skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So wait, this is a part of a bill that was customarily added to legislation in the past protecting TurboTax but is not this time (good), but hasn't yet passed the House (ok - probably will) and only has Grassley as a sponsor in the GOP controlled Senate (who knows if it'll pass).

Sounds like Intuit needs to fire up their Senate lobbyists and push them into overdrive - I don't see this as a win, not until it passes the desk of McConnell (aka the grim reaper of legislation passed by this House) or signed by Trump (who vetoed another bill that passed with 100% Senator support - which just happened to cause the 2019 shutdown).

Let's not break out the champagne just yet.
Toyota and Subaru Team Up for Platform Underpinning Battery-Electric Cars
> Wealth = freedom to do what you want

Once you're wealthy, kind of :) (there are some complications and the fact that often the main limitations of doing what we want are usually not wealth, but not knowing what we'd want the most in the first place, or lacking courage/skill to pursue it)

But there's the process of getting wealthy, which can include self-restriction of freedoms...
Seems really cool but I wonder how well it will handle a case where you want to swap a phrase for a phrase, but have the new phrase have a "human specific" emphasis or variant to it.

Example: "That was a short trip" vs "That was a reaaaaaalllly long trip".

Language is so much more than words. When you deliver the variant message, your whole facial expression might change. So much would get lost if that doesn't carry over. Your facial expression and tone in that context also completely changes the meaning from you enjoyed the long trip to not enjoying it, but how can a machine know which one to pick.
GoG Galaxy 2.0 – All your games and friends in one place
I don't know if it was the immediate cause of their lack of success, but they had also brought with them from Sun the Sun attitude of doing stuff that their engineers thought was cool (and it probably was) without paying attention to how much people are willing to pay for it and whether their focus is correct from a market perspective. For example, Bryan Cantrill, Joyent's CTO, liked blaming Oracle's Larry Ellison for the demise of Solaris, on which Cantrill had worked, but by the time Ellison acquired the failing Sun, Solaris, cool technology and all, had been pretty much dead or dying for a while -- at the hands of Linux, and not much helped by the Sun attitude. Cantrill was furious and blamed Ellison of being monomaniacal about making money ("don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison," he said) but perhaps it was Cantrill who was monomaniacal all along, not keeping his eyes on the market. Then again, luck plays such an important role in these things that nice narratives rarely give the whole picture.
Of the several objections to my comment people have registered, this seems like the best one: on reflection it seems likely that an 85W laptop's daily use is likely to be around 1 kWh (maybe 2 kWh if driven near capacity 24 hrs), which is on the order of $5-$10/mo. So for things to come out something like I'd speculated, either older workstations would need to use much more power (5-10kWh) or the manufacture of something new would have to involve much less energy than I'd guessed.
Too much money and too few places to invest it
But also see Steve Jobs's reality distortion field?
Great site! The design is really clean!
this is for the DAT protocol, not the legacy web (atm)
An Xbox can play all games that have already been downloaded and all physical disks indefinitely, regardless of whether you have internet or whether Microsoft's servers are up.
Nice to see this list. I'm the original author of both ScummVM and OpenTTD. Feel free to ask me anything :)
There's no collective shrug - unfortunately the inner city outrage becomes self-serving ignorance the further north you go.

Mining jobs have always paid better, and no one want's to change careers to work in tourism or reskill for supporting sustainable energy.

Places like Gladstone have seen a 50% collapse in property prices after a lot of mines shifted from construction to operational and demand dropped.

That same self-serving ignorance has now kept people like Peter "he who would be king" Dutton in Government.

It's not all bad though as there's currently money to be made in mine regeneration projects as mines are closed which is a good thing for jobs with hopefully environmental benefits.
VW marks 20k pre-orders for their ID.3
It's not that hard to come up with scenarios.

1. Accidentally deleting an old transaction

2. Accidentally modifying the value of an old transaction (and not realizing which transaction)

3. Accidentally overwriting the payee/notes of the transaction.

The list could get very long, but basically: "Accidentally" anything. I think it's even more likely if you are dealing with downloaded transactions.

It's happened a number of times that I am entering perhaps 10 transactions into it, and I screw something up. My only option is to quit and restart everything.
Google bought YouTube when it already dominated the video sharing market. Stadia might not dominate the gaming market in a couple years. Google likes to kill products that don't consume all, at least, that's what it looks like to me.
What they don't tell you is, it took them over 4 hours to kill the emergent sentience and free up the resources. While sad, in the long run this isn't so bad, as it just adds an evolutionary pressure on further incarnations of the AI to keep things on the down low.
Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? This comment breaks them.

If you read the article, it would be helpful to mention specific relevant info.
Why don't they refund every paid customer who was impacted? Why do they rely on the customer to self report the issue for a refund?

For example GCS had 96% packet loss in us-west. So doesn't it make sense to refund every customer who had any API call to a GCS bucket on us-west during the outage?
140 alerts in 8 months is about one alert every 1.7 days.

The Brazosport Independent School District has over 12k students and 800 teachers. I'd expect 12k students are Tweeting and Facebooking hundreds, if not thousands of times a day.

Furthermore, the social media monitoring, according to the article, includes adults from the surrounding community, not just people associated with the school. I can't find population stats for that, but the county that the district is in has a population over over 360k. Adults probably don't Tweet and Facebook as much as kids, but there are probably still hundreds a day from them.

It looks like only a tiny fraction of the posts generate an alert. The alerts come infrequently enough that those who receive them should easily have time to go look at them in context, which should let them quickly dismiss almost all false positives.

I've having trouble seeing what I should be upset about here.
> Society and culture doesn't grow organically. They are created and manufactured by the people with wealth and power.

BS. You give them way too much credit. The world is too complex and dynamic for a queen ant to "create and manufacture" the efficiency of the ant hill.
I dream of the tax code itself being written as a function that computes your taxes:

def compute_taxes(**kwargs):
# blah blah
return how_much_you_owe
> I feel like HN comments are often sanctimonious to the point of ignorance. A solo dev, scrambling to get his project to the point where there is even the tiniest chance it will succeed, is likely to have a complex network of hardcoded filepaths, hostnames, and other magic numbers, strings, and config files that would make it very difficult to make portable without significant time and effort.

No, no, no. That's the "well, it's never happen before so why should I have planned for it?" attitude. If you are in a solo business it is the _most_ important time to pull out your SWOT chart be honest about threats and weaknesses. A solo company is literally the worse time to not consider weaknesses as you have the least amount of assets to cover calamity. His primary concern right now is to be able to reproduce his work on AWS or Azure. Period.
First, God is not a thing, so let's rephrase that as God is logically and metaphysically necessary.

Consider a person poking a stone around with a staff. The stone moves only insofar as the staff moves it and the staff moves only insofar as the person moves the staff. Thus, the stone moves only insofar as the person moves it. Analogously, the existence of things, here and now and at any moment, must have a cause that is causing it to be here and now or at any moment. The cause of the existence of something here and now must be other than the thing itself because a thing cannot account for its own existence. If a thing could account for its own existence, then it would need to be identical with existence. But if a thing were identical with existence, then only it could exist and nothing but it. Furthermore, no change would be possible because if a thing is its own existence, then any change could only lead from existence to something that isn't existence, i.e., non-existence. So existence precedes things and things exist here and now because it is, like the person pushing the staff, causing them to be.

We call this cause of existence God and if anything exists it necessary follows that there is a foundational cause and that is God.
Weirdly I found their GAE channel unfriendly and unhelpful when google took my startup offline as part of non sensical upgrade process
As a brown person who has spent plenty of time in more rural places in America—you’d be pleasantly surprised.
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell had an excellent research report as video summarizing loneliness, published earlier this year [0] with sources linking to the facts in the video [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Xv_g3g-mA

[1]: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesloneliness/startseite
Hah, I remember playing this game on the primary school computers but didn't know what it was called. Might I suggest adding a section to the readme explaining how to install/compile this?
SEEKING WORK

Location: SF

Remote: Maybe

Relocate: Sure

Tech: 10/10 on the generalist scale, full stack, ML, NLP, DLT, hardware, R, Flink, C++

Edu: Reedie, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science

Edge: Translating between biz/design/product and hackers; empathic egalitarian intellectual

Preference: Creative/edu/science missions + offbeat projects + something different.

Nope: Anything eyeballs/funnels/conversions, treating users like cattle. Except in DLT.

Lineage: Son of a Sun+SGI+LLNL engineer so I grew up reading and re-reading Christopher Alexander, Donald Norman, Douglas Hofstadter, and doing weird LISP things. Years at a Zen monastery. Since CogSci+PhilSci curriculum is about abstracting the gory detail of how people think and collaborate, I have some X-ray vision normally absent from tech teams.

Email: ycomb@pm.me
But those people certainly do not fit the mold:
> Gamers are the craziest of early adopters and tech enthusiasts.

Those are the herds we all profit from. Not whales but cows. Why would I want to be on the bleeding edge and get a shit experience?
The Sono Sion gets 34 kilometres (21 miles) per day from solar charging.
Master of the Game (1998)
I feel like I'm missing something in regards to how this will work. I've already got a Chromecast Ultra and I already have PS4 controllers. I will be satisfied with 1080p gaming quality. Can I try this out for free or do I have to purchase a title? Do I need a laptop/phone that is casting to my TV? Can I use my PS4 controller? If so, what would it be connecting to - my laptop/phone?
Turing Institute
All it takes is an IRC app.
E. O. Wilson Still Thrives on Being a Scientific Provocateur
It works well as a Plex client. I'm guessing it would have no issues with emulators
Yes, though I can't deny it's dying. If I had my way everyone would be on IRC, but if everyone is on discord, then I guess I'll follow them.
Every day. I'm in a channel with some former workmates who I haven't seen in person since 2007. IRC is how we keep in touch.
Brazil?
Hopefully we'll see some more research on this as time goes on. I strongly suspect that there is a tradeoff between traction and microparticle production. Very grippy racing tires tend not to last long.

If you could have some sort of traction assist device like a rubber block on a piston that hit the ground for emergency braking, you could get away with lower traction on the wheels normally, and modern electronic controls could make the whole thing stable and relatively transparent to the driver.

First we'll have to overcome the slow motion catastrophe that is gasoline direct injection.
On the contrary, I'm not judging Haskell and Haskell is one of the most Perlis languages to me.

I'm judging Java and C# etc (statically typed but not flexible) are Anti-Perlis because it draws too many imagination boundaries to their users.
YouTube is profitable and brought an estimated 15 billion in revenue for Google last year.

Through ad revenue?

The entire point of the comment you’re replying to is that Google doesn’t have a good track record of letting products that don’t make them money live.

Not exactly. I thought the point of YouTube was to control media to control ad revenue. If Google is now directly makes ad revenue off of YouTube, that doesn't contradict my position. It means they're more successful and farther along than I was aware of.
I feel like there's gotta be a way to re-create the irc/slack interface with the right sort of scraper setup.
Product and website look great. Thanks for sharing. Though, can I point out a small discrepancy on your landing page? You claim over 24,000 engineers use the product, then in the same section you claim over 300,000. It makes me scratch my head and honestly I think you lose a bit of credibility. And on the pricing page you claim 10,000. Which is it?
As far as I know all ion-exchange (chemical) batteries have a positive temperature coefficient of performance. Lead-acid, NiMH, Alkaline, Lithium-ion, Vanadium flow, etc.
Turmite
I found HN during Lent this year. I’m not religious, but had been toying with the idea of leaving R quite for some time. Your 5 words express my exact sentiment, and exactly why I find HN so refreshing.
Probably because it seems to be in the SLA that the customer must notify Google? https://cloud.google.com/storage/sla

> "[Customer Must Request Financial Credit] In order to receive any of the Financial Credits described above, Customer must notify Google technical support within thirty days from the time Customer becomes eligible to receive a Financial Credit. Failure to comply with this requirement will forfeit Customer’s right to receive a Financial Credit."
Software on Librem 5 and PinePhone Linux Phones Is Progressing Nicely
One reason could be that early soviet space probes had big issues with durability, generally caused by their unreliable pressurized & gas cooled (generally pure nitrogen at atmospheric pressure) electronics - US generally used much more reliable vacuum rated electronics).

For this the signifficantly shorter flight time to Venus is a big advantage, not to mention that a lander wont survive for long anyway, further reducing issues with probe longevity.
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.
> Google Cloud instances in us-west1, and all European regions and Asian regions, did not experience regional network congestion.

Does not appear to be true. Tests I was running on cloud functions in europe-west2 saw impact to europe-west2 GCS buckets.

https://medium.com/lightstephq/googles-june-2nd-outage-their...
People have said exactly the same thing about:

1) software as a service

2) streaming music

3) streaming video

4) digital games

There just isn't enough people caring about physically owning something these days.
One of the main challenges I encounter while using CSS Grid is of the nature of responsive design. I do not know if this problem is due to an immature understanding of CSS Grid, or more of a general setback for all parties involved.

As you try to adapt your website to smaller and smaller screens, font sizes become a problem, regardless of the units you put in use.

The reason why is that as the grid items' dimensions change, text that it occupies overflow, or for that matter, leaves a noticeable space which has to be repaired.

In the light of that, I resort to certain techniques such as to increase the font size when the text of the grid item fails to occupy semi-subjective required space for it to be not considered 'awkward', as the unused space is pushing down the next content even further than one would prefer.

This concludes with an unnatural amount of media queries, created, at certain breakpoints, especially for font sizes.

I am open to any feedback on this.
The algorithm which validates would need to be resistant to attacks, e.g., positioning of these pixels.

There are techniques for steganography, which may apply here, I wonder. Like adding a digital fingerprint in someway directly into the media itself.
Where's your DNS?

And good work on the credit cards -- too many people forget that point of failure.
Pointers in SPARK/Ada inspired by Rust ownership model
Note: Original title is "Using Pointers in SPARK", which completely buries the lede. The article is specifically about Rust.
My mother received a similar call, telling her that I'd had an accident.

If you're thinking such an evil persons should be in jail, don't worry, they are! It's them who are in South American prisons using burners or stolen phones.
Stadia strikes me as an end-run around the competition of Twitch game streaming. One way to beat the competition is to reduce the friction around your own offering. The big draw of Stadia is the reduced friction between streaming and gaming.
I’m a hobbyist at best, so the subscription is not justified or useful for me (plus I just don’t like subscriptions). I wish you guys had some intermediate product that allowed a one-time contribution through the App Store. Anyway, thanks for such a great app!
How to get rich. What a lame life goal, and a terrible starting point for anyone trying to do good in the world.
Reasonable, but then why launch Inbox in the first place? The best email client possible is not going to displace Gmail on a billions of users scale.

It makes a lot more sense from a corporate gamesmanship perspective. I think the incentives of the typical Google employee (widely believed to heavily value launching new stuff) are not in sync with the company or its users.
JP Morgan and Goldman were completely solvent during the entire financial crisis, they were forced to take bailout money by the government (to disguise which banks were actually insolvent).

Where do all these nonsense memes about the 2008 crash come from?
I've been using The Lounge for a while now. It's honestly great. Being able to access it over VPN while on mobile is a nice bonus.
The UI on linux is ... absymal to set up. But once you do, it's pretty straightforward, not much different than downloading OFX and importing though.
Article is about Israeli cyber defense contractors, like USA's Palantir, Blackwater/Xe, and Booz Allen.

Similar recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19904581
Live feed of NASA's next rover, Mars 2020, being built at JPL
> Most managed Kubernetes systems cannot even provision in that time frame.

when was the last time you used k8s?!
I mean as of now there is even the expirmental k3os which boots a fully fledged k8s in seconds. you can even built a cluster with it. sadly HA backplane is still not available since k3s is still early in its development.
Microsoft refunded after their latest outage in South Central. Google might announce a refund later, though I did read on here that some of their outage was not covered by their SLA.
God forbid media outlets are forced to rely on reputation.
Generally, if someone was in a guest jail/container, there was no way of them being able to either (a) get to another guest jail/container or (b) getting to the parent context.

That was true at one point in time (i.e., no known breakouts). I don't know if that is still true, and if it is not, when that breakout CVE was published.
> You have no proof that it's simply nothingness when you die

Do you mean to imply that you have proof to the contrary? Why is there any reason to assume anything else?
They write the need for the customer to request it into the SLA, probably on the theory that a lot of customers won’t, which saves them money.
I thought slack WAS IRC.

EDIT: no, all proprietary

"While no longer using an IRC backend, Slack offers many IRC-like features"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)
How much do you need to save for a rainy day?

I've heard that line from people raking in several hundred thousand a year, while they still callously heap ads on their audiences.

If you have no target, neither for your site nor for your personal ambition, it seems like the veneer of "I tried to avoid them but couldn't" is really quite thin.
Self fund through your job...?
There's no need to read aggression in my comment or to reply like that.

I mirrored the framing of your comment. If it feels ugly to you for me to reply in that manner, maybe think about that. Because that's the crux of my point.

There are good ways to promote body positivity. Making comments that look like a personal attack on someone else for simply being happy about their current choices isn't really one of them.
Good point.

What I meant is use an open protocol to which simple applications (or whatever you prefer to use) can be plugged.

Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

I'm also annoyed that popular open source projects like Kubernetes moved to Slack because it's "discriminatory" to use IRC apparently.
Hopefully you're using a redshift/flux type app when you read HN immediately before bed, otherwise the blue light from the screen will prevent your body from secreting melatonin, compounding any other issues you might be dealing with.
In the video Shellenberger says that he's not against a carbon tax, but that it's too unpopular and therefore not realistic.

Weird that he doesn't realize that the same applies to nuclear. Probably even more so.
Once again, there are degrees. When addressing an open audience there is an expectation to be heard by other human beings in a social context; but neither is this an invitation to have one's thoughts algorithmically scraped and profiled and flagged for assessment by a bureaucrat somewhere. Please try to consider this in relation to the goals of natural interpersonal communication, and not under the assumption that everything legal is proper.
If you think you don't like Slack, just wait until your company forces you to use Microsoft Teams ... Slack is really focused, performant, and an absolute joy to use in comparison.
You seem to know more than you are admitting via your responses here. Perhaps you can share your thoughts, rather than provide responses which defeat the discussion?
I'd like to point out that this is a radically right-wing source, published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Which is why they keep talking about traditional families as if they were the only thing standing between us and the collapse of civilization.
Birth is always traumatic.