skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google and Amazon both fucked up by weighing in on political campaigns.

And now they're shocked, shocked, that getting political with your monopolistic companies carries some political risk.

The solution is easy enough -- don't talk about politics at work -- and in particular not if you're the CEO.
Get a firm or very firm innerspring mattress from IKEA. You can do this for less than $300 and it will fit in the back of a sedan in it's roll-up-package.

Sleep on it for a bit. If you don't like the feel, which you probably won't, add a memory foam mattress topper for ~$50. Use a thicker or thinner topper to suit your needs.

Congrats! Because your mattress is firm, its foam will not break down for a long, long time. Sleep easy knowing you didn't waste stupid amounts of money and that your mattress will last essentially forever.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14694-2
Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting children's data
See, that's a reasoned argument of pros and cons. You didn't outright dismiss modes or dismiss a tool because it uses them. There's not a problem at all preferring a tool that's modal or one that's amodal. It seems a weird sort of zealotry to dismiss one or the other for that reason alone.

If you're looking to extend your editor a bunch then Emacs is great for that. Personally I primarily use a keyboard with no Caps Lock key so I don't worry about remapping it.
What you're missing is the effect of speed and altitude on engine performance. Please take a look at this (pdf):

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167...
Here's a version that doesn't punish ad-blockers: https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/20/twitter-testing-new-ways...
They're definitely abusing the word 'most' there. I've stayed in easily 20 hostels at this point, and not once has a 'sleep sack' been required. And in all my hostel research, I have never stumbled across someone mentioning they needed one.
Writing Kubernetes operators? Check out this open source object matcher library
> Depreciation is past capex, not future capex

Technically (from an accounting perspective), yes. Practically (from a financial/economic perspective), not quite.

Past capex is a sunk cost. Investors care about future cash flows. If you strip out depreciation, you’ll be surprised by the bill when your machine breaks down. (You may still be surprised. Life is unpredictable and depreciation schedules are an estimate. But that’s one of the problems the concept tries to solve.)
Coronaviruses were discovered in the 60s and there are dozens of them in the wild. Chances are, you've had a Coronavirus that you just called a cold.
Commodities have little differentiation between themselves. Compute alone is a commodity.
Women breast size: 71% of women are not satisfied with their breasts
There's nothing insane about it. Twitter used to be highly supportive of free speech. However they now actively ban users and censor tweets which don't conform to Twitter's ideology. The content they are banning isn't illegal (at least not in the USA), they just don't like it. And the criteria for banning is only vaguely defined and constantly shifting based on the whims of a few employees. Thus any tweets they leave up are implicitly endorsed by Twitter.

Twitter also acts as a publisher by exercising editorial control over if and where tweets actually appear to each user.

Twitter would have a stronger legal and moral argument against further regulation if they acted as a neutral intermediary. For example, they could establish a policy of only removing content if required to do so by law.
Haiku: Sonnet for JAX
I could see unions making a big comeback in the US. They are still alive and well in the healthcare world (for nursing at least - my wife is a nurse at a large hospital in the US and has been a member of multiple nursing unions).

If you compare profit margins to wage increases there's an obvious (and expected via capitalism) disconnect. It's hard to galvanize this type of activity though. And new unions would definitely need a constitutional overhaul, probably based around transparency and making sure power and decision making is distributed.
It's not just an issue with Pilot Wave, many QM interpretations are non-local. This table shows which are vs. are not (Local Dynamics column): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...
Alibaba and Baidu have a totally other market segment, which is domestic Chinese companies that want and need to be fully compatible with Chinese law for domestic data hosting, retention, government compliance. There is a venn diagram overlap between the markets addressed by the (AWS, Azure, DO, etc) and the Chinese virtual machine providers, but it's nowhere near 100%.
That Helios64 case is gorgeous. The only downside is they seem to have lost the ECC support they had in Helios4.
That has been a common pushback to many media/broadcasting mergers though. It presents a real threat to freedom of the press when a broadcasting company absorbs a media company as they can more easily suppress stories that don't serve their interests.

CNN being critical of the administration is immaterial (practically all large media outlets are). The concern from the administration seems justified rather than malicious in this case.
Apple has only disclosed three supplier locations in Wuhan since 2011
I bought an Avocado mattress in the strength of Consumer Reports' recommendation and, while it's certainly not the cheapest option, it is very comfortable.
EU’s new digital strategy targets data-hoarding tech firms
In Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1970s, a friend of mine inherited a flat and contents but no money. It was an extremely cold winter and he ended up chopping half the furniture to pieces (it was the typical hideous stuff you got in flats in Edinburgh back then) and burning it in the fire-place to keep warm.
This language misunderstanding took longer to clear up than I thought it would.
As an outsider to the US, I expected a job for the NSA to be seen as respectable. Quite surprised that it seems to be quite the opposite.
So, dangling a pardon to solicit irrefutable proof of a crime by the DNC in lying about the source of the email leak and fabricating the forensics through Crowdstrike?

We should surely go after Trump and not the perpetrators of the underlying crimes! More misdirection to hide their crimes a la Biden & Ukraine, Hillary & China.
The solution we need is a p2p social network with user opt-in moderation lists. The gov should be no where close to this.
No, they have tons of business outside of China, just take 5 minutes to google that.

People can of course challenge their bookkeeping, but still...
Show HN: Level, a debit card that reimburses your ATM fees
Hi HN, I'm proud to be part of the team that is launching Level[1] -- a debit card/checking account combination whose goal is to remove the barrier to cash withdrawals by reimbursing ATM fees. There were numerous technical hurdles that had to be overcome to get to launch day, but for me personally the highlights were:

• Integrating with a third party payment processor to handle card issuance.

• When someone swipes their debit card, following the ISO 8583 specification for obtaining the transaction information (this is how we know if it's an ATM withdrawal).

• Using ACH/Stripe to allow customers to fund their checking accounts.

We also want to be competitive with our terms, so we offer a return of 2.1% APY on checking deposits. I'm happy to answer any questions, technical or otherwise!

[1] https://levelbank.com/
One thing that I found interesting in the article was the fact that people seem to be suffering from Cytokine Storms, which people think is one of the reasons the 1918 Spanish Flu was so deadly for young adults who have the best immune systems. Basically the immune system overreacts and starts killing everything. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome#Hist...
Although it's a bit of work to cut the foam layers into hundreds of little blocks, you can turn an unwanted foam mattress into a decent bean bag.
What this case demonstrates is that the fantasy of government-free tech is just that, a fantasy. Governments are going to be increasingly involved in issues that only techies used to care about, and it behooves us to make sure that involvement is as benign as possible.
There is huge risk asymmetry here. If the police weren’t incompetent it would be trivial to set up a sting (ha!) operation or three to catch most of the criminals operating in an area.
Google are also taking down educational gunsmithing and hacking videos, and remixes of music videos and music that people have made—fair use.

Reddit has been censoring their less mainstream-friendly BDSM porn subreddits. To appear on most of the site your subreddit has to be whitelisted, now.

It’s not just politics. They are defining broad guidelines of what categories of (legal) things you are allowed to publish or not.
This isn't exclusive to mail order mattresses.

I went to a big-name department store just last week and bought a mattress. For the first time, I chose a "memory foam" mattress because I liked how it felt in the store. (Thought the traditional spring mattress felt more familiar and "right," there's something about the foam that was nice.)

When the giant delivery truck arrived three days later, there was the usual box spring, which I guess is what necessitated the truck, but then the delivery guys brought in a small box the size of a chair and that's what contained the shrunken mattress.

I asked what happens to the mattress if I decide that memory foam isn't for me after all, and they said it depends on the brand. Some go to charity, some go to an exporter for resale overseas, and some get shredded and made into new mattresses.
https://www.currenttrendnews.com/2020/02/google-plans-to-mov...
Neuropsychology shows cognitive dissonance is key to building willpower.(2018)
It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985
DO has more managed services like databases, k8s, etc. Otherwise they are very similar. Vultr has more locations in the US.
They should be allowed to have it both ways. If I run a video game forum, I should be allowed to ban trolls and remove off-topic posts without accepting legal responsibility for any illegal content that gets posted on my forum by third parties without my prior knowledge or consent. Forcing people to choose between being a publisher and being a utility would completely and instantly kill every single internet community dead in its tracks.

I don’t understand how people can post on a heavily moderated forum like HN while demanding that moderation be effectively made illegal. It’s like people hate Facebook and Google so much that they mindlessly get onboard with any form of retaliation against them regardless of the actual consequences.
I wish any of my friendships was that robust. I've met a lot of people and I'm very social but for one reason or another friendships in the Bay Area never seem to become very deep (and most people I like end up leaving).
Ask HN: Would you like to read and discuss math and computer science literature?
Hi HN,

There is a group created at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/integerclub for those who would like to read and discuss mathematics and computer science literature. If you normally learn these subjects in solitude but would instead like to meet a few other people regularly and work through new literature or problems, then this group is for you. Mathematics and computer science are inherently a social activity even if a good portion of it can be done individually. The purpose of this group is to be that social platform where students and professionals of all backgrounds can come together to share with each other what they are learning as well as discuss and work on new ideas.

Also, if you would rather like to talk on Slack, visit https://bit.ly/integerclubslackinvite to join our workspace. There is an IRC channel too at https://webchat.freenode.net/#integerclub if that's what you prefer.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please post them as comments here.
It's paying homage to how git was named:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming
There’s only one “may” there but yes, it masks “potentially losing crucial information”. The post I linked to is pretty clear on that.

I totally agree that the business need is the driver and that people miss the imperatives if they look at it purely from a technical or mathematical lens.

In a sense, synthetic data is the least bad actually viable solution. The democracy of privacy / data agility :p
More correct fact: "Common cold" is a disease that can be caused by one of hundreds of virus strains and only a few of them are a coronavirus.
Both Netherlands and Germany have these time based speeds on a lot of highways where the special case is in text underneath the sign.

BMW handles it if the navigation database is up to date. At least on the A2 in the Netherlands, which has the 06:00 to 19:00 changes between 100 and 130. It also understands temporary changes for roadworks, but gets it wrong when a roadwork/temporary sign has an exception like "when road is wet"

That tells me the camera only understands the main sign and then the navigation database tells it about exceptions / special cases. Nice as a small reminder on your screen, but I wouldn't trust it to self drive based on that data.
Please define what a "normal presidential administration" looks like.
Hacker news also bans people merely for being rude, even if they don’t post illegal content. If you have a principled objection to this act you should delete your HN account and leave.
Google Cloud AI removes gender labels from Cloud Vision API to avoid bias
Debt isn’t dirty. There’s a reasonable case to make for having an appropriate debt load in terms of tax shields and motivating management.
>> Using the word “raise” when talking about financing via debt seems inappropriate and very start-upy.

Why would it be inappropriate? It's common to describe both debt and equity rounds as a 'raise'.

My guess is you're operating under the assumption that debt is inferior to equity because you're forced to pay it back. But, in reality, when you raise an equity round, you also have to pay back the principal + "interest"-- it just delays the repayment date til your liquidation event.

>> This is a low cost of capital line of credit, is it not (due to their infrastructure and broad customer base)?

Based on the wording "secured $100 million in new debt from a group of investors", my guess is it's a term loan of sorts vs a LOC (since banks typically issue LOC's, and they're generally not referred to as investors).
It is a bit strange to list a person or event with "USA" when that person is living and working in British Columbia. BC is in Canada of course.
Developing for the Sega Dreamcast with Ruby
My father and grand-father are from Danville and I had relatives in Bloomsburg, just 9 miles away. Somewhere in my grand-father's family tree, one of my relatives created "Moyer's Oil of Gladness" in a time when snake-oil, elixirs and patent-medicines were very common. Most "worked" because they were alcohol and then became heavily promoted by doctors "treating" the wealthy during prohibition.

I should also note (given the history described in the links below), that my grand-father and father are also William and my uncle is John. My siblings and cousins each have a nice stamped bottle (first image) as a keepsake.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/bloomsburg-pennsylvan...

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nma...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/elycefeliz/8704680638
journalist's thread https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/12305709166623866...
You are right, of course, that most of the accounts at the central bank are digital. Also, 'money' is a loose term and 'digital money' much more so. I used the term loosely since fully defining it would take a lot of time and space.

The difference of the initiatives, such as the 'e-krona' project, comes from central banks asking themselves whether the public at large could have an obligation, direct from the central bank, in digital form. Most cash is an 'obligation' to some central bank, a guarantee backed by them. Yet no individual citizen can hold a digital account with the central bank. A natural question is 'why not'? Up to now, it has been mostly practical, that the bank did not want to have to run a retail system. The rise of digital currencies has opened a new possibility: the central bank could run the system and not need to run retail operations. Thus, the research and experiments.
It really is some validation when your competitor has to grudgingly allow you to exist because your users (to both you and them) want you so much that it would disserve them to screw you.

It means that you're that much good. Some folks at Spotify must be unbearably proud today.
The common cold is a set of symtoms which can be caused by a coronavirus but more often than not by a rhinovirus.
It's bugging on my screen resolution, I don't know why. Had to zoom to 110% in order to see the title screen.

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Making it less useful.
I can't access the Google Groups (#418, don't have permissions). I'll join the Slack
Ask HN: Satellite Pagers for Alerting?
Hi all,

So, I'm an Ops guy, with the dreaded "on-call" shifts/weekends. We're a small shop, so that means every other week.

I'm a passionate kayaker, skier, motorcycle rider, etc. Recently we have increased our response time to 3 hours to hopefully increase our QOL on on-call weekends.

I am considering something like an Garmin Inreach to allow me to play outside of cell phone range still being available. Does anyone else have experience with doing this?
I've noticed this is very jurisdictional.

I recently needed to get rid of a mattress set, and looked online. There are dozens of pages claiming that $Charity_X won't take mattresses, and dozens more claiming it will.

That's the problem with the internet - it's sometimes not specific enough. Due to local laws, the charity in question doesn't take mattresses. Fortunately, in mine it does as long as there are no stains and they're in pretty good shape. It gets the mattresses fumigated and uses them in its homeless shelters and battered women's shelters.

Edit: I suspect the charities that won't take mattresses are ones that run primarily on resale revenue, and not those that run their own housing.
I disagree with the above.

If you're listing 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 as 4 primitives (I think it's actually more once you include the primitive of addition), I don't think that 4 is the solution. The solution is a written up program that works on any integer that when run this particular sequence produces the value 4. And that solution/program is significantly more complex than 1+1+1+1.

Or alternatively if you say the program can't run on any other values, just that specific one so you can hardcode the result of the program to be "4", then I'd argue there initially aren't 4 primitives. there is one single primitive the entire entity "1+1+1+1" which is equivalent in inherent complexity to the primitive "4". Regardless of how complex we choose to represent it (ie with more characters or fewer), conceptually it's a single "primite" value input and it produces a single primitive value output.
Do you also object to HN moderation? Why should dang be allowed to ban people but not twitter? Do you think dang should accept legal liability for everything people post on HN?
Fine, ask lsc. I have tremendous respect for Luke given that he had, thanklessly and for years, tried to compete in this exact market singlehandedly. Even competing against him at Linode, that was remarkable to me.

I have receipts for my Linode employment and I am unconcerned about the veracity of my analysis (I’m actually paid for said analysis IRL). Think about that bar you’ve set for a minute: “this person doesn’t actively court a reputation on Hacker News, therefore the information is suspect.” If that sounds good to you, we are unlikely to agree on anything, and I’ve little interest in defending my methods to someone who values speaker over spoken.

I have other gripes with Linode, but it’s not exactly par for a ‘disgruntled’ former to speak positively about a business, no?
Accused Vault 7 leaker demands mistrial as US withheld other suspect's name
> Here is a pick and shovel seller that can't make a profit and is going into debt ...

That's one way to see it. Another is that they need money to expand the business.
Yes, but starting from the position of “entirely artificial data”.
When I used to teach at IBM, one of my favourite bits of recurring feedback was that I only use slides as a guide. It is the presenter's job to give context, which allows you to read the audience and go on anecdotal excursions when you know they're receptive to it, and it'll help them retain any new bits of knowledge. Some audiences are already familiar with bits of the material, so why batter them over the head with it just because you decided to spell it out verbatim in the visual material? Besides, reading the screen to the audience means you aren't paying enough attention to them to even know what parts they may be struggling with.
The worlds worst IoT idea is almost fully funded
This is all just supposed to be self-evident? What even are you talking about? Be specific.
It seems like this inevitably/necessarily gets into George Orwell territory. It would be interesting to hear various arguments/predictions about whether this should be expected to be a net positive or negative. Obviously, the devil is in the implementation details.
Ask HN: Waterfox GitHub repository is missing many commit messages, why?
It's true, the Mueller report is light on actual evidence and in places rather heavy on hedging language.

But it seems not an unreasonable guess in this case that there was possible use of "WikiLeaks's private communication system" based on a Twitter DM that was quoted in the Mueller report:

On September 15, 2016, @dcleaks wrote to @WikiLeaks, “hi there! I'm from DC Leaks. How could we discuss some submission-related issues? Am trying to reach out to you via your secured chat but getting no response. I’ve got something that might interest you. You won't be disappointed, I promise.”
Depreciation still makes plenty of sense today. A company with very little capital equipment will simply not have a lot of depreciation. Digital ocean as a cloud hoster has a lot of capital equipment (servers etc) to worry about as well.
I'm honestly astonished that people will actually spend money on devices that have the ability to be remotely bricked.
> My very first day I was amazed how much access I had at will.

Another branch where you might expect security awareness is anti virus companies. I'm a pentester and in smallish companies everyone knows everyone, but nobody knows me, yet most days I can tailgate into the office without question. This morning a lady asked suspiciously "are you looking for someone?" and I just replied that I know where to go, thanks. I walked on and she didn't pursue. Free rein.

I don't have to mention any specific company, this happens everywhere. Helpful, trusting that everything will be alright, clicking links... Vulnerabilities help but they are optional.