skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linode is great for cheap VPS. Most people here use DigitalOcean, but I did the comparison and liked Linode. Management console is pretty good (though I haven't tried their new one). The one serious benefit over DO is faster transfer (40gbps down/1 up). Not huge, but that's why I picked it.

I like the look of vultr, and have considered it, but their plans are functionally identical these days and I probably won't bother switching.
And, if a comment is downvoted just a few times, it effectively hides that comment, right? There is not much of a threshold to control a conversation with a few robot accounts, right?
Because GitLab inc is an american company or because of other reasons?
That's a really neat idea which I'm fond of, and it would certainly help with things like exploring other planets!

Sadly, I've looked into it extensively, and the costs are way too high in comparison with outdoor farming. There are a few niche scenarios where you can get it to work, but they have to be priced at the high end. Things would need to get horrifically bad with the climate before the equation would change much. Indoor farming also couldn't be done at nearly the same volume, and expanding capacity would be very slow.

I'm optimistic that in the long run, we'll find sources of nourishment which can be grown quickly in compact, easily managed closed-loop environments with minimal inputs... however, after the disillusionment of trying to find progress toward this end the real world, all I can say is we need a LOT more people working on it.
Federal Info Security: Agencies and OMB Need to Strengthen Policies, Practices [pdf]
wait a minute, you mean to tell me that governments spy on each other? holy shit, stop the fucking presses! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srK5-95VcaQ
There are already countless resources that do this effectively. Overall I am not an Andrew Ng fan, but his lecture on neural network basics from deeplearning.ai gets the job done. I'm sure there are other resources that are even better.

The video linked here is a pointless exercise. The speaker exclaims that learning formulas and notations isn't needed, but then she dives into an even more confusing code exercise that doesn't explain anything about what gradients are and why we use them. A total waste of time. Just explain the math.
I think that the settings search has gotten worse in 10. "Disk management" no longer returns the relevant MMC, for example, I have to search "disk partitions". Last night, "add or remove" defaulted to a web search, so I searched "programs" and "Add or Remove Programs" was the first result...I still can't figure out that one.
Desert Aircraft 'Boneyards' (2014)
Etleap Launches Snowflake Integration
Simplifying Function Tracing for the Modern GCC
100% agree.

Latest example that irritated me: "Thanks for being part of the T-Mobile family". Family, really?
I'm the same. The more I delve into the more esoteric knowledge and philosophy the more I realize the brilliance of The Matrix.
So that's why we can't ever have some deflation here in the modern US, it would reduce tax revenue! I always wondered about that. In this light it makes perfect sense.
If you're willing to learn - consider a google cloud VM.

It allows you to run a VM 24/7 for free indefinitely. Obvious not the most powerful machine but you can host a couple low activity sites on it no sweat.

>Is digitalocean right choice?

It's a good choice.
Does anyone know the Lisp macro tutorial by Allan Wechsler that is referenced on page 81?
> Forks are a unique economic situation

Companies pay stock dividends, in themselves or in a subsidiary they're spinning out to shareholders, all the time. Using a reasonable materiality threshold (which would allow for ignoring novelty forks) this isn't a challenging accounting problem.
> Japan has no sanctions against Samsung directly, they are upset that materials they export to South Korea keep showing up in North Korea, while SK denies being the cause.

This is flat out bullshit. Photoregist, hydrogen fluoride, fluorine polyimide are all together mainly used for photolithography/OLED. It is not a coincidence.

It is very obvious that Japan targeted Samsung and their primary goal is to ruin the Samsung and hynix's(SK semiconductor industry) business, ultimately to harm SK economy(semiconductor industry is significant to SK economy).
They do this because of the recent SK courts' verdict and Japan don't like to admit nor apologize horrendous war crimes they committed in WW2.

Just repeating Japan's specious pretexts(that to avoid potential WTO issues and get plausible deniability) that they are doing this because of NK is disingenuous.
So when talking about 'fed interest rates', what is meant is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate ?
This is an interesting claim but after reading the article I feel like I came out having learned nothing more than I did from reading the headline.

What genes were involved? What was the methadology? What is the correlation rate between these genes and the mental disorders. Given that things like autism and depression are so different, what is the physiological impact of having these genes - ie do they regulate a certain hormone, the strucutre of certain neurons?
I don't mind less power in exchange for not having to give up so much of my information to merchants. As someone who's sold things before I also like that bitcoin presents a tradeoff on prevalence of buyer fraud vs. seller fraud, and that if I want more power as a consumer I can opt-in to various escrow or risk-absorbing systems rather than rely on buyer-side-bias in charge disputes as a poor man's escrow. It's not optimal to use the base network for every time of transaction, sure, but that's not true of any payment system.

I don't understand your grandma rhetoric. Not that scammers aren't already in heaven (especially targeting seniors) but I guess I'd be interested if you have any peer reviewed papers studying the means scammers use and how much cryptocurrency is part of the modern scammer's toolkit. (My understand was that wire transfers through western digital were the most common means of extracting payment.)
Interesting. I was in the Paradise Camp Fire, and tens of thousands of trees have since been cutdown. Most of the trees (pines) survived because they evolved with fire, but I doubt any are still alive because they're rarely allowed to grow next to other trees in urban-rural interface areas. Maybe some would survive, which might be cool in some situations.
Ok, so this is a dense comment, so I'm going to try again.

AFAICT, your nested quotations contained a quote (by you!), which said "it contains a ton of research into how these missions could work and may actually [...]"

Ok, so a "ton of research". By whom? An author... of sci-fi?

Look, I'm not per se against imagination or exploration, but I am very much for realism.
Note that a downvoting robot on HN has to have a 500+ karma (or whatever is the minimum now), like everyone else. You can't just create a throwaway account, connect it to a robot, and start downvoting away.

That doesn't ensure robots can't happen, but it it puts quite a damper on any rampancy.
Something not mentioned in the article: more shielding isn't always better when it comes to high energy cosmic rays. A single cosmic may pass straight through a person without interacting at all, but if you add shielding, that particle can create a shower of less energetic particles which can be ultimately more harmful.
I had heard that there are concerns about children using VR and how it could affect their development. The Oculus Health and Safety Guide says:

> This product should not be used by children under the age of 13. Adults should monitor children (age 13 and older) who are using or have used the Headset for any of the symptoms described below, and should limit the time children spend using the Headset and ensure they take breaks during use. Prolonged use should be avoided, as this could negatively impact hand-eye coordination, balance, and multi-tasking ability. Adults should monitor children closely during and after use of the headset for any decrease in these abilities.

https://scontent.oculuscdn.com/v/t64.5771-25/12331258_477090...
Be careful generalizing the audio results to pixels. The central lesson of xiph's work is that people simply cannot hear frequencies above, let's say 20kHz. Therefore, as long as your sampling rate is above the Nyquist limit (and under the assumption the signal chain is linear), any reconstruction filter that passes frequencies through 20kHz is effectively "perfect."

There are two ways this is not true for pixels. First, even for "retina" displays the human visual system can make out spatial frequencies beyond the Nyquist limit of the display (this will vary by viewing distance, so is more of an issue for young people who can get close to their displays). Second, even assuming perfect gamma, the display must clip at black and white because of physical device limitations. Thus, especially for text rendering, only a reconstruction filter with nonnegative support is generally useful. Such a reconstruction filter would be an extremely poor choice for audio.

It is true that many of the underlying signal processing principles are the same, and I encourage people to learn and understand those :)
So who'll volunteer as tribute? Someone must be able/want to?
Yes and I can appreciate that. But I don't think I've seen that kind of warning on something with a screen in over a decade.

It does look like they sell replacement screens directly on their site, but that looks like it's for the 'regular' 14" model. Not sure on their compatibility with the 14" 'pro'
>lowendbox.com

Love it, but not sure that's a wise suggestion for someone clearly new to it all.
You could provide it as an OpenType variant (so buyers don't really even need to think about it at all unless they really want it, at which point they already have it).
> Ok, so a "ton of research". By whom? An author... of sci-fi?

Yes.
Speaking as a German.

Filing tax forms is almost always a good idea for salaried workers because of the plethora of expenses that can be deducted from your taxable income:

- handyman bills

- expenses for the commute to work

- donations to political parties and registered charities (I save 400€ in taxes on that item alone because of regular donations to my hackerspace)

- some types of insurance premiums

- etc.
A pixel is basically a little square dude, come on.
I believe prior to 2018 this was not the case with crypto.
You're not remembering incorrectly. If you compare old job reports to more recent ones, they now talk a lot more about the "labor force participation rate". Basically, the unemployment rate is distorted by the character of the job loss in the Great Recession so you can't really decide on a full recovery from looking at that one number.
What if you get paid in meat, $100k worth of meat, but then you spoil all of them so they're now worth $0. It's not government's problem if your currency is volatile. You can find a job that doesn't pay you in BTC.
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2018 too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17415270
Well, I'm 46 (male) and haven't seen the aging effect on my libido yet.
> A Pixel Is Not a Little Square! Microsoft Tech Memo 6

is this the reason why they forced this horrible bilinear filter on the windows image viewer for so long (guess they still do) ? It made me crazy, it's so ugly
Well, no... you can also use a holographic projector if you have one.
The height of the Zip disk's popularity was in the mid-'90s, when CD burners were still way too expensive for the consumer market.

To the best of my knowledge, Iomega's big mistakes were skimping on quality control, which led to the infamous "click of death" scandal that killed the Zip disk's reputation; and trying to build on the early success of Zip by rolling out multiple new products in a rush like the Jaz and Clik drives, none of which were the slightest bit compatible with any of the others (including Zip).

It probably didn't help matters that Iomega also became an early case study in how the entry of individual investors in the market could have disorienting effects, as Iomega stock became extremely hot in online communities focused on the then-quite-new individual-investor market, particularly The Motley Fool (see https://www.deseretnews.com/article/491232/FOOLS-RUSH-IN-SEN...). The Fool's founders tapped Iomega as one of their highly recommended "Rule Breakers," and there were people on the Motley Fool message boards who were so convinced that Iomega was The Next Big Thing that they called themselves "Iomegans" (!), preaching the Gospel of Iomega with quasi-religious fervor. All that hype drove the price of Iomega stock to dizzying, unsustainable heights.

All of which makes me wonder in retrospect how connected the bad management decisions and the stock pumping were; it's not hard to imagine managers, confronted by staff with big internal problems, pointing at the stock and saying "if we're doing so badly, why does it keep going up?"

(The Fools sort of apologized for their role in all that in a book they published in 2000, after the Iomega bubble had popped; see https://books.google.com/books?id=3TDjULa4nO4C&lpg=PA148&ots.... But it couldn't have comforted their readers much to learn in that same passage that they had cashed out half their position in Iomega in 1997, earning a 650 percent return.)
If you read their academic paper linked at the bottom, they actually undermine their entire system in a laughably silly way:

> For each user, a pair of private-public keys were provided (https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/windows/desktop/aa3...). These are asymmetric cryptographic data that enable authentication on Blockchain. These were randomly attached in one-to-one correspondence to the user’s emails. We focused on Blockchain’s usage in the time-stamping and archiving logic. We did not let users create or use their own Blockchain authentication setup (i.e., if a user owned a Bitcoin account, the key and Bitcoin address were not allowed to be used). This restriction was related not to the Blockchain complexity but rather to maintain a simple and common email-focused authentication process. Other ways for authentication include the physical devices USB keys or cell phone fingerprints, but this would have been outside the focus of our protocol-related problematics.

So basically, we didn't want users to have to bother with this whole private key thing, so we'll hold on to those private keys for them. In other words, they have full control of whats written on the blockchain and users just trust them - which is the exact thing blockchains are trying to get rid of.

https://f1000research.com/articles/6-66/v5?source=post_page-...
Maybe it's only made toxic by those who need to shout to negotiate a raise.
Two related stories. At one point way back in the day, eBay wanted to change the background color of the main page from yellow to white. They didn't just make the change one day, instead they slowly changed the hex code every couple of days so the change was gradual. When it was complete, some people would say stuff like, "Hey, didn't the background used to be yellow, when did that change?".

When I worked at reddit I told this story, and we ended up using the same technique to move from a two line display to a three line display. Each day we slight changed the spacing to make it larger, until we had enough room for the three lines, and then we switched to three lines. Some people even responded to people's complaints by saying, "but it doesn't take up any more space than the old two line display!". Of course this was reddit, and at the time the code was totally open source, so someone found the daily checkins to change the spacing and outed us, forcing us to put the "compress the link display" checkbox into the preferences, which is still there to this day.
The aggregator sites are certainly spammy and take time to get used to. I primarily linked them as a list of VPS providers, prices, etc.. One can always go directly to the VPS main site.
In Canada, capital gains are taxed at 50% of ordinary income, unlike the US where short term capital gains are taxed as if they were 100% ordinary income.
> How practical is bitcoin as a currency for day to day use. I thought the transaction time was 10 to 30 minutes. I get frustrated at the checkout counter when my credit card takes longer than 10 seconds.

Its not very practical but this is mostly related to the merchant software and not the underlying technology any longer.

A) Merchants do not have to wait for a transaction to "go through", just like many credit card accepting merchants don't actually connect to the network when they swipe your card. They broadcast the transaction to the payment processor later. The same is possible with bitcoin, resulting in instant transactions for the user experience. It is an option with compromises, just like accepting credit cards is an option with compromises.

B) Consumers can broadcast the transaction to the merchant at the point of sale, but merchants do not have to wait for it to be added to the blockchain. This also results in near instantaneous transactions. It is an option, with compromises, just like accepting credit cards is an option with compromises.

C) Consumers can transmit a signed transaction to the merchant, without needing internet connectivity (nfc, qr codes, sound, bluetooth can work). Merchants can be the internet connected ones and check a balance. This would also be an instanteous user experience.

D) Consumers can transmit unsigned transactions to the merchant without needing internet connectivity, this is the same as C) but also allows for paper notes like national currency with denominations, without exposing the private key of the consumer's treasury.

so there is a lot to build.
I would say that the common feature of a systems language is that it is explicitly designed to enable direct control of hardware resources and -- very importantly -- operation scheduling by the programmer. A point I think is often overlooked is that some software architectures cannot be implemented correctly without this level of control, and for some applications those architectures are the only competent choice. Using a systems language should be driven by the requirements of application with respect to software architecture, and most applications don't have that requirement.

Some applications that are above the OS and device drivers, such as database engines, are clearly in the domain of systems applications because it is not possible to create a competent implementation without the control a systems language provides. Even for relatively abstract high-level software like distributed systems, strict control of scheduling is required for consistently robust throughput and behavior. Some key algorithms only work in real systems if resource management and concurrent operation sequencing is inexpensively deterministic. For some other applications, the only real benefit of a systems language would be for performance engineering purposes, which may not be a practical priority.

The "managed language" litmus test is quite good in my opinion, and almost definitional.
Exactly. It falls in line with similar to "don't talk to the police". Just keep quiet. This applies to everything when dealing with any government agency. The government is not your friend.
I actually... don't mind it. $15 is a bit much for me to pop on something I'm likely to spend some time giggling at (or maybe pranking some colleagues with... hmmm), but it really does look like the best of both worlds between comic sans and a monospace terminal font. Whatever that is. Anyways, well done!
From a tax perspective it isn’t muddy though, the IRS opinion is the only one you need to understand. It may change over time, but that doesn’t affect your tax liability today.
Last I looked Sprint was much more leveraged than AT&T was however.
Doesnt seem to make much sense for defense unless you're defending against a small group of attackers since you cant fit many defending forces on the Crannog.

If it was protection from raiders or animals using those stones to build a wall would make more practical sense. Im guessing they were probably done for a religoius or spiritual purpose
Alarmist crapaganda that ignores factual data about the medieval warm period in a 1984-quality revisioning of history.
All Stackdriver logs for the load balancer have the following for each request as the status details: failed_to_connect_to_backend

We've tried the following with no luck:
- Restarted GCE instances in backend service
- Recreated the backend service
- Recreated the HTTPS load balancer
- Switched the balancing mode of the backend service to rate instead of utilization since monitoring was stating the backend service CPU utilization was 500% (another red flag)

We are, however, able to directly connect to the GCE instances within the backend service via external IP.

Have not heard much back from Google support.
The Fed doesn't have a target interest rate, they have a target inflation rate -- and the current policy has not been causing inflation -- so by all measures they've been successful at doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing: helping the economy grow without creating high inflation.

I notice that goldbugs in particular get very upset about low interest rates -- as if there is something "natural" or "normal" about 7% vs 3%. But there is no magical number -- if you can create wealth without inflation, you should obviously continue to create wealth.

Also, the government doesn't owe you a risk-free return of 7%. In theory, the risk-free return should be equal to the rate of inflation -- nothing ventured nothing gained.
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> Here's one situation where it is very different.

Good god, no it is not different.

When the internet bubble collapsed in 2000, it literally bankrupted some people who had been compensated with stock options because of taxes. Exercising the options not only had resulted in greater income, but it caused AMT to kick in.

Moreover, some of the exercised options yielded stock that was still in lock-up due to IPO agreements. (People were anxious to start the long-term capital gains clock.) Shares plummeted even before they could be sold to pay off the taxes due.

The moral of the story is: Make sure to set aside money (liquid, USD) for taxes if you get hit with a sudden windfall. (edit addition, JumpCrisscross comment below has it right.)

Here's a couple of links to that history:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-tech-taxes-story.html

https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/11/10/rescue-bill-offers-re...
Except that revenue stream ends before the "fix bugs and improve performance" step. People buy based on screenshots/demos/trials/reviews, and those don't expose the deep bugs you run into 3 months later when doing real work.

Shovels break, light bulbs burn out. Then you go buy another one, and there's a good chance it's better than the earlier one. The manufacturer keeps working to improve the quality, and people keep paying them for this. "Buy a software license once for all time" is not analogous to this.
You do have both as OpenType variants, it's just that text editors generally don't support that.
I should note that it seemed to help very quickly. I could feel the stress stimulus, but then it was blocked. Eventually my stress stimulus reactions adjusted, within 2-3 weeks.

If it doesn’t feel right from the early days, it may not be the thing to solve your problem.
Pre-scale just overprovision and pay $ to Bezos instead of $$ your precious engineers. 96% you won't "ramp up" anyhow.