skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20526039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20493699
The cheapest VPS on Vultr doesn't provided IPv6. Does it mean people from IPv4 wont be able to access website hosted on that VPS? Is there a way around this issue?
why do people insist on mentioning the bias terms in expository essays? it's a detail that clutters the equations. why not keep the transformations linear and then at the end make a note that you also need to shift using a bias term.
My take on what makes the modern IoT different from just attaching networking to devices, is the mandatory cloud backend replacing in-house IT infrastructure. That's what's letting networked devices enter the mainstream consumer market.
I think DigitalOcean offers it as well.
While the machine is old relatively it is quite happy running discord, vscode and a web browser and I use it in my office as my main dev machine. I don't want to have to go through the hassle of running two operating systems or compiling a custom kernel.

Well we will see what happens I suppose.
This is a bit naive. Software and especially apps these days are more a stream of updates (like Netflix) than a v1.0 you buy once. Updates are expected from users (and app stores).

Example: A customer bought your app on iOS 9. It worked perfectly fine. You wrote it once, because you couldn’t expect more revenue from existing customers. It stopped working on iOS 11, because 32-bit support was ended on Apple’s side.

Of course, it’s not Apple who gets the blame, it’s you, because your app doesn’t work anymore. But it is supposed to work, because your customer paid good money for it ($4.99).

Back in the day, sure, if you bought a software that worked on MS-DOS only, it’s your fault when you got Windows and it didn’t run your software. No expectations, no hard feelings. But iOS is iOS. It’s the thing running average Joe’s smartphones. Software bought for iOS should work on iOS. Forever.

Your examples all describe products with an expected expiration date. Software used to have expiration dates. But not anymore. The expectation changed.
For time-based server start/stop, we use https://www.parkmycloud.com/ .

I'm looking forward to checking out Hakuna Cloud - looks like the two services are pretty complimentary.
The vast majority of people live in, and the vast majority of economic activity takes place in, major urban areas. So yeah, housing inflation is very relevant.
Hmmm... they also use pretty much the same logo as the company I currently work for (https://www.enterpay.fi/in-english/, the english website is not very pretty, but you can see the logo there). We have a trademark in EU and I once sent an email notifying them about this potential conflict, but never got any reply. Not that it really matters, but this company really fails to make a good impression.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
The best way to ask about that kind of thing is to email hn@ycombinator.com (the Contact link at the bottom of the page here).
I think Like-Kind is the term. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC any crypto-for-crypto was a Like-Kind exchange prior to Jan 1, 2018.
True, but as soon as you get a job involving any legacy HTML, you'll have to wrestle with them.
Some currencies require less faith than others. Like when a large organization with an enormous infrastructure insists on paying in that currency and demands payments in that currency. And when that large organization is in control of the land you live on -- including depending on that organization to defend that land in case of invasion.

There's a whole lot more behind those currencies than with Canadian Tire Money or Flooz. When you live in the place you're committed in a way that you just aren't with any other currency. Losing faith in that currency is bad for you in a way that goes far, far beyond the exchange value of a token.
AWS and GCP have free tier options that you can benefit from. Having either as part of your skillset is good for a career in technology, so bonus points there.
If the dollars depreciated then you wouldn't owe taxes on them and it wouldn't be a good metaphor.
I realize this comment seems a bit forward. I meant to reply to another comment about a reduction in libido.
> Some people just aren’t motivated.

Is it really that people aren't motivated or that they aren't motivated by the incentives you're offering?

> A surprise pay raise, catering lunches, taking them to an offsite, etc whatever motivational strategies you have may provide some short term result

I imagine what might be more effective is actually talking to them and figuring out what they actually care about.
Oh apologies I mean ANSI then. The caption on the picture in the above article says "ANSI and ISO Keyboard Variants" which I assumed was left ANSI/right ISO, but it's reversed I guess.

https://www.pine64.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PInebookPr...
Eventually, it becomes muscle memory. At least for me, I start memorizing pieces from high-level to bottom, but eventually once I played it from memory too many times, I struggle to remember or recall high-level concepts and phrases and other things about the piece. But once I sit down and put my hands on the keyboard, it all comes back as I play through muscle memory.
Okay, but what happens when it gets below 0% with QE5?

Thats when Bitcoin hits 6 figures, or thats what the libertarian in me has been saying for a decade.
why wouldn't you be able to rise on the "parallel track" ?
There has always been a certain breed of authoritarian in the US for whom freedom of speech is nothing more than an inconvenient law they might have to respect under some circumstances, but we wrote a legal guarantee of freedom of speech into the European Convention in Human Rights, the US Constitution, the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Baron Humboldt's principles of academic freedom in darkest Prussia, England's Bill of Rights, and the less explicit but still inviolate guarantees of the Republics of Rome and Athens; and of course the reason was not simply to annoy such authoritarians—however delightful that may be. Indeed, in cases such as Humboldt's, that annoyance was a cost to be borne, if not a positive menace.

Rather, it is because there is no sort of tyranny or abuse that is not aided by lies, and indeed usually dependent on them. And, although free speech permits the diffusion of lies just as it permits the diffusion of truth, the liar fears the freedom of the truth-teller far more than the truth-teller fears that of the liar; because the truth can be proved, while the lie cannot. This is why censorship in the USSR was so pervasive and costly: it had to be profound to sustain the profound tyranny of the Soviet system.

As Gorgias points out, a man who can persuade you to believe lies can enslave you and turn you against your closest allies. So freedom of speech, the freedom to demonstrate the falsity of a lie however powerful and popular the liar, is the freedom that underlies the effective enjoyment of any other possible freedom. We must be vigilant against whatever stands in the way of our freedom to be informed, whether the US, Microsoft, Putin, or merely popular opinion.

And if what stands in our way purports to be a law, that law is an immoral, illegitimate law, a law in name only, a law serving not the ends of honest citizens but if tyrants—the end of destroying justice and Law itself. Such a “law” must be utterly destroyed.
I should have clarified that I meant lines with subpixel phase and possibly widths that are not integral numbers of pixels, ie the antialiased case.

Also I totally agree that we need to take into account the perceptual differences between black-on-white and white-on-black even assuming the display technology is perfect. That's one reason doing these studies is not trivial!
That's because they couldn't think how worse it would be
I have my caps-lock key mapped to esc and that solves that issue- a bigger issue for me is not having volume keys available all the time.
Hah. Yes, we felt the same. We would make every effort to make change painless, and people would complain violently. It didn't help that our website was the perfect platform for complaining about change to your favorite website.

But at the end of the day we knew it was usually just a vocal minority, and when that wasn't the case, we would roll the changes back or make further changes to address feedback.

Over time we learned it was better to release new stuff as beta and let people self select if they want to use it (hence the continued existence of old.reddit.com).
Another benefit of beauraucracy, which I think is understated, is that it might be our best antidote to corruption.

When you have a networked system of approvals and records, and people whose livelihood depends on them maintaining those records in good order, it can become more risky and expensive to buy favours and break the rules than to follow them.

But you need both a good beauraucracy, and a culture of civil servants that value honesty and good order and following-the-rules. A good beauraucracy can reinforce those cultural values, and vice-versa. But just one half is not enough.
For me, going to a hotel an hour a way for one night has unexpectedly resulted in a lot of relaxation. The first such trip was not meant to be so relaxing but adding the hotel stay and having dinner at a fancy restaurant really broke us out of our routine.
This is the risk of dealing with crypto, it is not different and the same as anything else. Volatility doesn't change the taxation premise.
I generally agree, but: how early in one's life must hair loss occur for it be considered "premature" balding? More importantly, why can't we accept that a man at any age may suffer from anxiety, depression, and/or loss of confidence due to androgenic alopecia?

Also, I think people forget that science is not self-contained: advances in hair loss reversal could lead to discoveries in unrelated fields. Now that we're experimenting with stem cells and the like, the mind reels at the possibilities.
Have to be careful, though. Too much empathy and you'll quit your job.
> Am I the only one wondering if this person is confusing cause and effect?

No you are not. I work in this field and confusions of cause and effect are a daily occurrence. It is as dumfoundedd said, the reality is that aging is a complex causal network. I think everyone knows that but can't resist the temptation to pretend like the one edge they are working on in the network is the end-all.

It can get very ridiculous. At this year's aging meeting someone was actually proposing DNN predictions of age based on people's faces as a gold standard for biomarkers of aging. That is, they were suggesting people's faces were a better indicator of their internal biological state of aging than both their actual age and any internal biological marker.

Metagenomics is another one, although more debatable. I personally find it much more plausible that changes in the aging gut cause changes in the microbiome than the reverse (in general).

Horvath's epigenetic clock is another one, he presented a elastic net model that could predict age based on DNA methylation using a few hundred loci. For several years and even now, way too many investigators thought those loci were actually causal in aging because they don't understand how statistics work.

It annoys me. I have long considered writing a review to remind people what causality means. It is far too common for people to observe correlations and just straight to predicting causality without any additional evidence besides the correlation.

The interesting finding of this paper is that inhibition of nucleotide synthesis can induce senescence. But the (simplistic) definition of senescence is inability to replicate. You can't replicate without nucleotides, but this doesn't at all mean that the ordinary cause of senescence is lack of nucleotides. The common understanding is that it is G1 or G2 arrest due to DNA damage of one sort or another. Furthermore, the observation that senescent cells don't produce many nucleotides is kind of a duh. It is useful and important that they quantified it, but still it is hardly surprising.

But there is still hope. I just saw my chair in the hall, told him about this paper, and asked his opinion of the idea that "fixing nucleotide synthesis may help reduce cell senescence or help cells age more slowly". His response was to laugh, pat me on the shoulder, and walk away, if that says anything.
The country I don't understand how they do it is Bangladesh. A country the size of New York State with 164 million people. (50% of the US population). As I understand it, they generate 90% of the food they require.
And all of those sales are included in the link I provided, which shows that housing has gone up 13% nationwide since the peak twelve years ago.
Is 5G going to be fully converged? I thought the mmwave stuff was converged but the "4G with some touchups" part that most people will be using the majority of the time was going to keep the legacy GSM vs. CDMA nonsense?
so, what would you do to add more type safety to C++ ?
There are still a lot of companies relying on AWS, Azure, various CDN's that could see major financial impact from a lot of their customers going under.

This has tentacles reaching everywhere, everything wasn't so reliant on each other back then.
Why is Comic Sans so reviled? Is it because it is one of the few fonts you are able to name?

It's like the mainstream view that ET is the worst game of all time. It is bad, yes, but not even close to the worst game of all time. Not even the worst mainstream game of all time.

Stop font is far worse than Comic Sans, and that garbage was showing up all the time in the 90s well into the 2000s.

https://fanart.tv/fanart/movies/5491/hdmovielogo/battlefield...
I'd personally love a recommendation for a set of basic security guidelines for static websites. Less interested in OWASP stuff and more as you said, hosting-specific issues. This would also be a lot to cover, from using static-site deployment tools like github pages or netlify, to throwing it up on an S3 bucket and routing using Route53, to even for whatever reason configuring a VPS with nginx or apache to serve it out of a directory.

This could further be extended to static sites that want do some authentication, covering which providers are best for that, basic security for using solutions like firebase for hosting and database, etc.
When it absolutely, positively has to be there for the product demo overnight
Lanczos interpolation seems to beat a gauss filter for me. It has some overshooting/ringing effects of course, but the improved sharpness is a great tradeoff compared to the blurriness of gauss filtering. Of course, gauss filtering might still play a residual role in analog systems, such as the one that physically displays stuff via a CRT screen.
Isn't the whole point of the story that they weren't allowed to sell when they exercised their options?
Only open source allows for this by default.
I love the TouchBar as well - it would be perfect from my perspective if they had kept the Escape key.

That is literally my only gripe with it
VA Doesn’t Know What It Costs to Run VistA
My friend is not connected to the natural gas infrastructure (too remote), so it was going to be either electric or liquefied petroleum gas with an on-site tank that was periodically refilled.

On the time frame he was considering, a heat pump was chaper, the propane was more reliable (when the electricity goes out, it's often winter), and the below ground heat-pump was so expensive to install that it made no sense. Not sure what winters are like in NL, but average low where he is would be -8C in January with anything below about -15C being unusually cold.
True, but how often do you care about the general case? Most images are representations of real objects, or symbols or diagrams designed for human comprehension. Ignoring cases that in practice are very unlikely to occur lets you optimize for the more common cases. Techniques like resizing in a sigmoidal color space (see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#resize_sigmoidal ) don't have any rigorous mathematical basis, but they're tuned subjectively to have good results in common cases.
I know people who have killed for a couple thousand dollars. It's no surprise I've met many others who will lie, cheat, and connive for more. If people think you're a weakling, they will rob you. As a normal employee, you don't have many options for defending yourself besides clear verbal argument and leaving for greener pastures.
Old is remembering when storage was audiocassettes.
There oughta be a visual/conceptual explanation textbook for Rust borrowing, traits and types because some of it is confusing and/or ambiguous.
Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
> that's why we can't ever have some deflation here in the modern US, it would reduce tax revenue

Deflation also increases the buying power of that tax revenue.

We avoid deflation because it incentivises hoarding currency over productive activity. We also know how to stop inflation--raise rates. We don't have reliable tools for fighting deflation (see: Japan).

(Also, it's not true that we've never seen deflation. Around the financial crisis, we saw negative CPI.)
I keep hearing how "inflation is low" - well the CPI is gamed, is what.

It doesn't use energy, healthcare, housing or any of the other many required things we pay for as a basis for its measure.

It is essentially disconnected from the daily costs we bear and has been for a long time.
Sure -- some parts are, but some parts aren't. It's intrinsic to the nature of working in a team or coaching a team. If you notice weak spots consistently, is it a fluke? Probably not. If you notice complaints about the ability of the team, division and org to collaborately smoothly, is that a fluke? Again, probably not. By the time you fine-tune all the weak spots properly, you have a very high functioning team. But it takes a lot of iteration.
> Where can I obtain these magical dollars whose purchasing power increases over time?

In the enchanted land of the grandparent comment. :)
This is why you shouldn't accept payment in any currency other than the one you pay your taxes with. It's effectively investing 100% of your income in a single asset.
IMO for most text-fields and markdown interfaces it's a shortcode.

:smile: :calculator: :pikachu_brandishing_ketchup:

The only big downside to shortcodes are that they're more than one character long, but there's no good way I can think of to have screenreader-accessible emoji that doesn't contain a multiple-character description anyway.

Shortcodes will get passed properly through 99.9% of existing text processors without any problems, so it's a really safe format to store things in.

I think the conversion to pictorial form should only happen at the display layer. If you're writing HTML, I advocate for using an SVG with a title attribute. Unicode emoji are already SVGs, so the only thing that changes is you don't bundle your emoji into a font.

Even native applications understand how to automatically highlight things like urls with the `https://` `http://` format, so my personal vote is we just use shortcodes the same way we use URLs.
This article cites foreigners and big techs as the source of money without much to back it up.

We know that in its institutional panic the US Fed pumped trillions of dollars into the economy in the form of QE 1-3:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

Central banks around the world have followed the US lead in a coordinated effort to pump up the volume and avoid currency appreciation against the dollar.

The Fed for its part is now done with its feeble attempts to draw down its balance sheet. The only reasonable conclusion is that more QE will be on tap at the first hint of either deflation or economic weakness.

This created the everything bubble we now face. Prices have become so distorted that it's impossible to value anything or even rationally discuss the end of the cycle.

The entire episode is without precedent and will probably end in an unprecedented way.
I agree that pioneer is super sketchy about it's exper scoring system. I think in practice it's more like peers float your app to the top of the applicant pool and then experts don't bother themselves with the ones ranked lower, so it's not as off the peers are useless. At least thats what I figured when I applied last year, and gave up when I realized that the experts were not really selecting "outsiders"
There is a lot of settled law in the history of the USA that shouldn't stand (segregation, suffrage, slavery, extreme methods of execution) no matter how reasonable the various settlements seemed to some at the time of their "settlement".

When an issue will not be settled no matter how reasonable the first party is the second party is either motivated by tyranny or just principles. The former requires force to suppress. The latter cannot be suppressed forever without destroying the goods the first party wishes to preserve.
I bought Office 2007 around the time of its release because a client didn't like whatever word processor I was using. I've used Office 2007 ever since and absolutely have no need for any feature additions. And there were no bugs that affected my use. Why would I subscribe to the current overly bloated Office? Why should I?
> the other half are mostly a combination of naive, manipulated and coerced based on false claims and social media,

Having not invested the time, just what kinds of manipulations are we talking?
"startup communities"

There's your problem. For the most part, these kinds of communities are full of wantrepreneurs, wannabes, and people who are addicted to entrpr0n, but have little or no actual ability, desire, or drive, to execute anything. They're most mental masturbation and/or meta navel-gazing nonsense.

Doing anything really meaningful in this space is really fucking hard as a result.
side note: Toyota shut down Scion in 2016
Back-ting
What do you think would happen if Microsoft had a spine? What different behaviors would you expect to see?
Obviously that is not a good enough solution for people who type a lot, or they wouldn't need keyboard cases for the iPad.
> Isn't the whole point of the story that they weren't allowed to sell when they exercised their options?

The story most applicable to cryptocurrencies is the one where the stock was publicly traded [1]. Those exercisers chose not to sell.

(With respect to ISOs for private stock, yes, it's different. Best practice is not to exercise until you have a plan for paying taxes. This could be lining up a loan or a secondary sale, or only exercising what you can pay for.)

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-tech-taxes-story.html
Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings
It's like a keyboard, except flakier and with improved accidental inputs!
Karabiner-Elements: https://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2017/07/how-map-caps-lock-es...
https://www.coindesk.com/got-free-crypto-fork-heres-tell-irs
But the paying Corp needs to declare dividends. If it’s not declared properly, it’s usually treated as highly taxed income.

Source: warning from an accountant on self-owned corporations
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From the wikipedia[0]:

>The country is notable for its soil fertility land, including the Ganges Delta, Sylhet Division and the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Agriculture is the largest sector of the economy, making up 18.6 percent of Bangladesh's GDP in November 2010 and employing about 45 percent of the workforce.[233] The agricultural sector impacts employment generation, poverty alleviation, human resources development and food security. More Bangladeshis earn their living from agriculture than from any other sector. The country is among the top producers of rice (fourth), potatoes (seventh), tropical fruits (sixth), jute (second), and farmed fish (fifth).

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh#Economy