skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMS is basically free to operate, it's in the networking equipment you need to install and run to provide cellular service anyway. Similarly telcos no longer meter your SMS usage, basically the only thing they charge for and cap is data.

As someone else pointed out, it's SMS across borders that's ridicules. There is no reason why that should cost €0.5 per SMS.
I'm also perplexed by it, but to instinctively assume that your perspective is better makes me sad for you. </irony>
That's pretty funny :)
The way to make YouTube Kids childproof is to ask about Van Halen
Amazon sells many choline supplements. I haven't at all looked into their bioavailability or efficacy.
Wouldn't that require the phone to always be on wifi, to avoid hitting the monthly data transfer cap? IIRC, the Android version of Syncthing comes configured by default to run only when the network connection is a wifi connection for that reason.
'Mushroom foraging saved me from my grief'
Maybe just because it's been around the longest, but my impression is that us-east-1 seems to have more than its fair share of outages. Personally, for my single-region applications focusing on US customers, I go with us-east-2. Knock on wood.

I'm interested in any evidence to back up my impression if anyone has bothered to do the proper data gathering.

(Aside, stink eye on whoever made a breaking change over a holiday weekend, if this turns out not to be random.)
This is also one of the top voted feature requests on the UserVoice site for OneDrive - it's sat there for years with no action. I don't get why they wouldn't want to have this, given it would reduce the amount of data they have to store.
This is going to be used by woo woo types for years. Did you know that our brains operate in 11 dimensions? Or, how can we get our brains to operate in all the dimensions it's capable of? Or, brains operate in 11 dimensions...and the soul makes up the other seven. Seven? That's a spiritual number. Etc...

That guy who looks like David Spade with a brain tumor on Ancient Aliens will be all over this.

The article is super interesting. I'm just enjoying imagining how someone will tie this to the great pyramid of Giza.
Sorry I probably missed something, but when was Linus Torvalds being a jerk? Sure, he showed finger to NVidia the company once, which was funny, but didn't harm anyone. His mails are also very straightforward and up to the point, without diluting it with compliments, contrary to current cultural code.

I don't think skipping compliments equals to being a jerk. I'd look at actions, and I don't remember Linus did something nasty.
I remember reading this article few years back.

> A version of this story was first published in June 2017.

It seems like they just reposed it and added "back in..." It would be more honest if they would just have "news from the past years section". Trying to sneak old articles as news in the front page is bad form.
I mean if you are inexperienced the risk is lower.
To be fair to cryptozeus, Levandowski is in the photo directly under the title.
The most useful coding tools I have are a pen and a pad of paper
This was an interesting read. To me it illustrates what a blunt instrument the federal government is, and how difficult it is to craft a good national tax incentive.

This reminds me very much of the lead up to the S&L crisis in the 1980's, fueled largely by the use of real estate as a tax shelter. A lot of real estate "investments" were made that didn't make any sense as real estate, because they didn't need to. Money-losing real estate projects were netting a profitable tax outcome for certain kinds of wealthy people.

The opportunity zone program sounds nice on paper, and as the article explains the majority of places that qualify are the kind of place that would welcome just about any investment. Suppose the bill had been crafted perfectly, and only genuinely economically struggling places qualified, you would expect to see a lot of the very wealthy start taking hard looks into these places to see if they could figure out ways to turn a profit investing in them. That activity would probably be beneficial.

But the bill was not (IMO could not have been) crafted perfectly. Whether you interpret it as an unintended side effect or intentional cronyism, little pockets of economically vibrant land made it into these "opportunity zones," and of course the ability to make tax-free investments in a prosperous location will attract a firehose of money.

The article supposes that after these "low hanging fruit" in the opportunity program have mostly been taken, that more challenging investments in the places that were really intended may follow. But I wonder if the program will last that long, or, if as it so often happens, this kind of bad money rushing into real estate will turn out to be one of the triggers for the next recession.
JSON schema has in one of it's drafts a way to define business rules like these, no idea if this library supports it (most likely not)

On a previous project I needed something like this and used react-json-schema as a form renderer and created my own rule engine that evaluated a lot of rules defined in a custom format I needed.

The result was a generated schema that was rendered by react-json-schema.
Response by the UK Vegan Society:

https://www.vegansociety.com/whats-new/news/statement-media-...
It's always interesting how people differ.

I pretty much have this experience. I mean, I don't indulge in most of the luxuries, I usually go for lower end places like Airbnb, but I don't really have to, at least not in the medium term, it's just a personal preference because I don't like having servants.

I've discovered, over the last few years, that I need some sort of struggle to get out of bed in the morning. Yeah, there are programming projects, I can learn a new (spoken) language, etc, but ultimately, because it's kind of 'unforced', it doesn't give me the same level of drive.

What I actually want, and am working towards, is a stable home, on a bit of land that's mine, that I have dominion over. Gardening, building small structures, working on the house, learning how to provide shelter for myself basically.

I actively don't want everything to be done for me. I think the ultimate limiting case of that is basically to be wired in to an IV drip, with a VR headset or something, and just wither away into nothing.

In the grand scheme of things it's no more or less pointless than anything we do, but it doesn't sit right with me.
I use Seafile, which has a great web UI and let's you share files with anyone. Highly recommended it!
Democracy is decentralisation. It doesn't 'work'. It's what Churchill called 'the worst form of government'. Except for all the others. Its most egregious failure is that it often fails to undermine things that can and do subvert it. Decentralisation is like a Yin-Yang kind of thing, constantly challenged by its nemesis 'the forces of centralisation'. Ultimately decentralisation, just like democracy, is more resilient over time. At any one time, centralised systems can potentially bring more resources to bear upon a problem more quickly. But because decentralised systems can be designed to 'temporarily centralise' this 'emergency response capability shortfall of decentralised systems' is just a design problem. It turns out that it is also probably the most serious challenge to decentralisation. But because resilience, in the light of the challenges we currently face, is something we are all committing ourselves to tackling, expect 'designing decentralised systems' to stay at the top of the process design agenda for the forseeable future, notwithstanding any yet-to-be-experienced shortcomings and failings of decentralised systems that appear on the horizon.
5000-500 B.C. is not the paleolithic era. That's well into the Neolithic and Bronze age.
Yes, but the Paxos paper is the opposite. It read like a silly homily. It's like "why's poignant guide to algorithms" except that the algorithm being described was complex, novel, and incredibly useful. It was so not full of itself that it was ignored for years. It seems to be proof that trying to sound impressive is actually important.
Things to Consider When You Build a GraphQL API with AWS AppSync
It would be nice for a thing calling itself "fail-safe" to have some amount of formal evidence of its fail-safe properties by way of both checked abstract models & verified source/binary level implementation (I also think the same thing about everything posted here related to security too). I browsed through the repo and didn't see anything other than what amounted to narrowly targeted unit & integration tests.

The test scripts are mostly in Python, so even just some Hypothesis tests (property-based testing framework for Python) would be nice to try to quasi-brute force some more empirical assurance that this filesystem behaves as claimed and expected.

That said, this is likely to come in very handy, and seems definitely worth taking a look at.
Contour – Make Android layouts with Kotlin lambdas
It will be the next "neuroplasticity".
I try not to read as many books as possible but instead limit it to 2-3 per week. I could probably do one a day if I Really wanted to, but I find spacing it out helps me spend time in between reflecting on the book I just read, what it means to me, and I generally make note of that somewhere if I really want to remember it.
I'm (trying to) view the video, player cooperation willing....

A bit longish, though if this is a single take, I'm impressed by the presentation (I've yet to see a cut in the first 15 minutes or so).

"Similarity" and "difference" are relations, and as the speaker notes, relative to viewpoint. I've done some earlier research and thinking into the meaning and distinction of value, where utility-value (related to economic value) is based on relations as well -- to the producer or creator of an item or service, as well as the user or owner's use value. And these are not generally intrinsic.

Aristotle's Categories are a good starting point for considering relations, even now.
Do you think it was the beard? Is this a really big beard?

I've never heard of people getting selected more often because of a beard.
Croup and Ipecac in Anne of Green Gables
Had an app doing fine until about 12 minutes ago, when Heroku tried to move it to a new server. Alas.
lol, M-theory has 11 dimensions
Heartbreaking story.

Here's another story you should also consider reading:

"[flagged] Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest (insider.com)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846681

This story was flagged by longtime members to YN (those are the people who get to flag stories) - I have little doubt that many of those are also loyal to mainland china and the CCP. The story reached the #2 spot on HN before the mass flagging.

(I wonder how many minutes this comment will last before being mass-flagged in a coordinated manner by a particular cohort?)

I really call on YC/HN to remove/rework this flagging system. It's a tool that gangs can use to delete dissent. It's unworthy of civilized discourse.

Edit: Ah, there we go, now this entire story is [flagged] and off the main page.
I believe it is. This part convinced me it had to be a joke:
"True, working lying down brings its own challenges: it’s hard to avoid dozing off every few minutes. My solution is constant snacking, the fear of choking acting as a stimulant."
Top-of-head thinking? Défense lawyers probably remember really well the cases that could have been a lot easier to win.

Just as doctors tend to prescribe what worked last time - easier to do what’s at the top of your mind than critically appraise the evidence.
MS-Windows has them too. You need to use cmd.exe to make them. I use symlinks to keep my configuration files synced in my Nextcloud directory.
You're free to port it to Chromium and run it yourself.
Thank goodness. VLookup was always a broken mess. Hope Google Sheets and LibreOffice picks this up soon.
There's still ergonomics. Say we teach computers to recognize casual ASL (which is a big job for people learning ASL, but whatever)... You're not going to be able to spend the time using that input method you could using a keyboard, because of simple fatigue.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_...
Are you aware of China's History and The Cultural Revolution.
We’re you able to drink the tap water after that amount of time?
Guess you could call Muskegon 'outside Detroit' but it's quite a ways outside! But to be truthful no one ever heard of him until he moved to Ann Arbor, I think when he was in middle school. But my friends in Muskegon are still quite proud, only rock star to come from their town.

If you haven't seen it Anthony Bourdain did a great interview with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHnNlIjPe7M
If Hubert the Husky makes a shit-ton of money, the definition of "did wrong" changes.
Ask HN: How would you extend your activity in a new geographical market?
Hi HN, we are currently extending our activity to Montreal. At Adaltas (http://www.adaltas.com), we do consultancy around Big Data in France and, to be honest, I really don't have much idea on how to introduce ourself into a new market. We registered a Canadian company a few months ago and we now have 2 excellent consultants to handle the initial workloads but we don't have much contacts. We have been thinking about going to appropriate Meetups and maybe a few LinkedIn invitations but we would really appreciate your inputs on how to get your company installed in a new geographical zone?
Maybe the point of TSA is to just make it so horrible that eventually everyone who wants to travel will get pre-check.

Because legislation requiring extensive background checks and keeping details like photos and fingerprints of every person in America that wants to fly would be more difficult to get passed.

So they just make it "optional".
Choline is very common in vitamin B12 supplements, which most vegans - assuming they aren't the poorly educated lifestyle type of vegan - know they need to supplement unless they want to make algae and seaweed staples of their kitchen.
I find that the core of Paxos (the Synod protocol) is very easy to understand - it is literally just two exchanges of messages! The tricks that you need to add to go from the Synod protocol and get an actual production implementation of the replicated log are another matter, the original paper only hints about some of them. There is e.g. the Paxos Made Live paper (link: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lorenzo/corsi/cs380d/papers/paper...) that has more on this topic.

BTW Paxos also has a leader - this is what makes these protocols efficient. They need only the linear number of messages instead of the quadratic "everybody talks to everybody" design.
Why the SLA qualifier? That's like saying, "Go ahead and name one Google product with an owl in its logo that got randomly dropped. You can't. That means Google is stable."
Curious why it wasn't named HLOOKUP since v=vertical and h=horizontal
For the record, these people should never have been citizens in the first place.

These are the folks who came through porus border from Bangladesh illegally.
A society’s values and beliefs matter for its economy
Does anyone else find this obsessive attitude towards vegan/vegetarian diets and their supposed lack of nutrition to be thinking about the wrong problem?

We evolved over a long period of time to basically eat whatever we could hunt and find. Depending on location that might have included meat or meat might have been very hard to come across indeed.

It's unclear to me that we'd have such a strong dependency on specific foods. I think for the most part what happens is that it's actually way too easy in modern life to hyperfocus on a specific subset of nutrients to the exclusion of others. Someone could go days at a time eating bread and potatoes alone with various condiments/spices for example and eventually get ill because then they would of course be missing something.

A lot of the vegans I know, myself included, tend to bias towards that, because like, roast potatoes are gorgeous innit.

Does that make sense at all? Basically that, if you had some sort of like, randomized stock cupboard (I don't know how the sampling would work), you'd be fine in almost any circumstance even if you deliberately excluded certain things?

B12 is apparently difficult in modern times primarily because we clean things. My understanding was that earthy foods or a berry you eat from a tree might have natural B12.

So maybe we just need to stop being... err.. picky eaters? (exclude meat, but don't _choose_ your meals as much)?

The way the media makes it sound, before agriculture almost every human must have been chronically malnourished. It doesn't sound like a legitimate evolutionary path.
As a vegan who tracks their nutrients and vitamins pretty closely, I do not have trouble getting enough choline. The big hits in the vegetable world are: soybeans, cauliflower, potatoes, peanuts, kidney beans, quinoa.... and on and on. There's really no difficulty if you eat a sufficiently diverse diet.
And features an extra level of indirection for your CPU's dcache prefetch predictor to trip over
Yes, other genes. Transcription factors. Methylation. DNA accessibility. All determined by proteins which are in-turn determined by genes. Genes determine expression.
I've been intending to setup my own after Dropbox emailed me about exceeding my device limit. Surely I'll get to it one day.
These people never had a citizenship to begin with, so they are not losing citizenship, they were breaking the law by being illegally in the country.
I like this, let's consider how do you evaluate someone for a marathon.

Average marathon time is about 4.5 hours. Let's say you expect you're hired to last around 9 years (average is 8 according to GlassDoor but you're woebegone)

So scaling linearly, for every hour you get to assess a job candidate, you'd get 0.2 seconds to evaluate a potential marathoner.

Assuming a typical candidate gives you maybe 12, 24 hours tops, you have all of 3 to 5 seconds to evaluate a marathoner.

The futility of such an exercise is obvious.

The only solutions are to:

* insist on a longer evaluation period

* hire them on a probationary basis

* only hire people who have ran official marathons before, with proof and such

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what's right for their own evaluation process.
Google reader wasn't an experiment, it was an 8 years old product with millions if users, and it was closed with just a little bit more than 3 months notice. Which is a ridiculously short notice…
Social media is in need of a major upgrade. A team of designers (as in user experience and information design) and programmers could work on new patterns for social media. You could use Hacker News as the test subject. Challenges you may consider:

1. excessive influence of amateur opinions ( I'm not a doctor, but let me tell you what I think about treatment for acute renal failure -- this gets upvoted to the top )
2. astroturfing (are praises within the comments section really just insiders shaping the narrative?)
3. considerate, alternative points of view are buried at the bottom of the comments section
4. moderator biases

you get the idea!
How do you structure your notes? I do the same, but I am often conflicted whether to take notes by chapter/section or by topic.
If it's happened in Xinjiang or during Tiananmen square massacre or in Tibet it can happen again.
In terms of providing high paying jobs with good career progressions to minority groups that doesn't necessarily discriminate on the basis of prior education, credentials, background (or lack thereof), yeah, I'd say software engineering is pretty decent compared to many other industries.
Is that 2-3 fiction books per week? Where do you find time to read 2-3 books per week? Do you speed read?
China’s Artificial Intelligence Game Upgraded
Depends on your country and your plan.

I can only speak as an American, but sending an SMS to Europe costs 20¢ on my plan. Hardly astronomical, especially considering that when SMS was new, it cost 50¢-$1.00 per message.
For folks here, my RDS instances in us-east-1f are doing okay (knock on wood!) Not sure which AZ is suffering most.

My client's Heroku instances are online, thankfully.

Can anyone here speak to their experience with the Ohio region? I'm considering leaning on that more and more.
Lucky for them the satellite (Nahid-1) was not loaded at the time of the incident (which likely happened during fueling), and is in a lab ready for another launch.
Is there a way to read this article without the popups and other dark patterns that make it impossible to finish reading?
So, is this on the roadmap for LibreOffice yet?
Or they could just lie and tell you from the perspective of another dev on their team, or even combining the achievements from several of them at once. Of course most people wont lie a lot but this style heavily favors those who do so you will get a disproportionate amount of liars on your team.
Is this the entire article or this an excerpt for an article hidden behind a paywall? I can't seem to access whatever this is except for a paragraph and an incognito window isn't helping.
they are just less impactful since it's not used as much... see 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19820302
The hacky way Apple tracks iPhone users vs other contacts that leads to dropped messages when you switch away from iOS is not something I want to see Google replicate.
Sometimes you need to pick at the top end. If you just hire from the middle and bottom, there will be nobody there to show the right direction and to organize what the less qualified people should do. It will rot. So you need at minimum a few very good people to keep the organization alive and well.
If obsfuscated pricing causes children to disassociate spending money, and obfuscated pricing makes "whales" out of 1% of adults that are spending outliers by 4 orders of magnitude how can it be a separate issue? I think it is the same tactic applied to two demographics that are both incapable of unpacking maliciously-complex pricing.

The children make the fraud apparent. FB defrauded their parents and they ______ the children to do it. They ______ adults in the exact same way and 1% are as susceptible as children and end up spending thousands and being called "whales". They have to suck it up and the kids can get their parents to demand the fraud be reverted, that's the only difference I can see.

BTW I'm not saying people don't overspend in retail stores. What they don't do is discover days or weeks later that some of the products actually cost thousands.
Ditching worthless friends with Facebook data and JavaScript
But neuroplasticity is actually a thing.
What does an SLA have to do with Google having dropped numerous messaging attempts? Please stay on subject.
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Plus 1k for the cleaning and delivery services.
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That looks extremely laborious but it's a fascinating technique. It still limits the amount of lumber one group can use. I agree on clay (in some regions) and stone being available and useable. It still says nothing about supporting a civilization, which requires agriculture.