skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wouldn't generalize about the Bay area from a few days in a particular corner of San Mateo County, though.

I'm very wary about it too, but the persistent claims that SF/Bay Area has some peculiar kind of dysfunction, rendering it hard to live in, that doesn't exist in other major metros has always piqued my curiosity. It seems like an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.

The only real evidence I've seen supporting this idea is very high housing prices. I sat next to a woman on my flight who paid $5K/mo for a 2-bedroom apartment, shared with 2 others. Sounds insane. And of course I've seen more systematic evidence of this.

But after my visit, I wonder whether she, and perhaps others on this board, don't consider the SF suburbs as worthy for a potential living space. Or alternatively whether the claims are true that there is very high demand and these suburbs would be demolished and replaced by high-rise apartments but for zoning restrictions.
Obviously they had to be storing the salt to begin with, so yes you’d keep using that salt column and use user input+salt as the input to SHA-1.
I think in the article SaaS is used to refer to proprietary SaaS companies.

In my opinion these are two different dimensions. You have the delivery method: SaaS vs. self-managed/on-premises. And you have the license of the code: proprietary vs. open-core (which can be fully open source, open-core, or a non-compete license like the one MongoDB and CockroachDB switched to).

At GitLab we have an open-core license and offer the product both as SaaS and self-managed, so we do both things in the title. The opposite would be companies offering only proprietary software that you run yourself, like Sketch.

Another dimension would be billing, people frequently mention SaaS as an example of subscription billing. At Gitlab we also bill for our self-managed software on a subscription basis instead of a big license fee upfront and yearly maintenance.
What's high? Mine is 36ms loaded according to that site.
For the record the soviet Vega probes deployed a couple baloons and they worked just fine for quite a while.
> For instance "equity is a better way to get rich than working". Is it, I bet the average googler accumulates more wealth than the average start-up founder.

His point more specifically is that if you want to scale above a certain point the only way to achieve it is to own equity of something successful.

your average startup guy doesn't own equity of anything really successful.
I would say this was covered by "Other Google Cloud services which depend on Google's US network were also impacted" it sounds to me like the list of regions was specifically speaking towards loss of connectivity to instances.
Yes. I based that off of one of the tombstones I saw on one of the sites, but that was hyperbolic.
I think you are not alone in that opinion. It seems like a bad choice to say to consumers "You have to buy those games again to use with Stadia.".
The pricing page seems to be wrong either way, but the main page claims 300,000 total users with 24,000 using it daily.
Every single day! Both to grouse about technology in channels dedicated to them and to speak socially with friends.

I find it pretty confusing that I see posts like "is IRC dead?" or "does anyone still use IRC?" as often as I do. I find IRC is a very active and I'm constantly discovering new corners of it. I'm on about 15 networks and know there are many, many more I haven't explored.
Yep, I have been using it to block many things on different sites. On Youtube, I have blocked the "recommended" videos section for example.
IIRC, the only Meetups worth going to are meetups where you already know someone or Meetups that friends have recommended.
Because AWS et. al. are considerably more than just instances?

There's a whole host of services that make dev and deployment at lot easier.

Though instance costs are more expensive ... that's not the issue, the issue is 'TCO' (total cost of ownership) not 'server cost'.

If your team can move at 2x the speed on AWS, well that's worth a lot.

Cloud services are very useful, so the article raises a very legit concern/paradox.
Don't worry about it. It's undoubtedly an aquihire. If there is one thing that Google demonstrates consistently is a complete disregard for relationships with external parties. This product will die once Google stops communicating with external companies. This is your opportunity to reassure your partners you're not going away and to reach out to Looker's companies to see if you can help stay in-front of this. Just don't be a dick about it: "Hey, just saying that Google is known for letting products die. If you're concerned about this, we'd love to know how to help you with those concerns."
GE bet on fossil fuels and lost $200B misjudging renewable energy transition
How does the Swiss tax system work? How are taxes added and/or removed? Do you have tax deductions or other incentives?

The truly weird thing about the American tax system is the way it handles deductions and other incentives. You can't take advantage of them unless you know they're available and request them specifically. This gives the government a real incentive to make the tax code as complicated as possible. If you don't know what deductions are available to you, then you'll probably miss some or all of them and end up paying a lot more money than you would have if the process was more straight forward.
“The communication regarding denial of access to the account creates a sense of helplessness; the finality without explanation requires correcting.”

Right there, in one sentence, DO has figured out the one thing that all those millions of CPU cores at Google have failed to grasp.
tl;dr
Craig ratted out La Roux and the the icing on the cake is trying to steal La Roux's coins using a front for mining (and school funding, etc)? Ya that's not the full story, La Roux certainly knows about this unless he's in solitary, did anyone ask him;)
What does it mean for a pair of events to be mutually distant?
Why HBO's “Chernobyl” Gets Nuclear So Wrong
If you're in Japan, you can go to Yushakobo's store in Akihabara, or order some kits online at places like https://eucalyn.shop/product-category/kits.
ThE maGic oF GoOglE!
Yes, but note that I deliberately used the word "system" rather than "atom". The system is the combination of the atom plus whatever it's absorbing energy from or emitting energy to. And that (entangled) system is in a superposition.
Is the "Termius Dark" color scheme saved anywhere? I like to use the same color scheme as my terminal when I am using vim.

PS: Love Termius, by the way! We will be sure to switch to the team plan once the sharing feature launch.
While I place no trust in Plato's reasoning or evidence, I don't see the issue as "moral". Instead, I see the importance of good family formation, which the US is failing at (birth rate so low we are rapidly going extinct, literally -- the most basic failing of a society), and needing solutions good in all or nearly all respects.

Failing at family formation is no darned good and worse -- it canNOT last. On this point f'get about Plato, Fromm, or me and, instead, listen to Darwin -- yup, he's on the case.
What about it looked really cool?
Ask HN: What Happened to Spearhead?
I haven't heard about Spearhead for a while now. Anybody knows how they're doing?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/12/spearhead-is-transforming-founders-into-angel-investors/
I think calling Turing's achievements "minor" (versus, say, "overrated") is up for debate. But saying that "it became known that he was gay" underplays and distorts even just that part of his life, as if he were just a mediocrity until he played the game of sexual politics and became a media darling. He was convicted and chemically castrated by his own government and had his career (and travel) curtailed at the age of 40. Even with the high recognition that his name gets today, we should still wonder how much more he would have achieved and been recognized had he not become ostracized at the prime of his career.
> If anyone has any ideas about how an average citizen can affect this policy, I’d love to know.

Maybe start at the state level? I'm sure there are more than a few states who would want to work with a private company to streamline the process.
Russia got the first probe on Venus, so maybe it’s success being celebrated and reinforcing more interest.

I just saw an episode of the new BBC series Planets talking about this. One thing they mentioned was that it was seriously suggested even in the 40’s that there could be rainforests and a fertile surface underneath the cloud cover on Venus. Could see the mystery in particular being an interesting thing to grow up hearing about.
What modern game can run at 1080p/60fps on a low spec PC?

What kinda of cost are we talking about when you say "low spec"?
This is just a specific case of the more general: "If you think you don't like X, just wait until your company forces you to use Microsoft Y."
Not only do I use it quite often (wow, the developers you can talk to who hang out on linux forums), but I know a number of companies where the entire tech team just hangs out in the company channel, getting things done. Faster than email, the terminal is always open, live chat...
Schools Are Deploying Digital Surveillance Systems. Results Are Alarming
I have a not good surprise for you. Someone started looking for it and there's spots of high density of plastic waste (equivalent to the infamous Pacific garbage patch) and it's not at the surface.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/ocean-mi...
You're speaking in tautologies. If you define "Nothingness" as "That which is unable to produce anything" and use that to conclude that it is not possible for there to be nothing at the start of the universe, you are begging the question. Your axioms trivially contain your conclusion, but why should we accept those axioms?
It's interesting to see it go down. There's some chaos involved, but from my perspective it's the constructive[0] kind.

If you're interested in how these sorts of incidents are managed, check out the SRE Book[1] - it has a chapter or two on this and many other related topics.

Disclosure: I work in Google Cloud, but not SRE.

[0]: https://principiadiscordia.com/book/70.php

[1]: https://landing.google.com/sre/books/
Is there any open source software like this available anywhere ?
Kedro, McKinsey’s first open-source software tool
Probably the biggest draw for city life. I have an awesome huge social circle centered around performing artists (I’m a DJ on the side).

Get a social hobby and mean it!
... Does Google not have any data centers in Australia? (Granted, it isn't a given that Stadia might run out of those DCs, but with Borg, I don't see why they couldn't.)
> any time I start thinking an expert might be wrong in their area of expertise

But on the other hand....

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
What's your opinion of Periscope?
The outage lasted two days for our domain (edu, sw region). I understand that they are reporting a single day, 3-4 hours of serious issues but that’s not what we experienced. Great write up otherwise, glad they are sharing openly
The lineages of the first humans to reach northeastern Siberia and the Americas
> infinitely
They make it clear what size they serve it in on their beer menu, so it's not too bad.
"I think in the article SaaS is used to refer to proprietary SaaS companies."

That's true and covered in a previous post [0]. I also recently saw this tweet from @asynchio that also agrees there are different dimensions [1] and will be covering that further.

[0] https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes_networking_on_bare...

[1] https://twitter.com/asynchio/status/1136139175437062146
Thanks for this, not the OP but security is also my #1 concern with this type of product. I'm probably not in the target market anyways so maybe you don't need to listen to me but I love it when companies release info on the way they keep my data safe.

One example, before I sign up for a critical vendor, I like to ensure I can set up secure 2fa with no sms recovery (because sms recovery is broken by design)

A security whitepaper of sorts will probably go a long way on this type of product
any single pane note taker with latex support?
This. Well put.

when eveyone was hooked on VM's and other nonsense they had 'branded zones' running.

The learning curve was high, but worth it once you had it running.

Sad to see them leave. wonder what i will do with my SmartOS based media server now?
"Witness," a 1985 film directed by Peter Weir, starring Harrison Ford, is superb.
I use IRSSI in my shell whenever I have a tech question
That sounds like a map for a place to not commit crime—which is probably okay by the owners.
I control my bots via private IRC server.
My vps in Belgium was working just fine - they don't lie in postmortem.
I've literally never been able to identify a photoshopped image (except for immediately obvious work), without someone first pointing it out. I have a feeling that the percentage of the population that can spot edited images is in the single digits.
“Unfortunately, technologies like this will always attract bad actors,” --- uhmmm, what is the "good actors"?? I want to take video, and delete what you said and make you say something else. uhmmm, can't actually see the "good actor" point of that.
Obligatory reference to Naomi Kritzer’s Hugo award winning short story "Cat Pictures Please".

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Pictures_Please
Oh yes, the long, hot summer of '76. A glorrious time to be 16 and unexpectedly having the house to myself for several weeks.
But no ladybugs to speak of, over here across the North Sea from you.
Jellyfish, on the other hand. I remember sailing through shallow waters almost solid with them. Also a one-off, never seen anything like it since then.
Soon anyone in the world will be able to spin up their own Gab server
I explained the Reader phenomenon here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116287

(I loved it too.)
Frets on Fire X (https://fofix.github.io/) is one. And I guess the original Frets on Fire.

Edit: Clone Hero looks more recent/active. However I'm not sure it's open source. https://clonehero.net
breaking news: you are probably running an outdated (ie insecure) version of android
Yeah, still using IRC (mostly Efnet but I keep a weather eye on Freenode for a project I maintain).

I think I just feel at home there.
Phone IRC apps are the most annoying things in the world. Constant join and part messages as they disconnect and reconnect. That's one advantage of things like Slack; they handle persistence at the server level, rather than relying on the client. That being said, I'm a huge IRC fan and use it at work all day every day on two internally managed servers.
This option, and also Inkdrop (on the front page yesterday just after I asked the question), look great! Thank you
If anybody wants to talk/tell jokes/bullshit, hit me up: me@ryanglover.net.

This is the only way we get out of this mess: take initiative as individuals to start connecting with others again. Even when (especially) we have differing opinions.

The old rules of "don't discuss religion and politics" need to be reintroduced to the social contract—step up to the plate and call others out for bringing up these topics (no matter how enticing).
For someone starting from scratch, are there any “best practices” for getting on safely and anonymously? How do I hide my IP?
To clarify. I wasn’t arguing against there being a possibility of an “after” with new universes from nothing. I was curious about what constitutes “a very very very large time” in a universe without clocks
youtube and other video sites need a framework for content verifying videos that haven't been digitally produced using steganography or keys injected into every frame. This could software could be embedded in video recording devices (keys could be updated OTA so hard hacks don't matter). If videos haven't been "reality" verified then people can just enjoy them as fake/fiction works. Video editing/compression software would need to be aware of the location of the key bits and maintain them within each frame.
Warriors Fan Who Shoved Raptors Player Is Sequoia VC Mark Stevens
To be fair, I found Slack an absolute joy to use before the switch but.. YMMV, as always :)
David Foster Wallace said something about how when elite athletes try to say how they got there, it ends up sounding mostly like clichés, but that it's probably because most clichés became such because they hold some truth[1].

And yeah, they definitely look worse when listed off in bulk. You're probably best off picking a small handful that play to your strengths as a person and figuring out how to ruthlessly make habits of them.

The thing is -- cliché doesn't mean easy. Many clichés in both athletics and wealth building are very easy to understand on an intellectual level, but hard (for whatever reason) to put into practice for the required duration to reap the benefit. So there will always be a market for them to be remixed, repackaged, and expounded on ad infinitum[2], since the end results usually remain out of most people's grasp.

---

[1] I'm not saying all clichés are universal truths, just that many universal truths have at least one expression as a cliché

[2] I'm reminded of an exchange between two affiliate marketers on Twitter:

Aff-1: "It's 2015 and people still broke"

Aff-2: "It's 2015 and people still fat"
You have cash, good health, and free time.

Take up an “extreme” sport. Skiing, SCUBA diving, mountaineering, surfing, windsurfing, paragliding. Become a de facto member of your chosen activity’s local scene.

Or just find a girl, ???, propagate your bloodline into the future.

Like, whatever, man. It’s over when they’re packing the dirt in your grave.
In their defense, I believe a large portion of the “AGI community” are just stupid, not scammers.
Well, now that scene in movies where the newscaster narrates the aftermath of an event can be done realistically without having to hire actors?
> July 4th. Gab changes the game once again.

Seems a little premature to declare victory, especially since Mastodon is maturing nicely and has quite a bit of federated systems out there. I'm not on either platform, but the impression I've gotten is that Gab is a bit of a cesspool.
Fun Ask HN thread would be, "at what thing or what about you is below average?" It's one thing to admit you suck at something, but quite another to recognize that you are below the mean, or worse, the median.

It's too easy to fall into the trap of inverting a positive trait and say, "I'm probably less un-awesome than average," or to exaggerate false humility.

Sample bias comes in as well, since among my rich friends, I am below average net worth, but still above the 75th percentile nationally. It's like that stupid job interview question, "what is your greatest weakness?[0]"

It's an interesting exercise anyway.

([0]Apparently one wrong answer is, "suffering fools gladly.")
The unspoken hero, thank you for your duty
It says there wasn't regional congestion, running a function in europe-west2 going to europe-west2 regional bucket is dependent on US network? That would be surprising.
It could be used to bleep movies for tv so that the reading the lips of the actor match the dubbed audio. You can easily tell what curses people are saying.
FWIW I'm 50 and have an almost 5-year-old and almost 1-year-old. So far I'm keeping up with them OK.

I am a bit worried about having an 18 year old and being 68 though. We'll see how it goes.
Is there a reason to keep the post type out of the JSON and store it as file metadata? That works in Dat which supports file metadata, but what about when the data is handled in other ways (as plain files on disk, etc)?

https://unwalled.garden/docs/how-does-it-work
I don't understand. Are we supposed to know that private schools are also bad?

Private schools are a form of socioeconomic class segregation and there are problems with them, but I would definitely believe that private schools are, by most metrics, better schools.
> I agree, but it’s pretty standard SLA verbiage (from the telco/bandwith provider days) to require the customer to request/register the SLA violation to benefit.

FiOS has proactively given me per-day refunds of service without notification on my part. Weird to me that Verizon acts better than Google in this case.
Ok, I was confused because if you say “Consider a system that transitions from energy state 0 to an adjacent energy state 1” it sounds as if the energy of the “system” is changing and when you say that “a particle [...] can be in two different energy states at the same time” it seems that you are referring to the atom being in a superposition of states with different energy.
I will second this, and add that I generally resist subscriptions from apps that tout syncing as a subscription feature because I'm already paying to sync stuff with Dropbox/iCloud.
It's strange, too, how rarely the developer will just think to make an alternative asset pack to accomplish this. It doesn't have to look great! It can be eyebleeding programmer-art. But having it there means the game can be run, after installing it, without first having to load some assets into it. And that's valuable for e.g. knowing whether your setup is working.
I think Google has experimented in the past with releasing things under separate brands, but it leads to the problem where if you don't mention the host company prominently enough users feel tricked (like all the people who use Instagram without realizing it's just a reskin of Facebook), while if you do mention the host company prominently you fall back into the same trap of user expectation.

Google also has the related problem where if they release even a genuinely uninteresting app (say a grocery shopping list) they'll still have a hundred million people try it out on the first day, so when building the app you have to build for that scale before you're even able to validate the design space. (There was one experiment, I can't remember which right now, which had a small team with didn't do this and then was widely mocked for being slow with "Google can't even make its own apps scale".) Damned if you do, damned if you don't. ...but I imagine the execs wipe their tears away with wads of hundred dollar bills.
>> But then of course Uncle Sam show up, and basically say, “Hey, you know what, you just made a lot money this year. Therefore, you’re rich. Therefore, you’re evil and you’ve got to hand it all over to us.”

The government doesn't tax rich people because they're evil - they tax rich people to provide food, education, and security for society. Progressive taxes are useful because they help fight poverty and allow the very poor to participate in the market (extreme inequality and the resulting poverty is regarded by most economists as a market failure).

This guy mentions the importance of education, but does he realize that K-12 education is payed for by taxes? Unfortunately, inter-generational wealth mobility in the US is quite low, much lower than in most of Europe, where taxes happen to be much more progressive. You could argue that progressive taxes lead to wealth mobility; they provide the funding for education and other services that give poor folks the means to acquire wealth.
I had a career change away from tech about two years ago, which happens to be the same time I moved to Providence! If you want to grab a drink sometime in the next couple days and chat about parks and rec, let me know!
Starting the testing with EVs seems to imply that they feel they have a solution for weight, I would presume, because EV weight management is a huge focus.

(Weight is much more obviously and directly influential in an EV's mpkwh/mpge than in an ICE vehicle's mpg. Brags about weight savings are huge in the EV sector, including cars advertising even the rolling weights of their tires versus their competitors.)