skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The no compression thing caught my eye as well, but then I started thinking-- if I actually started using it to archive ALL of my 42MP photos I would start running into the higher cost brackets, and I don't want to pay that much. I still need an archiving solution, but since my photography is only a hobby for me, I would only see using it to archive my favorite shots while I keep everything else on external hard drives.
Which would actually have been a GREAT name for this service... but they already used/burned the name.
I secretly believe that for all of the bluster about Mars, Elon's real goal is to produce the technology base necessary for humans to live here on Earth following the collapse of the biosphere.

Why go to Mars to encounter an atmosphere hostile to life when we can all collectively experience right here at home?

Storms washed out your fiber optic cables? Starlink. No place to hide from the hostile surface? Boring Co. Need to remediate the atmosphere? Solar panels / Powersats -- I believe he's being reserved about Powersats. Need to move things around without easy access to transport? Electric vehicles. Need energy storage through the night time because the baseload power stations have all fallen into disrepair? Grid storage. Building your Gigafactory in a desert? Future-proofing.
First, even if you couldn't pay off your mortgage today that doesn't mean you would be in a bad position at all. If you had enough to contribute 50k a year (plus job increases) and had 500k left on a house you would be in great shape. You would be happy to have the debt and the entity issuing you the debt would be happy to be repaid.

Second, while it is useful to think of debts in terms of things like mortgages and auto loans, most of this global debt is government debt. Think locally - your local town may need 50 million dollars to build a new school. They aren't increasing taxes for one year to build the school they instead take on 50 million dollars of debt in the form of bonds. So even if you have no personal debt you still have tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt which the government has taken out which can reasonably be repaid overtime.
Yea, it can be a pain. Certainly you'll improve at it over time. While strength always helps, especially with getting tired, I do think this is primarily a balance/timing skill. That said, with experience a couple things also mitigate the annoyance.

* Stopping in locations that have a little extra slope makes standing back up easy. On the far edge of a cat-track, on top of a bump, etc.

* Keeping an eye on snow conditions. Soft snow or powder makes standing up on your heel edge difficult to impossible. If you arm just pushes straight down 2' into the snow, you aren't getting up that way. Sometimes when you fall in fresh snow, you'll need to refill a hole five times over to create a stable packed spot to push off of. Those are the good days :)

But basically, experienced riders will stand up in the appropriate way for the terrain, on toe or heel. From there, they'll hop a 180, make a turn, etc to get in the direction you want. Forcing yourself to stand up in the non-optimal direction is a lot of extra work.
Inflation (depending on the type and extent) can be a form of slow motion jubilee
Save the Children Foundation duped by hackers into paying out $1M
One difficulty students had that I encountered as a TA was some garbled prerequisites. All of the epsilon-delta definitions are written in propositional logic, and are often '2nd order statements', (that is they have nested quantifiers). This is an entirely new formal language, and its usage is very different than english. It needs to be carefully explained, but standard texts like Stewart just dress it up to look kind of like english and carry on.

In fact the mathematics curriculum DOES acknowledge that you have to teach most students this if you want them to understand it: at my university it lived in the discrete math course, which used Rosen. He devotes an entire chapter on propositional logic, and spends literally 60 pages gradually building up the complexity to arbitrary nested quantifiers; the definition of the limit appears at the end of this.

Unfortunately, discrete math also makes heavy use of sequences and series, so that Calc 2 is a prerequisite of the course... thus my program's student-victims would spend a year taking calculus and not understanding much of the formalism before they were even allowed to take the course that explained the language the basic definitions of calculus were written in! Ugh.

I think Stewart and Rosen are pretty mainstream textbooks, so i suspect this problem is very common. Perhaps you could point it out at your next faculty meeting and shuffle some prerequisites around; we'll start a math-revolution! :)
Some of us just want to be engineers but know full well how difficult that actually is and want to be paid well enough to seriously research that problem. Thus most of us are experimentalists and prototype engineers, not ones making claims strong enough to be liable for.
Perhaps they meant premixed , sterile saline solutions ?
It's kind of silly to spread corporate and government debt across all people. Also, the article makes no mention of what assets are valued at.
> Weeks notice is last minute.

Well, no, it's literally not. It's actually a reasonably long lead time for “going out of business”, which basically no one ever announces before essentially all hope of finding a way to keep the business running is exhausted, which intrinsically means there is little runway left.
Seems pretty damning, but I do wonder without his efforts would as much progress have been made in batteries/electric cars?

It is just sad that Tesla could be a much healthier and successful company if all those first string people where still there.
(shameless plug) you might find this interesting: https://github.com/bitnami-labs/udig

It focuses on Zero configuration by skipping the account creation and hostname selection (and long term state) by using the hash of the tunnel destination public key as hostname.
Bees that wear tiny sensor-filled backpacks could monitor farms all day long
Fission will always be there if the alternatives don’t pan out. Its cost is way too high ATM considering the alternatives, but as those alternatives are exhausted, we still have 90,000 years of nuclear fuel to exploit if we need it. The other possibility is that its cost comes down, then it is competing on a more even field with other renewables.

Storage works really well with nuclear, which by itself is very hard to ramp up or down (worse than coal, in contrast to gas and hydro that can work on demand).
that sounds like a bucket shop....
maybe they're doing it before the new year for tax reasons. still done in poor taste though.
While I agree that backcountry travel, in general, is easier on skis you're going to shell out more money for an AT ski setup then you will for a splitboard.
Using sass-vars-loader for this which is a webpack plugin: https://github.com/epegzz/sass-vars-loader
Ask HN: RaspberryPi Games/etc for kids?
My kids (between 6 and 12) started (finally!) showing interest in real computers (ie- not a smart device). My oldest even started doing Turtle-style programming in school and to my surprise really loves it.

For Christmas we decided to get them a simple computer. It's a RaspberryPi with the basics (monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers) that I want to put some simple games on, including educational games.

My question is: what is some good software for kids in that age group? Any good Turtle-style programming tools you have experience with kids that age using? Maybe something similar to what Lego does with their Mindstorms products? (drag-and-drop programming instructions). I've seen some cool Turtle implementations in Python I might try out. But I'm hoping to ease in a bit more.

I have some old favorite DOS games that I'm going to try get running. But I also want to encourage them exploring the computer like I did when I was their ages. Seems everything is just another app from an app store these days so I'm having a hard time thinking of what I should do.
Probably protected by the powerful friends that gave them the contract in the first place.
There are good reasons that I said "autonomous" and "operate" as qualifiers. Both direct control from the ground and getting a mile high are potential additional challenges in Los Angeles.
As a potential future engineer, 2 * pi is pretty much 10.
I'm saying you can scrape out all the unused icons to lessen the size, that's why it's misleading.
I think that's just a depiction of the three kilometer test track.
Exactly this. Putting it in the bottle and microwaving for 38 seconds (experimentally determined, your <microwave> may vary) makes it a nice, comfortable temperature for use.
> India was quite divided before that, which made it easy for them to play their little game of "divide and rule".

The fact that entire region was called Bharat escapes you I think.
Just before British India was centrally organized and ruled by Mughals and Marathas so your argument does not stand.

As far as "divide and rule" is concerned, due to the vastness of India regional leadership was always delegated. British utilized this structure to their advantage.
The simple fact we make nuclear ships supports this.
Simple cross-platform GUIs are pretty easy in Racket, and there’s even a wealth of beginner-focussed teaching materials / documentation for Racket.

Less tutorial material for GUI apps specifically, which should probably be remedied. Still, Racket has a pretty good native GUI and packaging story, and the docs are very consistent.
In my opinion, all of the best games have some portion of luck in them, but a larger portion of skill. Catan is boring to me because dice rolls determine too much of the game; chess is boring to me because I know I'm always going to lose unless I feel like investing hundreds of hours into learning the game. Scrabble is one of the few pre-Euros that manages to get the luck to skill balance right.

The skill of having a larger vocabulary is actually useful IRL, so that helps a bit. There's another part of it that's the game itself, like knowing all of the two-letter words, which isn't quite as useful.
Whether or not you or I agree with his book or his beliefs, Jonah Goldberg has a long and distinguished career as a moderate conservative. He's an avid critic of Trump and he vocally condemns racism and white supremacy. Casting him as an extremist is witch-hunting, and it hurts our ability to keep actual racists and white-supremacists in check.

> Will my kids be shamed and called a f-g when they get to school and end up in a hospital with a fractured skull? Will we ever change?

The world has been changing for decades before this "moderates are actually white-supremacists in disguise" trend kicked off. It's precisely this kind of conflation that jeopardizes the progress we've made.
Tumblr’s NSFW castaways are flocking to these lifeboats as a ban looms
This was part of his employment contract.

The investors, creditors, and the company's pension funds got a haircut.
> About multiple AZ, I think we haven't used it in this case but it shouldn't change a bit

Are you suggesting that the metrics would not change? I assure you that is not the case: inter-AZ latency is 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than intra-AZ latency.

You'll need to re-run your benchmarks in a multi-AZ cluster in order to provide an apples-to-apples comparison.
Ask HN: What happens when a startup shuts down?
What happens to the customers?
Their data?
Their undelivered purchases?
What happens to the founders?
The employees?
The board members?
What happens to the intellectual property?
Social media accounts?
Domain names?
Leftover inventory?
Outstanding debt (long-term and short-term)?
What happens to the office furniture? Rubber bands?

What happens?
I think you are partially right: the trade disputes make for a convenient scapegoat for a slowdown that was way overdue. As for how the people take it, will they blame America or the CCP, the latter of which has basically encouraged a lot of moral hazard (you can’t lose on real estate, it’s backed by the government!)? It’s not like they can just throw the turkeys out of it’s the latter.
You seem to be indicating that SIPC wouldn't protect the liquid (cash) assets in the account, only reunite you with your stocks/bonds/etc. Based on the SIPC site [0] this is incorrect, and they get you your cash as well: " SIPC works to restore to customers their securities and cash that are in their accounts when the brokerage firm liquidation begins"

[0] https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects
This stuff lives in old water heaters right? It could've happened any time, but if you're using a neti pot you probably have a cold and are already susceptible to infection.
It's not a terribly useful study to me as a result. Granted, the parent piece from a libertarian think tank, so this type of report - an advocacy document - is what to expect. That's fine. But you can also find advocacy from the other side, too... for instance, an advocacy piece concerning the costs (via shoddy work) of using unlicensed contractors for construction, courtesy of Angie's List. (https://www.angieslist.com/articles/how-unlicensed-contracto...)

What we don't have is the proper detail to allow me to make up my mind which cases licensing makes sense, and in which cases licensing doesn't. Sure, licensing has costs. That doesn't tell me anything, because licensing may protect me from bad work quality, which also can cost money, or even possibly be a safety hazard (eg the shoddy electrician that didn't ground a light and nearly electrocuted another worker as a result in the Angie's List piece).

I am fine with the position that occupational licenses aren't necessary for careers where licensing doesn't add any value. But my hunch is that in many careers, licensing adds value overall. The posted piece did nothing to change my position on this.
As I recall, there are few states which have never had an incidence of sovereign default.
Yes, the salt mainly is meant to reduce irritation.

Amoeba aren't bacteria, though. Both, however should be adversely affected by saline solutions because osmosis will draw water out of the cells, effectively killing these organisms.

Salt can be as effective a disinfectant as chlorine if dissolved in water. There are public swimming pools that make use of this because chlorine can have adverse effects on your health, such as causing irritation on both the skin and the respiratory system.
Awesome! It was unclear to me where the Rambus IP began and SiFive's core took over in the demo.

Keystone using existing RISC-V extensions is exciting to see, but it's frustrating that the Hack a Day article seems to confound where it begins and ends (at least today). The Keystone presentation notes that the RoT is derived from Sanctum and their docs indicate that you need to bring your own entropy and key storage, neither of which are made clear in the blog post.
There's a actually a lot more info than what they show you. They won't show you something depending on many factors including FDA approval, etc. So there's a potential whole lot of information that you are missing out if you don't run your data through other services and tools.

I did a google search and found a bunch of resources, but I though some ppl here may have actual experiences to share.
Swissmetro [1] was a precursor concept publicized in 1993 [2], abandoned by 2009.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255792073_Swissmetr...

[2] PDF link to English-language report at the bottom of the page: http://www.bfe.admin.ch/dokumentation/energieforschung/index...
> Why would companies be building roads like that when there is no need to do it?

Need is a poor way of looking at investments. Having a more direct route reduces travel costs. Which is while people use Toll Road‘s even when their are generally other options.

If you want to make the suggestion that companies will make toll roads you need to explain why the don’t even when their are many profitable bridges etc. Toll bridges could be profitable in many places yet they are not built largely becase the cost is so extreme.
I believe you’re right but I would still be curious about the number of people who logged in enough keep their accounts alive but not enough to make appreciable ad revenue. Disk isn’t _that_ expensive but it’s not free either and Yahoo! was never as good as Google at targeting so they can’t have had the best ad rates.
There are multiple levels of unemployment U1-U6, they go from the most liberal to the most conservative view unemployment. Ultimately the absolute number doesnt matter that much, it is the trends.

The "official" number is the U3, but if you prefer to use the U6 you can. No one is lying about unemployment.

U1:[47] Percentage of labor force unemployed 15 weeks or longer.

U2: Percentage of labor force who lost jobs or completed temporary work.

U3: Official unemployment rate per the ILO definition occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively looked for work within the past four weeks.[48]

U4: U3 + "discouraged workers", or those who have stopped looking for work because current economic conditions make them believe that no work is available for them.

U5: U4 + other "marginally attached workers", or "loosely attached workers", or those who "would like" and are able to work, but have not looked for work recently.

U6: U5 + Part-time workers who want to work full-time, but cannot due to economic reasons (underemployment).

You could even consider the labor participation rate as an unemployment number. That would include retired people, the wealthy that don't need to work, stay at home moms etc.
Most consumers do have a choice. "Reasonable" is a pretty squishy word often used to kill discussion.

If a consumer is abused by their vendor and continues to fund their abuser, who should be blamed? Obviously the abuser is to blame for the abuse. But shouldn't the person funding the abuser also get some blame? Or is it all the government's fault? Blame the police.

It seems to be a common response to consumer abuse to blame the government while continuing to fund the abuser. That strategy has made Wells Fargo number one. And Century Link number one. And Facebook number one. And the list goes on.

If you can't live without their service for one week, maybe their service isn't so bad. If you're not willing to lift even the smallest finger the smallest amount, just keep belly aching to the wind. That will fix the problem.
[Corrected, with thanks! I hadn't read the German-language wikipedia page, and I don't recall hearing about the roots of the idea when it was in the news by 1993.]

A research and development project was funded and launched in the 90s, while the initial concept is credited to Swiss engineer Rodolphe Nieth in 1974.
Life hacking lessons from videogames
I have snowboarded for 20 years.

Wear a helmet.

Seriously WEAR A HELMET.
The climate and economy are the only real concerns. Human population, energy, and food production are on a good track getting better.
> I just want to say that the comments on this thread are absolutely ridiculous and I expected better. Does anyone actually think the customers would find out at the last minute? That the company would leave its users without any support? It's baseless speculation and my guess is it's totally wrong.

Well, it's their baseless speculation and your guess, so a level playing field. You can make the same point without baiting other commenters—in fact you just make your point without baiting other commenters, that's how.
I think you misread my comment. I was very careful not to suggest that "the law was explicitly discriminatory". I'm merely asking how they accomplish the alleged discrimination.
Beyond a certain size of ISP (several tens of thousands of customers or more), there is literally no point in wasting your time or the phone representative's time. They'll have no clue what you're talking about and little or no power to escalate you to the people responsible for their internal network engineering decisions.
I think he/she was talking about them avoiding taxi legislation, not the self driving branch.
No.

Good news is that it's not "real." It's numbers in a database. The stuff, knowledge, and experience that we have is real.
Additionally, you can't always show a direct link between a data breach and e.g. subsequent bank fraud.
Debugging 6502 Assembly Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
Um, am I doing math wrong?

184 trillion divided by 7.7 billion = 23,896
That's incorrect IMHO. The Mughals had ruled over an area greater than India's current area. The Marathas too had almost replaced Mughals after their downfall, and the British replaced Marathas. There was infighting in a few kingdoms towards the south and the east, and that's where the British gained their initial territory.

There was a concept of a united India/Hindustan/Bharat/Aryavart in Ancient times.
Wow - I had no idea Yahoo! Music was that big that recently.

Sort of hard to guess how much blame anyone at Yahoo actually bears for that decline, though. I notice 2007 was also the year Apple released the iPhone and started selling DRM-free music via iTunes, which has to have been something of an outside-context problem for a music web service.

In general, it looks a bit like they suffered the same fate as the earliest smartphone designers. It was a worthwhile product, but practical constraints rewarded a restricted version (Palm Pilots, wholly local music storage), and the business fell out of use before there was enough space to provide a fancier version (iPhones, Spotify) of the same offering.
> Generally in order for unions to exist at all they need a certain amount of protection from reprisals;

This reverses cause and effect: in order for unions to receive any legal protection, they have to exist and fight for it (many members paying very high prices.) The unions precede the legal protection, not the other way around.
These articles are coming thick and fast from three sources: The Washington Post, New York Times and Bloomberg. Nobody else (BBC, Australia, etc.) seems to be reporting the same, which leads me to believe there's a political element to this reporting, particularly amidst the current "trade war". (We don't see a rash of "US Economy Shows Sharply" every time something goes wrong for the US, although the trend is arguably toward crumbling infrastructure and reduced competitiveness across the board.)

Against what therefore appears to be a propaganda-laden media landscape, I would merely add the observation that Chinese people and companies can more easily stomach slowdowns than the US because they save, don't tend to live highly leveraged and on subscription like Americans, don't need cars, and don't have a culture of mutual litigation or life-crushing medical bills.

Therefore, to an American reading "these people lost their jobs a couple of months early" the effect is insanely worrisome and they believe this to be a huge problem. In China, having an extended holiday from your seasonal factory job is generally a non-issue... these people can either hang around and get other work, or economically hibernate back at home sharing meals with family and passing time on a tiny budget. It's a different world.
Try "potted meat food product" on for size.

Ingredients: Mechanically Separated Chicken, Beef Tripe, Partially Defatted Cooked Beef Fatty Tissue, Beef Hearts, Water, Partially Defatted Cooked Pork Fatty Tissue, Salt. Less than 2 percent: Mustard, Natural Flavorings, Dried Garlic, Dextrose, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite
That's sort of what bothers me. This stuff evolved to work in small tribes, not global societies. When you don't actually know the person the behavior is very different.
> the sachets of salt do say what kind of water but it is in small font and they don't caution the user NOT to use tap water

The salt packets are about 1.5" x 1". It's physically impossible for the lettering to be in anything other than a small font.