skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he talks about VPS, that’s not on-premise. This article mangles its definitions
Another thing that makes a night and day difference: set your saddle height correctly.

So often I see people on bikes with the saddle set so low that they can't get any power from their legs.

They must all think, wow: "biking sucks."

Your seat should be set high enough that your leg almost straightens at the bottom of the stroke.

I unsure got to a bike shop and ask them to help you.
I recently switched to FastMail.com from google. They have email, calendar and contacts syncing and works really well.
Regulate or break up the monopoly if they abuse their monopoly power.
Nitrogen welder, only $3,744.00

Polyethylene and HDPE are tough to weld. I often use my $40 hot glue stick gun with a $20 pack of infinity polyethylene bonding glue sticks from Super TAC 500.

I preheat the surfaces to be bonded with a DrillMaster heat gun ($14.95 at Harbor Freight)
The younger you are, the higher up you operate in the pile of layers that modern computing has become, with little to no understanding of what's beneath.
Thinkpad X1 Extreme rockets in price
ive been planning on buying one of these, i looked a few days ago, the base model was a little under £1400, i checked today and that same model costs near £1900!

whats going on? why the sudden massive price jump?
The MTA spends about $836M every 19 days
I really wanted k8s to be a nice replacement for everything I could enjoy about borg.

After using it for a while, I found it far more cumbersome to work with, and the architecture to be confusing.

I'm quite comfortable with complicated environments, typically all I really want is a small cluster running my long-running infrastructure, and expansion to spot instance worker nodes to meet burst capability. Just setting that up in k8s, keeping it up to date, and monitoring the various components that fail because you configured just-not-enough-RAM for them became tiresome.
Upvoting is not an expression of support for the content, it's a "I think this article should be seen by more people" signal.
Keep good notes in a form where you will remember you have them and look at them.

Which is a fluffy way of saying when you tell someone at 4:55pm "I'm leaving now but I'll get to it first thing in the morning", you actually do it first thing in the morning.
What this appears to be is a DNS-over-HTTPs proxy application, which will route your DNS traffic directly to Google bypassing any substitutions or deletions made by your local ISP or government.

Whether the advantages of that outweigh giving google your DNS traffic (and realistically they already know every site you visit, because almost everyone uses google analytics) depends on your local security situation.

Note that your local security situation may include the good old rubber hose attack: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/194353/police-f...
Love that latency bandwidth explanation. Going to steal it for other contexts.
A-Frame and Redux: a connector component
This is the second comment on this thread suggesting that invasive species be driven to extinction through technology. We consider eradicating mosquitos because they are the cause of almost unimaginable human suffering. That is not a bar cleared by a hapless tropical bug that just happened to get shipped from Vietnam to a Pennsylvania vineyard.
how do you get a 'cheap DO box'?
Standard coding practice is to write type signatures for functions.
A 501(c)(3) that uses tax-deductible donations for commercial purposes is illegally violating its charter and is subject to enforcement action by the IRS.

Note that a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity is different from 501(c)(6) non-profit business league. Donations to a 501(c)(6) are not tax-deductible, so how they are spent is not restricted -- and thus 501(c)(6) organizations are more subject to influence by their donors.
Browsing a large code repository. The scrollbar highlights allow me to "eyeball" the page and go to the general locations quickly rather than hitting Next a thousand times (which feels primitive as hell anyway), especially when a block of code has the same keyword used many times and I need to move on to the next block.

I tried Firefox for a while but I rely on that feature around once or twice a day and I preferred using Chrome for those browsing sessions. So I dumped Firefox and switched back.
1. Would be a good reform, but the financial industry would never allow this kind of thing.

2. There are a lot of reasons that the tax benefit to the DONOR, is given on disbursement to the DAF. I won't go over all of them, but without getting too technical, imagine that the donor has passed on, or soon will. Should his/her heirs be allowed to take that tax benefit as they donate money in the DAF? I think most people would answer "No" to that question. (Believe it or not, oftentimes more money is left to the DAF or Foundation, than is left to the heirs. You could end up in a situation where heirs pay no tax on the money they're earning from their own portion of the estate).

So again, we can argue the propriety of the general idea of the charitable deduction, but there are a lot of very good reasons that if the deduction exists, it should be given to the donor, or his/her estate, on donation to the DAF.

3. I wouldn't have too much of a problem with a cost basis deduction, and neither would any of the donors. But again, two things, the financial services industry and the charity would have a problem with that. And second, yet again, what we're really talking about is the existence of the deduction at all, because +/-5 to 10% is not going to make much of a difference to a donor. (Many of whom have passed on in any case.) So these DAF's would exist with or without cost basis level deductions. The only difference is, charities would end up with a bit less money or a bit more money. (Depending on what you're looking at with the capital gains.)
Identity by type and swipe
Learn multiple programming languages. It will truly expand your way of thinking about solving different problems.

Conversely, don’t spread yourself too thin. Try a lot of languages out then narrow it down to a few you find interesting and useful, then focus on learning those few.
The truth about the future of the customer portal
Exactly! I was confused for a long time about the slowness people kept talking about with Firefox, and then work switched to MacBooks. Firefox is faster and more capable on my cheap Linux device than any browser on the Mac, but on the Mac, Firefox is slowest. So strange.
When I read bare metal, I thought we were talking about some sort if no-kernel situation, or at least parts of the stack living in-kernel (which would have surprised me), certainly not running in userland, much less in a VM and even much less on a VPS.

The title is ridiculous.
There are other people with much more money who'd like to lobby the government to increase US intervention in Syria, creating even more refugees.
The Emerald Ash Borer was officially detected in the US in 2002. Likely arrived to the US in the beginning of the 90s [0]. Probably with packing material. Relevant regulation of wooden packing material seem to have been passed in the end of the 90s [1][2].

If anything, this story supports the precautionary principle. Nice quote from Wikipedia: "Strong precaution holds that regulation is required whenever there is a possible risk to health, safety, or the environment, even if the supporting evidence is speculative and even if the economic costs of regulation are high" [3].

[0] https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2006/nc_2006_Poland_003....
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/7/319.40-5
[2] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1998-12-17/pdf/98-33444.pdf...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
I don't have an answer, but I have trouble picturing a better option that's both egalitarian and actually gives the best search results.

The closest thing I can think of almost feels regressive -- sites like HackerNews and Reddit. What I mean is asking a question there or searching for threads where other users have asked a similar question. Often the links provided in those threads are less likely to be provided by advertisers and actually just promoted by users. That's often where I find the best answers for things.

But to access those threads I still use Google or DDG because the Reddit search function is terrible.

Other options, like AOL Keywords (if you remember those) basically just directly link to paid providers.

I guess it's possible that there is a fair and balanced web crawler, but to give true freedom and not guide the user to specific the best option still seems to be a search engine.

Maybe the answer isn't alternative forms of searching but rather alternative ways to show the results? Right now they look like a ranking list. Maybe they could be displayed in a map or another form?
The live demo of Smalltalk-78 that was posted here a while ago shows it off quite nicely.

https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
"some forms of financing like venture take away your control of work intensity."

How is that? I find it unlikely any VC would go to court just because founder insists on sane working hours for employees. Or is there some leverage here I'm completely missing?
The lesser of 3% of the value of assets, or 80% of any increase in value from the previous year, would allow operation in perpetuity.

That said, anything operating in perpetuity, under the direction of the dead, eventually becomes obsolete and potentially dangerous. The Earth belongs to the living. The charity should be required to distribute 100% of its assets immediately upon the death of the last of the heirs of the founders, who were alive at the time the founder from which they inherited died.
borg is easy compared to k8s and even a hosted service like gke.
I like these, I would add:

Don't decide too early. If you can postpone a decision that doesn't delay your overall work, then postpone it. You may have more data later to take the right decision.

Don't optimize too early (premature optimization). Always try first the simpler approach, you will finish earlier, get simpler code and find out that some minor optimizations or not at all are needed. You should always check this with real world data / scenarios.
Treat people with respect.

Sleep well.

Take care of your body and your mental health.

Try to turn any feelings of inadequacy or imposter syndrome into energy to push yourself forward and increase your skills and knowledge. We've all been there... multiple times.

Learn to code fearlessly: Are you being asked to run queries on a production box? Ask if you can get a user with read-only permissions. Change crusty old code? Maybe put a quick test harness around it.

If you're stuck when debugging a problem, think about all the assumptions you're making, and then test each one of them, no matter how obvious.

Understand that code is often ugly and weird for a reason other than incompetence. Code quality tends to be a function of time, requirements, experience, and skill.
> Having obtained the camera, the daimyo ordered his retainers to study it and produce working photographs. One of these retainers was Ichiki Shirō (市来 四郎). Ichiki had previously excelled in the study of gunpowder production, which involved an understanding of chemistry.

> To the daimyo’s delight, on September 17, 1857, Ichiki succeeded in creating a portrait of Shimazu dressed in formal attire. Ichiki recorded his struggles, and eventual triumph in mastering the camera, in his memoirs which he compiled in 1884.

Does anyone know if these are available in an English translation? Sounds like it'd be a fascinating read - I wonder how much of the memoirs are taken up by the nearly-decade-long process of mastering the use of that camera.
And....how is that a bad thing? If that money goes towards creating, maintaining and protecting natural land in its original state, then how is it bad?
> "I'll see something that you haven't noticed in years!"

There's this saying in my country, roughly translated to "Guest for a second, sees a mile far" (sorry... it even rhymes and everything in Polish...)

Being immersed in something for a long time has a good chance of limiting your perspective to that thing only. While it's true that perhaps 90% of newcomers and their ideas simply miss the intricacies of the current process and would be disastrous if implemented, the remaining 10% is a genuine innovation which would never come from the inside.
Yeh, with the difference being that it wouldn't be the foundry doing that. If you can't trust your fab you are dead in the water.
If they were genuine donations, then people will donate the same amount of pre-tax income as before (it's just that less of that pre-tax income will go to private charity and more will go on democratically accountable government expenditure. I call that a win).

If people "donate" less because they're now getting less "value for money" out of whatever they were buying with their donations, that suggests that these weren't true donations and we're better off with less of them.
The question is, does causality require time? I understand that physics can give us a definition of time as far as "happens-before" relationships go, but are "happens-before" and "happens-because-of" necessarily the same thing?
The advice elsewhere in this thread about focusing on one stack and getting good at it is definitely true.

Broadening your knowledge to be aware of other stuff is also useful though. The most useful people are those who understand how multiple things work and fit together.
lambda user = average user. I don't know if the author of that message is french, but in french we use that expression quite a lot. It's meant to be used as a sort of "plug in any user" sort of variable, as in "for the user lambda" or "for the user x" sort of thing.
They also didn't account for universal suffrage so didn't have to worry about the idiots who would fall for these.
Your wording is certainly better than the ambiguous article title. I would write it your way too.

"I'm worried about X" usually means that I'm concerned for X's welfare, but not always. It takes some context to disambiguate the phrase.

A couple of examples:

"I'm worried about that stray kitten."

"I'm worried about the lion perched in that tree."

They are both felines, but clearly in one case I'm concerned about the cat's safety, in the other case what the cat might do to me.
Telemarketing is specifically about marketing via phone calls. The phrase you want is "online marketing", although that is a bit longer. Almost all of the discussion in the comments thread here is about phone calls.
They requested me in an email to confirm my identity, i sent them requested IDs and never heard back from them.
Sure, but the context here is

> Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects

with a counter that

> They're Google wannabies that thinks in Google's scale but forget that it is utterly unnecessary in their case.

I would posit that at the point you have over a hundred (or a couple hundred) servers, that "Google wannabies" applies much less and you have reason to use the Kubernetes features. But I wouldn't expect most personal projects to get anywhere near that threshold.

Hell, I bet the vast majority of personal projects happily sit on one server that does all their needs and they have room to grow on that server, or a larger instance of the one server. Possibly a second one spun up occasionally for specialized processing needs until it's destroyed.
If a method is used several times at the top of the page, and you want to find out if it's used elsewhere, without the highlights, you don't know that. You have to hit Next until you make sure it's nowhere else. With the highlights, you immediately see that the block you're looking at is it, and you can move on to a different file.
I expect we'll see a lot more at least partially serious calls for this as more species have to migrate due to changing climate.
We should also not be indulging the whims of dead people at the expense of the living.
> Instead the Israeli stance is noted as being the same as Egypt

Because it is.
So it's just a way to backport support for DNS-over-TLS to older Android versions? Neat, but not as big a deal as the article headline might lead you to believe.
There is a menu option Go → Enclosing Folder, which clearly lists the keyboard shortcut.

In general, responsibly designed Mac programs should have a menu option for every available command. This is highly discoverable (assuming users know to look in the menus, and the menus aren’t so long or deeply nested that the commands are buried).

Unfortunately in an era of web apps, mobile devices, hacky cross-platform software, etc., fewer and fewer users properly learn the basic Mac platform UI conventions. This particular convention (commands available as menu options with keyboard shortcuts listed next to them) has been largely unchanged for >30 years.

I’m not sure about the precise origin of the shortcut for opening the enclosing folder, but it dates from at least the beginning of OS X.

One Finder shortcut which is less discoverable which you might also find useful is ⌘↓ (command-down) for opening a selected item.
Trying to get access to the people who actually do the jobs that can be automated is almost always a struggle. It seems weird and counter-intuitive to me so I have never figured out what to say to get this critical resource. Typically you have to gather user data through a telephone game-like chain of middle managers. And that doesn't really work,
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> The idea is that money you give away in a tax year offsets your “income.” The money you give to charity represents money you did not keep, and is not part of that year’s income.

Why does the same logic not apply to any money you expend that year? We tax people on gross income; making anything tax deductible is completely equivalent to subsidizing that thing.
Don't be afraid to ask questions or admit that you don't know the answer to something.

Asking questions like "How does this work" can be the fastest way to learn.
The NY MTA spends $1.3B/month, about $16B/year. A $100B investment in the subway system is about 7 years of normal spending.
Can someone explain why a government couldn't block the IP of this service? Whether it's a VPN or just dns over https, it seems the servers wouldn't have infinite dynamic ips and could therefore be blocked.
mailbox.org is a respected, privacy-focussed German mail provider who's been around since almost the beginning. According to their site, they're providing services to Wikimedia and many other NGOs. Though their business pricing is a bit steep compared to a run-of-the-mill mail space you get for your domain from the DNS registrar.
Just like the Clinton Foundation paying for Chelsea's wedding. Or paying for the personal expenses of the family.
As someone who has spent a couple of decades in mostly enterprise environments, I assure you this article is largely correct - but it's not as bad as it seems. I'm reminded of the time I went to a meetup in Silicon Valley, talking about selling to the enterprise, and hearing a bunch of people shocked at how slow everything is, the scope of failures, and how the enterprise people must be really stupid and lazy.

Nah. Enterprise people are just as smart and hardworking as startups. But they have much bigger problems. Just as it's harder to turn a battleship than a speedboat, the scale matters. One thing I pointed out to people at the meetup... if you heard of a startup doing $50m annually, you'd think they were big and successful, right? I've worked on several different projects that size in the enterprise, and they tend to be just a sideline in some behemoth doing tens of billions of dollars (or more) of business a year.

One thing I often say about the enterprise, and what makes it different from startups - in the enterprise, it's more important to not be wrong than to be right. This encourages cautious behavior. Missed opportunities are better than disasters. Anyone with real experience in the enterprise has been on a proper death march. They've seen just how wrong things can get. Put a couple of years of labor in, handcuffed to a shambling corpse of a zombie project, and your attitude toward failure changes.

The flip side, though, and this is awesome, is that you can work on really BIG things. Much bigger than any startup is tackling. That's fun.
"VCs' self-interest will always be to extract maximum work out of engineers,"

And engineers are completely in their right to disagree to insane working hours. What's the additional leverage VC:s hold?

I've never understood this propensity to claim that it's impossible to avoid insane working hours. Sure it is. Just don't do it.
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As far as I know, Trump’s tax increases don’t include any new limitations on charitable deductions, they’re still limited to 50% of AGI.

Trump did increase the standard deduction if you’re not itemizing, and dramatically curtailed the state and local tax deductions, so many fewer people will be itemizing, and thus in effect reduced the incentive to donate for those people who’s best tax strategy is to take the standard deduction.
It's extremely hard to document because the chips tend not to have unique identifiers, and since they all come from the same factory they're all "real".

The best investigation I've seen is https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022 on fake SD cards.
"On the night that he won the Palm Tree Award for his philanthropy, Trump may have actually made money. The gala was held at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, and the police foundation paid to rent the room. It’s unclear how much was paid in 2010, but the police foundation reported in its tax filings that it rented Mar-a-Lago in 2014 for $276,463."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-ret...
The UN disagrees.
As a side note OS X totally fails to do this on high resolution external displays. You can’t unlock your disk with the FileVault password on those 35” wide displays for example
Yes, urbanization is very high right now, although most people underestimate the degree of urbanization in ancient civilizations.

This has less to do with a change in cities than it has to do with the precipitous drop in demand for rural labor of all sorts, imho.
IPFS or how to support pedophiles who can’t use Tor.
Most animals emerge and decline in cycles. One year rabbits are everywhere, next year foxes are everywhere, next year carrion, etc. Bugs/insects especially have odd cycles that are often not yet fully understood by humans.

The danger is often with cycles that run out of control. In Michigan zebra mussels operate on a multi-year (7 year?) cycle. They'll reach a peak then decline. But each peak so far has been significantly larger than the previous one. They choke out all the mussels that are indigenous to the lakes in those peaks, then decline for a few years and throw entire ecosystems out of whack.
So, robots have no rights to convey messages to humans? Is that so? It might be a wiser option to enhance control over ownership of robots instead.