skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the prices are down to 2cents/GB, cheaper than standard AWS + without the fees. [1]

Back in 2015, it was 20cents per GB. [2]

Besides ZFS with snapshots, one of their benefits vs "dumb" cloud storage is you can run a server side component, e.g. borg which requires both a client and server. They even have slightly reduced pricing (which isn't that big a deal anymore, it was 3 cents vs 8-20 back in 2016 [3]) if you only need borg and don't need the configuration support. [4]

EDIT: And, tons of other things I forgot about: git, s3cmd, and others! [5]

[1] https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150509033924/https://www.rsync...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20160926192841/http://rsync.net/...

[4] http://rsync.net/products/borg.html

[5] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html
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I've been in places in the USA and Europe that just feel devoid of birds or often insects. Lift a log in Australia and there are dozens of living things crawling around. In parts of the US, more often than not, there's nothing.

I have a pretty routine suburban backyard in South Australia and there are loads of birds, as with your experience - lorikeets, wattlebirds, etc.
I’m not sure I agree with all the comments here.

You can explain this story the same way as you did here, with perhaps a little less bitterness. Something like:

“This was my first job. I thought I needed the experience, even though I knew the company was somewhat toxic. It was not going well, but thought I’d stay because it would look bad if I left. Then I told my boss things weren’t going well and he fired me, which to be honest was a relief. So all in all it was a big mistake and a waste of time, but at least now I know that company culture is important and this is also why I want to join your great company blah blah blah”
It's new, just a few years ago it was 20c! https://web.archive.org/web/20150509033924/https://www.rsync...
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Yup, our three floor building was 40k to repaint and fix a few custom windows (with plastic instead of custom wrapped glass) . Hadn’t been painted in over 20 years though.
Did you calculate in the greenhouse gas?

Cost is not the whole story.
Electric buses are starting to become a thing too.
Having all those examples on the same page is a really bad idea for mobile; they all block each making it the page pretty much unusable.
>bring back traditional Chinese characters

The Japanese people, through their democratically-elected representatives, chose to simplify many of their Kanji characters[0].

Should Japan also be forced to bring back traditional Japanese Kanji characters as well? What about Singapore[1]? I'm a little lost on which countries need to bring back their traditional characters and which needn't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Chinese_characters
Most likely areas where they perform a lot of family separations that can also be close enough to other common locations with many people of color to be a useful training aid. Arizona is close to the south with wide open cities and Chicago is indicative of a lot of northern cities with choose packed buildings. There's already a ton of teaching facilities for individual houses or foreign locations. This is really not that surprising. If they were building something like Minneapolis or Boise I'd take more notice.
I believe in US/Canada if you work in a restaurant Wages are subsidized with tips we don't tip here in Australia so the higher minimum wage probably accounts for that.
You also have python and R stored procedures. Is it written in python?
Wow, this is even more questionable than how Otto proposed, "you're my rose, will you let me be your thorn?"

> Polina Soldatova, the psychologist, says the only people who get to enjoy the experience are those in the position of power. "The would-be fiancées laugh and smile out of relief that the men aren't real cops," she says.

This is the new winner for largest red flag for marriage I've ever heard. I think if someone told me this is how they proposed, that would be all I would need to know about that person.
You’re missing a few things:

- He may be socially responsible and not want to charge through the roof. E.g. likes the tenants, prefers stability etc.

- The whole point of the law is indeed to prevent large raises. But what if expenses suddenly skyrocket, or inflation does, and he has to increase more or go bankrupt? That’s the worry here. No, the law won’t react quickly enough. It’s preventing him from being socially responsible.

- You assume annual 7% would not work eventually because it will raise the price too much in the market. This assumes free market, but you don’t have it anymore, now you’re regulated. In particular, your missing that everybody else will adopt the same rational self-preserving policy. Approximately the entire market is going to grow 7% YoY now.

- nitpicking: 7% before, not after
'created /in/' is not equivalent to 'created /by/' or 'is a product of'.
I wonder if it works better when tram or subway is free. Those are faster and cheaper, though not suitable for "spoke" connections.
Why ? Taxes are great when they are fair, well spent, and seriously monitored, both for corruption abuse and undue/unbearable increase.

Paying the bus or a tax is the same thing for you if it's well done, but then as you said: it's more convenient, when you're in trouble one month you'll still be able to use the transport, tourists benefit from it, and last but not least, crazy poor people can have a chance to move around freely...
Government-backed attackers may be trying to steal your password
https://rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html

You get 7 free snapshots that do not count against your quota.

Additional snapshots are charged based on the byte diffs, not total size.

It uses a standard protocol and anything that uses ssh can conceivably communicate with it.

Oh, and you are not charged for transfer.
Knowledge would still spread as people change jobs etc. Your view of knowledge seem very company based, but the know-how resides in the people and they move around.
Your anecdotes support the idea that it's hard for multiple modes of transportation with different travel speeds to coexist in the same space. When I cycle, I try to never ride on a sidewalk, because it's unpleasant both for me as a rider and for pedestrians.

In a perfect world, we would have separate infrastructure for pedestrians, cyclists/scooters, and cars -- but our cities aren't laid out that way. Instead, most of the time, we devote huge tracts of land to cars, and force everyone else to share the scraps.

Where should the cyclists in your anecdote be riding? What speed do cars in the lanes nearby travel, and how aware are they of other road users?

The conversation can be very different from city to city, but in most places in America, sharing the road with cars means risking serious injury or death
> It's often a matter of eliminating options that are stupid, illogical, or inconsistent.

But how do you know which options are stupid? Because they sound stupid to you? Are you confident enough in your powers of detecting stupid that you would base denying people basic rights on it? What gives you that enormous confidence?

> if it was only eliminating those who literally have no idea what is going on.

The number of people who have an idea what is going on, when we're talking about things like whole US economy, might be surprisingly small. In fact, sometimes I am tempted to think that number is zero. Of course, for me it makes me think maybe we need less government involvement, since a blind giant with a sledgehammer is worse than a blind giant without one, but some people think that means we need to abandon democracy. OK, but unless you are an anarchist, how do you propose to choose the government then? By instituting a series of exams? Chinese tried that, actually. Not sure it worked that spectacularly well. Check it out.
There’s nothing magical here, the first term describes a 180 degree rotation around a circle of radius 1, landing you at -1. Then you add 1 and you land at the Center of your circle, (0,0).
Most bikes are beaters and wouldn't be worth stealing for it's value, although I've been told every Dane has stolen a bike once in their life when in need of transport.
I am wondering the same thing
I’ve done other things that almost got me killed but nothing gives me the heebeejeebees like thinking about the time I drunkenly peed into a river delta near daintree. I don’t even want to think about what was waiting for me to step closer to the water...
Exact. It's marginal. Saying "written in .net" about sql server made the Microsoft PFEs laugh during our coffee break though.
I live in Santa Monica and even here doesn't get 365 days of sunlight.
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This is just equivalent to canister in gas-powered vehicles.
But the public will be paying retail.
You can get the better version in Firefox if you click Globe in the menu on the left.
Oh but you know it all change when a new lump comes in: a new office of collection must be created, temptation to use it to fund something else must be constantly fought, and 2 years later everyone even forgot why this tax was in in the first place.

The tax is nice to try, but what's best for laws like that is to remember they are trials, and we should be honest in accepting it's more expensive for everyone to pay a cheap tax than paying more for each transport, however weird it sounds at first.
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I mean, you could arbitrarily chop the precision of all sorts of things to make them "equal". It hardly seems significant or illuminating.
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Let me give you a datapoint and hopefully some intuition. I used to live in Calgary, which is an extremely car-centric city. Population is 1 million and city transit had about a 1000 buses plus two train lines, making it about 1000 people per bus. There are about a million cars in the city.

Let's say that the city got 10 times more buses i.e. 10,000 total. That's 100 people per bus, which should be adequate for everyone to use transit, even with the constraints of how bad the city design is (really wide roads, too many curves and deadends, spread out suburbia). Buses cost about half a million which is maybe 25x the cost of a car. So, the 10k buses would be equivalent to about 0.25 million cars in terms of capital cost. Which is a factor of 4 improvement on the number of cars in terms of capital cost.
I'm trying to understand: are you saying landlords should be able to not pay property taxes on the current value, not get their property seized by the state if they don't pay property taxes, collect market rate rents from tenants, and also keep all of the profit from property value gains once they sell?

But ignoring that absurdity - property taxes are usually 2% of the property value. So you'd need to what... Not pay any property tax at all for 100+ years for that scenario to play out?

But let's say we allowed that to happen, and we're somehow sympathetic to that owner. You still don't evict anyone over property taxes. The next buyer will just have to work it out. See Detroit and its $1 homes with $20k in back taxes.

I guess the problem here is I don't see housing as something anyone should expect a guaranteed profit from. I view it just like anything else - there's real risk, and if you're going to privatize the profit, you damn sure better privatize the risk, too.
This looks interesting but the code samples look like they include non-standard features (if I'm not mistaken).

Is this compatible out of the box with (most) modern web apps? Because that's the real value of Electron.
> core problem in the United States' institutions - Defense industry dysfunction.

Not Super PACs? "they can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee
Same here. I have 3 pairs of jeans and 7 shirts I really like, most of them go well together. Done.
since it's getting down voted .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(programming_language)
Going back to traditional characters was a strange addition to the list. But why would the other things there be going backwards? I don't see how those are mutually exclusive with economic success.
In fairness, in high speed digital design it's not true that a "wire is a wire".
Let's not pussyfoot around then. Let's enforce software patents rigorously, and do it retroactively.

Now we can make it easy on ourselves and cut a single cheque of what amounts to basically all the value in the world to Don Knuth. I'm sure he can pass various bits on to the other stake holders.

Congratulations:

- The technology company you work for is now out of business, you're jobless.

- Don Knuth is now Emperor of the planet.

...

which sounds like a pretty good state of affairs, really. Satire isn't supposed to end up like that.

However, bottom line remains: no one who would be a real stakeholder in the field is in favour of software patents. Software is mathematical; again, no experts have ever argued software isn't mathematics, almost by definition.
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Roger Hui: In the year 2033 Earth was discovered by Survey Fleet MCXII of the Galactic Empire. The Emperor ordered Earth to send a representative to the court, with strict instructions to “bring something beautiful”.

Emperor:
What beautiful things does Earth have?

Earth Representative:
Your excellency, our mathematician Euler proved in our year 1737 that +/(1+⍳∞)-s ←→ ×/÷1-(⍭⍳∞)-s

Emperor:
What is the ⍭ symbol?

Earth Rep.:
⍭i is the i-th prime.

Emperor:
And what is ∞? Does it do anything useful?

Earth Rep.:
It denotes infinity, your excellency.

Emperor:
(ponders equation for a minute or two) Respect!

Emperor:
Neat notation you have there. Tell me more.

Earth Rep.:
Your excellency, it’s called APL. It was invented by the Canadian Kenneth E. Iverson …
> what does it mean that I love thinking about ways of gaming systems like this?

That you might be a good security researcher? From https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...:

> Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed surprise that you could get ants sent to you in the mail.

> I replied: "What's really interesting is that these people will send a tube of live ants to anyone you tell them to."
I think you’re confusing 5 miles / day with 5 miles each way. 5 miles per day is 2.5m each way which is about 45 minutes each way of walking and 90 minutes total walking per day (not each way)
This has been an option for at least a decade. (My 2008 Prius has this, for example)

The first version was just a panel that ran a fan, which ran if the inside temp > outside temp.

The next generation had an actual separate battery for the solar panel, which engaged the car's AC when needed.
The cities (or areas of the city) where people don't actually use cars are the ones where car use is banned. There are always millionaires for whom reasonable monetary incentives or costs are of no concern and convenience/comfort is everything.
Hey, thanks! =D
Should people who bought bananas in the 20's have been jailed for life?

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

They certainly caused violence with their money much more directly than modern drug users.
All engineering is just “applied math.” It’s the “applied part” that makes it patentable. (You cannot patent an algorithm. You can patent a method of getting getting radios to aggregate into networks. Or a method of wayfinding for a self driving car. Or a method of indexing and ranking web pages.)
It's as creepy as a smelly tank of algae growing your vitamins. (Essentially compost.)
Your comment makes it sound like Kickstarter has fascist employees who were being protected by management.

Reading the article, it turns out it's about a comic book posted on Kickstarter that explicitly condones and encourages solving political differences with violence, this breaking their ToS. In particular, this work encouraged violence against fascists, so it's a relatively defensible position, but it's totally not as clear cut as you make it out to be. I'm not entirely sure I think it's right to encourage violence against any group, even ones I despise. I understand that their ToS block it.

In fact, I'm confused that one would unionize over their employer blocking a work that violates their ToS.
So 47 each way... splitting hairs.
Dunno. There's an efficiency in making this less than perfect. It might well be more efficient to make 100 probes that have a 90% chance of making it 1 million years than trying to make 10 probes that have a 99% chance.

Not to mention there's likely some hierarchy of probes. The smallest ones relay to the bigger ones, the bigger ones can related to the huge ones, and the huge ones can report back home.

So maybe somewhere within 100 light years a factory started converting asteroids to probes and launching them at 100k miles an hour and lobbed a few our way. That would have been some 600,000 years ago.
That is the best explanation I've ever seen.
Excellent. Now tell me, what is your financial situation?
This property is a prime piece of New York manhattan, bridging New York's best burroughs. It has several rooms, some hidden doors which the kids will love, and you can't beat the commute. You can walk to either Manhattan or Brooklyn in 20 minutes. It even has beach front access and a diving board!

Now tell me your financial status and your credit rating. Actually, I'll just ask Google, they already know.
90 minutes per day not each way if the commute is 5 miles per day. That’s walking distance of you’re motivated, but if I lived 2.5 miles from work I think I’d commute on my OneWheel at least when it’s not raining.
I've though about this. 100 x 100 W solar panels charging for 10 hours per day would give you 100 kWh, which is about 500 km range in a Tesla X or S. 100 panels is a lot — you'd need a small trailer to carry them, and set up and packing away each day would be hard work. But it would be possible.

US Route 66 (4000 km) would take 8 days. Circumnavigating Australia on Highway 1 (14,500 km) would take ~30 days. Drive at dawn and dusk, park during the day and see the sights.
They are not Israeli citizens, and therefore not counted under the Israeli populace.

The 20% I referred to are Israeli-Arabs.
I can guess (however unlikely it may be) how Uber might some day make money through its monopoly power or use of autonomous cars and justify its valuation. I just can't imagine how WeWork could continue growing and turn a profit if it can't do it in this booming economy. The freelancers and small businesses that use it are likely the first to end their memberships and work from home or coffee shops.
This doesn't sound like a new funding model. Releasing a free open-source product as a "teaser", and then charging for things like: support, customisation, add-ons, security patches for old versions, etc. is already done, and is IMO the best way to make money from open source. Canonical, Red Hat, Elastic Co, and many more already do this.

So I'm not saying the article is wrong at all in its assessment, just that it shouldn't claim to be something new.
Talking about rotation as if that is obviously relevant completely skips the surprising and interesting part of this identity.

edit: Said another way, what you said is an explanation for what (cos(pi), sin(pi)) is. That exp(i*pi) has anything to do with sine or cosine is what makes the identity interesting, and your explanation says nothing about that.
Hey, got to say say that I am a big fan of your music as well.

Seen you live outside Volvo and at big festivals. Random Friday eat all are excellent for unwinding and reflecting as the darkness comes.

I feel there’s something particularly Scandinavian to the style of you and Carbon Based Lifeforms as well, but in a very different way to Wintergatan’s urban vibes of course... Makes me think of misty fern forests, the barren broken-up landscapes in the north and something mysterious in the twilight.

Have not heard about the others you mentioned though, will definitely check out!
That'd drive me mental. Especially when there is c. or ~ for that job.
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I don’t know anything about afterburners, if it’s the same fuel as the usual engine, what about it needs to be lit with a lower temperature fuel?

I always assumed afterburners just meant opening the throttle up but there must be more to it
A number fills the same space in your registers regardless of size, up until the max size, at which point it must be split into multiple operations, and that's when it takes longer.
That's the marble machine X, the marble machine was the first iteration and was built and performed in a video a few years ago. It was unreliable and couldn't be disassembled to perform with outside of a studio hence the new project.
I work in purchasing (manufacturing) and I'm react hobbyist.

Due to the fact that my career turned in the automotive direction (too long story why that happens), the change of industry will probably never come.
Saving money to transfer to IT job is not easy with a 2 + 2 family and a new home.

In general in the office is like:
"Did you saw yesterday the game in TV? It was amazing"
"Naah, I'm working now on a Reddit clone"
and they just don't understand me.

IT or to be more precise programming is my passion or maybe a dream.
That's why I return everyday on HN and read Dan Abramov tweets
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The science and technology is awe-inspiring .. as in awwww-mother fucker, we could have had universal healthcare and a peaceful world if we didn't spend trillions of dollars on this bullshit.
1. people don't have an incentive to avoid ports of entry if we don't make the admissions process so draconian.

2. 'illegal' isn't a noun. These are people we're talking about. This is not a place for you to peddle your propaganda.
Alternatively, you can generate Pi digits one by one in a streaming way: https://observablehq.com/@mourner/calculating-pi-digits
Neat - maybe we'll be able to have renewable-powered sandcrawlers before much longer.

I'm honestly surprised that nobody has tried to make a city-block-sized desert vehicle when it's such a common sci-fi concept.

Maybe it'd be too hard to tow when it inevitably got stuck.
They’ll usually have both. The office is supposed to be where you discuss things that shouldn’t be overheard. And to slack.
As someone who is not depended on by anyone, I still have to acquire a monthly payment. I don't have a way out of the rat race either.