skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this nets to a < 0.01% delta to our bill. Is this really that big an issue in practice? For hobbyist projects, maybe? But for larger customers, this is a drop in the ocean.

I actually think this is a (somewhat) smart move. It incentivizes you to use a NAT gateway to egress traffic to your instances. You can either run your own fleet (it's very easy - but you gotta fix it if it breaks), or use their managed NAT solution (more expensive, but with less worry hopefully) - and not just tack on a public IP to every instance that needs internet connectivity. We did this from the get-go (running our own NATs) - and only have a few public IPs relative to the # of instances we run.
Even to this day US treasury bonds are priced like that. It's starting to get silly now with 'quarters of a 32nd of a dollar' and such (ie. 1/128, but written as 1/4 1/32 due to the limits of human comprehension).
The display is plasma not EL. Same was used on many 80's era laptops and luggables like the Toshiba 3100. They can suffer burn in from static displays just like CRTs and modern plasma screens.
I went to high school in the 70's, too. All the kids, including the smokers, knew it would kill you. Cigarette advertising on TV had ceased by then.

One of my friends went to the doctor complaining of shortness of breath, the doctor told him to quit smoking.

Interestingly, at college (still in the 70's) pretty much none of the students smoked. The handful that did got a lot of peer pressure to quit.

Some of my dates were smokers, but none of them pressured me to smoke.

My father told me about chain smokers in B-17's in raids over Germany. The cigarette would not stay lit at 30,000 feet. So the crewman would take a breath from the oxygen mask, blow on the cigarette which would then burn like a torch, take a puff, put the mask back on for another quick breath, blow on the cigarette before it went out, etc. He felt sorry for them. I didn't think to ask him what he thought of cigarettes and pure oxygen on an airplane overloaded with gas and bombs (thinking of Apollo 1).
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I’m not sure that the data processing is an absolute winner. It quite often results into “more from the same” and disable the ability to generate masterpieces.

Maybe the humanity is not ready to be hooked into an entertainment computer that generates the infinite amount from the stuff that people like. Maybe there’s still space for artists and creative people.
Note to anyone curious: the gTLD does not mean this is related to OVH, the domain is open to all OVH customers. https://www.ovh.co.uk/domains/dotovh.xml I didn't know, I looked it up, maybe it's interesting to others as well.
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Then build it. I’d donate.
Destructuring in Clojure
Ken Wheeler: Taking a Break from Open Source Is a Welcome Change
I think this shows that everyone can use a side-project :-) I'm not sure how active Linus is on it anymore, but I know and worked with some of his maintainers there.

My claim to fame -> https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/pull/1136

https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/pull/1988
Do you see that it's disappointing that you can only give non-answers? The announcement does not mention what happens to your existing products and customers. You come here and offer to answer questions yet can't say what happens to your products and existing customers.
Lots of examples in my other post, including links to some open source code (UnityJS).
Would marking second chance submissions as such help?
Bond futures still are [1]:

* Minimum Price Fluctuation: One thirty-second (1/32) of one point ($31.25), except for intermonth spreads, where the minimum price fluctuation shall be one-quarter of one thirty-second of one point ($7.8125 per contract).*

As are some bond-like derivatives, eg MAC swap futures, which are quoted in quarters of thirty-seconds [2]. The way prices are written out is maddening - consider yesterday's settle [3]:

107'247

This means 107 and 24.75 thirty-seconds!

[1] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/us-treasury/...

[2] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/swap-futures...

[3] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/swap-futures...
Yeah, if I only ever did things that I rejoice in doing I'd be getting nothing done. Not everyone is a super naturally passionate type.
A no go on Firefox mobile on Android too, even with "Request desktop site" enabled.
Specifically, the limits of trader comprehension, which are somewhat more restrictive.
Fuzzing was suggested in the past to shake out some corrupt filesystem image bugs: https://lwn.net/Articles/685182/
It also makes sense because primevideo.com looks like it was built from scratch and isn’t integrated in the “normal” Amazon.tld that’s not available in a lot of countries. It was very buggy in the beginning and incrementally got improved, they probably couldn’t move that fast if it was integrated into the main site too.
I think that comparison is fair to a point.

My suggestion to ban particular flavourings is related more to the fact that cigarettes taste nasty. It would be helpful to be able to make comparisons here from a marketing standpoint. Not to mention the crazy flavourings some shops create, with little regard to health. I'm sure there's more fruitful avenues than this one.

As for nicotine, you'd be surprised. My local shop has a healthy stock of no-nic juices available. I presume the intended market is people dropping from 3mg -> 0mg, but I imagine the real audience is wider.

As for flavoured alcohol, I think we just have a different relationship with alcohol. It's a more widely used drug which we've consumed before the dawn of civilization. A lot of people are perfectly fine with young adults drinking it (see: not NA). And of course, flavoured alcohol exists to make spirits palatable.

On a side note, I'm curious about your wording. Did you intend to evocative with the usage of 'life-destroying poison' immediately followed by 'children'? That's certainly an extreme way to position an argument. I'm sure you're acting in good faith, but it's just not in my cultural sensibilities.
> corporations gagging free speech in the digital town squares of Twitter

See the other comment for the full text without pay well. They mention a few times how Twitter is a town square where 'mobs' of people denounce individuals for saying the Wrong Thing. Corporations though? Nope.
isn't the lack of impacts near the retroreflector due to the fact that the moon surface around the reflector is always facing earth?
It is indeed a problem. I am still thinking how to make these two pages work together.. maybe merge the first page into the color picker in second page.

Thanks for your feedback!
I think the last paragraph referred to people in general and not only to young people.
> I don't see a reason why the Chinese wouldn't follow on that route

That was the hope and belief behind Nixon's trip to China, and the inclusion of China into the WTO. But with Xi taking power, arguably the most totalitarian leader in China since Mao, there is no sign that civil liberties are anywhere on the horizon.

> But that's only because the basic needs are generally taken care of.

History does not agree with you, I think. People were fighting for democracy as a response to totalitarian systems which did not provide them with the resources and security they wanted—even before the age of plenty brought about by industrialization. And when the west was democratized, a lot of those countries were ravaged by two world wars, and far behind where China is today.

And when it all got underway, were not the ideals of the enlightenment in large part a counter to monarchies and feudalism which failed to provide what the people needed? If one sets aside the notion that without freedom, a plentiful existence loses its meaning (which is another, philosophical argument), I think the fight for representation in government is precisely a fight to achieve one's economic and social goals.
Oh my gosh, I clicked expecting to see the classic old version... this is an updated one!! It looks like this one even shows the progression of the sound of a genre or subgenre over time, not just the other genres that came from it.

Forgive my excitement but damn, the original guide was an absolute treasure of the early (at least for me) internet, and as a teenager getting into electronic music but with no real local scene or context for any of this stuff to say it was eye-opening is an understatement. Find a song or genre you liked (for me it was early French Touch/filter house) and you could see similar genres, plus what inspired it and what it inspired. And back then if you weren't familiar with this stuff everything with electronic drums or synths was lumped into "techno" (remember Eminem's infamous line about that) so it was great to figure out the actual names of the genres and subgenres I was into so I could dig deeper. Shout out to Ishkur, I'm obviously thrilled to see this today.
I'm saying that somebody being talented doesn't mean they automatically get paid more. They actually have to do something that creates more value for the company. That is why those ML guys aren't being paid obscene sums of money even though they're trying to solve one of the biggest industries.
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You put "improve" in quotes as if instant page navigation without flickering is somehow worse than the alternative. Browse around this [1] website and tell me it is not a better experience than your bog-standard html + vanilla js concoction. Also every time this is brought up the developer/content editor experience is entirely neglected, when in reality it is a big consideration when creating something other than your own dev-blog that you update once a year.

[1] https://reactjs.org
> One small caveat is this script creates ‘secrets.txt’ in the same directory so anyone can open that file and access your codes. I am planning to add some level of encryption to that in future. If you have any idea/suggestions send me PR here is the repository.

pass-otp(1)[0] already has encryption ready; and it also adds another warning:

> This method is provided as a means to transport your TOTP tokens to other devices, disconnected from your single factor authentication part. If you add those secrets into the same basket of eggs, you will be defeating the whole purpose of the multi factor authentication[1] mantra. Please think it through before running this migration.

[0] https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication
Let me guess another Paul Mason article?

That guy is absolutely obsessed with Capitalism like it abused him as a child.
Hi HN mates! I want to share my first ever Chrome extension.

All it does is querying SaaSHub for the top alternatives to a software product you are browsing. It is very simple and should save you time.

It already got some positive reviews and upvotes on ProductHunt so I hope it will be appreciated here, too (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/alternative-to-by-saashub)
I do that too! But then of course there also the moments when I am really procrastinating and I remove them again... but that's a dumb excuse as it's much easier to solve than the subconscious problem, thanks for reminding me.
they did call out scooters and drones, so id guess you’re right
The US let Canada be Canada by forcing them to renegotiate NAFTA and then unilaterally imposing steel and aluminum tariffs while the negotiations were going on as leverage?

The US is by far the biggest bully in the world and has been since WW2.
How about also offering ipv6 public ip for free? Then we would get higher adoption rate for ipv6
Africa is ripe for the picking, it just needs infrastructure to get the resources back to China.

American tech companies dont target Africa because there is no money for them. China works on different economic principles. State backed companies dont just want profit. They want to your know dirty secrets. They want leverage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
if you could invest in one startup from demo day 1, which one would it be and why?
Carousels are one of the few things I dislike more than infinite scroll in modern webpages. They can look really good though.
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I think it was Make school who said they did 12 weeks and that wasn't enough so they expanded to a 2-4 year bachelor program
As I said earlier[0][1]:

Extreme scepticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20704017

Personally, I think that W3W is a really, really bad system to solve a probably real problem.

Other submissions of this puff piece:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20723965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20706030

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20725818

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20732249
Then we should relegate LISP to an academic programming language and stop pretending that it is a major player when all the data proves the contrary. LISP failed for half a century because it isn't the best tool for the job, not because we are just stupid and only the select few have the brains for it. It is not the case. It is just not good for the job at hand -> delivering solutions.

I have used 80% of those programming languages you listed in a professional environment and I didn't require to learn LISP. I didn't see any resemblence of LISP on any of them. To correct you, Java was heavily influenced by C/C++, not LISP. In such a way that my transition fron C++ to Java only took me few hours.

"Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material." - Alan Kay
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I remember using this in the very early 2000. I made electronic music myself, and it functioned as a sort of mashup between Wikipedia and the recommendations at Spotify. I remember browsing the genres, getting some recommendation and searching for the files on Soulseek. When I found the files I could browse all the files of the user that shared them and often find similar acts. Lovely times. Still have the files, btw. :-)
Somehow reminds me of this conversation [0]:

> Al Viro asked if there is a plan to allow mounting hand-crafted XFS or ext4
> filesystem images. That is an easy way for an attacker to run their own code
> in ring 0, he said. The filesystems are not written to expect that kind of
> (ab)use. When asked if it really was that easy to crash the kernel with a
> hand-crafted filesystem image, Viro said: "is water wet?"

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/718639/
They say on the forum it is in Unity.
> anything other than "fuck yes, if you want to"

ownership transfer clauses. some are in the fine print, some are directly in the standard contracts i.e. Italy has these in the C.C.N.L., no way to avoid them, so you can't cash in a side project, you need first to severe your employment contract.
Ah well except it is literally called the "always free" tier so you would think that something as core as being connected to the internet would be, you know... free?
I use regularly another of the side projects of Linus: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/01/embroidery-gaah..... My wife has thousands of embroidery files that are nicely displayed in gnome explorer.
What defaults are you referring to? Cloud NAT is part of the GCP network fabric and all implemented as software so there's no single point of failure or bottlenecks.
Also see those "animals" from different parts of Germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwetritsch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasselbock
May I ask what platform do you use?
Tim Gowers on the robustness of mathematical proofs
I never understood the Minecraft modding scene. When I was last playing heavily, Mojang was insisting that there were no mods, there was several implementations of multiplayer servers mods based on decompilation of the source, one of the major players had dropped off and gone stale, client modding was even hinkier, and version changes screwed everything up.

Did it ever get somewhat accepted officially?
Switching frequently between service is exactly what the companies don't want. I agree that this might be where we're headed, but the idea of a subscription is to have a recurring and predictable stream of income.

The best solution for the content industry as a whole would be to set up a clearing house, that provides access to all movies and series, streaming services should then be able to purchase the content they want on their service. That would allow the services to compete on the quality of their service, not their catalog. Let's face it consumers don't care if Star Wars is created by Disney or Warner Bros or that Breaking Bad is distributed by Sony.
Thank you for writing this. So many people don’t get it. You cannot tack performance on after the fact like some aftermarket pony car part if the performant architecture is not there to support it.
Why not? IPv6 usage is increasing every year and offers faster, simpler routing which results in better performance. Almost all mobile networks (which is about half the traffic today) use IPv6.
Firebase is like a web developer friendly version of Google Cloud, that it bases itself on.

It gives easy to use serverless CRUD (with Firestore), authentication, authorization, secure file upload, hosting and server-side functions for things like image processing or database triggers.

I don't think Firebase will be end of live anytime soon, worst case it's user base would get migrated to Google Cloud, as it's really just Google Cloud under the hood. I don't think it's an option for Google to give up on the cloud at this point, even though AFIK Amazon has the biggest market share.
Your learning model may be imcomplete. I observe far more complex and interestingly nuanced layers of meaning in my daily interactions with a number of cats. That number is seven, and for starters I can always single out - by sound alone - exactly who is doing the talking and what the gist of it may be. Might be food, yes, but might equally well be about my desired presence for company, about changing of litter, opening of doors, a bat in the woodstove, a stranger in the driveway, a settling of scores, an attempt at bullshitting me into some action, a call of general distress, what have you. Certainly, I'm only scratching the surface of understanding. I notice that my dog - of whom some of them seem extremely fond - gets targeted with some interspecies communication that I either don't or am too thick to grasp.
There's also a fair distance between hand detection and "Sign Translation". To begin with, most sign has both hands overlapping.
I’m with you, but good luck getting some scrum shop to include enough detail to achieve this.
Agree.
But what is a driver for you to produce a higher quality content?
Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to achieve, but doesn't Gitlab CI fulfill that role? Your versioning system is essentially git. Branching is done trivially, rolling stuff back is running deploy pipeline from older branch or tag.
> But more and more of my friends who were perfectly happy to pay for 1-2 streaming services are going back to good old torrents because none of the streaming services offer a good value proposition any more.

I pay for both Amazon Prime and Netflix yet I find the value proposition of torrents better.

It happens quite often that I later on discover that some TvShow I'm watching through torrents is available in Amazon Prime. This is what happens when torrent websites have less Ads than services one pays for.

For torrents, I just download whole TvShows (all seasons), watch them, and that's it.

It has happened a couple of times that Netflix or Prime remove a TvShow while I'm in the middle of watching it, or that they have all seasons except for the last one.

Also, the Netflix app on the Apple TV is now super crippled. Netflix removed support to play to an Apple TV from an iphone earlier this year, etc.

The offer of TvShows, Movies, etc. in Amazon Prime sucks. You have to buy most of the stuff on top of the subscription, and when you do buy it, you still get Ads. The offer of Movies in Netflix is better, but kind of sucks as well. There are a lot of "Made by Netflix" movies that just prove that throwing money at a problem not always solves it.

I will probably continue to pay for Prime because of deliveries, but Netflix doesn't make much sense anymore. Our money would be better spent paying for something like HBO, or going out for dinner once per year.

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All in all, torrents don't break my balls. They are simpler
and less annoying to use, work overall better, have a larger offer, I can watch them with bad connectivity after the fact (e.g. planes, trains, buses, etc.).

I'll gladly pay for a service that is as good as what I get for free. Hell, I'm paying for multiple services that are worse in many ways. We already have two Apple TV devices at home, if Apples' subscription service becomes better than Netflix, we will switch. Last time I checked, Apple's service was way worse than Netflix.

It is sad to compare all this mess with Music. I use spotify and soundcloud, and am very happy with both. I have Prime Music, never used it. Since I have spotify it has never occured to me to use torrents for music either.
It may or may not be a bad system to solve a real problem, but it's interesting to see the the IP is locked down and it's an expensive way of solving a real problem. Is it really so hard to use an app that gives you two numbers? Your phone usually knows that already?????
Are you saying that the CIA is not trying to help the protests?

I'm not trying to say that the CIA is involved, but I would be surprised to learn that the US is not trying to get involved to amplify the noise the protests are making.

With Trump and his trade war, don't you think he would not ask the CIA to try to damage the reputation of chinese government by using protests?

I don't like the PRC and their method, but I'm just curious to ask what the US is doing.
Not quite the same issue, but this reminds me of my very first job, back in 2001, where we used a homebrew C++ framework that separated lots of concerns, and then used a single massive .h file with 10,000 const uints to tie everything together.

Compiling took over 2 hours. The header was generated automatically, but after I added a macro that replaced those const uints with #defines, compile time dropped to 30 minutes, which was quickly voted the biggest productivity enhancement in that project.

More relevant to the topic, in javascript programming I recently switched to using const instead of let wherever possible. Most variables don't actually vary, so let's make that explicit. That can prevent some unexpected surprises (though not all, as objects and arrays in constants are not immutable).
This is too narrow a focus. Performance starts at the architecture level and can’t be bolted on after the fact.
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