skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is more about "how to use Fly", which is cool and looks useful, but not really for me.

Thanks for the doh-proxy tip off though, might be worth chucking that on the box that runs my DNS :)
> this is Ada, so it caused an integer overflow exception

This is not a language issue, but a general engineering one. In any critical system that can cause an unexpected exception and failure, there should be sufficient redundancy, so that when the main system goes down, the failover system can take control.
Looks promising, I want to try it outon my project.
Buying beer is legal. Driving while sober is legal. Assuming you have no record of driving drunk, any such alleged correlation should not be used to inflate insurance rates, unless you're also willing to say that other correlations of increased risk are also fair game, even if they're based on race or sexual orientation or income or education level or politics or any other characteristic that can be measured and grouped into risk categories.

One of the tendencies of the neo-puritanism that has become prominent in the last decade is a real willingness to abandon any boundaries that have kept corporations from using certain kinds of information against individuals -- boundaries that were in large part legislated during the civil rights era.
Right, I understand the bit about getting through more books, but why? There are an unreadable number of mind-blowingly brilliant novels out there and basically no reason to read any them except to enjoy oneself.

If I am enjoying a book, I can’t imagine having the urge to finish it faster. Or slower. What could possibly be gained?

Edit: also, just some unsolicited thoughts on your struggle to complete a Scanner Darkly. IIRC, A Scanner Darkly is a fairly average length novel, meaning you might expect to finish it in ~10 hours of reading. My personal experience is that it's best to enjoy a novel within a relatively limited time frame (say a couple of weeks) so that the various characters and plot lines stay fresh in your head.

If I were in your situation, I would probably question whether:

A) If I actually like the book. If you are even a quarter of the way through a book and don't like it, nothing wrong with picking up something else. As I mention above, books are for enjoyment. If you don't enjoy it, what's the point?

B) If I perhaps don't have time to read a novel now. Sure, nothing wrong with starting a movie, pausing for dinner and then finishing it afterwards. But there are limits. You wouldn't want to split a 2 hour film into a dozen ten-minute segments. And I would argue, wouldn't you want to split a 10 hour novel into a 60 ten-minute segments either. Just not a good reading experience. Nothing wrong with putting the book on hold and coming back in a few weeks once your schedule has calmed a little.
This seems wrong to me? A lot of "things that happen" seem to be created by randomness generated along the way, from only observing subsystems.

I.e., suppose I create a random bit generator by shining photons on a half-silvered mirror and then measuring which way they go. I might then decide what to write depending what the bit is---if it's 0 I will write a HN comment, if it's 1 I will reply to an email.

In this case, the things that happen are determined deterministically, but it's not the case that there is some quantum fluctuation in the initial state of the universe which determines what I write. Rather, when I do the measurement of the bit, I create two branches, one with a HN comment and one with an email. Observers entangled with the first branch can only see the HN comment, but this complexity was created at the time of the measurement, not at the time of the big bang...
Does dark energy or dark matter box-in our way of thinking?

Have we actually proved scientifically there's a force or physical matter acting on something and it's not just being obscured from our vantage point?

Isn't dark energy/matter only visible at huge scales? Is there any pictures of dark energy or matter in any localized system? We didn't even know the correct color of Pluto until we got close, how could we know if something isn't actually there, or spacetime just twists and contorts for the sake of it without outside interaction/gravity acting on it?

Isn't there also a chance we're in a literal simulation of Plato's cave allegory until we see stuff up close? Not in the sense he meant it, but in the sense we're using assumptions/tools that involve inference. Wouldn't this risk assigning character/classifications to things that don't turn out to be true in the end?
That depends. If you're using Firefox and setting it to use dns-over-https it seems to ignore your /etc/hosts file. If you're installing DNS over HTTPS on an internet gateway, and just doing normal DNS lookups internal to your network the /etc/hosts file will work just fine.
I go thru Geico in CA and commercial ins is affordable. I forget the exact Amy but I'm happy
Does twitter now mandate a phone number when creating an account, or are they happy with just an email address?
Better position compared to what?

> a guaranteed minimum wage

A min-wage guarantee implies Uber and Lyft will tell you when and where to drive because it would demolish the fundamental mechanism we drivers use to allocate ourselves. Otherwise we would all clump up in a parking lot somewhere trying to insulate ourselves from the costs of driving people around while collecting $10/hr.

> possibility for unemployment benefits

I haven't had this option in a decade or more. If you increase the cost of firing somebody, which is exactly what this is, you increase the cost of hiring as well. See above: this is a bottom rung job, the most important thing is to be on the ladder. If you make the bottom four rungs of the ladder illegal it doesn't mean people can magically start jumping to the fifth rung, they just get left out.

> health care benefits

Life's rough. Hopefully I solve this problem with a better job in the near future.

Don't get me wrong, I really dislike the Uber/Lyft model, I cringe every time somebody says "Oh but Lyft treats drivers so much better than Uber, right?" and I would love to see a better competitor prove the flaws of the Uber/Lyft model in the marketplace. I just don't think that minimum wage, employee status, and benefits packages are going to be that great for drivers or passengers. It's probably a mixed bag for both, but not a very good mixed bag.

As an aside, there's part of me that wants to figure out what a slide-deck is, make one, and be that competitor. So don't think I've been drinking the company Kool-Aid or anything, because I would love to put both of them out of business largely because I don't like how they treat drivers. But I'm still extremely thankful that I've had this job and I don't want to see it taken away from others who may value it in the way I have.
Because they’re using existing data. You need thousands, maybe millions of images to train an AI to recognise something well, and only recognise the right characteristics. No-one has the resources to go take all those photos themselves.

Anyone know of a visual recognition AI being trained also with depth data? Would be interested to see what difference it makes.

This relates to something else I noticed differently about my daughter learning. You can show her one photo of a lion, from one angle and she will recognise other lions later on, at different angles. I think she must have seen enough animals already from many angles to have generalised their shape and then be able to presume the new animal is similar and just see the new characteristics like a mane. Something very different is happening in Human brains!
What the grandparent poster described in the first two paragraphs is a typical large company. You could replace the words 'late Soviet Union' with 'almost any Fortune 500 firm', and it would be an accurate description of its internal economy.
You don't need a "TOTP device". It's software. You can easily write an authenticator for a smartphone, a pc, a digital dumb phone, or pretty much anything.

I think the real issue is that companies like SMS because of the tracking it enables. With a single number you get instant geographic + general socioeconomic data on user along a unique tracking ID. But the particularly nice thing about this ID, from a corporate perspective, is how blithe users are with it. People will happily "validate" away on numerous sites. Now, by "sharing select information with our trusted partners" (as seems to be the preferred T&C jargon) companies can create extensive profiles on their users well above and beyond their activities on any given site.

Obviously you get none of this with a TOTP. Instead you get better security, better portability, and less external dependencies. But no tracking. So SMS wins in the current state of the internet.
I do this on one of our internal sites at work - it makes a table that is fitted to the page vertically, where scrolling with the wheel changes the page. Super easy to flick through results (better than infinite scroll in fact), which is the main issue I have with paginated things.
Glad you caught that!
The whole thread was about the NSA's budget and mission, so I misunderstood your point. It appears you have no specific qualms with the NSA other than the fact they exist under the same government as the FBI/CIA?
Game development eras and their style have a substantial correlation to locations and the teams assembled in them, but as you allude to, increasingly the demographics don't seem to matter as much as the culture, because the capital requirements have dropped so much.

A surprising amount of stuff, for example, came out of Chicago between the 80's and 90's. Why? Because amusement manufacturing was located there, so there was a direct crossover from solid state pinball to video games. Williams, Gottlieb and the rest all operated in the area. For similar reasons the bulk of Japan's game output in the 80's came from its three largest cities.

As the industry became more software-driven, it got easier to spread out, and with the merger mania of the 90's pooling up capital, you got the existence of studios with multiple offices in different cities. But you still needed some infrastructure and financing to run a studio, and so most large game studios are in "hip metros" even today.

But when you get down to the realm of current indie games doing digital distribution and Twitch streaming, your physical bottleneck is approximately the same as a writer: fast internet and basic city services. But writers benefit from having a creative circle, salon or similar gathering, and that creates an effect in indie games which I will forever remember from a TIGSource forum thread as the "globetrotting international hipster clique": creators who live very far apart and only see each other at big conferences. Often this ends in people from the same city learning of each other's existence by flying to a different city where a conference is. After you hit a critical mass of people aware of each other in a city, it's just a matter of running a regular local event.

And what I've noticed personally in some 9 years of attending or helping host those events is that while the games scene in a city will derive most of its people from other industries(e.g. in SF you get a lot of tech workers with a hobby project) the way in which it's shaped depends on the type of regular events held and their focus. Some events are focused on business or technical lectures; others are co-working of some form; still others are public-facing showcases. Each of those has their purpose and you do need a sufficiently large city to experience all categories, since without a balance you end up with an average game output that has too little creativity, is poorly shaped as a product, lacks in technical ability, etc. There is a lot of wasted time in indie games that results from someone, somewhere retreating into the work without other eyes on it.
As far as atomic physics is concerned (except for hyperfine structure), the proton is simply a blob of charge which can be to first order described by a position-dependent charge density \rho(r). The RMS charge radius r_p is defined by r_p^2 = (\int r² \rho(r) d³r) / (\int \rho(r) d³r).
There is no "randomness generated along the way" in the MWI. Schroedinger's equation is deterministic and according to many-worlders is the only thing that "makes things happen". Everything that happens in every "world" was bound to happen since the beginning of the evolution of the "multiverse".
What the parent is saying is that the field is a continuum. What matters is a certain strength of the field that matches measurable effects.
Nerdwriter: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJkMlOu7faDgqh4PfzbpLdg
Does your local resolver not have to query an upstream provider? Is that recursive query private?
No, that's because Kentucky is Kentucky.
Ben Eater is also top notch content: https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc

but it's not artistic
As per the top comment at the moment of writing, most of these day traders were likely to be clueless people roped in by scammy "day trading courses".
Ironically, even this very article has been posted on HN twice before.
But in those instances, the company contracted by Amazon will now, no longer, be able to use contractors, they would be employees.
How do such small planets hold onto their atmospheres?
How is the EU blocking UK from doing whatever they want? Are they going to kick UK out of EU If they don't comply?

By the way Switzerland and UK have already negotiated part of their relationship after Brexit, so I suppose that the blocking is not that hard....
In today's media environment it is a known attack to build credibility using small or occasional truths (or at least, not easily disproven statements) to then support a larger, more widely and thinly spread disinformation campaign.

Thus the warning.

It is a category error to think that we are operating in a Platonic environment of ideas, evaluating and discussing them independently. We are in a disinformation war environment with combatants who are skilled and motivated, and informed by at least 100 years of practice, and should operate accordingly.
What the realestate sector needs is fewer rent-seekers, squatters, speculators, and stakeholders with a vested interest against seeing more development, but I strongly doubt VC startups are going to do anything about any of those issues.
>> Because it is a interesting avenue to investigate if someone wants to know more.

Seems like an assumption about the value of other people's time vs. your own.
The making fun part doesn't apply, but my point is that just because this isn't new to you doesn't mean it is something "everyone knows". So when you say "There's nothing in that article that we didn't already know" it is both incorrect and dismissive of those who haven't learned of this yet.
I think the segment on late night TV that I watched used to be called "street walking with jay lenno", or something along those lines.

The premise was pretty much: take a question that might sensibly appear on a GED test (highschool graduation equivalency, without the class credits), that probably at least 50% of the viewers (so adults that could afford a TV and stay awake until midnight / had just finished watching the news) would probably, if not know, have a good enough idea to say if an answer was obviously wrong. Then go out and film until you got enough bad answers to fill the segment.

I'm under no illusions that the bad examples were cherry picked, but I am also strongly inclined to believe that a "large percent" of the population isn't informed, and doesn't want to be informed, and literally just isn't fit to actually vote.

The US believes everyone should have the right to vote; and I agree with that. However I believe that every voter should be an informed voter that can at least understand the basic impact of their actions and should at least be able to pass an ECON101 test. I would really prefer a local, national, geo-political, basic law, and economics (including some light math) test as a pre-requisite for being able to vote; BUT if the test isn't passed that person would qualify for employment (lit paid) as a student, where attendance in class and academic progress would be part of the pay. If there are medical issues/etc impeding learning that should already be covered by universal health coverage (in a non-broken country).
doh-proxy is pretty neat and tiny. The flyio/doh-proxy docker image is pretty much ready to go if you want to use it somewhere else. It's just a little harder to get the "global" bit.
About time. Story:

Grew up in an area that is close to but not in Malaria country.

One day my mom comes back from visiting a friend that had malaria. Reports he was in tears due to suffering.

...that severely rattled me as a kid. Because I knew he's the kind of man that sews himself together again with fishing line. People like that do not as a general rule cry.
Loans backed by his shares in WeWork, and by promises of rental cashflow from letting the properties out to WeWork.

This makes a fantastic amount of money for everyone involved, as long as WeWork stock is valued > the price of toilet paper, and as long as demand for shot-term office real estate continues to be high. If either of these assumptions fail to hold, there are going to be very serious problems.

There's no conflict of interest in this sort of self-dealing, none whatsoever...
The Collatz Conjecture, which the paper described in the blog works toward proving, is taught in introductory computer science and discrete math courses. Many people on this site who have gone through a university CS program will have heard of this problem and its notorious difficulty, so progress would be familiar and potentially exciting.
> I'm from the South too, which isn't something I'm proud of at all

I get that feeling. I live on the West Coast and spend a lot of time online and, man, the number of supposedly progressive, tolerant liberals who are willing to completely shit on an entire group of people based on where they were born or their accent is astonishingly large. There's some real cognitive dissonance around this. They'd never criticize someone for being born in a third-world country, or speaking in black vernacular English. But they're happy to joke that every Alabamian commits incest and every person who says "ain't" is an ignorant dipshit.

There are many legitimate things to dislike about the South, just like there are many legitimate things to dislike about every region, culture, and people. But I don't think it's fair or healthy to feel shame about being from the South.

First of all, there's no sense in shame for something you don't control. You didn't commit an original sin by choosing to be born from there. More importantly, though, being from the South is an important piece of the holistic sum that is you and you shouldn't feel ashamed for who you are. You're allowed to like your whole self.

Also, there's a lot of stuff that's actually pretty great about the South. People may be less kind to out-groups there, but they are conversely more helpful for members of in-groups. Get a flat tire and my hunch is someone will pull over to help you sooner in Mississippi than in New York.

Outside of the South, there is a greater tolerance at the group level. People strive hard to not be racist, sexist, etc. But they are more willing to shun individuals to who don't precisely fit into the proper culture mold. In the South, my experience is that people are more understanding and forgiving of individual transgressions and idiosyncracies.

Also, the South has the best food.
All trades are zero-sum. For any price change in a stock, the money made by one party is equal to the money that could have been made by the other. Given the choice to either buy now or buy later, if the price appreciates, buying later is a loss and if it falls, it is a gain.

So in your example with the biotech stock, the person who loses the corresponding $100 is whoever sold it to you prior to the news event. If they had not made that trade, they would be $100 ahead, and if you had not made the trade, you would be $100 behind. Every transaction has a winner and a loser when considered over a period of time.
California Bill Makes App-Based Companies (Uber/Lyft) Treat Workers as Employees
We send out invitations on a rolling basis, which means they're usually in batches (so I can't point to a specific timeline—we have quite a few who have signed up. :) ). Could you send me an email at edwin@stripe.com and I can check?
My post makes zero sense? Are you sure you have thought things through?

So how does a driver get clients without Uber? If they can get clients without Uber, why did they use Uber?

How do clients know they can trust a driver? Taxi, OK - a taxi driver has to shell out serious money to get a license. Sometimes they must show proof of training. That makes them somewhat trustworthy, especially since their license can be revoked after a transgression.

For Uber, I suppose they tried to replace that with a rating system.

Without Uber, how do you propose making it work? I suspect simply becoming taxi drivers is not a viable option for many Uber drivers - because of the time and money commitment.
I dunno, man - I agree with you that there are way too many variables at play, but the bit about innovation..

Technology as en enabler of things. Not all tech is easily accessible on day 1 though. Industrialization for example, was capital-intensive, so not everyone could play.

As for music - I'd say that, like software, as the barriers to access and entry were lowered, innovation took off (A-track / cassettes / radio etc..).

As for conservatism - that can come in many flavors. We really should appreciate the amount of innovation that takes place on a farm.
Nope. Arizer and Storz and Bickel are up there and absolutely pulling their weight. The solo, volcano/mighty/crafty are certainly well known, so Pax doesn't have the lock down on brand recognition.

There's a second tier of cheap-but-probably-safe that's companies like boundless or healthy rips.

Then there are the fan favorites / esoteric-nerd things like dynavap or the aforementioned basemenet-makers or hobbyist/lifestyle companies. They're not going to hit mass-market volume but they've got the nerds covered.

Pax is killing it with the Era (but that's for concentrates) and their parent company is Juul, so they're well positioned -- but they are not setting the trend of the market at all. They continue to make good-but-overpriced conduction-only units that are increasingly just totally eclipsed by convection/hybrid units with replaceable batteries or alternative heat sources.
The first amendment protects the right to fire someone on the basis of their LGBTQ identity?
Luckily the gains from tripling compensation usually far outstrip the losses from tripling living costs and taxes.
It varies significantly depending on the type of equity. Options are taxed when you exercise them, not when they vest.
Brainwashed?
Help the environment by not buying a new iPhone
This might make a good "Ask HN" question / submission.
That's a news for me
Using your excerpt, I read it as the monster being Softbank.
> " Son may turn out to be the Victor Frankenstein of the cheap-money era. He’s helped create a monster that could do him serious harm."

Son's creation (Softbank) is doing plenty harm by investing vast amounts of money in businesses which "have no discernible path to profitability"
> You probably tripled your living costs and taxes too.

Even if entirely true (which is not immediately clear - does the car or phone or laptop cost triple in NYC?), that is by itself a great deal.