skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Owlet baby monitor servers are down preventing live monitoring
Should bes are tricky. At least historically, competitiveness & national pride have been good drivers. That usually meant big money national projects for the US and Russia. More recently it has meant affordable projects can be sold to smaller national governments. Israel & India both went this way recently. Both crashed their landers, but that might not be such a terrible thing.

There are also international efforts and private ones.

I like having multiple tools in the toolbox. They all seem to operate quite differently. ESA/NASA can do long horizon boundary projects and hard science. ISS can do hard science, and expand/internationalize the knowledge base. These small, one-off national projects can try out new (often low cost) designs and a "just because" rationales for missions. Private space is making great progress commodifying launches... Roscosmos has more room to play (currently, they sell seats on their vehicles), without having to support white elephant projects that compete with NASA's budget.

I'd say we're doing well, better than 10-20 years ago when the ISS had more of the "space pie," because space explorations is dispersed.

I definitely agree with the spirit of "earthlings unite" but I also like the plurality of space agencies. Hopefully, India is hooked and we'll see more from them.

No hate on international (or non national) projects though. Maybe Israel & India can combine forces for a 3rd mission. Both attempted a moon mission for around $100m. Both crashed their first attempt. If a 3rd mission succeeds we'll have a win for cooperation and we'll also have a proof of concept for affordable moon missions.
> that opened my eyes out of religion

Out of Catholicism perhaps, unless people studied each and every religion out there, they can't make this claim.
People are welcome; politics are not. I have been happily living in flyover country. Don’t move here with your gun control.
it's not a solution to the housing crisis. It's a solution for a minority of the professional class who have the opportunity to work remotely. The majority of workers in large urban areas don't fall into this demographic, blue collar and white collar service sector workers won't be able to work across the country.

Not to mention that it'll be interesting to see what happens during the next recession when some of those people are let off and all the remote workers in Boise are a mismatch for the local economy. Which they already arguably are because as the article points out their purchasing power keeps spiking local prices without bringing in local investment and business.
Remember: there are BitTorrent links that the Wikimedia Foundation gives out of SQL dumps of Wikipedia and the other projects. You can have a copy in case this happens in your country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Wh...

Also, the Kiwix project has a hotspot project that allows you to host ZIM files (dumps of Wikipedia and other CC licensed content, like TED talks and StackOverflow) on a Raspberry Pi, allowing you to share it with others. Setup info here: https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-hotspot/
> there's no social activity in suburbs

I find that hard to believe.
I've worked remote for 2 years.

Cons -

1. I spent a lot of time alone at home working or at cafes. Not a lot of hanging out with friends while i was working.

2. I dedicated a part of my house and called it my office. 6 months later, i was bored of the setup and spent a lot more money purchasing things for the "DREAM DESK"

Pros -

1. Great flexibility, loved that part though.
2. Made me better at communication. This is important.

I wish i would've actually taken a co-working space so that change would have been great i think.
They have been saying this for years, it's still not true.
It pegs the processor, blocking UI updates. A reboot will not help that
> The amount of plastic is a small percentage of that volume - that 10-year mountain might become a single office building of solid plastic.

A typical pedantic HN's comment. The point of the infographic is to draw attention to the growing plastic pollution crisis. In 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans [0]. Plastic is falling out of the sky in Arctic [1]. Does it really matter if you count intact bottles or pure plastic volume?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/2...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051
Except that I can't scroll the page, because the car-driving illustration at the top hijacks the arrow keys.
Hmm sounds like you're missing out on the Billing > Reports or Billing > Cost breakdown sections of GCP Console's Billing section. In Reports it does exactly what you want when you group by SKU in the Filters

Incidentally a UI startup for AWS/Google Cloud is an incredibly bad idea. You're just a sitting duck waiting to be killed, and also you have no full control over the API.
I wish I could compare municipalities. I just moved Toronto -> New York and it's been fun to wrap my head around a new urbanscape.
It is a classic arms race, which is self-reinforcing and detrimental to all participants, but cannot be broken by local decisions.

A rational group cannot break the trend, if the psycho alpha male co-worker still wants to fight for priority (and VP status). Even a union in one company cannot enforce anything, because anything that lowers productivity will destroy the company.

Any union that has power across multiple companies ends in restrictive practices, anti-competitive behaviour, and barriers to entry to the workforce, where the psycho alpha male union boss calls the tune (mafia all over again). Then whole national industries die in the face of cut-throat international competition ...
Wow, I had not considered the deeper power shifts from this perspective.

The root the problem, I suppose, lies with public-key cryptography. We all know encryption is a good thing (unless you want to broadcast private information to the world), but encryption is useless unless you know who you are talking to. When someone comes to you in a ski mask and says, "It's me, your best friend", you probably want to see their face before you tell them any secrets - they could be anybody.

Online, though, how do we know who anybody is? The current answer, for better or worse, is TLS with pay-to-play domain registration and certificate authorities. Decentralized, peer-to-peer systems like PGP have never been easy for consumers to use. You can "off-road" encrypted DNS by running your own DoH server & installing self-signed certificates on your client devices, but that's not an easy option.

"My LAN is my castle" may work for some cases, but most of us conduct business with people all over the world, thanks to the internet. This is the primary use-case for most networks & computer systems.

I'm afraid individuals will continue losing the power struggle as long as decentralized identity systems remain obscure. We need something that's as easy and compelling to use as our current centralized systems. It needs to be something consumers can use it to secure their every-day communications, as easy as visiting an HTTPS web site or chatting with a friend on Facebook. I just don't know how we get from here to there.
Apple’s New iPhones Launch on Tuesday. Here’s What to Expect
Bend, Oregon is apparently the remote work capital of the US, according to statistics compiled by one of the Oregon state economists who - it turns out - works remotely from Bend rather than in Salem or Portland.

IDK... I've done remote work too, but I now have a job in an office and it makes me happier to be around other people, and to be able to chat about stuff in a higher bandwidth way.
I drive a European seven seater diesel car - plenty of space for three adults - and I get better than 55 mpg on road trips.

YMMV, of course. ;)
"I hate the way our application is written. We need to be able to instrument it and also rewrite all that icky old logic. Basically we should rewrite the entire thing. It will take us about 3 years"
After reading Apple press release again, It seems it was actually directed against China but in very subtle way. Even Google Project zero skipped mention of Uighur community targeting to not get involved in Geo politics of this attack. But Apple is now in a big dilemma as it is in very vulnerable to retaliation by Chinese government hence it also had to draft press release in such a way that it would seem that they are angry at Google.
Apple do not want to go Google way and lose access to Chinese market.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612601/how-google-took-on...
This is the kind of fractious factionalist junk that is designed to stoke terrestrial xenophobic fears.

Anecdotally I have traveled and met folks abroad as well as interacted with many immigrants domestically, at the end of the day I think it’s safe to say the basic nature of being hunt leads to us all having more in common than not.

Now governments being divisive for short sighted power grabs? Sure, but don’t say it’s the people.
Cops are being paid regardless. Fare jumping costs the system a non-trivial amount of money.
That doesn't appear to be the case here. This was done for the attention, not just for the thrill of breaking things.
Doing an ‘aws s3 sync ...’ on a directory with large files causes 100% CPU usage
Whenever I see India running a space program I always think that its money would be better spent raising the level of society there.
>I think the biggest evil of suburbs is the commute. I think part of the reason there's no social activity in suburbs is because, honestly, who wants to do anything after spending an hour in traffic after getting off your 8-5 job and knowing you need to be out the door by 6:30 the next day?

Takes me an hour+ to get home 6 miles outside of the city (still in the City, but not downtown) on the bus. Not a great argument you have there unless you ignore everyone that isn't privileged enough to live in the city downtown proper.
Why Jeff Bezos’ Two-Pizza Team Rule Still Holds True in 2018
CVTs grant you the ability to maintain peak power at all speeds for acceleration and you don't have any losses to shifting. If you look at recent Civics for example Sport trims with more horsepower and a manual trans will lose out or tie CVT models in 0-60 and 1/4 mile times despite the CVTs having bad launch characteristics. And this doesn't even touch on how torquey they can feel at higher speed relative to a standard trans at the same HP.

I won't question your claims about reliability but CVTs are actually pretty performant within their segment, they just dont make the Vroom Vroom shifty noises that some car enthusiasts equate to performance.

The primary issue with CVTs (as others have mentioned) is that they can't be strapped to engines that make more than ~200 HP.
I have friends who have regular block parties in their neighborhoods with BBQ and keg beer. Probably depends a lot on your neighbors and their proclivities.
Radicalizing in the Name of Islam
Not sure how you came to this conclusion. GCP by far has the better UI, even AWS engineers acknowledge this.
On non-automated lines start by adding god damn train trackers to the individual trains and start splitting the blind sections of the track by adding cameras and sensors. They don't need to make the lines automatic. They just need to add visibility.

This is not a small thing
What I learned from getting fired at Facebook (with Q&A)
The group size thing is of course easily bypass. It was not intended to be a preventive measure, but a reminder from Big brother that we are watching you. People are required to use real name and other personal information to register and law enforcement can freely read those information. It was not unheard that people would raid by police for their online activity.

So, the group size cap is just a rule to say if your group was not over the cap, you will be fine. If you bypass that somehow, you enter a grey area where the government may or may not inference you depending on the nature of the event.
Maybe at the highest end, they're 3000, but a quick search of apartments.com shows there are still plenty of nice apartments to be had in the 1000-1500 range.
Yes. See Phoenix.
Caveat: the last full Kiwix English Wikipedia archive was made in 2018. They could use some help with automating their build process if anyone here has the time.
Terrific. Thank you.

I wish I had studied philosophy.

I recently learned (from HN) about the Copenhagen Effect. It helped me to think about why attempts to help, then they are not entirely successful, often get criticized harshly.

I am looking for a layperson's guide to ethical theories.

I first imagined a 20 questions style game. Given hypothetical ethic conundrums, the student answers questions, leading to a strategy. Like with interactive fiction, the student can explore different choices. This corpus could be built organically, over time (1).

This short story you shared suggests another idea. Something like China Miéville meets Gulliver's Travels. Where Gulliver encounters various societies faced with the same ethical dilemma and how they responded.

It's probably silly to think so vast as belief systems can be so easily summarized. But maybe it could be useful start.

(1) Much like the Apple ][ educational game called Animals, which tried to guess the animal you're thinking of, and add new ones. Gah, I can't find a link.
Uber is getting into the small loan business for its drivers
This comment seems oddly off topic
I work remotely (6 years) and I live in a small-ish town (130k). I have no desire to live in a big city. I get the appeal of being able to walk or take public transportation everywhere, but the tradeoffs are worth it. It’s quieter, more laid back, and I have a lot of space. I also have a family and a dog, and so maybe that plays a part.
For anybody looking the full forms of FOMO & JOMO, like me:

Fear Of Missing Out

Joys Of Missing Out
This is an interesting article, but when I read:

> RL researchers have continued to study the possibilities around imagination replay

I think of what is for me the “holy grail” of AI research and development: counter factual reasoning. I think Gary Marcus has it right: “Computer systems need to understand time, space and causality. Right now they don’t.“ To me, causality and counter factual reasoning are similar in that when we get one working we will get the other.
Not everyone wants to live in a dystopian nightmare crush of cars and people.
I agree with this. Star Trek was immensely western centric. It always struck me as weird the crew would always quote western historical figures or play classic western music as a token of the "old world". In a power structure, homogenizing as "one world" will only benefit those already with more power than everyone else. They would gobble up the little fish and it would all be for a misbegotten ideal.
It sounds like you haven't read the article, which is about covering up donations from someone you knew was a disqualified donor because he was a pedophile, because your own staff kept telling you he was and that you should stop talking to him.
It's literally not zoned for it. Change the zoning laws to at least allow for a local pub or coffee shop in the middle of a residential area, that would be a positive step in the right direction IMHO.
This is a glorified share house which is okay for short term ness when you know it’s end date. Being stuck there indefinitely totally sucks. People want their privacy and they want more of it as they get older. There’s a reason the richer you are the more you try to distance yourself from others by more privacy mechanisms.
You're being downvoted because your comment breaks this guideline:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

Can you share what these words mean to you, or your impression of what they meant to the author?
GP is talking about purchasing an apartment. Since those inherently are part of shared buildings with common areas and maintenance needs, getting one without an HOA (or condo association, same thing) to do those things is pretty much unheard of.
yeah I'm referring to stations, not miles of track. nyc has a ridiculous number of stations that causes the whole system to be a lot more complicated and expensive than just running miles of track with nothing in between.
> We’re different groups of people

What sort of groups, precisely?

Historically, the concept of a "nation" (as the "nat-" root implies) is a people born of the same ancestry, a people native to the same land. Parthians, Medes and Elamites, and so forth - sharing an ethnicity, a language, and a culture.

Yet the first two "nations" to reach space, the US and the USSR, were hardly that. Sure, each had a majority ethnic group, but they both had (in their own way) an expectation that all people within their borders would conform to their culture, and relevantly that their approach to scientific research and space exploration would benefit the country as a whole.

And India isn't a "nation" in the historical sense, anyway. It's a collection of dozens of peoples, with significant and influential minority populations among them, and all are represented in the country as a whole and in ISRO in particular. Getting India into space on its own absolutely serves the needs of India as a sovereign power, but that's very different from saying that it serves the needs of humanity (or that India, or anyone else, should be a sovereign power).

And, relevant to the concept of "nation," there's no particular reason a person born into a high-information world should adopt the values of their ethnicity's historic culture more than any other values they may see.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-plan-to-move-in-to-your...
Space colonization is a wonderful opportunity to create unique civilizations, each pursuing their own destiny. Where does your sadistic desire to control the future of entire mankind come from?

Ability to choose different paths is far more appealing than suffering under some inescapable dystopian global diktat you have in mind. So yes, we should extend tribal thinking to space. Platitudes like "we are single human race" are as meaningful as saying we are all life.
> I think they must count ~100 engineers?

https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ has the names of 379 employees. I believe (perhaps astonishingly) that is all - engineers and non-engineers combined. Their engineers spread across departments, but judging by the 141 instances of the string 'engineer' in that page, I'd be surprised if the number exceeds 200.
You should - it’s not remotely accurate.

What is probably accurate is that there’s a lot less for a single twentysomething (though that depends on your interests). If you’re an adult with a family, there’s more than enough to do.
Visiting a high school my friend founded to be inquiry-driven project-based learning from the ground up moved me away from teaching in ways divorced from regular life. From a systemic approach, it's hard not to look at the universities and professors creating the system that this article describes: assign homework irrelevant to their lives and they'll find irrelevant ways to do it.

Since I've never written an analytical essay outside of school, I avoid assigning them in favor of projects connected to students' lives.

Maybe that's why my students' homework assignments get them covered in the Washington Post, WSJ, Forbes, Inc, and lead to them speaking in TEDx and Harvard, and in Y Combinator, funded by Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt.
China WANTS to disable all mass groupings as they endanger the government and political stability.
"Moreover, if mankind ever expands into space, it would be rather naive to think that earth's nations would play a role there in the long run."

Assuming some sort of breakthrough in cheap propulsion and living systems, I couldn't disagree more. If anything, you'd see efforts at a sub-state level with the early colonies in the Americas given as examples.

I think that states, and particularly nations, are well suited to large scale efforts with minimal or no immediate payoffs. It's hard to get a sufficiently large group to pull on a rope at the same time.
Yep, the maps on the wall would be the biggest loss.

And I wish they would dim the screens at night, especially the new and very-bright ones at outdoor stations.
You’re right, I must have totally misread that page I linked. My resolver was returning a bogus result, I toggled DNSSEC validation, and didn’t dig much further. Looks like it‘s an issue with my resolver on this domain. Odd, because I haven’t touched my configuration in ages and I haven’t seen this problem before.
Does anyone know the nature of the attack? If specific countries were targeted, or if it was widespread but only crashed some smaller sites with less resources/redundancy?
Tell us more! What's the name of your school? Can I send my kids there?
vouched this because it is a legitimate, if inelegant, contribution to the discussion.
Love the test case "but can you run Doom on it?" Great work!

Personally I'd like to see a homebrew OS that attempts some kind of compatibility with 16-bit Windows, with some modern design/conveniences (sortof a ReactOS for the 3.11 world). It seems like people make either 8 bit or 32 bit OSes. Maybe I'm not searching the right terms. Anyone know of anything, or a starting point?
> Epstein had social relationships with many people who likely visited his private residences. We can't throw them all out because most of them are innocent.

They all had to know that he had a vast criminal record involving prostitution and minors, and yet they continued to develop relationships with him.

Would you feel comfortable developing a relationship with someone involved in a high-profile sex crimes case that had tremendous amounts of damning evidence? Epstein, for some reason, seemed to have a pretty active social life even after his trial. And it's striking how many around him downplay their relationships with him now, or actively tried to conceal his role in various activities, as MIT Media Lab did.

> Peter Cohen, the M.I.T. Media Lab’s Director of Development and Strategy at the time, reiterated, “Jeffrey money, needs to be anonymous. Thanks.”

The head of the media lab knew Epstein's donations needed to remain anonymous.

> In October, 2014, the Media Lab received a two-million-dollar donation from Bill Gates; Ito wrote in an internal e-mail, “This is a $2M gift from Bill Gates directed by Jeffrey Epstein.” Cohen replied, “For gift recording purposes, we will not be mentioning Jeffrey’s name as the impetus for this gift.”

They actively took steps internally to make sure Epstein's name wasn't on anything involving donations he directed from people like Bill Gates. So why did Bill Gates deny Epstein was even part of it? That doesn't add up.

> Signe Swenson, a former development associate and alumni coordinator at the lab, told me that she resigned in 2016 in part because of her discomfort about the lab’s work with Epstein. She said that the lab’s leadership made it explicit, even in her earliest conversations with them, that Epstein’s donations had to be kept secret.

Staff members knew what was going on, and in some cases, resigned over it.

Peter Cohen clearly knew that Epstein was not be named anywhere in fundraising activities involving him, there was clearly culture at MIT Media Lab of obscuring his donation activities, and staff members resigned over it because they knew who he was.

Hiding contact with a wealthy sex criminal and then lying about it doesn't look very innocent.
I wouldn’t rule out that they could be staging this attack to increase donations.
I work in an Indian Grocery Store & none of the tens of types of rice are $15 for 25LB. The cheapest is $15 for 20LB.

Edit: Thanks for the price lists of Big Stores. I only have info about Indian Grocery Store.
If you were really trying to be persuasive you would have said no.