Slashdot years ago.
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Airspace: Same sterile aesthetic across the world
Making the news once doesn't mean people know about it, unfortunately.

Otherwise people would not vote for crooked politicians after their first idiotic behavior.

Unless you educate again and again, generation after generation, abstract knowledge doesn't stick.
Is there any reason why these devices can't have a USB-C connector on one side, and a USB-A connector on the other? Being able to keep just one single token around and knowing I can always use it without an adaptor is the holy grail of these devices for me.
That's a rules of the game. Every department want to grow its importance in the company, to get more power and resources. Well, sometimes this end up in failing company, but they have no choice - if dep X decide to stop it, other won't - and the company fail anyway, but with dep Y on the top instead, all the difference is who will have more power during some time - then the choice is clear and no department will stop their play.
Duh! Sergei Ivanovich, we know what you're doing. But because we know your father (or 4th degree uncle) let's just split it and we'll just forget it.

Russia is successful against CIA because the Russian mafia does its dirty work...go kill /threaten /maim these 5 people and you have a "get out of jail free card" on x,y, and z that you did.
That would make sense. But T3 are comparatively speaking, much slower than DO and Linode. When Lightsail were first released those benchmarks won't any good at all.

The only reason for using Lightsail is you want all those Amazon Services, which your LightSail can hook up free of transfer using Private Network.
Govt to Provide Subsidies for All Electric Vehicles Under FAME II
Russian-made cars are garbage, very shitty reliability. Most Russians prefer foreign cars.

I wouldn't worry about Tesla in this case.
Assembling an Entry Level High Frequency Trading (HFT) System
What channels are you using? Killing peoples spirit maybe once in a blue moon someone is rude. However, if anything I would say people are polite than they used to be. People still using IRC like IRC why would they want to actively harm the channels they use.
> At about 200 miles (300 km) above Earth, the air inside Steve blazed about 5,500 degrees Fahrenheit (3,000 degrees Celsius) hotter than the air on each side, and moved about 500 times faster. This band of hot, surging gas was about 16 miles (25 km) wide.

My bet is that it's a trace of a weapon. Propulsion trail? High energy laser hotspot?
That’s more like how an axe can last a lifetime with 7 heads and 12 handles.
I like having the place to myself. Entirely. No staff coming in, all facilities I need right there. Washing machine, cooking facilities, all that. I value the increased privacy and the convenience of being able to do laundry and cooking myself as I wish.

I used to find short-stay serviced apartments for this; the kind of place where the service is once a week or so I could put up with. Now, there's AirBnB as well.
While it's true that there is undisputed epidemiological evidence as to positive effects of moderate alcohol use on health for some people, at the molecular level there's no getting away from the toxicity of ethanol and its breakdown product - the unpleasantly reactive acetaldehyde. Ethanol itself denatures proteins. Certainly a conundrum. Maybe part of the answer is in the side effects of the enhanced detoxification mechanisms in the liver in response to alcohol intake. I suspect there are some interesting findings that await discovery.
We need experiments like this.

Clinical studies, try to address various factors beyond does the drug technically work, but does it work in practice (coping with people doing everyday things like having dementia, drinking or babies).

We have a flawed obsession with responsible disclosure (that we should mandate includes public disclosure). What we need is a framework for Software Studies that allows any nature of research including in at risk areas and they should answer to ethics committee and regulators, not a disclosure terms of service from the company likely to be put in a bad light.

We need an equivalent to ICH GxP. Drugs have to deal with all the same craziness as software, they're just centuries ahead at how to do it (although they still fail at public disclosure).

Was this study appropriate? Whilst Google corrupts the security integrity of the internet with its Ad and Analytics system, it shouldn't be complaining. For the rest of us, I think we need to pressure for regulation if you want to draw lines and look to the drug industry for inspiration. At the very least we need InfoSec Trials if not the whole suite of Software.
Does it BSOD?
Nantero Details DRAM Alternative – EE Times
Apple has been "suppressing ports" since they introduced the iMac over 20 years ago. The USB-C transistion didn't happen as quickly as the original USB transistion.

You don't have to buy dongles from Apple.

I am a developer but if more developers put users before themselves, we wouldn't have Electron apps.
new account defending the "honor" of Ukraine as a corruption free country. Waste of time, people on HN are likely smarter than 95% of the world population. Did you pay Paul Manafort all the money owed? He really needs it now...
Glorified webapps can't pre-download 50 go of tv shows for my next holidays in the deep country sides. You need file system access for that.
We started doing this a year or two ago. We collect postal code (not full billing address) and pass it through to a vendor that calculates how much tax needs to be collected. The vendor also calculates for us how much needs to be sent to which tax collecting entity at what times, which is handy.

We’ve always collected billing postal codes from our users, so we didn’t have to worry about starting to do that - we just sent them an email informing them that at their next renewal we’d begin charging sales tax.

I think for REALLY old subscriptions where we didn’t have that info we may have just treated them as being in non-taxable locations, but don’t quote me on that. You might want to consult a tax lawyer.

We measured the effect on renewal rates. It was difficult to tell how many cancellations were due to the tax vs how many due to being reminded they had subscriptions they hadn’t realized they were still paying for (our interpretation leaned toward the latter).
Officially (perhaps even morally) yes. Practically no.
Yes, but I think that ambivalence and the Bullitt quote about an advisor manipulating Wilson's opinion probably get at the nature of Freud's hatred for Wilson.

A leader who had the power to decide over significant things to Freud who did so without showing enough serious thought to have strong convictions in either direction. No doubt his real priorities were some kind of excessive self obsession..
AFAICS, it's 1 vCPU + 2 GB RAM for €2.50.
From Cozmo to Vector: How Anki Designs Robots with Emotional Intelligence
Show HN: My book on building SaaS/web app with Go
There was a Russian chap that did this exactly this, modified his credit card contract and the bank happily signed the modified contract without reading it: https://www.nasdaq.com/article/updated-russian-man-turns-tab...
They are dumb criminals and smart criminals. A certain amount of respect goes to these guys...and this is FU money we're talking about
I visited Tel Megiddo and Tel Hazor by asking my airbnb hosts to drive me there. One of them did for free, the other for a pittance. Given that I do not drive and these places are not really accessible without a car, this was quite a win. Also, there are no hotels nearby.

The place argument repeats elsewhere. I have been visiting friends in Europe who didn't have guest rooms and I was able to able find airbnbs nearby while there were no hotels. I was able to get an airbnb close to a train station in Milan where no hotels exist (admittedly this is a cost issue -- obviously I could've went elsewhere in Milan to get a hotel for significantly more).

Quality/place. I went to Bratislava for a concert and the only hotels in walking distance had terrible, terrible reviews, I know what a socialist hotel can be, I had the bad luck to be born in Hungary and could only fix the problem when I was 31 (now I am Canadian, yay). I was able to get a nice airbnb within spitting distance of the venue.

There's the kitchen problem. I love going out for dinner and often there is food I could bring to my temporary home -- only if it had a microwave. People with various food sensitivities find it easier to cook.

It happened more than once that a hotel maid found it acceptable to put my teddy bear on top of the freshly made bed. I heard some find this cute. But for me, a stranger touched the teddy bear I am sleeping with for thirty years. No.

Don't dismiss price so easily. Three times, five times savings happens all the time when I go to the head office in Bellevue. Or I could stay in a motel but I am too old for that crap.

There might be more but these come to mind easily.

Ps. Wifi! How could I forget that.
Sounds like you might be blaming a protocol for some poor channel choices.

There are still plenty of educational/social IRC communities that welcome curious people of all skill levels.

I can vouch for https://hashbang.sh (irc.hashbang.sh/6697) which has piles of industry leaders as regulars that prefer investing in open federated standards for internet communication over the endless array of hip walled garden flavor of the week chat systems.

We give out free bouncers/shells to anyone too :)
Running a weechat client on a ipv6, nat ipv4 VPS that costs me 3€/year. With weechat you also get a responsive web client for free through glowing-bear.org, so it's quite close to IRCCloud in the end.
That's a weird calculation there. The research grant to Columbia is in addition to their other activities and isn't any kind of representation of their efficiency.

I guess if they are only providing 194 wigs and hairpieces it isn't surprising that they are engaging in other activities.
This is also my current reasoning
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> the area which must be repressed will always grow and grow into areas that are completely irrational

I'm from a former Eastern European communist country and one of the main reasons why my dad grew up a moustache back in the 1970s and why he chose to keep it later on is that our former dictator's wife hated moustaches, and as an unwritten rule none of the Communist party higher-ups had one. My dad told me how once how his former boss had scolded him for said moustache, looking back it's ridiculous for a civil engineer in his late-30s (my dad's age at the time) to be scolded for facial hair, but, like you said, repressive regimes very quickly become irrational.
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Supercomputing Simulations and Machine Learning Help Improve Power Plants
I remember reading that hotels often prefer using harsher detergents because it gives the impression of "cleanliness" more than a milder detergent.

Cleanliness is often a matter of perception
Ethics are super important, especially in this era of scandals and exposés. If they think changing their branding strategy alone without addressing the core issue of trust and honesty would get them far, that $135M will dry up real fast..
U of T experts use deep learning AI for predictive animation
If you're interested in how the UK criminal justice system has its own set of problems and biased outcomes, you might enjoy (or at least be interested by) this book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0753GBC5Z
Jury Still Out on 3D Sensing for Smartphones – EE Times
Run Your First CrateDB Cluster on Kubernetes, Part Two
What exactly are you responding to?

I'm responding to the post about "innovation" of apps that not possible if everything goes through the TV app as a central launching pad for videos.
Beaked whales are a really special type of animal. Can hold their breath typically for more than one hour, and even more than 2 hours if needed, and can dive 7Km underwater without breathing.
You do get reimbursed if you sat in jail for no reason. Right?
I have one of these too, run a PostgreSQL server. You get fantastic fsync performance for that price too. Not Optane level, but almost at the same performance as a dedicated Intel S3700.
My landlord does not allow us to have a pet. Most importantly, I can't hack an organic dog. ;-)

Besides, natural and artificial intelligences will eventually need to learn to coexist.
> I well remember the state of Windows during Win 98 and XP where most had no idea what they were downloading, and it seemed every machine had malware, hidden pop ups and 37 IE toolbars. I was constantly asked to clean up friend's machines from the damage done by Kazaa and its associated garbage or some other drive-by crap.

I still prefer that personally than the crippled smartphones.
When I'm writing documents for whoever touches a system behind me, I write wiki articles on what the system is/does, logical data flow diagrams, and a deep dive into whatever it was that I just touched.

From there, I make a condensed narrated PowerPoint with pretty charts and UI element screesnhots. If I have bonus time, I might even make a basic Chamilo course to cover the application and immediate dependencies and ecosystem.

This all sounds great to write, but I wonder how much of the work actually gets used. The devs that wrote the program often don't bother with documentation (fail fast and fail forward!) so I have at least a small sense that wiki searches etc will surface my material, but I wish there was a better way to track who found what useful or not without them walking up to me and personally commenting on it.

Suggestions to up my documentation after the fact game are welcome.
What does the DOT test for truck drivers?
Hi, I'm a CDL driver with a vehicle gross weight of 26,000 pounds and I want to know about the Dot Drug and alcohol test.
Instead we get celebrities and players and self-made rich critters
out there to catch the limelight and flak. And family, the key base
to aristocratic wealth and power, is played down as unnecessary,
because a meritocratic system needs no more than individual prowess
to succeed.

Terrific observation!

Although I think I get what you mean by this I'd love for you to expand on it. I'm sure you have dwelled as I have and arrived at some keen insights.

Also who or what did you mean by

snipers as they did two or three centuries ago

Were aristocratic families the object of scorn back then? All the attention they received from society eventually led to bad stuff?
Bad actors?
>So yes they 'go' and 'return' every twenty years, and they have now reached the 'return' in this cycle again. Make sense?

Not in the context of the TFA's title, which is about an "unlikely return".

Going in and out of style describes a totally likely (and even expected) return.
Hello there,

It took me 11 months to write the book and source code that goes with it. Overall it was way tougher than what I thought it would be ;).

I've built two SaaS product with the same stack and technique since 2015, LeadFuze and Roadmap.

Hopefully, it helps some developers get started with Go for their side project.
#2 is kind of meaningless when they are the #1 largest country by population and most countries are tiny by comparison. It’s like comparing the value of houses when one has as much land as Texas and you include that in the ‘house’ price.

In nominal terms they are 72 per person adjust for PPP and they are #79 which which not bad. It’s the next 30 years when things get interesting. http://statisticstimes.com/economy/countries-by-projected-gd...
One quick question about LightSail Load Balancers: Is the outbound traffic from the Load Balancer to the Internet is charged separately or it is taken from the instances quota?

Scanned through the FAQ but couldn't find a clear answer.
Indeed. In order to justify the price tag, it'd need to be a whole lot better than the robotics you can pick up at any toy store for 10% of this price. If they managed to use muscles instead of motors or tiny and silent hydraulics for quick explosive movements, it'd be a much more interesting proposition.
Banks freeze cryptocurrency led electric bike business
Objective-Rust: pure Rust code masquerading as Objective-C
Wouldn't use Digital Ocean for shit, there are multiple stories of users were they cancelled accounts (actual production systems) because of sustained use or bogus DMCA claims.
Before I had a home network or always-on internet connection I used to play with servers locally. I actually set up my own IRC network using unrealircd and learnt how to configure it etc. I don't know why but one day I decided to try to telnet into the IRC server and it blew my mind that it actually worked. You can do the same thing with an FTP server as well.
Not if the encrypted data is displayed by the crypto chip, via a round trip between the bank and the chip (encrypted). Yes, technically it can be done, but this requires physical access to the device.
Well, at least the GDP identity is an accounting identity, so it has some value, but the causal relationships are not there.

Every mathematical statement is a tautology (in that they are inevitable conclusions logically derived from a set of axioms). If the axioms constitute a decent abstraction of reality, then you can try to test causal relationships uncovered by logic, or use them in practical ways (Euclidean geometry, Newton's laws etc).

You can read Kaya's identity as per capita CO2 emissions from human sources is equal to per capita GDP times energy use per GDP unit times CO2 emissions per energy unit production. So, you have three ways of reducing per capita CO2 emissions if you are a global central planner (pushing aside the miserable implications of having a global central planner): 1) reduce living standards; 2) use energy more efficiently; and 3) generate less CO2 when producing energy.

And, if all you care about is reducing total CO2 emissions, start culling people or reduce the birth rate. This appeals to the 1970s neo-Malthusian, "the world is going to run out of food" crowd cause they make a living selling catastrophe. Combined with neo-Marxists who like to emphasize distribution much more than the absolute level of wealth, they like to ignore how living standards have improved[1] contemporaneously with increased CO2 emissions.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/23/14062168/history...
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Has it been conclusively shown that these are actually russian trolls or do people just repeat that factoid? I feel like a lot of things get attributed to the Russians with little more than "trust us" as proof.
It took me a while reading the source code to convince myself that FoundationDB really doesn't use any prefix compression.

Seems like even with the directory encoding you'd be able to save a lot of storage space for keys by omitting the common prefixes.