skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that for an ISP a 1 TB of data doesn't even cost a dollar. It's unreasonable to ask even a $1 for a TB of overages.
What's builder?
> If you use more, you pay more.

A gym membership generally costs the same if you go all day everyday or not at all.
Show HN: Codeless – I show how to automate things with Lego tools
I can't for the life of me figure out how to read around other people (even in silence). Is there something wrong with me? I bet I could learn but I'm not sure how.
Just wanted to share this because it's one of the few resources that provides a great introduction to optimizing your models to scale and run faster. Each syllabus section has a great write up and set of exercises.
Why this comment hasn't been downvoted into oblivious is beyond me.
Sending passwords over HTTPS is fine, but storing them in plain text is not. Hashing should always be done on the server side, with great care taken not to leak or log plaintext passwords (see Facebook).
I would add to this line of reasoning that companies don't particularly care about a given model one way or the other, as long as it makes them money and is easy to manage. Not all these models will be good for users, however, nor will they be obvious in the damage the model causes later in other systems.
The GBA is another example: native games run on a 32-bit ARM processor, but it also includes a Z80 for backwards compatibility with older Game Boy models.
This is what I've been seeing, too. If everyone is expecting a recession, then the recession gets "priced into" the current valuations. The big trouble comes if the expectations/pricings are off in some sector.
For a while it was the Multics CPU emulator/simulator. After we got Multics to boot it was no fun anymore :-)
WeWork shouldn't exist.
Yeah, this whole thread is based on a false assumption, that the work he does is "easy and equivalent to driving around." It's not easy or trivial to start a business, plus he assumed risk up front.

That's like saying "Property owners just sit around and collect rents, so they shouldn't make any money." It totally misses the point of using capital to invest in and maintain real estate, which is not "sitting around" at all - it only becomes easy after you've done a significant amount of work to make it so.
Nvidia Elevates the Conversation for Natural Language Processing
For me it's not a framing issue. I get upset by that sentence the minute the total receipt goes above $80/mo.

Unlimited internet has been a welcome respite from the inconsistent and unfair pricing of mobile data plans. Seeing that change without an explanation feels wrong.

I can imagine ISPs responding with "Here's your explanation: our infrastructure isn't built out to have everyone downloading 1TB/mo and if you want that you need to pay for it"

To whatever extent that's true, it's because of an ISP oligopoly and active lobbying measures that prevent creative solutions that might improve quality/decrease costs.

So I'm personally upset over this because it's a nickel-and-diming false choice between paying even more than our already-overpriced bills, or watching your quality of service decrease because a greedy company decided not to keep up with an eminently reasonable change in standards of quality.
Not to turn this into a culture war, but as introverts in a world of extraversion, the more people who understand the distinction and recognize that introverts don't need to "just get out there", or reform themselves to be "less shy", or any of that nonsense, the happier everyone will be. So it's worth raising this. The misunderstanding may be broad, but it's not necessarily a fixed state.

And, to be frank, people who insist on labeling an acquaintance as introvert(2) are not exactly engaging in non-jerk behavior either. In fact, it's that very thing that leads young introverted people to self-describe as "shy" and then do their unconscious best to fulfill that description, to their detriment.
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I used to live in Texas, my experience with Comcast was a daily nightmare compared to Sweden where I had 100/100 for around $30 a few years ago. My provider in Sweden recently started advertising 10000/10000 for around $50 per month, no cap :)

I currently live in Germany where the internet is a bit worse but still much better compared to the US. I get 500/100 here with no cap for $40 per month.
Not even close to true - just look at the scan monitor next time you fly: you can clearly see inside any electronics going through the scanner
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I'm saying the people who made an evidence-based value judgement in this case would never consider doing the same for a natural dam. But maybe I'm wrong.
A laudable goal? Of all the statements to bemoan, why choose the one about environmental sustainability?
No, it wasn't his quote (at least not sourced)

Tons of people have attributed it to him though.

Personally, if I don't have the book and page of a quote, I don't source it.
As far as I'm aware, there have been no rolling blackouts in Texas since the last major incident in winter 2011. Got a source?
This is awesome! I never really knew what trance exactly was, but this made it cyrstal clear to me, as well as it's subgenres.

Does anyone know of a similar type guide to techno or house? Theres just so many different niches in both of those genres as well.
Its a property management company. They own some leases, but not actual buildings.
what does that mean for poor people, does someone know? Can someone explain?
Wood works. There are some new methods to glue sheets together to make long structural beams and much taller buildings than before.

Cross-Laminated timber or CLT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-laminated_timber

12 and 18 storey structures have been built.

As far as fires go, yes, they will burn eventually, but they won’t weaken as quickly as steel. You get more time to evacuate.
What Are the Main FinTech Security Breaches? (Alongside Redtail)
Here in Vancouver BC Canada, we do have data caps but it appears to have been only $10 CAD ($7 US) to upgrade to unlimited for that month. Hence, it's not a massive issue other than in principle to some.

Currently there are two companies, Shaw (cable) and Telus (fibre to the home), and some smaller ISPs that use either Shaw cables or Telus DSL.

Internet pricing here tends to look like $20-35 CAD per month on the low end up to about $110 for a high end fibre symmetrical connection, with most plans coming in around $50-75 if you play the "bounce from ISP to ISP every few months" game. Data cap costs appear to look reasonable on most plans and you can get them without caps.
The question is, what is the bubble? I'd argue the entire stock market is the bubble right now, with boomers throwing everything they have into the market to get some of that free money before they retire. Once they start pulling back it's going to be a sad day. Right now US household "wealth" is sitting at >500% of GDP. That's not sustainable.
bring on the downvotes, orange-siters
Should you learn JavaScript going into 2020?
"Bluetooth just doesn't work well in the cold"

I really hope this is BS, but I wouldn't be surprised. Sad the tech couldn't come up with a better excuse than that, are you supposed to really believe that? Bluetooth isn't exactly a new Apple-specific technology, people have had years of experience already with Bluetooth devices.
In Serbia local mafia is controlling river sand excavations ever since mid-90s, and the most of these sites work completely illegally all this time. Beside the obvious problem of exploiting natural resources, causing erosion of river banks, and destroying the river ecosystem, this also has a much wider negative influence on the society as it's creating a huge chain of corruption of government officials and police. And this is a serious business with a lot of money in the game, to the point that all drug lords there are also in the sand business.
Keep in mind, while you cheer on ending the tech industry's free reign and bringing in adult supervision and regulation, that this is what it means.
> However a car traveling at 200km/h has four times the kinetic energy as a car traveling at 100km/h so a collision at that speed is much less likely to be survived than a collision at 100km/h.

Kinetic energy by itself does not matter one bit when it comes to how damaging a crash will be for the human occupants. People use it as a proxy for acceleration and jerk. Kinetic energy is only actually useful when you're trying to figure out what acceleration and jerk will be if the crash involves multiple moving vehicles or hitting an object that's light enough to move.

Imagine a freight train crashing into an immovable something at low speed. The kinetic energy is going to be higher than almost any car crash but the occupants will be just fine and they have far less crash protection stuff around them than anyone in a car. Alternatively, imagine an occupied small car traveling at some low speed crashing head on into a person who was shot out of a cannon at high enough speed for their kinetic energy to be equal. Both parties are going to decelerate over the same amount of time but the person shot out of the cannon will experience much higher acceleration (and jerk) because their initial velocity was higher.
Did... you buy on amazon? (shudders)

I'd venture to say those aren't real Ankers. The ones I have are built like tanks. I personally abuse some of my lightning cables, pulling on them, stuffing in bags in a rush, etc. They've lasted years and look new.

Note: I do buy the ones that come with nylon, not sure if that makes a difference.
>Suppose the trade deal is fixed tomorrow

Do you really believe that's going to happen? The "cold war" with China is heating up.

>governments add surprise stimulus in the coming months

What happens to interest rates?

>If recession fears go away in a few months

What do you mean by "recession fears"? People are examining the data and seeing the global economy slowing down; it isn't arbitrary, it's data driven, with the caveat that no indicator is perfect.

>*those long term treasuries would lose value on the principal and you could very much experience capital losses (if you sell).

Yes, investing has risk. But I find it odd you criticize using simple indicators, then state that if recession fears subside, treasuries will lose value. The value of bonds fluctuates with interest rates, not "recession fears". We can very easily have a bull market with falling rates. It's happened before.
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Googlebot actually used to support a noindex rule in robots.txt, but they are removing it.

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/a-note-on-unsuppor...
Yes, technically. I wanted to clarify that.
I feel like that is immature. You're implying that a conversation about the kids cannot be pleasurable and informative. I recently moved to an all women team (running joke was that I was a diversity hire) and the kind of things they need to do to prepare for pregnancy blew my mind. When my colleagues talk about their kids asking weird questions and putting their parents in weird situations it's as stimulating a puzzle to solve as any of the philosophical masterbation.
I recommend this related talk by Vincent Warmerdam: "How to Constrain Artificial Stupidity" at PyData London 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8MEFI7ZJlA
No, that's not a good salary for what you describe.
NYT tries a lot of things. I like that.

But they're bound to fail, this one is a bit much on the scrolling.
So is a gasoline generator. A Honda EU3000is costs around $0.50/kWh to run, excluding depreciation.
Classic 80/20 rule. I've used several of these in the past, and they always work great until you need that 1 thing that they don't support out of the box and then you have to spend half a day figuring out the JS hackery the builder uses so you can work around it to implement the one thing you need in it's subpar code editor that's hidden away in a submenu somewhere.
> Because everybody starts their worklife with a huge salary? I don't see the point of this calculation.

It's the simplest and quickest back-of-the-napkin calculation to try to visualize what an income like this means.

> The rich and super-rich don't show up whenever only income is considered. Any class definition based on income and not wealth is pointless.

Which is my point properly explained, thanks.
Docker Swarm Cloud on a ARM64 DIY SBC Cluster Running a Smalltalk Webapp
So the way I read this, “sending” is an ambiguous statement that could be really ok, or really bad.

1. Sending in clear text over HTTPS from the login form to validate authorization: normal and OK, this simply is how auth works. Here the user sends the password, not the site, though it is via the frontend.

2. Writing/storing cleartext password on the server/in DB/as part of a logline, and (inevitably) revealing it later when reading said stored data for some other innocent purpose (server is sending the cleartext password which it should have no record of and has no legitimate use for).

Good hashes are by definition a one-way, irreversible means to authenticate without leaking actual credentials. Storing the actual passwords anywhere in the system is tempting fate.
Capped broadband is a new development in the US.

The FCC (federal government) is actually adding new rules to prevent state and city governments from pushing back against the caps. For instance, without the rules, states could ban selling or renewing right of way contracts for internet providers that impose caps or violate network neutrality.

Some cities have started rolling out their own internet providers to compete with the commercial ones. This (or breaking up the big ISPs and moving to common carrier) seems like the right long term solution.
In what way? I admit that I haven't read a lot of Classical Chinese and usually need a Mandarin translation to help me understand, but that's easily explained by it being a different language. The experience isn't much different from reading modern Cantonese for me.
Not that I am aware of. Tax rate seems fairly constant from State to state
Sorry for being pedantic, your comment is amazing for mentioning him. However, I'm a fanboy of 3B1B and I just have to say this.

It's 3Blue1Brown, not the other way around. He named it after his eye color which apparently has 3 parts blue and 1 part brown.
Buzzword Bingo? It's a strange statement that is maybe trying to attract investors that are looking to invest in those categories of companies and exclude others. Might as well just throw in a lot of jargon at that rate.
If there were a "best" asset store, people wouldn't bother with the other ones. In reality, it's all tradeoffs depending on your situation.
I thought the NYSE was against this crazy Classes of stock insanity?
Rust async/await slips by one release to 1.39
> laughable

This is seriously wrong, and that word "laughable" is a key-word for others who share you larger assumptions.

Let's assume that protocol enforcement is heaped upon those who can do nothing about it, not "laughing" techies with time and skills; .. until it is. Common access to network infrastructure is clearly being monitored and more and more requirements and restrictions are added each year, not less, in a dizzying number of ways. The ability to find a transaction from a "regulated IP address" used by those who do not have the skills or background to understand what is happening, only increases each year.

This cavalier analysis is counter-productive to someone who wants to a) stay our of the security swamp and b) live life somewhat un-monitored with individual choices.
World's Thinnest Optical Waveguide Is Only Three Atoms Thick
No, states and county-equivalents get a share from the federal income tax, and add other taxes (mostly on county-level), "Gewerbesteuer", which is an additional tax on businesses, and property tax being the largest ones.
AT&T and T-Mobile team up to fight scam robocalls
Actually, what makes even more sense, is to have a non-conversion storage.. aka.. just pre-freeze a large amount of coolant at solar peak and store that for the next day.
> However, the relationship between absolute pitch and frequency isn't always trivial.

Not only is it not trivial, it is undefined. For example, "middle C" can map to different frequencies depending on your tuning system, for just one example.

Pitch is the higher level abstraction. Especially on the organ, "middle C" may get interpreted as "middle C plus a C an octave below, plus another octave below for good measure" depending on context. I assume that's what Carpenter is changing when he's putting his hand on those pads where the stops should be.
This sounds totally reasonable to me? Low quality machine learning algorithm needs human labellers?
If the utility offers TOU billing, more solar installations will point west, shifting peak supply later in the day.
You think Beijing would think pulling a Tiananmen 2.0 would bring HK into the right track fulfilling its economic role after? I dont think almost anyone, include almost every mainland Chinese would think that way.

If military is involved, economies will crash, hard. Not only HK's economy, a lot of economies will crash. It will be an economic suicide for mainland China. Is there any doubt about that? And that's irrelevant if any western countries intervene or not.

You probably haven't talked to any educated mainland Chinese recently? For the ones who would like to get HK in line and even get Taiwan back, the only feasible way they see is economic dominance over those territories. As a strategy by itself, I kinda agree.

Edit: I dont think PRC depends on HK more economically than emotionally. HK is one of the symbols of western countries invasion 100 years ago. Getting it back has a great deal of emotional value for mainland Chinese. What I see PRC can extract more value out of HK right now is to emphasize the western influence over the protest, making regular Chinese more in line with PRC's world view and values. Anger directed towards other countries rather than introspective is a good thing for the gov if and when there's any hardship inflicted during the trade dispute period.
> Shpongle

Mr Posford no longer wishes to be associated with psytrance ... he's distanced himself from it a long time ago saying it went totally stale.
Hold on. Google doesn't earn even a penny when you visit their site, find your answer on the search results page, and then leave. That user behavior COSTS Google money, it doesn't earn anything.

If they were trying to monetize you they'd show you an ad that links to your answer and take a profit on the click. Directly giving the user the answer they want is great for the user, but guarantees that Google won't earn any revenue.

So why does Google do it? Simple: because their competitors do. That's the free market for you. Google didn't start that feature, another competitor did; Microsoft made it their primary differentiating feature in fact (remember the "bing and decide" ads?). Google had to adopt the same behavior or lose their customers.

So no, don't blame Google, blame capitalism. This is precisely the kind of feature that you wouldn't get if Google was able to behave as a monopoly.
it's opt-in with informed consent.
But stille completely crazy, that you can buy up, most of the company, and Zuckerberg still controls it.
No, it hasn't. Not in the real world. They have observed Hawking radiation in simulation (in an analog computer with some quantum properties).
Poor people don't always have the means to save to afford the 10-30% down payment, so they cannot benefit from the cheap mortgage rates.
How does this show any of that? That reported by the channer wasn't materially different than what was reported by the mainstream, they just broke the story earlier and, as mentioned, possibly by doing something illegal.

To be clear, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with anonymity on the internet. But anonymity on the internet, this story showing the value of that anonymity, and this relating the the mainstream media aren't at all related, at least in my mind. Mind clarifying?

As I see it, one can be anonymous on, say, twitter, which is still moderated, and therefore has (less) open organization of "far-right trolls and white nationalists". So its not clear to me what unique anonymity 4chan provides.
> You are comparing living in the one of the most expensive cities in the world to someone living in Zimbabwe as if they are remotely the same thing.

Yes, that was my point, they aren't the same thing at all. It's complete bullshit to say that it costs pretty much the same to live in a tin shack everywhere, as it clearly doesn't.
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Perhaps there are a lot of Chinese citizens overseas who name their accounts the same way? Use your imagination for a little bit. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a troll. There are people who grew up in different environments and have very different worldviews.
Your "argument" is incredibly fallacious, and you're clearly not actually trying to have a discussion. Have fun posting angry, poorly informed comments on the internet
Hey, my name is Greg and I created codeless.how. For the past months I've been automating various parts of online businesses I run. Inspired by Nomadlist, with over 1000 bots, I've been learning different tools and applied automations to marketing, customer service, billing etc.

A few automations I created at the beginning:
- searching emails for invoices, OCR and put into spreadsheet -> send to accountant
- scraping bot for websites with used cars that ping me the minute a car with specific criteria is posted
- syncing all of the calendars and getting text notifications only for important things
- dashboard with my social media activity etc.

You can do a lot more with it. Later I started automating my various online projects. As a result I've completely automated most of the common tasks: billing, surveys, marketing, webinars. Different projects of mine now aggregate over 200.000 paid customers with only 3 people on board... and hundreds of robots.

The no-code, lego tools and APIs are a huge time and money saver. But I found it really difficult to learn and apply them to my specific use-cases. Once I discovered the potential in tools like Zapier, Airtable, Coda... I was left clueless on WHAT and HOW to automate.

There is plenty of tutorials on how to connect X with Y, or how to make a "clone" of Z, no-code. But I wanted some basics of how everything works and then detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to apply it to my use cases. And I found nothing like that.

That is why I decided to create a to-the-point resource that would save me tons of research when I first started learning automations. I'll update it regularly with real-life examples that work for my business.

Cheers!
You may be waiting for awhile.
Preposterous! While the LG Smart Refrigerator, powered by SmartThinQ® technology, is certainly a premium product at an excellent price, I don’t think there’s any evidence here to show that the upstanding employees of the LG Corporation are behind any of these tweets.
Yahoo bought Tumblr for over a billion. Verizon sold Tumblr for under $20 million. Guess all that NSFW content they banned was worth more than they thought it was...
Problem is the lack of real competition. Capping usage so it hits only X% is reasonable but then not if you already you pay $100 a month. Still, back to point one, only competition can sort this out and is lacking. Even if they raised prices to $150 after a few years, they'd raise them more.

On the other hand, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple etc have shifted everything online so they are saving on distribution.
At first I thought your graph was wrong... now I realize their business model is the thing that is wrong.
You're missing my point. People should be laughing at Barr, in his face, in his inner circle, every day for this. If we don't facilitate that on the outside, how the hell will it happen on the inside. So laughable as in a call to action, not laughable is in negligible.
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