skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who is this really for?

I agree.

The only way I could see things like this work is if there were some incentive, like 50 paid parking places turned into 250 free/cheap parking spaces for tiny vehicles. Or roads that permit only small vehicles.

I mean what if you took a 2-lane road designed for cars and split it into 4 lanes, two bike lanes and two tiny-car/golf-cart lanes?
Nice! Last year, in July 2019, in Virginia, there were a bunch of strange flu like illnesses, leading to pneumonia, and deaths [1]. When will these people get tested for the antibodies?

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/respiratory-outbreak-investigated-...
I've always thought this was a smart choice. Australian banks authenticate their transactions: "The code to transfer $100 to Joe Bloggs is 4321. If you're surprised to hear about that transfer, call the cops now." This makes a lot more sense than authenticating a login, which doesn't give you access to especially valuable information on its own.

Historically, there was a period of 10-15 years when these banks had websites, but you couldn't make arbitrary transfers through them. You could read your statements, and you could pay utility bills where the bank trusted the biller. Logins and passwords were appropriate then. The SMS authentication was only introduced later, when the websites could do things that required it. No doubt it made sense to save the SMSes for when they were needed, which was rare before people got used to paying by internet transfer.
Thanks, I didn't release there was an anchor for the English version, I updated my link.
There wouldn't be, therefore tweets shouldn't be deletable after a set period of time.
Maybe in 1974. My car does about the same at 80 MPH as it does at 65 MPH, as counterintuitive as that seems.
But the euro is not deflationary. Negative interest rates actually have an opposite effect of what you're assuming, they should discourage hoarding and encourage borrowing which results in a higher money supply.
I don't get how they plan to compete, do they have chip designers? or deals with SOC manufacturers because AWS/Google/Microsoft are fast because of custom chips that link NVMe directly to the NIC and skip the CPU and some of the network stack
I keep a blog with short entries on how to do / repeat things.
Also writing it down helps me focus and get my head straight about what I'm trying to learn.
I think that's a false warning from pgAdmin.

In general, if you don't have extremely high UPDATE rates (thousands per second) you don't really need to care about vacuum these days (assuming you correctly end all your transactions and don't have any sessions in "idle in transaction" for a long time)
There is no official bitcoin blockchain. There is only the chain with the most accumulated work, and orphan chains. Anybody attempting to remove a limit which may cause the holdings of all bitcoin users to be devalued will simply be ignored by all other users.

Conversely, lets say I put out a proposal to tighten the limit, increase the rate of disinflation and reduce the maximum total supply that could ever be mined to 20M rather than 21M. This proposal might actually gain some interest among bitcoiners because if price speculation so far has been under the assumption that there will be an eventual ~21M bitcoins issued, and this gets scaled back to ~20M, then the 5% reduction in overall supply, without corresponding 5% reduction in demand, would cause all existing bitcoin to gain value.

This could also be implemented as a soft-fork and be compatible with all existing software - because the software checks that the amount paid in a coinbase is less than or equal to the subsidy plus fees. It is technically possible to mine blocks which don't release all of the available bitcoin for that block. (This has been done, and such bitcoin are permanently unavailable and reduce the theoretical maximum 21M supply).

To relax or remove the block subsidy, one would need to hard fork the protocol in order to defeat the "less than or equal" check. You would have to convince the vast majority of bitcoin users that they aught to download and install alternative software which may cause inflation and devalue their holdings. Keep kidding yourself that this will happen.
While being so much simpler at the same time
> "You Won't Believe what this One Line Change Did to the Chrome Sandbox"

- if (root) {...}

+ if (!root) {...}

One liner can change everything. :P
Hardening a side for most users Linux distributions however offer a different practical security advantage. While on Windows/macOS despite their apps stores it is still quite common to download applications from shady websites while in common Linux distributions most software comes from curated repositories.
I understand the intellectual appeal of that theory, but in reality given the behavior of the stock market in March (why a sudden drop if 20 years forward looking?), or ZOOM stock going up instead of ZM, Tesla stock moving from an opinion tweet, the volatility of individual stocks, etc... should make you doubt about that "it’s priced in long-term" belief.
I come from an agricultural background and all of the farmers I know always get less than 50% of the price of what you pay in the supermarket. Change that 50% to >80% and you get Lidl and Aldi for the exact same produce.

I am not sure why it works like that. These days you get direct to supermarket more often (taking out Fresh Produce Markets) but again—it's not direct to consumer. Personally, I think it's more because of the retailers being cutthroats than any other reason.
Back in uni (2005), we used Dr. Strang's text for linear algebra. When reading the text, I felt like some down-to-earth professor was trying to explain these difficult topics as simply as possible. I remember discovering mit.edu back then and finding precious video lectures that went along with the book after the course. One of the very few times I was so genuinely happy and excited to watch math lectures online :p
> There's a serious cultural issue there.

Said "cultural issue" is the reason why the GDPR was implemented in the first place! It was not European ad-tech running wild tracking people all over the place so hard that even the notoriously slow and complex EU parliament had no choice but to act in the interest of their constituents.
> For me, the question remains why do user have to pay for domain names.

Because they're scarce! Should you have `x3blah` or should I have it? If domain names are free, how do we decide who operates which domain?

If I understood it right, one of the goals of Handshake is for names to be almost free. With a near-infinite number of TLDs which you can buy for as little as $0.09 (and renew for $0.02 every two years), less desired names become essentially free.

Furthermore, you can become a registrar! With such a low cost (about $2 over our expected lifetime), you can charge extremely low fees for `domain.x3blah` or even give out the second level domains for free!
"rigour" :)
Show HN: A tool that saves all form typings forever
Hi HN,
we made an extension that saves all input data you type in
your local storage (not sending anything to the server).

Do you find this useful?
It is interesting to compare this with 3Blue1Brown's linear algebra introduction on YouTube. He seems to have been the only mathematician who has actually mastered the medium; linear algebra lends itself very well to animations. The mathematicians don't understand how badly they need to animate some of these concepts.
A significantly misunderstood reason to ask gender questions is to try and quantify a gender imbalance. My field (internet governance) clearly has this problem and we need to quantify it to meet wider societal goals.

I don't care what title people use or expect in delivery of goods and services. I do care that some activity needs to demonstrate equity and cannot without measurements
Properly owning up would include keeping the mistake up, so that people reading the apology would actually know what they're owning up to. Without the original Tweet, they might be apologizing for mistyping "2+2=4" as "2+2=5", for all you know.
> Isn't the university just a middle man at this point?

It is party credentialing, partly middle man, but I personally learned a lot and I think going to university gave me a lot. Then again, I live in a place where I did not had to go into lifelong debt for it.

We dont know how to do good online education yet. The biggest problem seem to be that people get demotivated and drop up in much higher rates then when they go to same course in person.

But even if we would, I dont think online education will solve problem of student debt. That did not happened because it would be impossible to provide affordable education or impossible to hire people from cheaper universities. The same pressures and systems that made in person education expensive, the same system that greatly favors students from few universities for prestigious positions will make online learning have the same problems.
I remember when I was working in Australia in 2008-2009. When I wanted to deposit cash to my bank account I had to put that cash into an envelope and write my name on the envelope and then push the envelope inside a hole in the wall at the bank. Then they would count the money and it would appear on my account in couple of days. I remember it was really funny because we had had ATM deposit machines for long time back home.
I had similar problem. I understood how it should be from the picture but "opposite" made me think there is some phenomena there. I had to look closely to debunk it.
Nice! I settled on Goatcounter. It is rather new so even UBlock does not have it built in!
you can do this, sort of.

web developer menu

toggle tools

select ...

select settings

turn on "take a screenshot of the entire page"

now you get a camera icon. clicking it snapshots the current webpage (as a veeery tall image)
You can also consider the effects of reopening factories (like Tesla's Shanghai) on the spread of C19 and view the manufacturers' sanitary policies as successful (in avoiding a rapid 2nd wave). I guess Musk talks about deaths (over thousands of employees) because it's the most reliable indicator, one that does not depend on, say, testing policies.
It is terrible advice because those words won't shield you from the consequences of what you are saying if you are wrong.
While it’s very convenient to view the repository DAG, I find it inconvenient to actually scroll through and pore over the the patch/diff for some commit. (IIRC, you can only scroll up or down by a page, and the diff representation is fixed)
Samsa: Visualizing Variable Fonts [video]
I had pretty poor experience running at lower resolutions on my MacBook - macOS exposes a very strange set of resolutions which are either too small (causing very obvious pixelation and poorly readable text) or too big (causing unplayable performance even in strategy games).
New NASA citizen science project
Find Exoplanets by Yourself Online
Sysadmin tools: Viewing text in Linux with tail and head
Bleurt is a metric for Natural Language Generation based on transfer learning
You can find exoplanets from your home
I don't know that fully subsidizing testing would necessarily be enough to satisfy demand for testing, but at $100 per test x 300M Americans x call it 1 test per week, you're looking at $30B per week to test everyone every week, if testing really can scale up that far. Which is (extremely) expensive but still less than the current stimulus packages and economic damage.

I actually kinda wonder whether the ROI is high enough that it makes sense for some of the bigger investment funds to subsidize these tests. There are $4T under passive management in the US, so it would cost less than 1% of that number to test every American once at current market prices. If doing so would boost the market by at least 1%, it seems like it would have positive ROI to do so (and I for one would be happy if the index funds I'm invested in did so).
What do you propose should happen in Bezos' case? Let's assume that he doesn't have $139B in the bank, but most of his wealth is the value of his Amazon stock. Should he be forced to give up his ownership in the company he built? I have heard people opine that people like Bezos should be taxed at 90%, but what if he doesn't sell his shares?

If he wants to sell $10M or so to buy a nice house and a new car, do you think he doesn't deserve to do so? Where do you draw the line?
That kind of confusion has nothing to do with the terms though, it just requires a deeper understanding of the process and the statistics around it.
does "based on empirical evidence only" mean anecdotes then?
Use this app to discover new alien planets
I am using node-red to control some lamps e.g. when it is getting dark and my phone is around (check bluetooth connection) then turn on the living room lamp.

You can do so many automations by using nodejs in the nodes.You can check it out here https://nodered.org/
Does his money go somewhere? I have heard stories that he'll give most of it away. Still every year he stays about the richest man in the planet. Also his foundation. In my opinion, the question is not about giving when your wealth just increases each year. Yes, he could keep it all on himself, but as wealthy as he is, it is nice to have these side projects that paint him as a great man.
> The consensus among economists is that a deflationary currency is a terrible idea.

How many currencies have failed due to deflation over the last <pick your time period> years?

Now how many currencies have failed due to inflation?

Look, economists know a thing or two that I don’t, I’m sure. But for all they claim to know, it sure does feel like they get things wrong on a pretty regular basis.
It's certainly an interesting list to browse through. Some make sense, some are surprising, some don't make sense at all.

You'd expect most jobs to be roughly 50/50 divided between Republican and Democrat. (Actually, I'd expect a big chunk Independent. What happened to those?) Some lean so strongly to one side that it makes me wonder what's going on there.

Environmentalist strongly Dem and oil worker strongly Rep makes sense. I suppose high-paying jobs with authority like pilot leaning more Rep whereas service-oriented jobs like flight attendant leaning more Dem is also understandable.

But farmers lean Rep, but once they retire they lean Dem. Why? I'm a bit surprised to see stay-at-home moms as well as most religious professions lean strongly Dem. I mean, to me it makes sense that religious people lean left, but it often sounds like many Americans feel exactly the opposite about that. I guess I'm glad to see these stats make more sense than the news.

But in skilled trades, I absolutely don't understand the reason for the large differences. Why would a locksmith or machinist lean to strongly Rep, while sheet metal workers and cartographers lean so strongly Dem? I can't think of any good reason for that difference.

I see a lot of inspectors and rafety/regulation related professions lean somewhat Dem, but safety director leans very strongly Rep.

And what's the difference between a landscape contractor and a gardener? Or a landscaper and a garden designer? Could it be that some people choose to identify by a particular professional label based on their political leaning, rather than the other way around?

And how representative are the various groups? If you asked only 4 horticulturists, it's easy to get 3/4 of them leaning one way or the other. How many book publishers did they ask that all of them are Democrats? Surely there are also Republican book publishers?
Planet patrol: the new NASA app to discover new planets
18-xx months locked up and no production is not a valid policy either, so start the work with certain safety measures.
> If Hetzner ( Also from Germany ) cant / isn't competing with AWS, why does Lidl thinks they can?

Hetzner has a completely different business model and so far it has been working very well for them. They are good at optimization of all their available resources via flexible pricing. As their loyal customer for almost 10 years I love one their aspect that I hate with AWS: with Hetzner, I'm 100% sure how much I'm going to pay at the end of the billing period. Actually, for several of my customers I turned on yearly billing as the amounts are so ridiculously small.
Discover new planets with this app
Yea, the german link above doesn't even mention the acquisition and the german source for the english article ("Lebensmittel Zeitung") doesn't talk about "cloud specialists" either. CAMAO IDC are software developers (who know how to use the cloud), not "cloud specialists" in the sense that they know how to run a cloud provider.

Source: I work there
I've only been to Lidls in the US, but their stores seem pretty streamlined to me.
Help NASA find new exoplanets
Doesn't that include anyone who has ever worked for AWS?
An alternative positioning system, but for humans
App could allow you discover new planets
Both the Patriot Act and the Cloud Act apply anywhere in the world.
The NASA app that anybody can use to discover new planets
If you're talking about GCP, and MS, then they have thousands of engineers too.

If you're talking about Digital Ocean, Mongo, and other medium sized players, then I only give them a couple more years before things get really ugly.
I consider R to be one of the lower-level ML/DS languages, in that people that use R typically are fairly intentional about what they are doing.

I've been working in this space for a long time and recently started reading up on a particular ML technique which gained a lot of popularity over the past five years. What strikes me about 95% of the material available is how over-hyped and uninformative it is, to the point of just being wrong.
NASA is asking people to help them discover exoplanets
3 work/4 off (13 working days per month) may work too. It better to test idea on simulator. 40-60% of salary is much better than 0 in city on lockdown.
When NYC said it would give free meals to anyone with no id check or possibility of being turned down to be refreshing and a solution without politics or hidden agendas.
NASA asks citizens to discover planets with their app
Text is Dead They Say (2005)
So these could result in a no-click 0day on iOS? Thanks Google for finding and reporting these to Apple.

I wonder how often vulnerabilities found by Google Zero were already known and exploited by hackers without anyone noticing.

I mean, GZ is pretty open about their methodology. It doesn't require a rocket scientist to duplicate them with different targets.
The great man theory is overrated, and this case in particular because many of Newton's discoveries would have been found by his compatriots anyway- Leibniz already invented calculus independently of Newton, Hooke had developed theories of gravity at the same time of Principia Mathematica as well. If not Bezos, you'd be thanking the Waltons or Sol Price. If not Musk, then Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning- the engineers who actually founded Tesla.
I rather see them cancelling SAP as a positive sign. They seem to know what they are doing...
That was also the first thing I thought of when I read the headline.

Might have been a wake up call for them to put more resources into IT and make it a core competency in the future.
There are exemptions to DMCA for certain content.

> Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.

https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/index.html
> If Hetzner ( Also from Germany ) cant / isn't competing with AWS

This makes as much sense as saying "So if Digital Ocean (also from the US) can't compete with AWS, who can?"

They're different niches
I'm 90% sure it doesn't include people who have updated their LinkedIn after they leave.
Adding to that comment: You can tweak the times where automatic VACUUMing happens to a certain degree,

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/runtime-config-autovacuum...
> Personally, I think it's more because of the retailers being cutthroats than any other reason.

It's rare that supermarket chains have direct contracts with farmers. Usually there are one to three middle men in the chain that all want their cut - on the farmer side a cooperative or other association (e.g. with milk it's common that a milk processor buys the milk from the farmers and then sells the processed milk on), then wholesale markets, and finally cooperatives on the supermarket chain themselves - for example, the supermarket chain "Edeka" actually not only runs their own stores, but also is a cooperative of independent store owners, as their name "Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler" reflects.
> hey we've a bunch of unused servers why we don't rent them?

That's not the origin story of AWS. That myth has been debunked numerous times.
Have you tried Nine?

https://www.9folders.com/en/index.html

Best Exchange/O365 mail client I've found for Android. Has a month calendar widget as well.
Why shouldn't they exist? Are you really claiming that by accumulating certain amount of health you become harmful to society? If that is the case what would be that amount that you mention? $1,000,000,000 and what about $990,000,000?

The accumulation of wealth by a single individual is not inherently harmful for society, it all comes down to the intention for which accumulation happens and how is that spent.
Is there a better way to incentivize educational institutions to offer free content?
If they're free, I could instantly have all of them (in theory). A token price sets an easily-perceivable rate-limit to how many things you can acquire
I think GP means that they are unwilling to open up their logistics mojo to other efforts in fears that it would interfere with their well-run retail operations.
I used Confluence.

It's not cheap in the long run as up to 10 users is free, but then is $5 month per user. That said, it's one of the best programs I've ever used for documentation and it checks your points.

I don't include a link as this is a new account and I'd be flagged as a bot.
You could do that with the Firefox extension "SinleFile" [1]. It main purpose is to save a full webpage as one single html file with images etc encoded in the html file (no more messy html file + folder cluttering), very neat. There is also a variant that is a html/zip hybrid called SingleFileZ [2] that gets smaller saved file.

In the settings you could set so that sites you bookmark is saved and also link the bookmark to the saved file locally if you want to.

[1]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
[2]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/
Ok, before I go knee-deep, can anyone tell me:

Is this article itself bullshit?
It only seems that way because of fanboyism. My comment suggesting Linux is currently sitting on -4 points. Windows fanboys feel bad when Windows is questioned. It's not based on logic, it's just a bizarre attachment to the only OS they've ever seriously used.
I know, this site is for having horrible political opinions and never being challenged on them because that is a "flamewar".
Not saying Schwarz (the parent company) won't try and run their own cloud provider, but I doubt the acquisition has much to do with that at all.

Also, the german link above doesn't even mention the acquisition and the german source for the english article (from "Lebensmittel Zeitung") doesn't talk about "cloud specialists" either.

CAMAO IDC is a software development company (who knows how to use the cloud), they're not "cloud specialists" in the sense that they know how to run a cloud provider.

Source: I work there