skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I do a lot of backcountry with no cell and have mostly relied on old style maps turned to PDFs and downloaded or various OSM apps, this looks up my alley. One question though I often have for membership programs: how does it apply to families? I very much value all 4 of us in my household having the ability to share key apps and data, particularly for something that has safety applications. I see you have a Teams program but that looks commercially oriented. Apple has "Family Sharing" but for paid apps. How does that scenario work with Gaia Topo? If I grabbed a 5 year premium sub, would the kids be able to run off that too (at least while they're living at home) or does each individual need a separate membership?

Not trying to single you out or anything, I think a lot of the current app sales models and sub models are fairly individual focused at the present stage of things. More explicitly addressing couples/families (including what happens as they grow up/split) might be worth considering though, I think a lot of people will spend significantly more if it benefits links with household members.
Similarly until last year I never knew that people actually could visualize things when they closed their eyes. I thought it was more of a metaphor. But alas when I close my eyes it's darkness. Thankfully I have my internal monologue to describe things to me in that darkness.
"interviewing myself in a variety of roles to navigate my thoughts on things"

I used to from time to time imagine my half of a conversation in which I was showing around someone notable who had traveled through time to get to the present day. Maybe someone from 1,000 years ago or maybe from 50. That is, for entertainment, not to cope with anything. I never felt like my imagination was quite good enough to turn it into fiction.

In general though, I don't have a monologue in a continuous sense. I frequently imagine saying things, imagine other people saying things, occasionally imagine saying something to myself, but I would never say that's how I think exclusively. When I am having trouble with a concept or problem though, I tend to return to verbal analysis - a narrative or verbal description helps me figure out things that I otherwise struggle with.

If I am writing, I might be hearing the words in my mind, or I might not. If not, I might reread what I wrote and then feel like editing it, probably because I wasn't conscious enough of how it sounded. So, really, I don't exactly relate to having or not having an "internal monologue". Thinking one type of thought all the time seems weird to me.

As far as this post goes, I didn't know what it would look like until I was done, so I'm not necessarily conscious of how I organize things at all.
It took governments less time to fix the Ozone hole (remember the Montreal Protocol?) than it took for the free market to converge on one type of phone charger that works on multiple devices.

Unfettered faith in free markets and unfettered faith in governments are equally bad things.
It isn’t any coincidence that Texas is one of the few places in the US that has experienced large population growth without a corresponding affordability crisis.
Welp FML. I run a free/lets encrypt/no ads web adaptation of a board game with email verification for only signups and password resets, no "blasts", no nothing else, and I send out ~150 mailgun emails a day.

I mean I guess I can disable it and... if you lose your password, you're fucked? Handling my own SMTP sounds like a nightmare.
Real wingmen...
The target audience of caprover and cloudron is totally different. caprover is a PaaS. Cloudron lets you install ready to use apps like Ghost/GitLab/Discourse/OpenVPN etc. A person who knows how to deploy using docker and more importantly has the time to setup stuff securely, does not need either of these tools. Even there, people will argue why you need docker and why you cannot run with LXC. This goes as deep as you want to go :)

As for the pricing, agreed that it might be out of reach for personal use. I think it really depends on what you get out of the product. Our target at the moment is primarily family/small businesses/IT teams. For example, a business runs website/file sharing/mail/chat/analytics/crm/forum on a droplet. The server would be around 20/month (4GB server) and then 30 on top of it. For personal use, all my stuff is on Cloudron (calendar/contacts/email/blogs/website/rss/media/docs/notes). I cannot imagine relying on a product which is 5/month for all my stuff.

Besides, having complete control and owning your data is priceless. If you don't value that, I am not sure why one would self-host at all.
Battlefield Airborne Communications Node
Relocating HQ means laying off all your employees. This is not a figure of speech or analogy, it’s literally true. You are laying off all of your employees in the current location when you move the jobs away. The question is whether those employees are going to choose to uproot themselves to go work for you at the new HQ, or stay behind and find another job. Most will stay put instead of moving away. People generally don’t take kindly to forced moves. Many ethnic groups have legendary historical calamities that consist of being forced to move en masse.

If a software company did this, my guess is all development would cease for a long time and you may exceed the “bus factor” and permanently kill a large portion of projects. In fact I’m aware of management at one company winding down projects by moving the skeleton crew who agrees to leave to a lower COL city.

This is not much different from outsourcing to a lower COL country.
Love this approach. I tried my best to summarize what each of those apps improved on when they first appeared below:

Like a teletype, but it doesn't need paper.

Like a line editor, but you can see all of your text at once.

Like a gopher, but with better multimedia.

For my own product, this gives me: like a web browser, but with its own local apps. Which seems pretty decent?
You basically just described Erlang/OTP there.
Making a p2p message board such that outbreaks like this can’t be censored by Chinese government anymore.
Learn about mass hysteria. This is exactly what happens. It's very easy for our brains to misinterpret things to match our expectations. If you believe there are swarms of drones you'll see them in things that aren't drones.
Yeah, this is crazy to me. (I'm hearing these words in my head as I'm typing them.) Like, what form do your shower thoughts take if you don't have an internal monologue?
How about repealing Prop 13, and replacing it with a land value tax?

https://www.econlib.org/land-taxes-the-return-of-henry-georg...
I assume this will get flagged as it should, nothing good will come from this conversation.

In reality "Black lives Mater" and "All Lives Matter" are just abstractions for complex ideas that can change over time and location.

Talking about "too"'s is a good example of the childish level that Reddit sits on.
DeepMind’s MEMO AI solves novel reasoning tasks with less compute
Technically, yes. Practically, no. Mailgun has a checkbox to forward matched messages to another address, so the appeal was having something extremely easy, fast to configure, and reliable.

Building some type of custom endpoint for it is too much work for what it does. I already pay for email where I can set up unlimited domain aliases, so I'll just wait for my Mailgun email and switch back to aliases.

The incoming mail filtering was the only reason I decided to try Mailgun instead of Twilio or SES. I already have SES set up for transactional mail and my usage is so low they don't even bill me for it.
How do those graphs support this claim?
your service's representation in a reporting system

At what point in time?
Better link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190819-what-your-inner-...
Perhaps the same thing with day dreaming. I get the feeling there are vastly different experiences.

I once read about someone who said something like 'After taking the medicine [or something like that], when I stared at a clouds to daydream, nothing happened'. And I thought; what do you mean, what should have happened..?
> For example, if master is v1.5.0, and I'm an app that uses v1.1.0, then if the library owner bumps to 1.5.1 for a critical update, I need to go from 1.1.0 -> 1.5.1, which might involve changes I'm not ready for yet. I better have phenomenal integration testing to make sure the update is safe to do.

That could be solved by backporting security fixes to version 1.1.

Of course at a certain point you should deprecate older versions of your package. At which point it's the client's responsibility to upgrade (like for any third party library they would be using).
>And code gets repeated a lot more. If there is change in a microservices or update everyone will need to figure out what services depend on and how they will have to adapt. With monolith you can just use your IDE to see what will break if you make a change. So much repeated business logic. Creating a new feature involves having to have many meetings to figure out what services in which way have to be updated.

This is what people mean when they say "distributed monolith" vs. microservices.
Wash your hands more.
Deep Transformer Models for Time Series: The Influenza Prevalence Case
Book I found enjoyable and valuable, especially given today's environment of deteriorating social trust: https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Should-About-People...

Gist: don't think too much, it's gonna be okay.
> For example go out and implement a wavelet compression algorithm for images without violating any patents.

Aren't those expiring around this time? I'm thinking a lot of the work was in the late 1990ies, e.g. jpeg2k was developed 1997-2000.
As a music consumer for years and blogger in the blog house days.

For me -

Electronic + Dance - Resident Advisor. Specifically the best of the month features.

Upcoming indie + Pop - Pitchfork (not what it used to be but still a great resource).

More cutting edge upcoming indie + pop - Gorilla vs. Bear
(Spotted the likes of Leon Bridges, Charli XCX, Tyler the Creator)

Soundcloud for mixes

Spotify for most listening. Discover weekly and artist radio can unearth some gems.

MixesDB for finding tracks from mixes.

I never listen actual radio.
In fate/go there's this meme that the devs are tracking 'greed', i.e. how much people want some rare reward, the idea being your chance of getting something you want from the lootbox system is lower if they think you can tolerate greater spends, because you want it more.

Far as I know that's not the actual case, but if I were to make one of these I'd definitely have both the gambler's fallacy and ML-based greed in there. They would both activate only for about a third of the sessions, so there would be plausible deniability.

Thinking about this more carefully, though: I'm not sure if actually lowering the reward for greed would be a good idea. Seems to me that you would want to reward greed so that it leads to even more greed.
> I strongly believe that the pursuing of patents gets in the way of the collaboration that helps science progress. It creates evidence of innovation (ie patents), but slows actual innovation.

See the mess around CRISPR patents for an excellent example of this.
Yep. Can't replace the passion of music lovers. I posted elsewhere in the thread about finding new favorite music just on a whim when it happens to be freeleech.
I came here to say this. It takes a few minutes to understand what you're looking at, but once you dig in, it's a phenomenal way to discover new music. The auto-generated Spotify lists linked from the top are awesome.
This idea is actually where the NPC meme of several months ago originated
This topic is what spawned the "NPC" meme on 4chan, for anyone interested.
This is how it seems for me, too. When I pay attention to what I am doing, it seems as if I am thinking in complete sentences, but if I then try to write down the idea that I have just been thinking about, I find that it takes a lot of editing to turn it into coherent language. Furthermore, I cannot really say anything about what it is like to think when I am not paying attention to doing so, so maybe it is just how I explain my experience of thinking to myself.

Perhaps experiments using techniques such as PET scans might reveal if there is something more characteristically linguistic going on in those of us who feel we have an internal monologue.
What is a concept which cannot be put into words?
There are tons of ways to avoid a jury panel. You find any sort of prior art and patents, along with any suits, simply vanish; you file a challenge with the patent office for reexamination, an expert there decides it's invalid, the case disappears.
I send between 500 and 1000 per month through mailgun. On high-usage months, I will pay around $1.

Even if I sent 5000 messages one month, I'd pay around $4.

This is not even close to a significant cost.
Yes, that's the core of our tech stack. All our packages are opensource (git.cloudron.io). Important thing for us is to have all the docker containers read-only and have a 100% reliable backup/restore mechanism because we do automatic updates for apps to give a SaaS experience to self-hosting. We also provide SSO for users across apps (so you can add your family or colleagues in a cloudron and do access control across apps easily).
FYI I tried this feature out a few months ago and found it to be useless for build folders. Extended attributes (xattr) get lost everytime you recreate a file/folder - think 'build', 'node_modules' etc. Additionally Dropbox broke selective sync which is even more infuriating. All this combined means my hard drive is running all the time.
Curriculum for Reinforcement Learning
A while back I discovered that I have aphantasia. I can construct elaborate ideas that are wholly visual in my head and describe them to other people in great detail but I cannot visualize an ounce of it in my own head. I've since read accounts of illustrators and graphic artists who are successful in their fields and who draw for a living and yet they also have aphantasia. I think this internal monologue thing probably isn't terribly different. FWIW, I _do_ have a _very strong_ internal monologue.
Bibliotherapy or Reading Can Make You Happier (2015)
Since "implies that the site is somehow automatically identifying where the virus is" is obviously impossible with current tech & infrastructure, the next most "real-time" interpretation is that it has the most up-to-date data as it becomes available... which it basically does AFAIK, assuming it automatically pulls from its data sources, such as the WHO situation report feed.

What would you recommend calling it instead?
Thanks! I had no idea that was there.
Extreme lengths ?

It's an interview room. Don't provide laptops. I can leave my phone & bag outside the room.

I can't think freely when someone is watching me.

> Nobody's going to let you have 15 minutes undisturbed

Is that how the real world works as well ?
"Mass hysteria" is an explanation that seems hard to swallow

It sounds like people were making independent reports, it's not like they were all listening to a "War of the Worlds" broadcast and then reporting based on what they heard on the radio.

Can it really be called "mass hysteria" if the individuals didn't know about each other's reports?

From the original description:

On Friday, Myers said he watched eight of the large drones flying along the Yuma County border near the intersection of U.S. 385 and County Road 54. At the same time, a single drone hovered about 25 miles away over the town of Paoli — it didn’t move all night, just hovered over the town — and eight more drones flew over Haxtun, about 10 miles down the road from Paoli, Myers said.

It sounds like military drones, which probably wouldn't be unexpected in Colorado given the amount of military bases there.
Mostly because TPUs are in reach of hobbyists. After all, it runs on Colab for free.

In a business context, TPUs seem far cheaper. A preemptible TPUv2-8 only costs $1.35/hr. It looks like 8x Quadro 8000's would cost >$40k.
You mean like they make shell companies for patents so any adverse judgements don't sink the whole boat? Hell yeah, lets have it then.
We had a poorly performing service which reads from a number of rest endpoints and writes to s3 in date prefixed format. Offshore wrote 3,600 lines of codes targeting kinesis firehose. By just piping the url endpoints to a named pipe and cycling the s3 file in python, my code was 55 lines of code and did the same thing without kinesis. Wrapping things in GNU parallel and using bash flags, it handles any failure cases super gracefully, which is something the offshore code did not do. The India offshore code had a global exception catch-all, and would print the error and return exit success return code... but I guess someone got to put Kinesis on their resume.
Or they could sell to a condo developer, get a brand new unit, with lesser maintenance needed, in the same location. It doesn't have to be a binary choice between "sell and move away" and "stay and keep prop 13".

With Prop 13 and zoning restrictions, "sell to an upzoner" is essentially off the table.

Also an old couple who have been renting since the 70s could be evicted until state-wide rent control was passed this year. No one cared about them this whole time.

It's also not clear what things like commercial properties or family farms have to do with "keeping old people in their homes". All these are covered under Prop 13.
Diagnosed ADHD here. I just have this constant low-level music video / hurricane of ideas / songs / designs / trajectories going in my head. Started high-school at 11, university at 15. Played tennis competitively to provincial level.

That's a really crude approximation ... will try to clarify. I do have an internal monologue, but often I'm not speaking to myself verbally. As I'm writing this, I'm hearing it in my own voice, in my head. EDIT> "hearing" is approximate because I don't feel anything in my ears, and it's different from hearing a recording of my voice. I don't feel my ear-drums moving, e.g. I just have the very clear sensation that I am speaking these words, and I can even feel them on my tongue, although my tongue is not moving. <EDIT

When I'm thinking, but not writing, it's more visual / tactile. The impressions of ghostly visuals, but I'm not actually seeing anything, just feeling that they're there. Like I can feel and spin a cube in front of me, but I'm still seeing the monitor, not the cube. I know where all the vertices, are though.

Often have that anxious feeling in the chest like I want to blurt something out, but am keeping it in. So ideas fly in, but too fast for words. Words are much too slow for thinking. But a feeling of um .. ah ... er .. um is about the only internal vocalization I can get as these ideas crash and pull in different directions.

I often have to explicitly speak out loud or monologue to give some momentary permanence to my thoughts. Otherwise they just kind of get whipped away and tattered in this mental hurricane.

And yet, I can just happily sit and look out a window, but I'm experiencing some combo of really, really, looking at things and bouncing around in my head.

Speaking of not really understanding how different other people's experiences are -- my vision is starting to deteriorate now that I'm in middle age. It's so crazy to me not to be able to see everything. Like, people would tell me that they can't see my face without their glasses, but I had no real appreciation of of how different this would be. I'm bummed out that I can't see individual hairs from across the room, lol.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/voxs-the-weeds/e/66321406

Boston University's Katherine Levine Einstein explains the dysfunctional politics behind America's housing crisis.

https://www.amazon.com/Neighborhood-Defenders-Participatory-...

"Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, demand for housing has consistently outpaced supply in many US communities. The failure to construct sufficient housing - especially affordable housing - in desirable communities and neighborhoods comes with significant social, economic, and environmental costs. This book examines how local participatory land use institutions amplify the power of entrenched interests and privileged homeowners. The book draws on sweeping data to examine the dominance of land use politics by 'neighborhood defenders' - individuals who oppose new housing projects far more strongly than their broader communities and who are likely to be privileged on a variety of dimensions. "
The subreddit is explain like I'm five. It's geared towards explanations a child could understand.
I think some of this might be misinformed.

I know Hive can definitely query other datasources like traditional SQL databases, redis, cassandra, hbase, elasticsearch, etc, etc. I thought Impala had some bit of support for this as well, though I'm less familiar with it.

And SparkSQL can be run on a multi-tenant cluster with automatic resource allocation - Mesos, YARN, or Kubernetes.
Goodwill is not amortized in GAAP accounting for public companies (it can be impaired, but that’s bad).

But you’re right, I had forgotten that it may be amortized for tax purposes when it comes from a taxable asset sale (not for an stock-based acquisition).
I think you are missing the intermediate step of libraries.

1. monolith
2. libraries
3. services

If you skip step 2, there is a high probability that the services you end up with are going to be just as disorganized as the monolith which is causing grief.
The fact this even reached Hacker News front page surprises me, maybe because the writer is "famous"? Pure sensationalist tittle with a very poor and marketing driven content.
Reading so many positive things about Apple Maps here for sure looks like astroturfing since I've had some really frustrating experiences with Apple Maps in the past.
I'll never understand why they haven't fixed that. A while ago I ended up writing a little patch that parallelized list sends with Redis backing things and some worker processes. Took me maybe a day of work. If I remember right we were easily getting a few hundred sends a second, could have easily gone faster. Default Sendy was a few a second on the same machine/resources. SES can support tremendous send rates if you get limit lifts from AWS.
Not sure why you're being downvoted I honestly agree with your assessment. I left research because raising a family would've been impossible with the amount I would have been paid and how often I'd have to change jobs/travel.
I haven't done it for many years but you've reminded me that I could sometimes play songs in my head and actually hear it. Only very softly though, like old-fashioned headphones on a very low volume.

I still have music in my head very often - I play piano and I'm always getting ear worms, but it must be at least 20 years since I last physically heard my mental music playing. I wonder if I can get it back?
If it's an oligopoly and presumably throwing off cash, what's stopping anyone from creating their own transactional email service?

Answer: It's very difficult. Email is adversarial. Getting to the inbox is incredibly difficult to do _at scale_.
A tangent on this: superheroes are creatures/concepts as old as stories though, from the oldest myths of Ulysse and Atlantis to Superman and the Force and indeed Neo. It's a whole category, perhaps the all-time biggest (think who fits the profile of "historic superhero", you'll be surprised who goes in that basket, even if we believe their life/deeds were real and not 'super').

I mean, stories, right.

I personally risk the assumption that the outer manifestation of these shared inner delusions of grandeur is called "civilization". I would actually call it "aspiring" to greatness, and if it's a disease, then it's the best we ever got.