skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest difference is webhosting provider can't scale your php resource up and down infinitely in real time. Your software is not exposed to the server but constrained by it. The idea of serverless is that your service is automatically distributed and not constrained by the capability of some web server.
This reaction rings most true to me as well. I get the sense they are trying to get out in front of the dialogue of the 2020 elections.
I first discovered this in 2009 when it still needed Flash (for obvious reasons). A fantastic resource, and really pleased to see it updated for the modern web. Great work (again!), Ishkur!
I expected that "timeline" to end in the late 90s but huh, that is quite impressive that they still have a market for those things.
Skimming through the docs, even though warts of postal addressing are mentioned, this seems like a (base-14?) encoding of geocodes rather than unified hierarchical postal addressing (which is still an accomplishment, and something I can see a need for). Though this seems to work for latin scripts only I guess.

For actually representing global postal addressing schemes with all warts and historic practices, I know no better standard than UPU S-1. I had a project for (partially) implementing it for a large logistics provider ten years ago. It was one of the few cases where using XML for business data genuinely made sense, as addresses could be represented in a line-oriented format (as you'd write on a postal piece) and at the same time structured info in the address (postcodes, streets, house numbering tokens) could be tagged for extraction, validation, etc. Though to make end-of-line chars significant in XML (which we had to somehow because postcodes are often placed at the begin or end of a line in formal addresses) we had to represent addresses basically as address_line_1, adress_line_2, etc. SGML could've handled this much more elegantly, as not only can it assign meaning to line breaks via short references, it also (theoretically) allows representation of overlapping (concurrent) tagging structures for two or more vocabularies.
The General Post Office phone and telegraph network.

Formed in 1660 as a government department to provide postal services - by Charles II, the one who got rudely interrupted by Cromwell's republic. Took on telegraph, telephone and radio transmission as they were developed. As a government department until the 50s or 60s when they became a state owned company, they always had a distinctly "comfortable" relationship with the intelligence services right back to their inception. Opening post, intercept stations at cable landfalls, etc. Phone and post have since been privatised.

Tommy Flowers, creator of Colossus, worked at GPO Research Station Dollis Hill. Pre-war in the 30s he'd been working to create all electronic phone exchanges.
there's something I don't understand, not coming from a mapping background: sixth decimal place of latitude/longitude is already down to about 10cm precision, so using two 8:24 fixed point would give you comparable precision with half the encoding length than this format (using two fixed points dword encoded straight in base 32). why these encoding prefer to use space partitioning more than encoded coordinates?
They should’ve bundled this into Apple Music or at the very least made it a $5 upcharge to bundle the two.
Also odd, the driver is barefoot while he is stood on the motorway hard shoulder.
I understand but could you explain why the Chinese government freaks out so much about the DL when in fact he has such moderate views?
I don't understand, part of this greening is through more agriculture, which probably means more energy use to till, irrigate and fertilize these fields. Is this on net more or less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
> There is a lot of virtue-signaling going on here, but understanding the state of today's USA education systems, I'll try to parse it.

I’m not sure what you mean exactly by virtue signaling here. Can you highlight what parts of my comment you feel like weren’t genuine?

> My perspective is that of a person who spent their first 32-years in America, who one day about a decade ago during the depths of the economic downturn, decided to try to eat the dogfood of living and operating a bootstrapped business in China so that I could better understand it and the world I live in.

From my original comment, I’d like to reiterate that I’m not trying to attack you as an individual or the path you ended up taking to get where you are today. I realize now after more careful consideration and reading your response, your ability to freely speak on certain aspects might be constrained due to existing attachments to your business and marriage in China. You have every right to make sure that those things you currently have are safe and protected, and if that precludes you from being able to fully express yourself I totally understand.

I’m sure you’re doing the best you can right now with what you have to work with, and I’m not trying to saddle you with obligations to try and reform deeply entrenched systems of governance by yourself. Small consistent steps taken over time can lead to a surprising amount of meaningful impact and change though.

> I do realize, there may be many non-Han Chinese communities I'm not exposed to where the freedom to express themselves is not so great.

I appreciate that you can see that your experience might not necessarily be entirely representative of what it’s like to live in China.

> And now, I'm a much more rabid proponent of American's protecting their free speech and privacy, at all costs. Otherwise, it's a slippery slope to end up with what they've got here in China.

I completely agree with you here. Having to constantly be careful of what you say for fear of being silenced or jailed, is a reality for the vast majority of Chinese citizens. My parents directly experienced the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 back when they were going to college. I know better than most, that I enjoy a great deal of privilege in being able to have the freedoms I do today that my parents didn’t necessarily get to have at the same age. That’s personally why I’m such a strong proponent of voting and political participation for myself and my peers. From my perspective, young people in America are becoming far more politically active, and I think you’ll see the effects of it in the upcoming 2020 elections next year.
>> This same river water is now used for the adiabatic cooling of the modern datacenters along this route.

This sounds like a major climate change related vulnerability.
One of the "selling points" of the Sinclair C5 was that its electric motor was built by Hoover and would be serviced at the existing network of vacuum cleaner service centres[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
what3words has appeared twice recently as a news story on bbc.co.uk
I'd not heard of plus.codes even though now I realise I'd seen them on google maps listings
Not at all, just don't assume that everyone lives in the USA
Why not just use an ephemeral IP?
do you really believe that?
It feels surprising to me that a Linux system can be bricked or rooted by a maliciously constructed filesystem and this is not considered a major bug. Surely this is an obvious attack vector? (Dropped USB sticks, etc.)
Much like Apple Music, Apple TV plus will leverage a large contingent of people who have no streaming TV subscription but do have iDevices.

Before the introduction of Apple Music it seemed like Spotify/Deezer/Tidal/Pandora/Google Music had the market divvied up pretty well, but because every time you tapped the 'Music' app your iPhone would nag you with 'would you like to try Apple Music?' a lot of people signed up, and Apple Music subscriber count shot up.
After the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), is obvious that Portugal has a problem with wildfires

https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/static/effis_stats/
Pretty clever. I was trying to figure out if there was some DOM API to paint HTML to canvas that I did not know about.... I had to stare at it a few times to realize what was going on :-)

The code runs a DOM query to find the elements configured through the keys of the `styles` object on the parameters/configuration, then for each of those selectors, calculates a rect relative to the size of the canvas, and paints a colored rectangle for each of those elems (using the color coming form the values on styles). [1]

1: https://github.com/lrsjng/pagemap/blob/master/src/pagemap.js...
Exactly.

But also to make sure that it isn't kicked out of the kernel. Staging is not meant to be a permanent location for any kernel code.
That's a rather strange and nebulous "definition" of mathematics, and quite contrary to how it actually works; the rules define the abstract concepts that build mathematics, and the rules are followed by people too whenever they do maths, because they are the maths. For example, "numbers" are an abstract mathematical concept, totally unphysical, defined purely by rules, and used by people and computers. Actual mathematics can certainly be done with computers, and is, every day, by mathematicians (among others).

There's nothing demonstrably uncomputable or unphysical about thinking. On the contrary, the brain is an enormously complex network of neurons and synapses, clearly intricate enough to physically perform all known mind functions, and all in principle simulatable on a powerful enough computer system. Your magical antenna idea has no basis in reality, it is massively outweighed by real-world evidence, and you have failed to present any actual evidence to support it.
While its not in YC - there are a few SAAS type security startups aimed at SME's - such as https://intruder.io/ who I am a very happy customer of. This to me looks to be high growth.
Indeed there's a need... We were putting common SQL queries in the code repository for later copy-pasting in the past, but we stopped doing that when we discovered Metabase (https://metabase.com/). I believe it will be relatively hard for PopSQL to compete with it, since Metabase is light ears ahead as of now.
Wouldn't it be nice instead of countries an open academic agency launch a series of open source satellites for locations. Hopefully likes of apple, Google, Microsoft, alibaba, benz, BMW, Toyota, Amazon, Qualcomm, European space agency can fund it.

But I doubt it will happen as it's considered more strategic investment with military implications. But I am still hopeful like internet(which was designed for military purpose but now controlled by civilian authorities), locations can be free off selfish national interests.
Counterpoint: it took all of my concentration to not freak out while attempting to scuba dive. I like swimming, snorkeling, and wetsuits, but my first try at scuba diving was viscerally unpleasant.

Anyone else have a bad experience the first time and ended up liking it after trying again? I’m wondering if it is worth trying again...
Well, with all due respect of course, "Privacy Policy" and "Terms & Conditions" are seemingly the "only" actual contents of your site (at least before logging in).

What I see is someone who put on the internet a "standard" one page site with some images and a common layout, with 2 (two) meaningful sentences:

1) Buy equity in any property across the US and start receiving monthly rental income with cap rates as high as 20%

2) AlphaCap allows anyone to buy equity in any real estate property that is on sale, once 100% of the purchase price is funded we purchase the property on your behalf and manage the property and start sending you monthly rental income.

which are both fine, but I miss - at the very least - an "About Us" page explaining who (the company) you are and a "How it works in detail" page actually explaining what anyone with both money to invest and a brain would want to know, including actual examples, how the matter is dealt with IRS (for US investors) or how it is configured regarding international Laws (for non-US investors), etc.

The "cap rates as high as 20%" means nothing, both 1% and 19% fit well in the range but they are very different numbers, particularly when we are talking money.

And this long before signing up and providing you a name [1] and an e-mail address.

[1] as a side-side note I would personally make clear whether the Name means the actual name or a login/nick/handle is allowed

[2] why the .ai domain name? If the thingy really uses Artificial Intelligence you are too modest when you say "we built a simple tool" on the other hand if it doesn't use it and you are just riding the hype on the term you will probaby lose anyone that knows what AI actually is (or should be).
Lunakhod 1 was still responding in 2013 (40 years later) thanks to the NASA LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter).
French website, as it was a (secret) collaboration between Russians and the CNES who provided the retroreflector:
https://sciences-techniques.cnes.fr/fr/web/CNES-fr/10757-st-...
IMHO the future of personal transportation is vehicles like that. We don't have the space in cities to support 2-3 tons of steel per traveler, and plain bicycles are uncomfortable in bad weather, or when you are physically impaired. But small (electric?) velomobiles with three or four wheels are perfect for city commutes when cycling is not an option. They also don't need 15-20kWh/100km like an electric car would.
Some people do not want to block that much storage on their phone, but usually for Raspberry Pi the use case is that you can pretty much broadcast Wikipedia within a classroom without the need for an install on each and every device (it may also be kinda cool to have your own private Wikipedia network at home so nobody knows you are browsing this or that topic - I know Stallman mentioned using Kiwix once).
Yes, I think the other problem with this approach is the terrifying consequences if the blinky box get's hacked.

I think the trick would be - somehow allow the blinky box to be secure (how do you even do updates if the networks you are "protecting" are not on the internet), this is difficult. And then giving the boxes away for free with a limited amount of stuff they can do without pen tester involvement.

Still is massively problematic.
Is there anything wrong with building pokie machines? Should they not be available for people who are able to play them responsibly?

I believe it's up to the government to regulate these things and ensure fair business practice.
What I think would be cool would be a prediction market for each year's YC startups, limited to people with HN logins. Be interested to see how the cumulative wisdom of people here compares to reality.
https://laymanclass.com/vim-essential-setup-to-boost-your-pr...
YouTube Mistakes Combat Robots as Animal Cruelty
These codes could benefit from some sort of distinct prefix so that users, browsers and apps could identify it as an open location code and treat it as such apart from a random string. Other examples being things like @username or #hashtag.
Marijuana and mushrooms are not that harmful compared to e-cigarettes. It's a rational approach.
Some of the writing is funny, some is distracting from its purpose. The Dubstep entry for instance spends most of its time bashing brostep and skrillex which is a shame as it glosses over the first few years of interesting music before it devolved.
I rather have the second option.

Amazon Prime went up around the time they bundle their online streaming. IIRC.

I'd like to have more choices and if I wanted a service or not.
Well at at least Google seems to be trying to improve when it comes to privacy. Android Q seems like a good update for privacy.
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Such as the Renault Twizy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy
Wtf, torque is measured per revolution?
Yes it's true, OpenFaas is something everyone should try even if they are a beginner. Alex and the community have tons of blogs, workshops that you can help you learn and implement production-ready solutions. Openfaas is making Kubernetes development Easy. For static blogs, websites its really simple with Openfaas. https://twitter.com/openfaas/status/1162414762652835841
Hmm, no mentioning of his dog Gromit. I hope he is doing well.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
Pretty awesome. I wonder is there's something open source like this for macOS?
Not if it is defined in another translation unit and you are not using LTO.
At least we are not transporting coconuts.
Quite in line with the eccentric vehicle :)
Who wrote this? Because its content is uninspired and its writing poor. It doesn't even address the question: is the universe beautiful?
The mathematicians whose brains registered the signs of appreciating beauty when presented with "beautiful equations," could easily have made the association themselves; implying the result means equations are beautiful is the simplest post hoc ergo propter hoc.
I myself hope the base principles of the universe are by human standards horrid. Human notions of beauty are too easy and accommodating; something as immense and monstrous as the universe should make us shudder with the strangeness of its true nature. Humans are tiny, deranged beings, and our beauty ought to be filthy rags compared to the universe's standard of beauty.
Yeah, that's a good example of a reasonable city car. I was thinking even smaller, like the PodRide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKq1fGtXFM
When an ethical vegan met a sheep farmer [video]
Purity is not a goal in itself, its purpose (its meaning) is to help me answer useful questions about the behaviour of the program.

In a typical IO function, `fn()` only gives me 10% of the code in `fn`: the part up to the first bind. To get the rest, I need to `do` it, and this is where purity is no longer meaningful:

a <- fn "a"
b <- fn "b"

Can I swap these two lines ? The IO monad tells me there might be consequences, but what are they ? Another example:

foo fn

Will `foo` trigger the IO effects of `fn` zero, one or more times ?

I believe these are meaningful questions, and yet, a program built from pure functions can answer them no better than an imperative program.
Lowering the price is good for consumers.
> Anecdote: Optimum C blew away all the other C compilers on a magazine benchmark article because it figured out that the benchmark code did nothing and deleted it.

I remember this problem being discussed in a CPPCon talk a few years ago, and some ways to "trick" the (modern) compilers into not optimising away the benchmark code - I think it was Chandler Carruth's "Tuning C++" talk: https://youtu.be/nXaxk27zwlk
So, who gets to be this tollbooth for all content?
Yeah I think this is speculation on OP's part.

We can just all wait and see.
Twizy with closeable windows would be a very nice thing, indeed.
I'm compressing thoughts for brevity. The codex, handwritten, allowed random access, but was still phenomenally expensive to create. On the order of a million dollars per copy. They were chained, the language was standardised -- you brought readers to the work (Latin) rather than works to readers (vernacular).

Moveable type, cheap paper, mass literacy, vernacular language, typographic conventions, high-speed presses, and mass distribution, create a wholly different impact.

As Elizabeth Eisenstein noted, the printing press is an agent of social change. Generalised, all comms tech is.
I think the main reason why btrfs has not fully replaced the ext family by now is its bugs. It's understandable that they don't want to add more buggy filesystems.
Btw., 'LISP' is now 'Lisp'.

> 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.

Nobody claims that it is a major player. My claim was that it was influential - not academic, but actually practically. People like Matz (Ruby) literally learned how to implement a programming language runtime by studying Lisp, in this case the Emacs Lisp runtime.

> I have used 80% of those programming languages you listed in a professional environment and I didn't require to learn LISP.

Nobody said it's required. It's just that when you knew Lisp, you would have already known about garbage collection, first class functions, virtual byte code machines, managed memory, etc. Nothing which is directly in C++.

> 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.

If you don't know Lisp, how would you know which influence it had on Java? C/C++ had directly no Garbage Collection, no managed memory, no runtime code loading (-> Java class loader), ... thus these things about the Java runtime were not coming from C/C++. You got the curly braces from C/C++.

Guy Steele, who co-wrote the Java language spec: 'We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.'

And you even didn't notice it...
I don't have a congressperson. I like having privacy in my payments even though I (to my knowledge) do not fund criminals. I do find that I share this sentiment with many people I talk to about it.
Swift Asynchronous Unit Testing with Busy Assertion Pattern
Other thread (only to keep things as together as possible):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20739904
Looks like a major pain in the ass to manage. Why not use AWS Lambda or other FAAS? And wait, the whole site is hosted with k8s using some Nginx server? Where's the CDN and frankly, object storage like S3 would seem a much better fit for the static assets.

If the point of using this is to learn how to use k8s for FAAS, great. If the point is to save pennies and create a hassle-free deployment, I would rethink the approach. I've heard good things about Netlify, although as a tinkerer myself I used AWS and CloudFormation with Sceptre to create my site. As unrelated note, if you are familiar with React you should probably consider using Gatsby. It's much easier to extend and customize which happens quite often once you start adding your own little cool widgets.
I think triangles would have made more sense.
Far from the shonkiest vehicle I have ever seen on the M25.
I was also thinking of the venerable Sinclair C5.

The downside to these is having all the (percieved and real) vulnerability of the cyclist as well. And they still need quite a bit of space for parking.
An Adventure in Google Apps Script
I'd almost expect that to be honest
It appears scissor doors with windows are an optional extra.
Surprisingly accurate summary.
oh but they do https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

The difference is in using lowest quality leftover Flash memory.
I really appreciate having a "lingua franca" of programming. Projects in other languages are certainly interesting to see, but I also appreciate that most authors use English, it contributes to a larger worldwide community.
I doubt this can be done with a standard "GPS" omnidirectional antenna. This would require a lot of power.
Look... Cable directionality is a real thing and we are all going to have to come to terms with that... https://youtu.be/12GHUf8DOPs
> but can pick this off-the-shelf part from Epic Aerospace

And there are no existing off-the-shelf suppliers for satelite propulsion systems? That sounds unlikely.
No they will charge you for addresses you don't use.

Which makes perfect sense imo.
Exactly. The point is that there is a difference between www and nowww. The only reason they usually lead to the same result nowadays is a social convention and those can change arbitrarily. Tech people are aware of this but non-tech people notice and learn this convention by association and might be (and from my experience, are) unaware that it is not a technically guaranteed one.